"Development is about delivering value through the proper management of projects; governance is about managing portfolio resources and funding the right projects at the right time."
- William B. Walton, Guest Editor
"Development is about delivering value through the proper management of projects; governance is about managing portfolio resources and funding the right projects at the right time."
- William B. Walton, Guest Editor
In the last issue of CBR, we focused on an important and timely topic: security and IT risk management.There I made the case for why the "uninitiated public" has a strong incentive to care about security: "The increasing prevalence of computer systems as well as the growing amount of our personal data that is stored by business firms, nonprofit organizations, and governmental entities (and can therefore be compromised) suggests that even the uninitiated public should pay attention." But, as we learn from our experts in this installment of CBR, our personal data being compr
"Since it is private industry that owns and operates the vast majority of what constitutes the Internet, it is therefore industry's responsibility to demonstrate leadership in the fight to secure cyberspace."
Viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, adware, spyware, keystroke tracking tools, spoofing, snooping, sniffers -- these are some of the most popular examples of malicious code and techniques that modern organizations find themselves fighting. Couple this seemingly unabated tide of new releases and new forms of harmful software with human threats like crackers, thieves, industrial espionage contractors, and your own disgruntled or ill-intentioned employees, and what do you get? You get a complex cocktail of potential security headaches. How big a headache?
"I believe that we're starting to see a trend away from the serial, and often bureaucratic, methods that pervade many data groups toward an evolutionary/agile approach that reflects modern software development practices."