13May

Cyber liability insurance. Another Y2K or a new essential?

Mark Rogers looks at the huge and rapidly growing market for cyber liability insurance and the risks highlighted by those bringing these new products to market, to ask “Is this something we really need?” Cyber liability insurance, the insurance industry …read more

Posted May 13, 2013 8:07 am | 0 Comments
29Apr

Big Data – Big errors and a funny feeling

Chris Gabriel looks at recent data calculation errors and suggests that CIOs should address certain basics in the light of rapidly growing big data volumes. Anyone interested in economics will have noticed the discussion surrounding a research paper entitled “Growth …read more

Posted April 29, 2013 8:44 am | 0 Comments
22Apr

The rise of Shadow IT – should CIOs take umbrage?

A recent article from Logicalis Australia discussed Shadow IT, sometimes know as Stealth IT, and how CIOs need to re-assert themselves in their organisations as other departments take the lion’s share of IT budget.  Joanne James, VP of International Marketing …read more

Posted April 22, 2013 1:43 pm | 0 Comments
15Apr

EU Cyber Security Directive

Mark Rogers addresses growth and security and how a proposed EU Cyber Security Directive focussing on network and information security (NIS), must get the balance right. As usual, a proposed EU Cyber Security Directive, drafted by the European Commission, looks …read more

Posted April 15, 2013 2:49 pm | 0 Comments
08Apr

M2M, sensors and all that

Having spent a week at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Rodrigo Parreira looks beyond the plethora of new, elegant, cool and sleek tablets, smartphones and other devices on display, and the complaints of telecommunications operators, to ask “what …read more

Posted April 8, 2013 10:05 am | 0 Comments
25Mar

BYOD in Schools – Taking Care of Security

Following Chris Gabriel’s examination of BYOD in Education, this follow up addresses some of the security issues faced by BYOD in schools. Earlier this year we discussed how an increasing number of schools are seeking to enliven the education experience …read more

Posted March 25, 2013 11:01 am | 0 Comments
18Mar

EU Data Protection Directive enters “Hot Phase”

Mark Rogers takes a look at the latest developments in the European Commission’s drive to harmonise data protection legislation across the EU with a new Data Protection Directive. This time last year I discussed the European Commission’s proposals for revisions …read more

Posted March 18, 2013 3:53 pm | 0 Comments
08Mar

How to COPE with BYOD

Chris Meager looks at Corporate Owned, Personally Enabled (COPE), a BYOD model that may suit organisations who require a higher degree of predictability over their network of devices, with the advantages of allowing users the benefits of integrating personal and …read more

Posted March 8, 2013 9:00 am | 0 Comments
04Mar

Real time education for the Real Time Generation

BYOD isn’t the only way to embed technology in education, says Chris Gabriel. The Real Time Generation survey, the results of which we released late last year, highlighted young people’s attitudes to technology in general, and technology in education in …read more

Posted March 4, 2013 10:57 am | 0 Comments
25Feb

ICT Education and the Raspberry Ripple

The next generation of digital innovators is already out there.  We are just not looking in the right places nor giving them the tools and support they need to flourish, says Chris Gabriel. But what has a Raspberry PI got …read more

Posted February 25, 2013 9:00 am | 0 Comments