Gartner Tells CIOs to Embrace Social Media
By Laton McCartney, Editor at CIOZone
Has someone been putting strange substances in the drinking water at Gartner’s Greenwich, CT headquarters? Some of their analysts are beginning to sound like New Age gurus on a mission to bring peace, love and harmony to the corporate world. Consider these words of wisdom recently imparted by Gartner analysts to clients at an Orlando conference…
Federal Guides for Social Media Security p.II
By Mike Meikle, CEO at Hawkthorne Group
Once an agency crosses over into social media interactions with other agencies and non-governmental organizations, the guidance gets diluted. The guidelines point to five government agencies, none of which are the definitive resource for social media implementations. These guidelines are a must read for any organization that is considering a foray into the Web 2.0 sphere…
FaaS: The Emergence of Fraud as a Service
By Mike Meikle, CEO at Hawkthorne Group
Fraud as a service or FaaS for the acronym collectors, has been a topic of concern for security professionals since 2008. Gone are the days where the primary theft is being perpetrated by the sociopath lone-wolf in the basement. The major player is now organized crime, responsible for 70 percent of online fraud and billions in ill-gotten gains…
Federal Guidelines for Social Media Security
By Mike Meikle, CEO at Hawkthorne Group
The document’s executive summary rightly categorizes the decision to move to social media as a risk-based decision. The technology behind it all is really no where near as important. As was discussed in the previous post the why is far more important than the how. So, a real business case must be crafted as to why the move into social media is necessary…
Exploring the Social Media Security Quandary
By Mike Meikle, CEO at Hawkthorne Group
If a company wants to have a social media presence, then the people involved in the usage will need to have the training to understand what to and not to post and what is acceptable use (no Facebook apps). The Internet is full of regrettable stories of CEOs and other high-ranking employees discussing inappropriate topics that immediately plunge themselves and their firm into hot water.
SaaS and the Need for Enterprise Architecture
Coby Royer, Technical Product Manager for Symplified
Acquisition and deployment of real solutions is now within grasp of business owners (seemingly) without the need for conventional IT delivery and support. But many questions may go unanswered without engagement of EA, and latent risks (such as compliance and security) may turn into real issues.
Everyday Life and the Expectation of Privacy
Coby Royer, Technical Product Manager for Symplified
Regardless of what you feel should or should not be private, we all have a right to set expectations that we trust will be met. And as technologists, we have the capability to improve the state of privacy in the face of technological advances that might otherwise undermine it. Privacy is not an Illusion, it is a challenge.
UTM Systems for Enterprise Security Debated
By Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst, IT-Harvest
When a better way of doing things arises, an analyst who seeks to shed light on the future for their lackadaisical client base would attempt to nudge them towards the light of change: enhanced security, better control, and lower total costs as demonstrated by the Enterprise Class UTM vendors. Never have I seen an analyst firm so adamantly defend the status quo.
Richard Stiennon Explains Why Security Sells
By Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst, IT-Harvest
Both network vendors and PC vendors should wake up to the new reality that there is another layer of change on top of the ever increasing bandwidth, application, and storage requirements. A change in the threats.
Korea Held a Cyber War, But Nobody Came
By Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst, IT-Harvest
Bruce Schneier points out the attacks against US Federal sites that succeeded in shutting them down or the malware spread by USB thumb drive that infected the US Military Central Command, demonstrate a lack of common sense anti-virus and patch management. But that is a very big deal Bruce…
