60 Minutes of Cyberthreat
It was a beautiful Sunday, a great day to be outside enjoying the wonder of nature. Maybe you played golf, or maybe you got two tractors stuck trying to cut firebreaks into quail woods that desperately awaited a prescribed burn, probably wishing you had chosen to play golf instead. Don’t ask. At any rate, Sunday evening rolls around […]
Cash in the Caymans
As an IT Professional, you make a good living. Sure, you could always make more, but on a relative scale, you’re doing okay. What you’re probably not doing is trying to shelter your assets and income in offshore accounts in the Cayman Islands or hidden accounts in Switzerland or Singapore. Few are engaged in such […]
Bite from the Apple
Which interests outweigh the others? Should the U.S. Government be able to force Apple to assist in breaching the iPhone used by a terrorist? Or should consumers rest assured that, even when their feet are held to the fire, private companies can hold the line about their intellectual property and the security of their products? […]
Real American Hero
As an IT Professional, you’re well aware of the near-term implications of your work. You keep networks up and running, safe from the grubby hands of hackers and malcontents around the globe. In your spare time, you seek a cure for cancer, provide for widows and orphans, and move the human race toward world peace and […]
A Heartbeat Away
As an IT Professional and key voice in managing the ever-growing risks to your organization’s data, you probably have a number. Everybody’s got a number. The number represents the amount of money you would pay to simply make a problem go away. It’s a combination of risk/reward calculus and cost of doing business. How does […]
An Apple a Day Keeps the FBI Away
Remember those annoying essays you had to write in high school and college English classes, the ones that ask you to take a position on some seismic cultural issue like capital punishment, abortion, or lip-synching? Well, maybe the first two. The news these days suggests that history is writing another of those epic essays, and […]
Security Starts In The Home
Or maybe the home office, where the perception might exist that the greatest threat to network and data security is a rogue Russian hacker or a disenfranchised neckbeard living in his mother’s basement. But that perception is just the tip of the iceberg, and too many organizations spend too much time rearranging the deck chairs […]
New Technologies, New Faces, and Mixed Metaphors
The economy has been expanding. Maybe not as fast as you’d hoped, but expanding nonetheless. You may have noticed an increase in RFPs, or maybe you’ve seen more activity at trade shows that suggest the project gatekeepers are loosening their grip on the padlock. Get you some of that!
Death By Internet
2015 was an interesting year for technology, especially the ever-expanding connection between cybersecurity and the Internet of Things. Consider the dangerous possibilities that emerge when we connect devices that have the capacity to take lives, including automobiles and medical devices. The reality when you connect devices for the first time is that you can’t anticipate […]
Left To Your Own Devices
To facilitate the easy flow of data and ease the maintenance and setup burden of IT teams, many organizations have been moving toward BYOD, or Bring Your Own Device. The policies and practices surrounding BYOD are difficult to navigate, especially with the ever-increasing footprint of the Internet of Things. In the face of expansion, though, […]
