Governments are collecting increasing amounts of data about their citizens, and the need to handle all of it in a secure way is motivating ministries, departments and agencies to improve their IT security infrastructures. Although some are embracing the new defence imperative willingly and quickly, others are finding it a much tougher challenge.
In the August/September issue of CIO Government Review, Toronto writer Tammy McCausland introduced the notion of Federated Information Management, or FIM, meant to support digital