GDPR as a Forcing Function for Things That Should Have Happened Already

Dateline: April 6, 2018 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week we saw new announcements of data breaches affecting millions of individuals.  Delta, Sears, and Under Armor all reported hacks that impact information privacy, highlighting the fact that for just about every company, the question is not "if" but "when" they are hacked.  … [Read more...]

Offensive and Defensive Cybersecurity

Dateline: October 27, 2017 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. The complexity of being cyber-resiliant can be overwhelming.  Knowing what to do, and how much is enough is difficult to figure out for almost everyone.  Recently author Michael Lewis, the CIO at Copper State published an opinion piece at Information Management about a … [Read more...]

Cyber Security’s Weakest Link

Dateline: April 14, 2017 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Keeping your information systems safe and cyber secure is a challenge under the best of circumstances.  Bad actors abound, trying to steal data, disrupt systems, and general cause chaos.  Building a secure environment is more than just getting the right technology in place.  The … [Read more...]

Internet of Things: Shift from Products to Services

Dateline: August 8, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week’s idea comes from two articles published this year at Information Age, a UK-based website for IT leaders, on the Internet of Things (IoT). The first, published earlier this year, is titled, 4 things that will happen in the Internet of Things space in 2014.  In that … [Read more...]