Carl Bate is Vice President & UK Chief Technology Officer, Capgemini. He contributes to The CTO blog. He is a leading contributor to Capgemini’s thought leadership in business technology and also helps facilitate Capgemini’s IT leadership community - a community of ex-CIOs, CTOs and IT Leaders who’ve personally faced the challenges of IT in business - whose goal is to provide support to executives and their leadership teams. Prior to the CTO role at Capgemini Carl ran its Technology Consulting business (TCG). Bate is co-author of the book ‘Lost in Translation’ - a 5-star rated handbook designed to offer new, practical insights to business and technology leaders seeking to make a step-change difference in addressing the ‘business/IT divide’ – www.LiThandbook.com.
Carl is a fellow of the British Computer Society and chair of its Futures Group.
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On the face of it, the apparent hacking of Sarah Palin’s Yahoo mail account
may have hurt the cloud’s onward march into enterprise credibility. By
using services in the cloud to hold corporate data, as opposed to within our
corporate walls, the concern is we are automatically exposing the corporate
to additional risk. And it is a concern we must take seriously. But this is
far from the full story. Computer hacking is as old as computers, and social
engineering as old as, well, people.
With thanks to the head of enterprise architecture of one of the
organizations I’m collaborating with for sharing the link, here’s a well
written perspective on the hack itself. I’ve also had a couple of
colleagues mention, quite rightly, that this high profile event serves as a... (more)
Carl Bate is Vice President & UK Chief Technology Officer, Capgemini. He contributes to 
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