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The aphorism amongst technical people regarding companies like Facebook is that “if the service is free, YOU are the product.” Indeed, many people in the Information Technology field seemed somewhat perplexed at the outrage Facebook faced when it became clear that they were selling the data they collected on users of their services to data […]
Many of you reading this are probably asking yourselves a similar question: what is Bitcoin? Bitcoin is what is known as cryptocurrency. The concept is a relatively simple one, but the practical implementation is anything but. Essentially, the idea behind cryptocurrency is that it provides an anonymous method of payment for digital transactions. This system […]
Artificial Intelligence, or AI, has been seen as the “holy grail” of computer technology for some time. This particular field of research has advanced at a tremendous pace in recent years, and is set to become one of the most important area for technological development in the coming years and decades. Although we’re still far […]
Some of you may remember when Yahoo was compromised in 2013 and again in 2014. These two attacks combined exposed personal information of an estimated 1.5 billion users. Think about the kinds of information that might be exposed if an unauthorized user, a hacker, had access to your Yahoo email account. Compared with 1.5 billion, […]
The root cause of the outage was incredibly banal—a mistyped command meant to move some cloud hosted servers in one of Amazon’s datacenters was mistyped. That typo took down or severely impaired the operation of some very large companies, including those listed above: Netflix, Reddit, Business Insider, and Slack—to name a few. A large number […]
The basic idea of the Internet of Things is providing a network connection to, and gathering data from, devices that previously had neither of these capabilities. You may have seen advertisements for refrigerators that know when you need to purchase more milk and will automatically add a particular item to your shopping list—these are IoT […]
Be a Role Model Another way to say this is to practice what you preach. Information security practices are a top down process. Do you have a content filtering system in place designed to prevent employees from accessing malicious sites? Have you asked your IT department to bypass it? Practicing what you preach and abiding […]
Intelligent Systems Technology—although you may not be familiar with the phrase, there is another which I’m sure will ring a bell—Artificial Intelligence or AI. Artificial intelligence systems have grown in leaps and bounds within the past decade. Perhaps the most famous face on the current cutting edge of the field is IBM’s Watson, the super-computer […]
In a nutshell, a Bring Your Own Device environment is as simple as it sounds—it allows employees to work using their own devices. Generally the device of choice is a smart phone, but in some environments this may include tablets or laptops. In a BYOD environment, an employee’s personal devices are allowed to interact with […]
Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, or PCI DSS, may not be something you’ve heard of. If you have, you’re probably aware what a headache is can be for businesses to meet the stringent standards laid out by credit card companies in order to be certified PCI compliant. Compliance is a complicated issue, but what […]
