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Internet of Things (IoT) and Security: FTC Prescribes Best Practices for Data Management

By Dick Weisinger

The FTC recently released a report that recommends the following six best practices for managing Internet of Things data, recommendations that can really be applied to any type of data collection: Security by Design.  Security should be an integral part of…

Business Processes: Success by Designing Unstable Business Processes

By Dick Weisinger

It may seem counterintuitive, but Gartner has come to the conclusion that business processes consciously designed to be ‘unstable’ have a 70 percent chance of success.  And that kind of success rate really blows away the rate achieved by standard…

Data Privacy: Silicon Valley Tech Business Battle EU Data Privacy Laws

By Dick Weisinger

Facebook is on the hotseat with countries in the EU over how they handle data privacy.  The latest set of accusations were published in a report of an investigation that was requested by the Belgian Privacy Commission.  The report finds that…

Enterprise Content Management: SharePoint Adoption Continues to Lag Expectations

By Dick Weisinger

Despite the fact that 75 percent of organizations that are currently using Microsoft SharePoint say that they have a strong commitment to get value from the platform, only 11 percent of businesses that use it say that their implementation has…

Big Data: Choosing ‘Medium’ Instead of ‘Big’ When ‘Right-Sizing’ Your Data

By Dick Weisinger

Big Data is the rage, but the reality now is that most businesses really don’t have data sets that large to be classified as ‘Big Data’. Gartner analysts Merv Adrian and Nick Huedecker note that Hadoop and Big Data projects have been “slow to grow…