governance - News, Features, and Slideshows

• Jobs up for grabs: MTIA seeks CIO for newly created role

  The Major Transport Infrastructure Authority (MTIA) is seeking an experienced chief information officer for a newly created position within the Office of the Director-General.

• Burning down the house: CEO attitudes to cyber security all wrong

  "How many houses burn down every year, compared to how many people buy house insurance?”

• George Cozaris new tech chief at Melbourne Health

  George Cozaris is the new chief information officer at Melbourne Health in a newly created role.

• Fairfax Media taps Rainer Rhedey as tech GM, replacing CIO

  Fairfax Media has named Rainer Rhedey as general manager of technology, a new role that replaces the duties and responsibilities of CIO Robyn Elliott, who resigned late last year.

• Trim your governance and get agile: CBA’s Stuart Mitchell

  Organisations must trim the layers of governance built up over many years for traditional waterfall tech projects or fall victim to more agile startups, says CommBank’s senior agile coach, Stuart Mitchell.

• The rise of the digital board director

  Providing business technology governance to boards is tipped to be one of the most sought after skills in the digital economy. IT leaders talk about their experiences serving on company boards.

• NHP Electrical Engineering Products on making the jump to public cloud

  A substandard data centre that leaked water and had air conditioning failures forced NHP Electrical Engineering Products to move its entire IT infrastructure to the cloud.
  

• Are you too old to land a new IT job?

  Age really is just a number. If you're keeping current on new technologies and advancement, and show a willingness to keep learning and growing, there's no reason it should be an impediment to your job search.

• Cloud security: how to protect your data

  To use Cloud computing securely requires companies to know where their data is stored and who has access to
  it. Ironically, the reason Cloud is so popular is because organisations don't want to worry about these details.

  So can the issue be solved by adhering to standards? Increasing legislation? Maybe we need a global technical
  disaster to ‘sober up’ an industry drunk on the power of Moore's Law.

• Sydney Water IT security manager talks governance strategy

  Information security governance should not be treated like corporate governance, IT security steering committees must have the right stakeholders and the board can remain largely unaware of security issues. Those are key strategies for effective security governance, says IT security and assurance manager at Sydney Water, Stephen Frede.

Whitepapers about governance

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  Guide: Journey to the Data Economy

  Managing an organisation without all the adequate data about existing and potential customers, citizens, markets and other critical areas is much like being that triathlete with flawed equipment. With no way to accurately view and characterise your audience, most businesses struggle to effectively connect them with the goods and services they require. Data sharing and commercial data exchange (DX) is a powerful process that, when implemented correctly, can illuminate the best path for your business to join the data economy. This guide introduces the path to internal and external data sharing, outlining the benefits it can bring to business and government entities, and offers a basic primer on how to integrate this activity into an organisation. We will also explore how secure data exchange can turn the data your organisation collects into a new revenue stream, thus joining the rapidly expanding data economy.

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  Achieving a Unified Governance Strategy

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  Is your Identity and Access Governance program vulnerable to risk?

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  Identity and Access Governance - bringing business and IT together