San Francisco Lockout – Found Guilty: the city or the admin?
After years of public acrimony and a 6 month trial, San Francisco IT administrator Terry Childs has been found guilty of hijacking the city’s computer system. Cyber-Ark has always maintained that this was more than simply a case about a rogue employee, but in fact an example of an organizational failure in managing and effectively taking ownership of privileged accounts and identities. At the end of the
The Darwinian Challenge of Cybersecurity
The adaptive nature of threats to information security has proven to be one of the greatest challenges to personal, business, and government adoption of computing in general, and communication of digital information over the public Internet, in particular.
Today we are not only concerned with theft of private or sensitive information created and stored on ubiquitous personal computing and communications devices, we also have to be concerned with the security of our information while it is in transit and when it is in storage at its destination.
The Future of Federal IT Spending
A recently published and well-read blog in this sector recently disclosed that government contractors surveyed by Grant Thornton LLP experienced revenue boosts from federal business during the past year. Here are a couple of thoughts on why that might be the case for those of us in the information technology (IT) segment.