For the purposes of this discussion, we will consider 'enterprise mobility' and define this as dealing with the business information and transaction needs of employees while they are away from their desks or other fixed places of work.
While enterprises continue to purchase from the many point products—firewalls, intrusion detection and anti-virus—management frameworks are needed. To achieve this, CIOs will need to:
be able to list the target audience(s) for the portal (customers...
In the early nineties, there was much talk about frameworks for network management, which claimed to be able to monitor and control network elements (routers, hubs and other hardware) from a single point.
Developers need to start focusing, as Microsoft has done with its Trustworthy Computing Initiative, on changing development procedures to eliminate flaws, she said. Vulnerability assessment firm Qualys supported the statements, made during a panel...
CEOs are primarily responsible for corporate compliance to the outside world, but Alan Whitfield, CTO at IT consultancy The Yellow Team, said that data protection is "right at the CIO's door" in a recent roundtable discussion in London.
These frameworks help to govern basic practices such as patch management, for example. But the other way to tighten up security controls is to refine your overall IT practice using service and management strategies like ITIL and CoBIT, says Pironti.