September 11, 2016 Everybody wants in on ‘Cybersecurity” Embed from Getty Images Intel Sets McAfee Free … http://www.databreachtoday.com/blogs/intel-sets-mcafee-free-p-2244? … becoming what Intel bills as one of the world’s biggest “pure-play cybersecurity companies.”…
February 18, 2016 Purpose unclear. Why are the FBI *really* trying to subvert encryption? Tim cook says Apple will fight a federal order to help the FBI hack an iPhone. An earlier version of this page has…
May 10, 2015 Why Silicon Valley Will Continue to Rule https://medium.com/backchannel/why-silicon-valley-will-continue-to-rule-c0cbb441e22f The historical, cultural and economic context described here sums up why efforts to replicate ‘the valley’ in other countries, other places, according to…
April 30, 2015 U.S. Defense Secretary Carter emphasizes culture change needed to http://www.scmagazine.com/ash-carter-spoke-at-stanford-university/article/411392/ Yes the government needs a culture change if it is to address its own and the national issues pertaining to security, technological, in…
August 30, 2012 Marketing Is Dead – Harvard Business Review http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/08/marketing_is_dead.html Of course you have to have a catchy title, but what this really says is … in today’s increasingly social media-infused environment, traditional…
April 5, 2012 An OP-ED by Richard Clarke on China http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/opinion/how-china-steals-our-secrets.html This is better written than most ‘chicken little’ pieces, but please can we have ‘history’ of how most nations, including the USA, have…
March 6, 2012 Naval War College uses Russian software for iPad course material http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20120305_6368.php The Navy’s premier institution for developing senior strategic and operational leaders started issuing students Apple iPad tablet computers equipped with GoodReader software in…
February 10, 2012 Please Realize That Piracy is a Service Problem. http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2012/02/03/you-will-never-kill-piracy-and-piracy-will-never-kill-you/ The full article is a bit wordy, and manages to avoid lecturing about how the media industry failed at “service” when it came…
February 8, 2012 Upside and downside: How I hate Journalists http://compliancesearch.com/compliancex/insider-trading/senate-votes-to-ban-insider-trading-by-its-members/ And this doesn’t actually stop them form making use of ‘insider information’ they just have to declare it within 30 days. No, wait,…
January 25, 2012 “Cybercrime” is still Crime and “Cyberfraud” is still Fraud http://www.techsecuritytoday.com/index.php/our-contributors/michael-vizard/entry/lifting-the-veil-on-cybercrime This says it all: At the end of the day, cybercriminal activity is not all that different from more traditional forms of organized…
August 6, 2011 The Decline of the Physical Desktop http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Management/As-Foretold-by-Desktop-Managment-Tools-588370/ What’s interesting here is that this isn’t preaching “The Cloud” and only mentions VDI in one paragraph (2 in the one-line expanded version)….
July 21, 2011 Economic Impact: Patent trolls chase app developers out of the U.S http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Kootol-joins-Lodsys-as-a-patent-troll/?kc=LNXDEVNL072111 The Debt ceiling crisis will pass; even if there is a crash, the USA can recover from it … IF its core economic…
July 1, 2011 Sony backs U.S. ineffective cybersecurity legislation http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Sony+backs+cybersecurity+legislation/5030033/story.html “If nothing else, perhaps the frequency, audacity and harmfulness of these attacks will help encourage Congress to enact new legislation to make the…
April 19, 2011 Congressman blames U.S. unemployment crisis on iPad http://www.zdnet.com/blog/apple/congressman-blames-us-unemployment-crisis-on-ipad/9968?tag=nl.e539 In it U.S. Representative Jesse Jackson Jr (D-IL) blasts Apple and Steve Jobs claiming that the iPad is responsible for killing thousands of…
January 31, 2011 IT AUDIT VS Risk Assessment – 2 We were discussing which should be done first and someone said: The first has to be risk assessment as it is foundation of information…
September 15, 2010 Career Insights from Stephen Northcutt, CEO of SANS http://www.bankinfosecurity.com/articles.php?art_id=2914 Fascinating. I get a lot of enquiries from wannabes who, as they put it, want to “break into security“. I presume they see…
July 29, 2010 RIM vs. Indian government continues http://www.zdnet.com/blog/india/rim-vs-indian-government-continues/135?tag=nl.e539 … and the UAE. RIM is between a rock and a hard place. They say no to this and they loose a market;…
July 21, 2010 When organizations put a lot of eggs in one basket – desktop side http://www.zdnet.com/blog/virtualization/when-organizations-put-a-lot-of-eggs-in-one-basket-desktop-side-of-the-story/2103?tag=nl.e539 This is a chicken-little story. We’ve been putting many computer eggs in one hardware basket for a long, long time. What do you…
June 4, 2010 Google Phasing out Windows http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Report-Google-phasing-out-internal-use-of-Microsoft-Windows-1012679.html “According to a report in the Financial Times, Google are phasing out the use of Microsoft‘s Windows within the company because of security…
May 28, 2010 “Impact” is not a Metric I never like to see the term ‘impact’. Its not a metric. I discuss how length, temperature, weight, are metrics whereas speed, acceleration, entropy…
