Computer Weekly – 30 July 2013: The threat within – balancing security and employee privacy
In this week’s Computer Weekly, as more data breaches come from inside an organisation, we examine how to get the right balance between information security and employees’ rights to privacy. Tech City CEO Joanna Shields talks about the opportunity for CIOs from working with startups. Our buyer’s guide to data management explains how one major utility firm improved information sharing. And we look at how mobile technology and wireless networking is helping improve patient care in the NHS. Read the issue now.
Managing the threat within
Data loss prevention systems, encryption, internet monitoring tools and other restrictive controls are failing to deliver total security, with a growing number of data breaches linked to insiders. But how can organisations increase security without affecting productivity or encroaching on employees’ right to privacy?
‘I don’t think we’re as acquisitive as we need to be in the UK’ – Joanna Shields, CEO, Tech City
Computer Weekly’s most influential woman in IT talks about where CIOs should look for innovation and the challenges facing UK tech startups.
Case study: iPads aid patients in NHS critical care unit
The intensive therapy unit at the Walton Centre NHS Trust helps seriously ill patients communicate with consultants and relatives using Apple tablets and wireless networking.
Buyer’s guide to data management – part two: Anglian Water opens floodgates for external data
The water company has overhauled its data systems to efficiently manage and share information to benefit staff, customers, partners and regulators
Interview: Touching every part of the online grocery business
Paul Clarke, director of technology at Ocado talks about writing all the online grocer’s technology in-house and the development of a robotics vision system.
CIOs should be prepared for broader role in the future
Access to large-scale computer power will be central to the success of any business by 2020. But the role of the datacentre – and perhaps even the IT leader who used to be responsible for it – will be very different to what it is today.
Opinion: Understand your security risks
Information is at risk so organisations must carry out security risk assessments to adequately protect their corporate information, writes Martin Kuppinger, principal analyst at KuppingerCole.
This week's issue is sponsored by Deltek, Gartner, IT Law Summer School, nFocus and Nimble Storage.