In Security, There’s No Second Chance

Now, more than ever, you need good sense on how to protect your company’s data and networked communications. Luckily, there is good advice out there. Unluckily, if past performance is any indication, you won’t be getting much of it from government agencies, the media, or the high-paid pundits at prestigious

The Tao of Being A Technology Executive

The greatest challenge you face as a technology manager in a large enterprise is that most of what you do is damn invisible. It’s like a lot of house repairs: You fix the plumbing, you do the foundation, you spend $100,000—and everything looks the same. IT management is a lot

The People Principles

Four weeks after the World Trade Center and Pentagon disasters, about 5,500 information technology executives from the Western Hemisphere braved long lines and toughened security to journey to Orlando, Fla., for the Gartner Symposium. This was a conference that many—if not most—thought would be canceled in the wake of the

Cantor Fitzgerald – Forty-Seven Hours

For Joseph Noviello, September 11 began at 6:30 a.m. with a phone call confirming that an annual fishing trip with colleagues at the Cantor Fitzgerald bond trading firm was still on, despite some foul weather offshore. Minutes later, the most intense two days of his life would begin. The first

In Your Sites: Avon Site Analysis

Avon has set up two ways to buy its products online, one directly from the company (Avon.com), and one through fairly standardized Web sites for its sales representatives (YourAvon.com). In effect, Avon is competing against its Avon ladies. The ladies’ sites have all the products that are in each Avon

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Planning for the Unimaginable

Tom D’Ambrosio is the chief information officer of Multex.com, a New York company that provides information to traders and hosts applications for financial firms. We have an extensive disaster-recovery plan, but it didn’t take into consideration the World Trade Center collapsing. For that matter, it didn’t take into account both