This is the 14th year in a row in which Identity Theft is consumers’ number one concern reported to the Federal Trade Commission. Be careful about what you click! Summary article by David Weldon in FierceCIO, original article by Michael Cooney in Network World. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ——– Identity theft still top consumer …
Infographic: Mobile Technologies in Healthcare
To be clear, we are not in the mobile (or even wireless) healthcare market, but the IT security trends exemplified within it cross boundaries into related trends of other market segments. I hope you find the infographic interesting and useful. Summary post by Fred Donovan in FierceMobileIT. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ——- Infographic: Mobile …
I Admit It: The Title of This Post Grabbed Me
New rule for corporate happiness: Assume colleagues have good intentions but networked devices are hostile by default. Don’t trust, and definitely verify. By Bob Bradon in CSO. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing —— Forget the Internet of Things…this is the Internet of Crap This month I’m taking my own look at the Internet of things …
CyberTini, April 2 in San Diego
Wednesday, April 2, 2014 Rescue Mission Rooftop Parking Garage Across from CyberHive 1855 1st Ave. San Diego, CA 92101 5:30 to 8:00 PM The CyberTECH CyberTini event is the quarterly networking mixer that builds the cyber security, Internet of Things, and big data and analytics community and enables high tech entrepreneurship and economic development in our region. A just completed …
Jackson & Blanc Selects AIS for Data Center Services in Southern CA
Regional building automation systems contractor calls on AIS to augment in-house IT staff for delivery of enterprise-class data services SAN DIEGO (April 2, 2014) – AIS (American Internet Services), the Southwest’s leading provider of tailored data center and cloud service solutions, today announced that Jackson & Blanc, Southern California’s pre-eminent mechanical systems specialist serving the commercial, industrial, and institutional markets, …
IT Execs: Are You Leading or Just Trying to Catch Up?
The news below is revealing and sobering: not only is IT spending going through the roof (hooray!) but who is driving that spend is diversifying and becoming less coordinated. Presumably good intentions abound but all the same there are likely redundancies, gaps, divergent paths, and unchaperoned and undocumented new rivers being formed. This begs the question: are you taming the …
EMEA IT Infrastructure Spending Up 4.1%
Did you know that in 2012, EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) plus Latin America accounted for only 5% of all cloud traffic on the Internet? That’s according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. Despite EMEA accounting for 21%of the IaaS and PaaS cloud market (per Synergy Research Group), 5% is pretty dang tiny. Come on, friends …
Hey, This Is Important. C’mon Guys, Pay Attention!
When passwords can be reset and online accounts simply accessed from another connected device, who cares whether this little handheld thingy gets lost or stolen? Besides, isn’t that what insurance is for? My contacts and calendar are available to me elsewhere. What’s that? Oh yeah… I guess there is indeed corporate data that’s also on the phone that someone else …
Do We Root for the Bad Guys?
In the movies we like underdogs and rebels and outlaws and anyone bucking “the system”. The crimes are not personal; they are often against “the regime”, a faceless but oppressive big brother-ish entity that demands obedience if not fanatical support. But what happens when the victim is you? Or your sibling or colleague? Or your dentist or yoga instructor? Opinion …
BIOCOM Digitizing Life, March 26 in San Diego
Wednesday, March 26, 2014 | Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine 2880 Torrey Pines Scenic Drive La Jolla, CA 92037 5:30 to 8:00 PM Forty years ago, DNA sequencing was a laborious and costly process that produced only a few kilobytes of sequence data in a week. But then the world changed. The invention of automated sequencers in the 1980s enabled …
