
Innovating IT Risk Management
A sad truth in our industry is CIOs don’t often get fired for not being innovative. But they do get fired for major data or security breach or business continuity failure. In spite of that it is a bit concerning how IT risks keep exploding. Here are some: There is growing acceptance that most commercially […]

McAfee.com sleeps through its nightmare scenario
About ten years ago, I met with the then CIO of McAfee.com, Doug Cavit (who later joined Microsoft as chief security strategist). The thing that most kept him awake at night, he told me then, was the risk of a third party piggy-backing onto McAfee’s own trusted access into its customers’ PCs. As a long-term […]