Anyone catch Ben Worthen’s article on the Wall Street Journal’s Business Technology Blog? The article, titled “Shocking New Survey: Employees Willfully Violate Security“, got me thinking about Information Technology & Security. Now…I’m not a security person. I understand the technologies and the reasons for enacting security measures but I have no experience running IT security [...]

CIO.com has an article titled “Intel’s E-Mail Overload Solution” that describes the steps Intel is taking to combat email overload. What I found interesting was the amount of time Intel’s employees were ‘wasting’ every week on due to email….a number that is probably pretty accurate for most organizations. The article states: What they found: “Knowledge [...]

A few things have occurred over the last week that have led me to purchase a new desktop computer….which of course allows me to get all nerdy/geeky and ready all the hardware/software reviews, etc. I’ve been using a Dell 8250 for the last 4 years and have to say I’ve been very happy with the [...]

Shadow IT has been defined by George Spafford in his article titled The Dangers that Lurk Behind Shadow IT as: …groups providing information technology solutions outside of the formal IT organization. Their existence is due to groups thinking they can do things cheaper and/or better than the formal IT group.Also, it may be that the [...]