Datapoints: How much of Pakistan is on Facebook
How much of Pakistan is on Facebook
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January 2009
A ‘Trail’ 25 IT Security Heads
A ‘Trail’ 25 IT Security Heads
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CIO Pakistan Hosts RoundTable on Disaster Management and Business Continuity
CIO Pakistan Hosts RoundTable on Disaster Management and Business Continuity
[January 29th 2009: Karachi, Pakistan] The world’s largest Business and Technology brand, CIO, hosted a CSO RoundTable on Disaster Management and Business Continuity at the Sheraton Hotel. Top industry experts, consultants and analysts gathered to discuss challenges and best practices involved in increasing business and technology [...]
Niche or Diversity? What’s Your Poison?
It’s the start of a brand new year and there are so many companies already strapped for cash. And for the companies who aren’t struggling, they are certainly not spending. But one thing remains consistent with all companies – companies across all levels are taking a second look at their business strategies. So should a [...]
Understanding RFID in Your Business
We live in a great big world that is driven by a lot of business in it, and there are a lot of ways that enable the integration of technology into the operational asset of a company so that work can be done more efficiently. Farhan Masood is the CEO of a company called Solo [...]
Making NGO’s
A Not-For-Profit has the same challenge a For-Profit organization has – it needs funding to stay afloat. While it is easy to say that a “good” charity will attract the dollars or rupees, closer inspection reveals a very different picture. Over the course of time, law enforcement agencies have come down hard on NGOs since [...]
Looking Ahead: Pakistan’s ICT Sector in 2009 by Mukesh Chulani
When CIO was launched in Pakistan, a research analyst from IDC was invited as a speaker to engage with the IT community. Margaret Adam took back some very positive feedback, which encouraged stakeholders in the local industry to engage IDC, the research company arm of IDG, to take a more indepth look into the local [...]
Managing your Organization’s Data Traffic
Imagine having to manage voice calls, emails, voicemails, video streams and internal communication simultaneously into and out of a single organization. Hold that image while you make your IT Manager wear a traffic policeman’s hat. The same frustration you may experience on the streets of Karachi, Lahore or Islamabad, will be comparable to the confusion, [...]
Can you Manage Disaster Proactively?
By CSO Pakistan
Business continuity, Disaster Recovery, Redundancy and Uptime – these are no longer terms restricted to a server room in an IT company. They’ve come out from the technical infrastructure and begun making an impact on real life, practical processes.
The question of whether or not you can manage disaster is perhaps an incomplete one [...]
The Contract By Omer Bin Ahsan
The success of a project largely depends on the comprehensiveness and the character of the Project Contract. The Contract defines how delivery and acceptance for the product and service will be conducted. However, a lack of legal acumen in Pakistan pertaining to the software industry means that the contracts are loosely defined and rarely referred [...]
Creating and Implementing the Framework
There are risks in every business and with the level of competition and data making the world go round, security has become high priority for organizations everywhere. You need to have someone who knows what the organizational objectives are, and create policies and processes so that the work remains secure and uninterrupted. Because there are [...]
Where’s the Priority for Security?
Through the CIO Pakistan group on LinkedIn, we asked our members to answer the following question: How has your security priority changed in the past one year? Keeping in mind that all kinds of security goes through an evolutionary process, the demand for security features to better manage corporate data across an enterprise, is also [...]
The Weakest Link by CSO Pakistan
Technology, at the end of the day, is only as secure as the person using it. You can have all the content filters and packet sniffing software in place across your network, but if there is someone viewing something he shouldn’t be, there is little you can do. Another example. Install all the anti-virus software [...]
DataPoints
How much of Pakistan is on Facebook?
It’s always interesting, almost mind-blowing, to find out just how many Pakistanis are logged in anywhere. The number of registered users from Pakistan on one of the world’s largest social networking communities, Facebook, is an eye-opener!
IT Systems Scorecard
Robert Kaplan and David Norton publicized the concept of a Balanced Scorecard for strategic management of a business in early 90s. The idea was to evaluate a business from multiple perspectives in addition to financial goals to have a holistic view of the organization’s ability to deliver on its vision. The Balanced Scorecard has since [...]
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