Some organisations are leaving themselves vulnerable to security breaches because they are unable to properly analyse or store big data, a new report titled Needle in a Datastack suggests.
19.Jun.2013 10:45
Citing the First Amendment, Google has petitioned the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Court to allow it to publish aggregate numbers of national US security requests. In the fallout over the Edward Snowden/PRISM affair, the internet giant is fighting to maintain the most vital component in its relationship with users: trust.
19.Jun.2013 06:20
In the fallout over revelations of the PRISM programme, technology giant Apple has said it does not provide any government agency direct access to its servers and revealed it received between 4,000 and 5,000 requests for data from US law-enforcement agencies.
17.Jun.2013 11:33
Cork-based software company Documatics has beaten off local and international competition to secure a tender to provide the legal department at Ireland’s taxation authority, the Revenue Commissioners, with case-management software.
14.Jun.2013 10:19
In the first of an extensive two-part interview, the head of IT at the Irish Government’s Department of Social Protection Niall Barry talks about the internationally praised change programme and explains how building in agility helps to respond to demands.
14.Jun.2013 07:00
Viviane Reding, the EU’s Justice Commissioner, has added her voice to the chorus of questions directed towards the US Attorney General over revelations surrounding PRISM, the US intelligence agencies’ data surveillance system. She will be raising the issue at a meeting with the US Attorney General Eric Holder in Dublin this week.
12.Jun.2013 17:15
In a letter to the US Attorney General and the FBI, Google’s chief legal officer David Drummond has asked the US government to publicly reveal the full scale and volume of apparently secret court orders with which it is alleged to have opened up information to the National Security Agency via PRISM. “Google has nothing to hide,” Drummond said.
12.Jun.2013 09:40
Internet firms Mozilla, Reddit and 4chan have joined their voices with 86 other organisations, including Access and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, urging US lawmakers to immediately halt its PRISM web snooping programme.
11.Jun.2013 16:49
When Max Schireson, CEO of 10Gen, entered the lift at the company’s new headquarters in Latin Hall in Dublin’s city centre more than a week ago, proof that there was demand for the company’s technology MongoDB – a key enabler for what’s known as the big data revolution – came in the most unexpected way.
11.Jun.2013 10:47
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has dismissed claims that the social networking platform cooperated with US intelligence bodies like the National Security Agency (NSA) in allowing them to perform surveillance on users via a system called PRISM. He says he hadn’t even heard of PRISM.
08.Jun.2013 10:05
Trinity College Dublin’s Professor Joe McDonagh says excellent CIOs focus their energy and resources on achieving purposeful change over time.
08.Jun.2013 08:15
The director of National Intelligence for the US Government James R Clapper has dismissed as “containing numerous inaccuracies” newspaper reports claiming intelligence agencies have been spying on the internet activities of US citizens with the collusion of major technology companies.
07.Jun.2013 11:15
Just a day after reports surfaced that the National Security Agency (NSA) in the US interpreted the Patriot Act in such a way as to seek phone records of millions of US citizens from Verizon it is now being claimed that the NSA and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading internet companies.
07.Jun.2013 07:39
A major mainframe to Microsoft re-platforming project at Irish Life was a success but the outcome could have been so different. Group CIO Brendan Healy says the key was a compelling proof of concept, good governance, regular reporting and strong support from the CEO.
07.Jun.2013 07:09
Human errors and system glitches caused two-thirds of data breaches in 2012, which, on average, cost companies about US$136 per compromised record. However, data breaches caused by malicious attacks remain the most costly for companies worldwide.
06.Jun.2013 06:08
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has forged a strategic alliance with Microsoft that will see PwC become the first professional services network to build business transformation projects based on the Microsoft Dynamics family of enterprise applications.
04.Jun.2013 14:17
