Dateline: January 20, 2017 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Continuing with our focus on cybersecurity, today's thought comes from a recent Sloan Management Review article interviewing Professor Stuart Madnick, director of MIT’s Interdisciplinary Consortium for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity (IC)³. Professor Madnick … [Read more...]
Managing Cybersecurity is More Than Just Good Hardware and Software
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Cybersecurity In The Boardroom
January 13, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: January 13, 2017 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Cybersecurity has become a boardroom topic now that executives realize how devastating a breach can be. Recently, Information Management published an article, Why Cybersecurity Leapt From the Basement to the Boardroom, reporting that spending on cybersecurity is up about 8% … [Read more...]
Ten Technology Trends for 2017 According to Gartner
December 23, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: December 23, 2016 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. As the year draws to a close, we begin to see predictions about technologies and trends for next year. So today we share the Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2017 which are grouped into three themes: Intelligence, Digital and Mesh. The 10 trends are: … [Read more...]
The Importance of Quantifying the Enterprise Value of Data
October 7, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Data is no longer the domain of tech companies or IT departments — it is fast becoming a centerpiece of corporate value creation more generally. Dateline: October 7, 2016 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Recently, coauthors Dante Disparte and Daniel Wagner published a blog urging leaders to more accurately value their enterprise data … [Read more...]
Building a Data Security Culture
June 24, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: June 24, 2016 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Last week's idea was from MIT's recent CIO Symposium. Today's idea also came from that event. Professor Sandy Pentland moderated a panel session on Big Data 2.0 that was summarized in Baseline Magazine. One panelist, Anthony Christie, from Level 3 Communications was … [Read more...]
End Users are the Weakest Link
September 25, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: September 25, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. We continue on our Information Security month topics again this week. Are your end-users the problem? Dark Reading.com, an online community for information security professionals recently published a blog post by Tim Wilson, the Editor in Chief and co-founder. In it he … [Read more...]
Is Information Security a C-Suite Issue?
September 18, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: September 18, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This month we are talking IT security. A post in SecurityWeek, titled IT Leaders and Staffers Have Disconnect on Security Objectives, reported on a survey of over 1800 IT professionals conducted by independent research firm Ponemon Institute and Dell SecureWorks. One of the … [Read more...]
Information Security Maturity
September 11, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: September 11, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This is Information Security month for our blog. The topic today is Information Security maturity. A survey of 1825 IT leaders, conducted by the Ponemon Institute for Dell SecureWorks, was summarized in a report titled the 2015 Global Study on IT Security Spending and … [Read more...]
The Kill Chain for Information Security
September 4, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: September 4, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Let's talk IT security. It's probably one of the least favorite topics for IT leaders, but of course one of the most crucial since protecting assets is critical for business success. Recently I ran across a well-written white paper published by Dell's SecureWorks titled, "The … [Read more...]
