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Criminal Minds: Hacking into the Minds of Cyber Criminals

Cyber criminals continue to outsmart technology and stupefy both governments and enterprises with their ingenuity. It’s time to beat them at their own game: Hack into their minds.

The Profile of a Cyber Criminal

For years now, forensic psychologists and behavioral sciences have been working in collaboration with law enforcement agencies to integrate psychological science into criminal profiling.

Trends in Security

From the Internationalization of organized crime to APT, here are new areas of risk that security leaders need to watch out for.

Data On Sale

What data and how much it’s being sold for in the underground economy can help IT and security leaders put a price on their efforts—and help tweak their security strategies.

View from the Top

IT’s Happy to Help

Marten Pieters, MD & CEO, Vodafone Essar, says IT has helped the company conquer rural India, and make Vodafone India’s second largest mobile service provider.

From the editor-in-chief

Keep It Flowing

The culprit is the data or information gap within the supply chain which makes a mockery of all forward planning.

Mentor

Mentor: The Next Wave

Asian Paints' Manish Choksi believes that the role of senior management is fairly critical in the adoption of social media and mobility in business.

CIO Debate

Is There a Gender Bias in IT?

Case Files

Delivering IT at the Speed of Light

It was a tall order. For Reliance Infrastructure, repairing cut cables quickly and creating power infrastructure within 30 days of a customer request wasn’t child’s play.But its IT head knew that only IT could deliver speed.

Subramaniyan Steers Etisalat with Partner Relationship Management

Under pressure to break into the Indian telecom market, Etisalat DB Telecom takes a route none of its rivals has: A partner relationship management system.

Jones Lang LaSalle Enhances Productivity Using Cloud

Using a cloud-based SCM application, project managers at property consultant Jones Lang LaSalle spend more time delivering results and less time doing routine chores.

Feature

Argue with Your CEO—And Win

Can’t persuade the CEO to approve that infrastructure upgrade or software development project? The following 13 tips, culled from current and former CIOs and communication consultants, will get the CEO to see your perspective when arguments about IT spending ensue.

Column

CIOs and the Cyber Law

If you are the CIO of your company then apart from many other challenges that you deal with on a daily basis, now you also need to take into consideration an additional area of compliances. This area of compliance has come thanks to the amended Indian cyber law.

The Proactive CIO

If you’re anything less than a proactive IT leader, then you’re a leader only in your eyes. Here’s how to become that person.

Security Audits : CEO's Concur?

What do you do when your customers want you to do an independent security audit and your CEO doesn’t?

Trendlines

Unrestrained Sto-rage!

Over the next decade, enterprises will have to tackle data 50 times its size today—with a staff that will grow only 1.5 times.

India Vs America: Whose (Source)Code Is Best?

Software  If there were ever an IT Olympics, in which software developers could compete to solve programming problems, it would take place on Gild, an online career development community where IT professionals from around the world do just that.

QUICK TAKE : IT in High Definition

Venkat Iyer, sr. VP-IT, STAR India speaks on how he is it taking on the challenge of an increased IT’s workload due to the rise in customer demand for HDTV.

Does Hiring Short-term Managers Make Sense?

Reliance Industries recently announced that it’s hiring short-term managers for its projects. Would a similar hiring model work for the IT department as well?

Trendlines: Tech-savvy Talking Cars

With consumers these days living ever more mobile and connected lives, it seems only natural that we'd move toward a more connected automobile.

Trendlines: Galaxy Tabs Get Onboard

Devices  American Airlines will deploy 6,000 new Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablets onboard some of its international and transcontinental flights in business and first class later this year.

Trendlines: Life Saver App

There are hundreds of thousands of apps available, but can any of them save your life?

Job Networking: It's a Man’s World

Which gender reigns supreme in the world of online professional networking?

Trendlines: You’ve Got the Power

A look at four power sources and ways to plug in and increase your professional voltage.

Trendlines: Super Botnet Strikes

Millions of PCs around the world appear to have been quietly infected by the dangerous TDSS 'super-malware' rootkit as part of a campaign to build a giant new botnet.

BYOD: You Can’t Say No

IT Management More people are bringing their own tablets and smartphones to work but IT departments have been slow to support them and may not even be aware of the trend, according to a report funded by Unisys and conducted by IDC.

Book Review

The Talent Masters: Why Smart People Put People Before Numbers by Bill Conaty & Ram Charan

Building a talent pipeline in your organization is never going to be an easy task, here’s how you can go about it.

Essential Technology

Datacenter Colocation: Living IT Together

Building a datacenter from scratch is a tall order: It’s expensive, its time-consuming and is a drain on resources. That’s why datacenter colocation is a great option.

Virtualization: The Fast Forward Mode

Cost and organizational mistakes can bring virtualization projects to a virtual stall at dangerous times. Here’s how to keep your virtualization project moving through four key phases.

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