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(11/23/2007) The U.K government has come to the defence of the security measures for their UK $5.6 billion ID cards scheme as the result of the data loss crisis at the U.K government's HM Revenue and Customs. | (11/23/2007) Thierry Zoller, a German based security engineer, is questioning if the software we're using to protect ourselves from online attacks is becoming a liability. For the past two years, Zoller, a security engineer for n.runs AG, has taken a close look at the way antivirus software inspects e-mail traffic. | (11/21/2007) According to a recent study, consumer and corporate use of the Internet could overload the current capacity and lead to brown-outs in two years unless backbone providers invest billions of dollars in new infrastructure. | (11/20/2007) In the wake of numerous high-profile data breach incidents costing millions of dollars, governments are being urged to take a legislative approach to data protection and data breach disclosure. The question has been raised, however, as to whether it is the government's responsibility to implement standardized data breach laws. Or, should the onus be on the businesses themselves to protect confidential data proactively? | (11/19/2007) The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is investigating a potential data breach involving the theft of three computers containing personal data on potentially 12,000 individuals. This is not the first data breach to occur at the department, as last year a laptop and hard disk containing personal data on over 26.5 million veterans was stolen. | (11/16/2007) The Canada Foundation for Innovation is investing nearly $28 million to fund research in 35 universities and colleges across the country, comprising 139 research projects in various areas including information and communications technologies and environmental science, according to a statement issued by CFI. | (11/13/2007) As provincial governments across Canada engage in various initiatives to attract highly needed skills to address the labour shortage, one industry observer says there should be more coordination of efforts between federal and provincial levels to provide potential immigrants an easier process of accessing immigration information. | (11/12/2007) Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is turning to outsourcing in a bid to provide greater service and availability for its Passports Online, a Web portal that provides services for issuing travel documents. According to DFAT documents, business continuity is of "particular concern" to the department. | (11/9/2007) It's that time of the month again as Microsoft gets ready to issue November's monthly security update, which fixes known flaws in the company's Windows operating system. Don't be surprised, however, if the list of security updates is unusually short this time around. | (11/7/2007) Real value of governance: How government's commitment to provide shared services are raising governance challenges. |
  | |  | | Blog Spotlight: Sandford Borins |  | As Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Toronto, Sandford Borins brings InterGovWorld.com readers exclusive insights into how and why the public sector is changing. You'll find new perspectives and questions, observations and objectives, lessons and answers. Cover to Cover, the blog by Prof. Sandford Borins, appears every Thursday. Inside Cover to Cover | |
| | | Unified Communications |  | Unity is a word often heard in the public sector, with myriad agencies and departments looking to foster collective thinking around some of today's most pressing issues. The word, however, doesn't usually get mentioned in the same breath as technology. That's a situation, though, that might soon be changing, thanks to a new software platform known as unified communications.
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