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Last February at Purdue University, a student taking "cs390s - Secure Computing" told his professor, Dr. Pascal Meunier, that a Web application he used for his physics class seemed to contain a serious vulnerability that made the app highly insecure. Such a discovery didn't surprise Meunier. "It's a secure computing class; naturally students want to discover vulnerabilities."

Why are leadership books so popular? Because leadership -- great leadership -- is rare today. Sadly, this is true nowhere more than in the IT industry.

Next to requirements, testing is the most overlooked, most under funded, most rushed, yet most critical aspect of the software development cycle. Here are 25 ways to boost the level of success.

Good project management isn't enough; CIOs need a worst-case contingency plan for the business.