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Cybergeddon: A Cyberwarfare Fable
There has been much discussion lately about “cyberwarfare”. This article “US Should go on Cyber Offensive” in the BBC represents the typical media slant on the issue… A US Air Force officer has told...
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Desktop Virtualization Overview; The Good, The Bad, and The Reality – VDI is...
To address the increasing cost and complexity of managing dynamic IT environments organizations are trying to understand how to adopt virtualization technologies. The value proposition and “killer app”...
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Top 10 Reasons Your Security Program Sucks and Why You Can’t Do Anything...
In the security industry we like to fool ourselves into thinking that we can materially impact an organizations security posture. We believe that new tools, a new framework, a new regulation, a new...
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The Broken Windows Economics of IT Security
To economists, the term “Broken Windows” refers to the question that if a shopkeeper pays a glazier to repair a broken window at his store, does this deliver an economic benefit to society? Many people...
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Poor Design? Blame the User!
As I was traveling through Canada last week I was struck by an article in the Globe and Mail – “Track designers defend Whistler course” – in which the designers of the Winter Sliding Centre suggest...
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Rolling Stone “The Biggest Cyber Crime in History – Sex, Drugs, and Hackers...
I wouldn’t normally read Rolling Stone but strolling through the airport I noticed “The Biggest Cyber Crime in History – Sex, Drugs & Hackers Gone Wild” on the cover and like passing a train wreck...
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The Good, Bad, and Ugly of Technology Acquisitions
It is the foundation for the free market system and capitalism and it is every entrepreneurs dream; build a great technology, execute and achieve excellence in GTM, deliver fantastic value to customers...
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Big Data; Are You Creating a Garbage Dump or Mountains of Gold
You’re not really sure how it happened, but some time between last year and the summer of 2011 you were suddenly facing a big data problem, or you were being told you were facing a big data problem, or...
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Why I Suck at Blogging…and Twitter
So recently I posted some thoughts on big data and the increasing usage of Hadoop, the general theme was data management != data analysis…this caused confusion with some folks, as evidenced by the...
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Top 10 Most Overhyped Technology Terms
We have entered a new era of information technology, an era where the clouds are moist, the data is obese and incontinent, and the threats are advanced, persistent, and the biggest ever. Of course with...
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