Thank you Pete Lindstrom and Judge Learned Hand for that common sense measure & definition of IT security risk management. The history lesson was also very interesting.
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It's definitely not only an IT issue. That said, some of the folks I've spoken to on this topic, including an employment lawyer, suggest it's more prevalent in IT -- and especially in the developer/programmer community...
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Are there examples of companies using this tech, even on a pilot basis?
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Kristopher Ardis, executive director of Energy Solutions for Maxim Integrated, offers some additional perspective in a recent article in SmartGrid News, Smart grid, the Internet of Things and Security, an inside look ....
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Good fun, Reuven. That electricity/power grid analogy has dogged the cloud community for years. Wait, I'm mixing my metaphors.
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This shows the hyprocacy of Microsoft's"scruggoled" campaign. Not only do they use user data to make Bing work, they have worked hand in glove with NSA to provide access to private communications and data. Now they try...
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I did not mean to leave the women out of this discussion. The reality is age pops up in hiring for both men and women. I heard a female CIO make an argument for diversity (including gender diversity) on her team once by...
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They have been saying that about tape for a lot longer than 10 years, but your point is well taken. The pundits have got to have something to say to justify their existence, and the people that want to sell you something...
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InformationWeek contributor Jonathan Feldman makes some great observations about the evolution of community solutions, in his article: How Code For America Made Me a Better IT Leader. Among his conclusions: "Enterprises...
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I know this is an IT oriented website but I don't see how this only a problem for IT jobs? Does HR, when trying to fill a position of any relevance, really want someone with only 10 or less years of time left? The only...
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The stakes are clearly getting bigger for big brands. Consider Apple's acquistion of social-media analytics firm Topsy Labs last week for more than $200 million. Apple of course isn't making the reasoning clear. ...
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An Operations Readiness Review, from Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services, dated 9/4/13, shows a diagram broadly illustration what's used in the Presentation layer for end users (bulit using Apache RP, and Layer7 SOA...
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It's great to see Avira and Bitdefender respond to the transparency question about NSA malware from Dutch digital rights foundation Bits of Freedom. Now its your turn, Microsoft, Symantec, and McAfee!
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...when you're looking for a reason to do so. Most often (as a professed "old guy" myself), I've found the reasoning is financial. It's always easier to justfiy adding people to your team when they don't cost as much to...
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Update: two more AV vendors have come forward -- and we've updated the story accordingly. Avira's CEO has sent Trail of Bits a letter saying it hasn't, and won't, block any malware, full stop. Ditto for the CEO of Bitdefender,...
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This would be more annoying than useful for me, but I can see better applications down the road: coupons for shoppers based on kiosks or stores they're near, exclusive deals, that sort of thing.
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@rgruia, thanks for your response. Great details on the specific carriers, which I have found difficult to find on my own.
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A mix is a necessary in the workforce: Younger ones bring a fresh sense of enthusiasm and ideas; older workers bring experience to execute, all of which are invaluable and keys to business success.
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PeterG, I remember VerticalNet! I guess we are talking about online versus offline business processes. But I think a lot of that is merging as more internal company processes become networked to branches, partners and suppliers....
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Nature often punishes monocultures, and an all-young person team may be a kind of monoculture. The mature person knows where the pitfalls in the trail lie, having traversed it before. Language skills in particular can weigh...
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In answer to your question about why some hospitals aren't making progress, @David Carr, I'd say the answer is organizational roadblocks, not technology. It's interesting, I think, that Lakeland (a Stage 7 institution) made...
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InformationWeek December 2013 Special IssueHybrid cloud standards promise a more open future, free of inflexible ties to vendors.
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Enterprise cloud adoption has evolved to the point where hybrid public/private cloud designs and use of multiple providers is common. Who among us has mastered provisioning resources in different clouds; allocating the right resources to each application; assigning applications to the "best" cloud provider based on performance or reliability requirements.
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