63 Percent of Organizations Believe They Can’t Stop Data Theft

The survey report released by Websense and the Ponemon Institute uncovered a deficit in security solution effectiveness; a disconnect between company executives and security professionals; and limited visibility into attack activity. Here are the insights on the current threat landscape and organisation’s ability to protect themselves from attacks. Deficient in Security Solution... By

Imperative Skills for Next Generation CIOs

Subramanian Chittur, Head-IT, Metro Cash & Carry says that the most important and imperative skills that the future CIOs need to acquire are many which would enable them to match the expectations of the organization. Some of them would obviously revolve around: Business acumen business plan preparation & strategic competence Assessment of solution life-cycleand impact on... By

How to align your IT Strategy skillfully

Most industry experts find that future CIOs often face a challenge; this is with regard to not aligning IT strategy and policies for years. This has an adverse impact on vendor management strategies, too. It is also agreed that it is critical to identify the areas of IT spread, be it varied applications or other products, which would counter IT strategy. Most CIOs echo the need to evaluate and... By

Are you the next CIO?

Peep into an anthill and you will realise what seamless order and perfection mean. Our tiny insect cousins have engineered a complex organisational structure which, though hierarchal, is highly efficient. At the very apex, sits the queen, the head of all the domicile ants, and does little than preen and procreate. Below the empress, there are scores and scores of worker ants which toil endlessly... By

Social Media and Analytics Are Critical Enablers for Smarter Cities, Says BJP

In order to deliver the government’s vision of transforming India into a superpower by empowering, connecting and binding Indian citizens, Dr Arvind Gupta - National Head - Information and Technology, Bharatiya Janata Party elaborated the need to focus on leveraging Information Technology to build Smarter Cities in India. Dr. Gupta emphasized his views during an address on Urban... By

Now Share Money over Social Networks

Oxigen Services India Private Limited announced the launch of India’s first social mobile wallet service, Oxigen Wallet. With the new service, people will now be able to share money with their friends and family over their preferred social networks and messaging platforms like Facebook, WhatsApp, Google+, and Twitter. They will also be able to use their wallet to recharge their... By

Writing Right Policies and Procedures for Cloud Governance

Analysts find SMAC (Social Media Analytics and Cloud) all pervasive and invading the market place. Cloud is creating good footprints across enterprises and under various forms, whether private, public, or hybrid. With cloud getting more aggressive, business functions, devoid of IT’s intervention, are deploying a cloud model. Such a trend is leading to several discrepancies in regulatory,... By Geetha N

IoT: Do Making Devices More Secure Add Time to Product Development?

Ruchna Nigam, Security Researcher, FortiGuard Labs, Fortinet, in a chat with IT Next. ‘Connected home’ may offer convenience or cost savings, but ‘Internet-connected home appliances’ may also create security risks! The Internet-connected home appliances could be exposed to risk under two scenarios: if there is an inherent flaw in the device that is being exploited... By Mastufa Ahmed

‘Cisco-RedHat Collaboration Is about Simplifying Cloud Adoption for Users’

What are the drivers for RedHat’s extended collaboration with Cisco? DP: Cisco and Red Hat together have really made a big stride towards building trend solutions and the good thing is that the customers actually get a choice. They have best of both worlds rather than being locked in to one solution or the other. Rajesh: Cisco and Red Hat have been across multiple... By Mastufa Ahmed

IBM Cloud to Power Narayana Health Email System

IBM partneres with Narayana Health --one of the biggest medical institutions in the country, for implementing an efficient email and collaboration tool that will keep all the employees, associated professionals and other stakeholders completely connected. This partnership will help Narayana Health administrators and employees to more easily collaborate while keeping IT expenditure for the... By

Flexibility to Merge Work and Personal Lives Is the Future of Work

Citrix identifies three key megatrends that will shape the future of how people and businesses work over the next five years. These predictions illustrate the advances in technology that will significantly influence how humans will live and how the workplace will evolve by 2019. Employees will drive the future workplace experience: Enterprises are becoming matchmakers, pairing great talent to... By

Oracle Introduces Key Vault Software Appliance to Manage Encryption Keys

Encryption is widely recognized as the gold standard for protecting data privacy, but encryption is only as strong as its key management. Critical credential files such as Oracle wallet files, Java KeyStores, Secure Shell (SSH) key files, and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate files are often widely distributed across servers and server clusters that use error-prone synchronization and... By