I was giving a presentation in 2009, and a CEO of a successful corporation talked about how he received one of those letters saying, “Your data may have been obtained by hackers due to a data breach.” He asked, “What can we do to get the other businesses in the world to keep our data safe?”
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Posted by Mike Foster on February 3rd, 2010 in IT Security.
Posted by Mike Foster on January 27th, 2010 in Best Practices, IT Security.
Posted by Mike Foster on January 20th, 2010 in Best Practices, IT Security, Save time, Technology.
Posted by Mike Foster on January 13th, 2010 in Best Practices.
Executives often want me to answer the question, “How good are my IT professionals” be they in-house employees or outsourced IT professionals. The first thing I say is, “If the IT professional is like a knight in shining armor, riding his horse in to save the day every time there is a problem, that’s not the best situation at all.”
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Posted by Mike Foster on January 6th, 2010 in Best Practices, IT Security, Save time.
Posted by Mike Foster on December 30th, 2009 in Best Practices, IT Security, Technology.
Posted by Mike Foster on December 23rd, 2009 in Best Practices, Save time, Technology.
Posted by Mike Foster on December 16th, 2009 in Best Practices, Technology.
I see this all the time. Executives say “we do not restrict our users from going to inappropriate web sites” or “we do not force our employees to change passwords—some have had the same password for 10 years.”
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Posted by Mike Foster on December 9th, 2009 in Best Practices, IT Security.
Before every IT Vital Systems Review, I always ask the executives what their challenges are. On a recent survey the CEO answered “fighting viruses.” That’s because it isn’t the executive’s job to fight viruses—that is the job of their IT professionals. It is the executive’s responsibility to protect the assets of the company, employees and clients.
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Posted by Mike Foster on December 2nd, 2009 in Best Practices, IT Security.
Do we need more government regulation?
