New Vision for IT Blind Spots
Ed’s latest E-Commerce piece: The human brain is able to compensate for the natural blind spots in our eyeballs by filling in the missing pieces of data and interpreting what’s already there to get to a more complete picture. With the appropriate organization, the same can be done in IT, and the results can mean better use of data you already have. For the rest of the article, please...
Read MoreWhy Is Your IT Audit Taking So Long?
Tech-heavy regulatory audits are nobody’s definition of a good time. But they happen, and taking the time to prepare for them is time well-spent. It’s certainly not advisable to have your IT department spend inordinate amounts of time and effort just to get ready on the off chance that an auditor should show up, but a few relatively easy exercises and policies can save you worlds of...
Read MoreWhy It Pays to Second-Guess Your Technology Assumptions
Ed’s latest column for ECT/TechNews World takes a look at the benefits of challenging your technology assumptions: One of the many pitfalls of information security is the illusion of permanence that surrounds many longstanding tools, policies and ways of doing business. Too often, the fact that “it’s always been done that way” clouds our judgment and blinds us to a...
Read MoreFISAP: InfoSecurity’s Muzak
I came across a Computer World article this morning about “new standards” for doing security vendor assessment. I got all excited for a few minutes until I got to the part about how it’s a BITS initiative, but I decided to keep an open mind and do some research on it anyway. After all, I’ve said all along that I think the goal of having a common vendor score-card would...
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