The hacking of French president-elect Emmanuel Macron’s campaign has shed light on the importance of a strong IT security strategy in a clutch situation. WSJ Pro’s Kate Fazzini talks the key cybersecurity lessons companies can learn from the attack. Source: Cybersecurity Lessons From the French Election Hacking
Republicans blame legislation for stymying lending but figures tell another story Source: Did Dodd-Frank really hurt the US economy?
The White House would like $19 billion in funding from Congress to improve the government’s cyber security posture. You might think that after Congressional hearings lambasting executive officials for the multiple serious breaches of security, such a bill would pass easily. You’d be wrong. You can read the full article here.
As President Xi Jinping prepared to visit the United States, Washington warned of possible sanctions over digital attacks. Beijing pushed back by organizing a technology forum of industry leaders. Source: China Flexes Tech Muscles Before a State Visit – The New York Times
Week ahead: House to vote on cyber bills | TheHill.
Baseball or Soccer? – NYTimes.com.
I’ve been reading Ike’s Bluff, by Evan Thomas. Dwight D. Eisenhower is famous for more than a few things (e.g., Supreme Allied Commander during WWII, D-Day, President of the United States, etc.). President Eisenhower often talked about “The Great Equation”, which in his terms was the struggle between freedom and security within the western democracies.…
I’ve been reading research papers recently (I must be in a “deep thoughts” kinda mood) and one from IDC floated across my screen. It discussed the consolidation of data as a by-product of organizations looking for more accurate and more timely analysis. As an example, the nation’s health data is spread out over five large databases.…
Apple will soon complete its massive data center in North Carolina. It’s about 5 times the size of its New Jersey data center. Research firm Sanford Bernstein lays out five possible strategic uses for this data center: Scaling up media marketplace and advertising Cloud-based synchronization, including free cloud based storage A music streaming service starting at a low…
Credit Suisse has released a report on the current and future status of IT. (Click here to access the report: CS IT Hardware). It’s a bit long, but worth a skim for sure. I think there is some interesting insights (one glaring flaw is the failure to mention information governance- I guess we all can’t be perfect).…
Next Practices 