September 2009 - Posts
It has long been accepted that Information Security should be implemented in layers: Defense in Depth . The idea being that you should add overlapping protection mechanisms to either stop or slow down an intruder. To use a simple analogy, if you
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Lately, I’ve been getting lots of good ideas for blog entries from my participation in various LinkedIn group discussions . One recent topic was about what IT should focus on in any organization. Another was about whether we should
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We live in a society that is different in so many ways from the society that our parents grew up in. For one thing, we are more globally connected. Another point is that sales and marketing at a personal level is more critical for long-term
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For many years, there’s been an interesting joke that the CIO position is a dead-end role. Some have even suggested that the acronym means C areer I s O ver. Recently, I have even seen several LinkedIn discussions that have insinuated that if a
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Everyone wants to see the economy recover, and they’re suggesting all sorts of ways that it can get back on track. As I read the following article from MSN about the fizzled stock market rally , it occurred to me that there are two key points about an
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If you find yourself trying to manage and remember all the social/professional networking sites that you are on, then XeeSM may be for you! I have found it very useful to point people to all of my networks, so that they can connect to me from whichever
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Just a quick few notes as the Summer of 2009 draws to a close – much faster than desired… Vacations… We didn’t take our summer trip to Cape May, NJ this year but we did finally get out to Stokes State Forest for our annual camping expedition. It
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