Credit to Author: Damien Wells| Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 15:00:52 +0000
At a recent event I sat down with Kevin Brown, Chief of Technology and Innovation for Schneider Electric’s IT Division, and we covered a lot of ground talking about how… Read more »
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Read moreCredit to Author: Issie Lapowsky| Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 18:30:28 +0000
Technology has come a long way since the Saturday Night Massacre. The post Stop Thinking James Comey Keeps All His Files in a Cardboard Box appeared first on WIRED.
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Credit to Author: Michael Kan| Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 14:28:00 -0700
President Donald Trump has finally signed a long-awaited executive order on cybersecurity, and he called for the U.S. government to move more into the cloud and modernize its IT infrastructure.
The order, signed on Thursday, is designed to “centralize risk” and move the government’s agencies toward shared IT services, White House homeland security adviser Tom Bossert said in a press briefing
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Credit to Author: Mathias Thurman| Date: Mon, 08 May 2017 03:45:00 -0700
As my company continues to move enterprise applications to the cloud, the latest development presents a security opportunity. We are giving up our on-premises Microsoft Exchange email in favor of the Microsoft Office 365 service. With the transition, we might be able to curtail the common employee practice of communicating and storing sensitive business-related data in email.
I am encouraging the IT organization to tighten security by implementing controls that were either not available in our on-premises deployment or never implemented. The first order of business is a cleanup of accounts and distribution lists. We have hundreds of email-enabled distribution lists, and too many of them are available to the world. We should be able to cut down the number of lists and set rules about who can use them.
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Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 10:40:00 -0700
As self-driving cars become more advanced with a greater number of onboard computers, sensors, cameras and WiFi, the amount of data is expected to balloon, providing automakers, insurers and others with rich information to harvest.
A single autonomous car could generate as much as 100GB of data every second, said Barclays analyst Brian Johnson, in a note published Wednesday.
BarclaysIf extrapolated out to the entire U.S. fleet of vehicles — 260 million in number — autonomous cars and trucks could potentially produce about 5,800 exabytes, Johnson stated.
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Credit to Author: Mark Nunnikhoven (Vice President, Cloud Research)| Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 17:48:49 +0000
It’s easy to get lost in a sea of marketing terms. Recently “Hybrid Cloud” has bubbled up more and more. The good news here is that the term is an accurate and useful way to describe the reality that most organizations are facing…and will continue to face for the foreseeable future. Unless you started your…
Credit to Author: Mathias Thurman| Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2017 04:04:00 -0700
The security risk that I am most focused on right now is this: Shadow IT and the consumerization of IT have put too many employee work activities out of sight of the security department.
Employees at my company now use more than 90 cloud-based apps that I know of. Most of these are categorized as software as a service (SaaS). Many are corporate-sanctioned, meaning the business unit or IT went through a selection process to identify and procure an application, and my department was at least consulted. This list includes applications such as ADP for payroll, Salesforce, Workday, Oracle, WebEx, Google Docs, Microsoft Office 365 and SAP.
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Credit to Author: Stephen Lawson| Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 05:21:00 -0700
Most technologies go through a stage when everything seems possible. Personal computers in the early 1980s, the internet in the late 1990s and mobile apps around the beginning of this decade were like that.
But so was the first unboxing of a Galaxy Note 7. In time, either suddenly or gradually, reality sets in.
The internet of things still looks promising, with vendors and analysts forecasting billions of connected devices that will solve all sorts of problems in homes and enterprises. But the seams are starting to show on this one, too. As promising as the technology is, it has some shortcomings. Here are a few.
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