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Single Sign On/Technology: Security Flaws Prove Worrisome

By Dick Weisinger

Single sign-on (SSO) creates a single authentication mechanism that allows a user to gain access to multiple software systems after logging in once.  It eliminates the need to separately login to each application that the user interacts with and reduced…

Cloud Computing: Adoption as Rorschach — Perspectives on the CIO Psyche

By Dick Weisinger

How  a CIO reacts to and engages with Cloud Computing can be interpreted as a sort of Rorschach test for the CIO psyche.  A report by CA Technologies found that CIOs that adopt cloud computing tend to be more ambitious than…

Cloud Computing: 'PC' Morphs from 'Personal Computer' to 'Personal Cloud'

By Dick Weisinger

Tablets are dealing deathblows to the PC. Gartner predicts dramatic slowing of PC sales and a rapid upswing in the usage of tablet and mobile devices.  Gartner goes so far as to predict that as early as 2014 that cloud…

QR Barcodes: A Neat Idea that Hasn't Really Caught On

By Dick Weisinger

The QR or ‘Quick Response‘ two-dimensional barcode is struggline for acceptance.  QR was first invented by Toyota in 1994 to help track the steps of the automobile manufacturing process.  Compared to standard barcodes, QR codes have the capacity to contain…

Digital Certificates: Compromised Keys Threaten a Foundation of Security

By Dick Weisinger

SSL certificates encrypt and secure data.  The SSL certificate was designed to bring security to the internet A digital certificate is an electronic document that uses a digital signature to bind a public key to an identify.  The certificate verifies that…