Protecting your data in the cloud
Several factors combine to make data security in the cloud a challenge. Web applications have fundamental vulnerabilities. HTTP is the cloud protocol of choice for everything from file backup in the cloud to Sales force management in the cloud. HTTP and HTML evolved from a protocol for static file delivery to a protocol for 2 […]
Are you still using Excel for risk assessment?
There is a school of thought that says that you can take any complex problem and break it down like swiss cheese. Risk assessment data collection and analysis with Excel is one of those problems that can’t be swiss-cheesed. A collection of brittle, unwieldy, two dimensional worksheets is a really bad way of doing multi-dimensional […]
What is the value of a trade secret?
My guess is that the value of software patents is on the decline, taking value as the net of the economic upside of the software patent less the cost of patent development, application and enforcement. The dynamic is that the benefit from patent protection in the software industry is less than the cost of the […]
US bashing Toyota for displacing GM as #1
There is a reason why GM is in trouble and Toyota has displaced GM in the number one automobile manufacturer. Here is a piece from a colleague and friend – Todd Walzer, Todd and I worked together at Intel Fab 8 in Jerusalem in the 80’s. Working at Intel Jerusalem in the 1980’s, we were […]
Do you have a business need for DLP?
To be able to do something before it exists, sense before it becomes active, and see before it sprouts. The Book of Balance and Harmony (Chung-ho chi). A medieval Taoist book Will security vendors, large to small (Symantec, Mcafee, nexTier, ANBsys and others..) succeed in restoring balance and harmony to their customers by relabeling their product suites as unified content […]
Is social media crap for business?
A recent post by Kevin Conway on LinkedIn drew over 500 responses to his somewhat dramatic statement that Social Media for Business is CRAP – Maybe because my feeling for the hyped-up benefits of social media was recently confirmed by a top millionaire online guru. If you follow the most successful gurus his name is […]
Pharmaceuticals and Kirby vacuums: The last bastions of door-to-door sales?
My research article on “Social software – Reconstructing the market boundaries of pharmaceutical sales” was published on the rapidly growing UK healthcare site PharmaPhorum yesterday – one of my first forays outside the data security space in a long time but a direction with a potential to make a big change in the way pharmas […]
Free agent DLP from Sophos
Sophos has announced that they will soon include endpoint data loss prevention functionality in their anti-virus software. Developed in-house, Sophos will have an independent offering – unlike Websense, RSA, Symantec, Trend Micro and McAfee (who all purchased DLP technology) and have integrated it into their product lines with various levels of success (or not). The […]
The death of Google Adwords
I don’t really understand why anyone would want to pay Google money for Adwords. I ran a little experiment recently to promote our web sites using Google Adwords and Twitter. Here are the results: The results of my little online marketing experiment show a huge advantage for Twitter with focused search phrases in bios over […]
Japanese mobile carrier Willcom on the skids
I was in Moscow this week and was pretty disappointed with the Beeline WiMax offering – which basically didn’t work in the area where we were staying (not far from Mendeleevska Metro station) WiMax is not there yet and mobile data is still shaking out. According my buddy Todd Walzer (Todd lives in Tokyo and […]
