Next-generation CIOs will have to consider how technology affects other corporate departments as well as handle traditional IT management functions, especially those accompanying mobile device management and greater data analysis, according to panelists who spoke at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

There's been no shortage of high-profile and damaging data breaches in the past year. And the targets are widely varied-they include security firms RSA Security and HBGary Federal, defense contractors Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, entertainment giant Sony, major retailers, healthcare companies and marketing firms.

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Corporate payment provider, IP Payments, has appointed Vinay Chand as its new chief financial officer.

After recent settlements by Hewlett-Packard and EMC in a long-standing government contracting fraud case, three major IT and consulting companies are still embroiled in lawsuits brought by two former insiders.

More than one third of Asia Pacific technology companies now fear the rising wave of protectionism by governments as a threat to enterprise expansion, according to new research by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).

The Government has been forced to defend itself as a wall of opposition emerges from major financial firms against planned changes to Australia’s research and development tax concessions.

Australian SMBs are being constrained by credit and capital shortages, according to a new survey from PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Social networking and cloud computing threats abound, our annual Global Information Security Survey finds, making information security important once again to business leaders.