The Corporate IT Forum has introduced a new range of corporate IT ‘reality checkers’ to enable IT directors to easily compare the progress and position of their company’s IT against other, similar-sized organisations.
Designed and developed by and for large-scale users of IT, the Corporate IT Forum reality checkers will allow IT users to immediately identify […]

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The Home Office has finally given its backing for a new central ecrime unit to fight cyber crime. Great news for long-suffering CSOs battling daily ecrime attacks but more work needed we think. The Home Office promises just £7m of funding to tackle an issue that the Home Office itself calls a ‘global menace’ - […]

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Companies often spend large proportions of their IT budgets on outsourced and offshored IT service providers so would it surprise you that many IT directors still struggle to find out whether or not they are receiving true value from these contracts?
When it comes to benchmarking outsourced contracts, companies are usually trying to find out one […]

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If you‘ve ever sat in a meeting scratching your head trying to figure out the difference between IT incident management and IT problem management, things became a little clearer in a recent Forum workshop which saw 20 IT chiefs sharing their best practice expertise on the issue. In short, where incident management is about resolving […]

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It’s not enough to set a series of standard service level agreement (SLAs) for your outsourcer and hope for the best, according to Forum members who met recently to share each other’s approaches to data centre management and outsourcing.

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The public is increasingly concerned about data security because of a series of recent well publicised data losses. This in turn appears to be leading some business managers to question the purpose of security standards such as ISO27001. What are they good for, they ask? How should security chiefs respond?For the security professionals who network […]

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