(12/6/2007) As more and more services move online, identifying and authenticating citizens in cyber-space are becoming more difficult for governments. Citizens want one-stop service but they also want assurances their personal information is kept private. Securely sharing identity information while remaining within the confines of privacy legislation, therefore, is a challenge the public sector is working to overcome. | (12/6/2007) As more and more services move online, identifying and authenticating citizens in cyber-space are becoming more difficult for governments. Citizens want one-stop service but they also want assurances their personal information is kept private. Securely sharing identity information while remaining within the confines of privacy legislation, therefore, is a challenge the public sector is working to overcome. | (12/6/2007) Passport Canada's Web application system, Passport Online, has been added to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner's audit list, following recent reports that an Ontario man was able to access personal information of another passport applicant. Passport Canada maintains its database is intact and previous users of the online tool are not at risk. | (12/5/2007) Don't let your data warehouse turn into an IT security nightmare, warns CIO Government Review columnist Richard Bray. Bray explores the security challenges involved in managing continuously increasing volumes of data, while looking at how organizations can get the most value out of their data jewels. | (12/4/2007) Increasing service delivery while driving down per unit cost is the goal that the Ontario government wants to attain through a common infrastructure and information technology strategy. Ontario CIO Ron McKerlie outlined this vision and the role that private partners play at an ITAC-hosted forum in Toronto this week. | (12/3/2007) Espionage is setting up shop on the Internet as governments around the world increasingly use the Web for intelligence gathering, according to McAfee Inc.'s Virtual Criminology Report. Security analysts believe cyber espionage will be one of the biggest threats to governments and national security in 2008 and will spur what analysts are calling a "cyber cold war." | (11/29/2007) They're lean, they're mean, but they're not green when it comes to high-tech gadgets. York Region's finest has put technology in the front seat of police cruisers, enabling law enforcers to have more presence in the community. Representatives from the York Regional Police discuss how they're addressing the challenges of a tech sprawl. | (11/26/2007) U.K.'s chief information officer, John Suffolk, has cautioned government agencies against putting "more eggs in a single basket" when it comes to protecting sensitive data. Speaking at a meeting of MPs called, The Surveillance Society, Suffolk warned about the risks of creating more large government databases. | (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. |
  | |  | | 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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