• WA businesses ramp up CIO, senior ICT hires to deal with mining boom

  Western Australia has seen a ramp up in recruitment of CIOs and senior ICT employees as companies try to meet increasing demands of the ongoing mining and resources boom.

• Will Windows 8 survive in the post-PC world?

  Try as it will to break through in the mobile space, Microsoft is still struggling to gain any ground with Windows Phone almost a year-and-a-half after its launch.

• Govt launches $5m robotic labs at UTS

  The Federal Government has launched a $5 million facility at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) for nurses and midwives to train with robot patients.

• Q&A: NSW Electoral Commission CIO, Ian Brightwell

  As CIO of the NSW Electoral Commission (NSWEC), Ian Brightwell has been pivotal in the agency’s journey towards electronic voting over recent years.

• Updated: ACMA seeks deputy CIO

  The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) is seeking a new deputy CIO ‘Transformation’ after former CIO, Carsten Larsen, moved into a general management role with the communications regulator.

• Stepping forward

  Tanya Harris was head of human resources at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand in Wellington when she made a lateral career move.

• How to get fired

  A plunging stock market, crumbling budgets, layoffs and restructurings: So much of today's news is bad, so much of it can adversely affect your career, and so much of it is maddeningly beyond your control.

Whitepapers about cio

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  How will CIOs meet growing Security Threats?

  The growing complexity and prevalence of security threats, enabled by consumer IT and mobility, sets the stage for ever more sophisticated attacks. Security must be proactively front and center in all IT deliverables, but CIOs and CSOs must work in concert to succeed in these efforts. In this interactive white paper from CIO Magazine and EMC, learn how tightening the relationship between CIOs and CSOs will help create trust, the foundation of business relationships today. Embedded videos feature Art Coviello, Sanjay Mirchandani, and Dave Martin, and a quick survey provides benchmarking between CIO peers.