Computerworld Australia Nov 14 “Special Security Issue” (hardcopy)

November 26th, 2007 Drazen Drazic Posted in Bad Stuff, Dumb Security, WTF |

I just read the “Special Issue: Security - How to protect corporate assets in a dangerous world”.

CW Australia, are you serious? What a load of nothing! A bunch of republished stories from the US and crap ones to begin with! Why?

You have guys like Darren Pauli and co. putting out some good stuff here in Australia, yet you publish rubbish from the US. (CW US publishes some good things but you dredged the bottom of the barrel for this issue).

Pg 20-21: “Are Security Pros Worrying About the Right Stuff?” - 2 pages of nothing that adds nothing to anyones knowledge.

Pg 22-25: “Burning Questions: NAC” - space filler?

Pg 26-28: “10 IT Security Companies to Watch”: What?..none in Australia or Asia Pacific? (Good for US readers but come on, give some support to the guys here!)

Yeah, we know that “IT Security” is the buzzword at the moment but give us something of substance and not the usual drivel to fill pages and make some CIOs feel like they’re on top of everything.

2 Responses to “Computerworld Australia Nov 14 “Special Security Issue” (hardcopy)”

  1. SFB Says:
    November 26th, 2007 at 10:11 pm

    Computerworld has been a make me feel good guide for CIOs for a long time. Subscriptions and advertising? They even bring CIOs together for a mutual we are great society yearly and give them trophies. What a mutual wank gathering?

    Serious journalism? Like you said DD, just some posts on the online are worth the read.

  2. Big Galoot Says:
    November 27th, 2007 at 10:54 am

    Very funny SFB.:-) You got a very big laugh out of Big Galoot.

    But who’s outwanking whom ?

    If you reckon Computerworld is ordinary in the dishing out of cereal packet styled CIO trophies, then Zdnet is holding its own in the giving of frivolous gongs dept.

    They’ve been running a “CIO vision series” puff piece for the past couple of months now. What a load of boring self-gratifying gumph it all turned out to be.

    Its very easy to bag out our IT media, but in my opinion they really should lift their game & give us some meaty, in-depth stories rather than mostly industry led infomercials like is the case currently.

    Please, Zdnet & Computerworld, we plead with you. Stop giving us industry spin & give us real stories.

    Big Galoot.

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