CIO Digest - Strategies and Analysis From Symantec

Craig Shumard knows a thing or two about battling pirates. As senior vice president for information protection and CISO at CIGNA, a US$16.7 billion a year insurance and employee benefits administrator serving more than 9 million members, Shumard runs one of the most respected information security operations in the world. Here's how he does it. Go >

Honey, They Shrunk My Budget

Driving Down Costs in the Data Center and Beyond

Tactical tips and strategies from IT leaders on how to simplify the infrastructure and reduce costs. Go >

Macro or Micro?

The Economics of Cybersecurity

IT security experts weigh in-and warn against-the best and worst metrics organizations can use to justify IT security investments. Go >

Assuring Availability

Rolling Out a Proprietary Recovery Solution

Learn the four keys to success that organizations are using to transform basic disaster planning into customized recovery solutions. Go >

Speeding Disaster Recovery

The first few minutes following any catastrophic system failure are critical; as the seconds tick away, so do precious assets and opportunities to recover them. Executing your disaster recovery plan quickly is key to mitigating losses and damages.

Try these tips to accelerate your time from down-and-out to up and back in the game... Go >

Five Security Functions to Outsource, and Why

Some security functions provide a natural augmentation to business security and IT staff, while others, such as email and messaging services, risk assessment, security intelligence, and managed network security, can be "too time consuming or complex to deal with" and outsourcing should be considered, says Sandra Palumbo, a senior analyst for the Security Solutions & Services Decision Service of the Boston... Go >

Online Extra

First Horizon National Corp.'s Risk Model

With more than US$36 billion in assets under its management, here's how First Horizon chief IT risk officer Christopher Leach keeps tabs on threats. Go >

10 Disaster Recovery 'Gotchas' to Watch For

Don't be stung. Make sure one of these 10 DR 'gotchas' doesn't get your enterprise when the going gets tough. Go >

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