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Software Licensing and Security: Nearly 40 Percent of Business Software is Unlicensed

By Dick Weisinger

Today’s world runs on software, but a study by BSA finds that nearly 40 percent of software running on business servers in the US isn’t properly licensed.  In Vietnam the number is as high as 78 percent with many other…

Shadow IT Risk: 30x Increase in Third-Party Apps Used on Enterprise Networks

By Dick Weisinger

The risks associated with shadow IT have exploded in size over the last couple of years.  A survey of ten million users with personal devices connected to enterprise systems found nearly 160,000 different apps being used, a 30 times increase…

Security: Technology Makes Safeguarding Confidential Information Difficult

By Dick Weisinger

In this age of sharing and frequently used technologies like social collaboration and file sharing, we’ve managed to achieve greater openness and transparency, but we’ve also eroded our ability to secure information that is considered confidential.  Managing secure information in organizations is…

Data Quality: Data Capture Complexity Stymies the Collection of Quality Data

By Dick Weisinger

How good is the quality of data used by enterprises today?  Not great, but then data quality has been a long-standing problem across enterprises.  The problem is that poor quality data can distort the results of data analytics and decision…

Security: IT Security is Too Reactive to Data Breaches Rather Than Being Proactive

By Dick Weisinger

Many businesses aren’t motivated by leaky IT security unless there is a major problem, according to a new survey by Ponemon.  It’s not until the loss of data becomes ‘significant’ that two-thirds of IT organizations say that they are motivated…