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The Internet of Things
The Internet of Things? Even as an "IT guy" I used to have trouble getting my head around the "Internet of Things". I absolutely got the idea of the Internet. And I get the idea of things. But I was locked into my own paradigm of things being physical and the Internet...
Local Dating Online
Many local newspapers had online personals in the mid 1990s but were bought out by these big dating sites. From some of the comments it really shows how desperate dating sites are for money that they even advertise in comment sections. You have a much better chance...
Planning for the Inevitable Breach
A Change in Thinking about a Breach Historically we have concentrated our efforts on shoring up our networks and working to stop any unwarranted entry. We close our firewalls, inspect incoming and maybe outgoing data, use multi factor authentication and train our...
Ukraine, Russia and the future of Hacking
Russia Invades Ukraine: Hacking and Cyber-warfare "May you live in interesting times!" according to my abbreviated personal history we are indeed living in interesting times. However, this ancient Chinese curse would appear to apply across the globe and even to...
The Cybercrime Economy
The Business of Cybercrime I am not sure I want to be the guy who keeps yelling and pontificating, frightening the children and generally being a menace. However, I have to question how engaged we all are in the task of trying to combat Cybercrime. As an 'IT'...
The Shared Responsibility Model
The Shared Responsibility Model, aka It's your data so you need to back it up While SaaS, PaaS and IaaS are great technologies, and can prove very useful to many businesses, there are some caveats. One of these caveats is the Shared Responsibility Model. On...
What’s in a word?
What's in a word?.... How a simple mistake led to a massive loss! I grew up in the UK. My father owned a restaurant in a provincial English town. We had a High Street with small shops and some national stores. I remember a Ratners Jewelry store in the High Street....
Business Process and Procedure Improvement
..."Well procedures only work if you follow them every time." The above quote comes from the film 'Zero Dark Thirty', written by Mark Boal. So where is the link to business process and procedure Improvement? There are a lot of harrowing scenes in the film, but this...
Remote Work: Is it good business and is it good for you?
To remote work or not to remote work... That is the question! It sounds pretty simple on the surface, but when we peel back the covers it is a little more complicated. Is Remote Work something you can do or even want to do? Let's have a look. The day the earth stood...
The Benefits and Requirements of Cloud Adoption
Benefits of the cloud A while back we wrote about the Cloud, what it was, and what it might be used for. This time round we will dig a little deeper into the benefits of cloud adoption, and the requirements that we should be aware of if we are to adopt the cloud. In...