Hollywood Hacks
Have you ever seen a movie you disliked so much that you wanted your money back? Maybe you kept hoping it would get better but finally you just had to get up and leave. We even use the previews to judge the movies by their covers, voting with our wallets to guide movie studios across […]
Monday, Monday… So Good to Me
Cyber Monday. The masterful creation of marketing professionals, designed to tap your wallet before the turkey and dressing settle in your tummy. Think of the sheer volume of sensitive consumer information that will be wafting through the ether on this day, searching out bargains and tantalizing hackers. Imagine millions of people walking through a big […]
The Plymouth Rock of Cybersecurity
Your organization has weathered some storms, am I right? The valleys between the peaks, when sales slow and payroll weighs heavy on the mind. You’ve hired through the good times and had to cut back in the lean times, but you and Michael have rowed your boat ashore, leaving the roiling seas of fiscal uncertainty […]
Blinding Growth
Utility companies are tearing up 9th Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, fueling the frustration of cabbies and pedestrians alike. The pasta bowl that is the highway system surrounding Atlanta is almost always under construction, locking traffic up around the clock, it seems. Both examples show the impact of interrupting the flow of traffic. As we build […]
The Digital Frenzy
The media is not short on cybersecurity horror stories, from Home Depot getting hammered to big bank back room holdups, all by nefarious hackers working from their parents’ basements. Or so it would seem. Truth is, 80% of all corporate breaches find their root cause in employee negligence, not hackers working alone.
Boo!
Tis the season and all the more reason to correlate Halloween with Cybersecurity. You’ve got the bucket of candy by the door and the neighborhood streets are awash with flashlights and Jack O’Lanterns, so settle in for a harrowing tale of mischief and mayhem. You’ll have to imagine Vincent Price’s voice. Sorry.
Mick Jagger: Cybersecurity Savant
Chicks Dig the Front Man Your sales team has sold the project, and it’s a big one. Kudos to the people people, the extroverts with the skill to reel in the whales as the technical terms from the carefully wrought spec sheet fall trippingly off their tongues. Somewhere somebody’s writing a beer commercial about their […]
Too Big to Fail?
The Eyes Have it Have you ever been banking at an ATM and felt like the people in line behind you were standing a little too close? Or the card swipe at the grocery store? How about the catalog salesperson who asks for your card info AND the secret number. Does a little wisp of […]
Thumbs Up for Cybersecurity
Deep in the SWAG bag from last month’s conference, next to the pens and sticky pads but well below the cleverly-branded drink can insulators, lurks a quiet but deadly threat to your organization that even the little bottle of hand sanitizer is powerless against. And there are three more just like it hiding at the […]
Knock Knock.
Remember the novelty of the knock knock joke, the thousands of iterations and puns that could be generated from the simplest of phrases? Orange you glad I asked? It’s all coming back to you, isn’t it? The response always starts with a chuckle, a reward for the cleverness of the wordplay. Near the end of […]
