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Being challenged with budget reductions due to uncertain economic conditions, IT cost reduction would be a top priority for CIOs in 2010. CIOs need to ensure that the primary performance metrics for the IT department is maintained, while the organization continues to function at its best. However, the continual increase of consumer privacy data being compromised and other forms of security breaches put a major dent in the bottom line and also in the company’s brand. Threats from social networking sites to hosted services and cloud raise worries amongst CIOs as these technologies continue to blur the network parameter and make it more difficult to protect the information from outside in and inside out. Highlights

Examining the effectiveness of enterprise IT portfolio management, IT governance, disaster recovery and contingency strategies;

Implementing revenue-generating IT innovations and cost reduction strategies within an organization;

Mitigating risks of threats and vulnerability of integrated network system and applications;

Enforcing stringent security measurements in data protection and corporate privacy;

Discovering the latest developments in virtualization, cloud computing, mobile and open source applications