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IT Spending: CIOs Focus on Big Data for Offense and Security for Defense

By Dick Weisinger

CIOs today are focused on two things: Big Data and analytics.  Investments are strong in both of these areas.  Security for defense, to defend against risks to the business, and big data and analytics for offense, to grow the business

Security and Encryption: The Government Versus Technology?

By Dick Weisinger

The battle between the government/FBI/Department of Justice (DoJ) and tech firms like Apple over being able to secure access to encrypted data stored on personal devices continues to simmer.  The government is requesting “back door” access stored data from tech

Security and Encryption: Momentum for Data Encryption in the Cloud Grows

By Dick Weisinger

The number of companies using encryption to secure their data in the cloud has taken a big leap.  41 percent of businesses say that they are extensively encrypting their data, up from just 16 percent of businesses in 2005, according

Security: No End In Sight to Massive Data Breaches in 2016

By Dick Weisinger

The number of data breaches reported in 2015 was 781, two short of the 783 breaches reported in 2014, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC).  As of early February 2016, 69 breaches have already been reported for the year.

Data Governance: “Tone from the Top” is Critical For Companies to Successfully Deal with Security and Governance

By Dick Weisinger

Whose responsibility is data governance in the organization? While IT may have the lead role in implementation, it turns out that unless there is executive engagement in how governance is to be handled, the priority for dealing with security and governance