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Top tech trends pose the biggest security risks, say federal IT leaders - Nextgov

  • Seventy-nine percent of 217 senior IT executives across federal government surveyed by the Ponemon Institute on behalf of software vendor CA viewed the growth in collaboration software applications as a security risk that increases the chance of confidential or sensitive information being compromised. Similarly, 52 percent of respondents said Web 2.0 applications such as social networking, messaging, blogging and wikis contribute to data breaches and botnet attacks that infiltrate computers with malicious code, and 63 percent of respondents saw the susceptibility of mobile devices to malware infections and network intrusion as contributing significantly to endpoint security risks.
  • Seventy-nine percent of 217 senior IT executives across federal government surveyed by the Ponemon Institute on behalf of software vendor CA viewed the growth in collaboration software applications as a security risk that increases the chance of confidential or sensitive information being compromised. Similarly, 52 percent of respondents said Web 2.0 applications such as social networking, messaging, blogging and wikis contribute to data breaches and botnet attacks that infiltrate computers with malicious code, and 63 percent of respondents saw the susceptibility of mobile devices to malware infections and network intrusion as contributing significantly to endpoint security risks.

Enterprise 2.0 Blog » Blog Archive » How to Build Collaborative Software That People Will Actually Use

    • Five principles for collaborative tools that work.



      1. Build pointers to people
      2. Reward individual participation
      3. Demand intuitive interfaces
      4. Take the road more travelled - take advantage of the path of least resistance: give users options but use the default to your advantage
      5. Iterate early and often
01 Nov 09

National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation

  • Suffice it to say that people were thrilled to have been invited to contribute ideas for the Open Government Directive, as one of numerous streams of input, but people’s participation in the 3-stage process declined over each of the three phases due to a variety of factors like increasingly complex technology platforms, a too-tight timeframe, and an overabundance of both relevant and not-so-relevant posts.

McKinsey: What Matters: Using technology to improve workforce collaboration

  • Technology and workflow processes support knowledge worker success and are increasingly sources of comparative differentiation. Those able to use new technologies to reshape how they work are finding significant productivity gains.
  • Knowledge workers are growing in numbers. In some sectors of the economy, such as healthcare providers and education , they account for 75 percent of the workforce; in the United States, their wages total 18 percent of GDP.
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