CIO Digest - Strategies and Analysis From Symantec

Some disassembly required

In these times of ubiquitous mergers and acquisitions, IT units face enormous challenges: how to integrate the organizations being brought together; how to merge two undoubtedly different infrastructures; how to create cohesion from two corporate cultures; how to produce, from two sets of books, one comprehensive set of accounts. Go >

Measuring Up

Finding the right security metrics

Every worthwhile experiment relies on an unaltered "control" subject or process for a reality check. So it is with security software. To know how effectively a combination of technologies and policies are guarding against threats, companies need a subgroup of unprotected systems for comparison. Go >

Odds are

Taking the risk out of IT risk management

Less risk, more resilience. See how high achievers Citigroup and Aon plan for positive returns on their risk management investments. Go >

Message in a Bottle(neck)

Managing messaging and other previously simple tasks

"Organizations struggle with where to put their data," says Irwin Lazar, principle analyst and program director at Nemertes Research in New York. "There are hundreds of examples of companies that have lost data or have such a distributed data model that there's no centralized mechanism for searching what people have or had in their inboxes. A lot of organizations still rely on local files for storage where you may back up the file, but there's no visibility to what's in that file." Go >

Inside This Issue

Deconstructing Neste
Some disassembly required

Measuring Up
Finding the right security metrics

Odds are
Taking the risk out of IT risk management

Message in a Bottle(neck)
Managing messaging and other previously simple tasks

Americas:
And Now, a Word from Our Sponsor

Asia-Pacific: Courting Counsel
Learning to lose spam and love litigators in New Zealand

Government: Public Enterprise, Private Data
Learning to lose spam and love litigators in New Zealand

EMEA: Securing the Pipeline
Norwegian powerhouse, Hydro, strengthens ties between IT and business leaders

Is City WiFi Secure?

Managing Risk, Forward and Backward.
A note from John W. Thompson

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