Stories about: Ernst & Young

A little-known feature in the Windows operating system can lead to big problems for Web surfers.

Mozilla is working on patching its Firefox browser after a hacker posted details of a flaw that could let criminals run unauthorized software on a victim's machine.

Australian IT organizations have been labelled less efficient than their Nth American or European counterparts, according to a new benchmarking study into IT business performance.

In what has become an annual Silicon Valley ritual, leading venture capitalists have made their predictions about which technologies will thrive and which will take a dive in the near future.

Becoming the chief information security officer (CISO) of a corporation makes you a strategic IT advisor to business management, the chief information officer, and the rest of the information technology staff. Just as no company is the same as another, the job of CISO -- or alternately, "chief security officer," which might include physical security as well -- isn't either. The four security professionals who share their priorities with us make it clear there's nothing cookie-cutter about the top IT security job.

The business of IT is about compromise and the ability to make constant trade-offs, according to the Commonwealth Banks's CIO and group executive of enterprise IT, Michael Harte.

Are you or your business an innovator? Would you be prepared to invest time and money into large-scale innovation projects to give the whole company a makeover? If so, you could be killing your business. Industry expert Jan Kolbusz (ex-Sealcorp Holdings, Ernst & Young, Baxter, Asgard, WA Treasury and Education Department) discusses the pitfalls of the enterprise-wide initiative.

The 2006 Ernst & Young global information security survey has found organizations worldwide are failing under the weight of vendor risk management in outsourcing relationships, but internally have woken up to the relationship between information security and effective risk management.

Microsoft's Windows Vista may have already been released to manufacturing but the Australian Trade Commission (Austrade) has just completed a migration of some 1450 clients to Windows XP and 70 servers to Windows Server 2003 across Australia and 60 other countries.

Eight of Australia's leading CIOs and technology leaders have come together to initiate the second phase of the Women in IT Executive Mentoring (WITEM) program. The program aims to address a number of issues which women face in the technology sector.

Australian Pharmaceutical Industries (API) has blamed an IT system upgrade for the disappearance of $17 million from its annual trading figures.