The Ubiquity of Remote Access
Forget about the Internet of Things. Yeah, like that’s possible. But set that aside for the moment. Another stark reality of our new global economy and digital footpath is the flourishing of remote access. Road Warriors access their office PCs from business travel hotels from Scranton to Sacramento while small businesses choose NAS over cloud […]
Organizational Climate Change
Planning is part of business, and the emerging changes in our physical world certainly play into that. Unexpected rains and flooding seem to strike different regions of the country with increasing frequency, and the usual threats like hurricanes and tornadoes haven’t completely resigned the stage.
Crazy Cousin Guccifer
Every family’s got at least one, a crazy uncle or distant cousin who adopts a scorched earth perspective when exiting the reservation or joining the circus or moving to Iowa to invest in an earthworm farm. You don’t hear much from them for a while, but the names and stories get opened up at family […]
I’m with the Government, and I’m Here to Hold a Hearing
We hear a lot about homeland security, both the pursuit and the official government department. The TSA is probably the latter’s most visible, and often most toxic, representative, especially when you see the little old lady victimized by the random full body search. The work they do is important, but a lot of it never […]
It’s Graduation Season
The waypoints on our life journeys are marked by ceremony. Weddings, funerals, births and Baptisms, and, from time to time, graduations. High school and college seem to be the major events, but the zealous have introduced kindergarten, grade school, middle school, and traffic school to the mix. So congratulations to those who wiped the points […]
Ransomware Exposed: Sextortion
Ransomware is not new. It’s been around for a while, and clever hackers have found ways to extort just the right amount of money to make it worth your while to settle. The balance is somewhere between what the data is worth and what it would cost you to recover it through normal machinations. Traditionally […]
Hackers Prove Patient But Swift
Breaching a global bank network is no smash and grab operation. As organizations focus and fund their cybersecurity resources with even greater alacrity, the bad guys have to continue to polish the edge of their sword, patiently waiting for the right opportunities to score bigger and bigger hits. Such is the case with the recent […]
A Coppertone Moment
It’s the official beginning of summer, and hundreds of thousands of tourists from the far reaches of North America are making their way across the USA in a Chevrolet, migrating to the seasonal climes and exotic beverage offerings of coastal communities across the Southeast. Escaping the more — perhaps presumably — mundane and pedestrian challenges […]
Grab That High Voltage Line, Again
As thrilling as it might have been for the relatively few men and women who successfully navigated the Ashley Madison portal to extramarital affairs, nothing can compare to the thrill of seeing your name and vital statistics on view in the public square, again. But that is the ruling of a District Court Judge in […]
Authentic Intelligence
Over the last holiday season, around the IT water cooler, the talk inevitably turned to the cool new gadgets that impressed the mortals and blew the minds of Luddites everywhere. That talk was all about Artificial Intelligence and the need to more efficiently sell shoes. IT folks are way too immersed in AI to get […]
