This week's Computer Weekly examines how the Football Association's IT director is using technology to help improve the prospects for the England national team. Our Buyer's Guide to government IT looks at the future of open source in the public sector and we report from Infosec 2012 on the rising number of cyber attacks. Read the issue now. 

CIOs are more confident of securing technology budget increases than at any time in the last five years, according to the CIO Technology Survey 2012. 

This paper identifies today’s most critical web threats and provides checklists for you to identify and evaluate the security capabilities you need for the best web protection. 

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we look at the IT challenges facing retailers, as consumers turn increasingly to web and mobile shopping channels. Oracle president Mark Hurd talks about how the supplier intends to simplify IT infrastructures. And new government CIO Andy Nelson discusses how he plans to transform Whitehall IT. Read the issue now. 

Data storage backups are a necessary element of data protection plan, but they're often the biggest source of security woes. Learn everything you need to know about keeping your backups secure in this tutorial. 

The goal of recruiting is not to simply hire people, but to reliably and efficiently place and retain the right people in the right roles to effectively support a company’s business strategies. This paper presents 9 key questions that need to be carefully considered when designing a recruiting process that helps you secure and keep the best hires. 

This paper shows the industry-wide acceptance of SIP and the recent advances of the open source software projects related to Voice over IP (VoIP). Read why the author firmly believes that the VoIP open source is still in its infancy, but its acceptance and product maturity will grow rapidly over the next few years. 

HP Fortify on Demand is a SaaS testing solution that enables organisations to test the security of software quickly, accurately, affordably and without any software to install or manage. View this paper to get a look into how this automated on-demand service works, explore use cases, and determine if this approach is right for you. 

There are substantial security benefits to developers and security personnel working together, yet they are often viewed as being like oil and water. In this paper, discover how to integrate software development and security effectively and pain-free by using the right tools and techniques. 

For many years network administrators have expected security breaches to come from outside an organization or at the upper layers of the OSI model. This paper will focus on securing layer 2 switching at the access layer through port security and preventing denial of service (DoS) attacks at layer 2. 

Uncover best practices for keeping your mobile devices and applications secure. 

In this asset, learn how secure enterprise content mobility can help give your employees access to critical business data anywhere, anytime, and on any device – while you can still make sure it’s safe and secure.