Today is the day we get a chance to vote for more government or less government.Today is the day those of us in America can begin to stop the bleeding we've been experiencing since January 20, 2009. Technically, for decades.Today is the day we're empowered to remind the career politicians around our country that we the people are in charge. Not them.Today is the day we stop giving up little ...
Continue Reading...Tired of "compliance"? Me too. But, it's still one of those necessary (arguably sometimes unnecessary) evils we must deal with in business today.Here are some new pieces I've written for the fine folks at SearchCompliance.com that will hopefully be of some benefit to you and your business.:Priorities for your sound regulatory compliance management policyPut compliance management back into server virtualizationAchieving compliance is about more than secure data encryptionWhat compliance professionals ...
Continue Reading...You may already know how I feel about our out of control government. Well here's a new piece I wrote about the Cybersecurity Act of 2009 - legislation that'll make your head spin.Why the Cybersecurity Act is better for government than businessIn subsequent edits to this article I had added some material on the new Lieberman-Carper-Collins legislation Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010 (a.k.a. Senate Bill 3480) ...
Continue Reading...I just finished a new article on the Cybersecurity Act of 2009 (a.k.a. Rockefeller-Snowe Cybersecurity Act or S. 773) and the equally scary Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010 (a.k.a. Lieberman-Carper-Collins or S. 3480). Goodness gracious folks. Have you read these pieces of legislation yet? Are you tracking what's going on? There's some serious government control headed our way if we sit back at let politicians force ...
Continue Reading...Here's an interesting scenario of company policy versus state law. Regardless of the interpretation and how it turns out, way to go Iron Mountain for making it known your employees are unarmed!In the same spirit of those "zero tolerance" school zones that tell the bad guys that there's no one there to defend themselves, this kind of stuff is absolutely mindless....
Continue Reading...I just received a press release from Beth Givens at the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse stating "500 Million Sensitive Records Breached Since 2005". 500 million+ known records that have been compromised in 5.5 years in the U.S. alone due to people in organizations large and small making poor choices about information security and privacy! Simply amazing.If you haven't seen the Chronology of Data Breaches, check it out. It's fascinating. The problem ...
Continue Reading...I've kept my mouth shut about this long enough. Why aren't more Americans standing up against this mosque at ground zero nonsense!? The mosque is clearly nothing more than a symbolic mark of victory on our soil by the very group that's trying so hard to bring our society down. And our own government is facilitating this.Where is our country headed when one of our "rulers" says that any opposition ...
Continue Reading...Being in DC and Chicago this week watching local news and observing all the bumper sticker slogans reminds me of the saddening enormity of how all this change we can believe in is impacting our country and the future of our families. The thing that stands out the most is the lack of personal responsibility and the dependence on government to handle all our woes - both in our personal ...
Continue Reading...Obama shuts down oil rigs - $330 million in lost wages per month. What's going to happen when he shuts down the Internet?Who gave this guy such power!?...elections have consequences....
Continue Reading...I just heard Neal Boortz discussing this Wall Street Journal piece about how people with the least amount of economic knowledge are making all the rules in America right now. Very interesting insight.Totally reminds me of management and other non-technical people making all the rules for information security and privacy.Something's backwards here folks. Why is it the tail wags the dog in so many critical situations such as these affecting ...
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