Stories about: Wal-Mart

What happens to a company when the unimaginable occurs? When an earthquake hits its primary contract manufacturer? When labour strikes shut down an entire port? When terrorists cripple a transportation system?

MIT logistics expert Yossi Sheffi talks with CIO about what companies can do to recover quickly from almost any type of disaster.

The recent wave of regulations require an entirely new approach to storing and searching e-mails. Noncompliance is not an option.

Criminals use online auctions as a place to unload stolen, diverted and counterfeit products. EBay does little to stop them, creating more work for CSOs. Here's what smart companies do.

Radio Frequency Identification has the potential to revolutionize logistics, but first it must overcome its reputation as an intrusive technology.

Product diversion costs manufacturers millions - but often isn't technically illegal. CSOs say combating diversion involves equal parts investigation and corporate politicking.

Privacy advocates and some lawmakers are pushing a debate over potential privacy abuses from the growing use of radio frequency identification chips as huge retailers such as Wal-Mart Stores move toward large-scale use of the technology.

Although still in its early research stage, RSA Security demonstrated a prototype of the RSA Blocker Tag technology at its data security conference in San Francisco on Tuesday. According to the company, when completed, the tag will enforce consumer privacy when dealing with radio frequency identification (RFID) tags.

At the Electronic Product Code Executive Symposium in Chicago in September, technology companies celebrated the launch of the EPC network, an open standard infrastructure that uses RFID tags.

Robert Frances Group warns IT executives about the security risks of extranets.