Rhonda MacLean, the Global CISO at Barclays Global Retail and Commercial Banking, uses the analogy of a brakes on a car when explaining the relevance of information security today. In short, like brakes, information security is there to help the business go faster. Throughout her 20-year career in information security, ...

Janice Chaffin, group president, Consumer Business Unit at Symantec, discusses the Norton 2009 release, the expanding Norton portfolio, and initiatives focused on one-click support for customers. She also discusses how protecting consumers comes first, as they are the more frequent initial target of attacks, which is then leveraged by the ...

Jason Wilkins joined Xstrata as CIO in 2002 when the company had a market capitalization of around $500 million USD and a few thousand employees. Today, the company has more than 56,000 employees and a market capitalization of approximately $60 USD billion. With growth fueled by an exponential acquisition strategy ...

Alex Siow has held a number of different professional roles, ranging from civil engineering, to marketing, to sales, to professor, and he draws upon this breadth of front-line business experience in helping to build greater linkages between the business and technology initiatives. Siow has blazed many trails in helping to ...

In this podcast, writer Alan Drummer provides an overview of a CIO Digest article titled Define Retentive. Drummer expands on ways organizations can streamline their email and document management policies. For more information, visit www.symantec.com/ciodigest.

Robert Taylor, CEO of KennTechnologies, Inc. and former CIO at Fulton County, Georgia, spoke with Patrick E. Spencer, Symantec’s director of publishing and customer marketing programs and editor in chief of CIO Digest, about the unique IT challenges local government CIOs face today, ranging from email and document archiving and ...

David S. Finn, VP and CIO at Texas Children’s Hospital, whose background is in theatre, describes the “production” aspects of IT and the nuances of pediatric IT to Patrick E. Spencer, Symantec’s director of publishing and customer marketing programs as well as editor in chief of CIO Digest. Under his ...

Patrick E. Spencer, Symantec’s editor in chief of CIO Digest, sat down with Myrna Soto, VP of Governance and CISO at MGM MIRAGE, to discuss how she leverages a mixture of industrial psychology, Six Sigma, an MBA, and best practices from the Project Management Institute to map a successful path ...

Patrick E. Spencer, Symantec’s editor in chief of CIO Digest, sat down with Myrna Soto, VP of Governance and CISO at MGM MIRAGE, to discuss how she leverages a mixture of industrial psychology, Six Sigma, an MBA, and best practices from the Project Management Institute to map a successful path ...

In this podcast, freelance writer Fred Sandsmark discusses how the United States Postal Service managed to reduce costs and gain efficiencies while centralizing, standardizing and simplifying their IT architecture. For more information, visit www.symantec.com/ciodigest.

CIO Digest Editor in Chief Patrick Spencer discusses infrastructure security at eBay with eBay Chief Information Security Officer Dave Cullinane. For more information, visit www.symantec.com/ciodigest.

In this podcast, writer Alan Drummer provides an overview of a CIO Digest article titled Green Virtualization. Drummer expands on ways organizations can see huge savings in power and cooling while putting less strain on the environment. For more information, visit www.symantec.com/ciodigest.

This podcast provides a brief overview of the July issue of Symantec’s quarterly publication, CIO Digest. Listeners can sign up for the print or online version of the magazine at:
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LOS ANGELES, September 5, 2006 (PodTech News) — It’s estimated that 80 percent of all U.S. households own a DVD player, and while DVD sales are expected to grow more than 3 percent this year, it’s a far cry from the double-digit growth seen between 2000-2004. That may explain why Hollywood is hoping the new high-definition format will translate into increased sales of movies for home entertainment, much like DVD sales did during their heyday. But will consumers flock to the new format with their steep entry price and a technology that may be obsolete in a few years? In this second in a two-part series, PodTech’s Matt Kelly put that and other questions to Bill Hunt, editor of The Digital Bits, an online publication that celebrates film in the digital era.