Chris Conrath

As an ex-RCMP officer, Rene Hamel tries to uphold the tradition of always getting his man. But there was one insider who almost got away.

An Ontario government computer program, part of a solution designed to replace an aging system for the Ministry of Community and Social Services (MCSS), was knowingly launched without the functionality necessary to implement system-wide increases in welfare or disability payments, according to a source with knowledge of the project.

As far as corporate nightmares go, the recent IT meltdown at the Royal Bank Financial Group has to rank among the worst to come true.

In a time when outsourcing is all the rage and IT security is slowly following this trend, panellists at a recent Infosecurity Canada 2004 conference in Toronto were in agreement that certain portions of a company

For a sector that represents hundreds of thousands of jobs and billions to the economy, information technology is surprisingly absent from the campaign platforms of Canada

A growing trend in industry, from a security perspective, is to share informa-tion with the competition in an effort to learn from other

For a country prone to disasters, from natural and man-made to technology-based, a surprising number of companies have unacceptable plans in place to deal with them, according to experts at this week's World Conference on Disaster Management in Toronto. And, while IT is only a portion of the solution, it can play an important role in mitigating risk.

Many companies have foregone the traditional three-year turnaround for desktops and laptops in favour of four- and even five-year cycles. But at a seminar on Tuesday, Deloitte Canada CIO Malcolm Campbell said his firm has crunched its own numbers and gone against the perceived wisdom deciding on a two-year refresh cycle.