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Join Us Now With technology rapidly driving a wave of change in the business, every company is on an innovative digital journey. CIOs, CTOs and other technology executives are expertly positioned to provide unique insight and leadership to guide this process. However, many of these leaders may not find themselves on company boards. But they […]
Join Us Now Unquestionably, we are living through a period of turmoil and uncertainty. As always, I am truly optimistic about our future. That said, we have a difficult journey ahead of us. Now is the time to focus on elevating and enhancing your cybersecurity strategy. I sincerely believe that cybersecurity is a pre-eminent risk […]
Join Us Now Pat Gelsinger to Replace Bob Swan as Intel CEO VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger has been tapped to replace Intel CEO Bob Swan. Intel, the world’s largest chipmaker, has been wrestling with a variety of business challenges in recent years. From my perspective, Gelsinger unquestionably possesses the experience and credibility required to help […]
Join Us Now In a more sedate era, a week of unsettling events and disturbing images would have rattled markets and shaken the confidence of investors. Despite the tumult and the lingering sense of uncertainty, however, markets held fast and investors proved resolute. From my perspective, there are two forces at play here: Historically low […]
Join Us Now Amidst an epidemic, anger toward outsiders, and simmering hatred between communities of varying affluence, the residents of now Danvers, Massachusetts decided in 1692 to hunt down and blame their sad troubles on a bunch of witches. Culminating in the now-famous Salem Witch Trials, nearly a score of supposed witches including the unfortunate […]
Join Us Now Musk Tops Bezos as World’s Wealthiest Individual In yet another sign of the global ascendancy of tech, Elon Musk is now the wealthiest person in the world, with a net worth of more than $185 billion, according to a CNBC report. “Thursday’s increase in Tesla’s share price pushed Musk past Jeff Bezos, who had been the richest […]
Join Us Now Racial injustice has come to the forefront of the national discussion in 2020, prompted, in part, by the George Floyd protests in Minneapolis and Black Lives Matter demonstrations in other cities and communities. One of the positive outgrowths from this is the heightened focus on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs within […]
Join Us Now For a multitude of reasons, 2020 was a year that defied expectations. When the history of the 21st century is written, I hope that 2020 will be described as an outlier. From my perspective, it seems foolhardy to predict the future based on what’s happened in the past 12 months. And yet that […]
Join Us Now Report: Expect Ransomware Attackers to Become Bolder and More Aggressive Most of us are still digesting the news about the SolarWinds hack, which comprised data security at hundreds of major firms and government agencies. From a cybersecurity perspective, the outlook for the new year is not a cause for celebration. Wired published […]
Join Us Now I hope you all had a wonderful and relaxing holiday weekend. It’s been a difficult year, to say the least, and I think we all deserved a short break from the stress of work and worry. Unfortunately, cyber attackers are still working full-time to compromise and degrade our vital information technology systems. […]
Join Us Now In 1975, Edgser Dijkstra penned an iconic essay entitled “How Do We Tell Truths That Hurt?” In his piece, Dijkstra scolded the computing community for choosing to ignore several obvious facts. While answering endless ridiculous questions about the SolarWinds hack this past week, I decided it was time to re-read the master’s note. As I’d suspected, the parallels lined […]
Join Us Now Major Tech Firms Also Infected in SolarWinds Hack The list of companies infected by malware from the SolarWinds hack apparently includes some of the world’s leading tech firms, according to news reports. “Last week, news broke that IT management company SolarWinds had been hacked, possibly by the Russian government, and the US Treasury, […]
Join Us Now Racial injustice, political unrest, socioeconomic imbalance, global pandemic — the past seven months have been met by a series of massive disruptions to industries and communities throughout the country and around the world. Hands have joined together to march through the streets advocating that Black Lives Matter, over 85 million Americans have acted […]
Join Us Now By now, you’ve all read or heard about the SolarWinds cybersecurity breach. The story seems to be following what has become a familiar pattern: The breach began months ago, but wasn’t uncovered until recently. Moreover, the breach apparently was revealed by a secondary target, not by the primary target. “Russia’s hack of […]
Join Us Now Here’s a little bit about me: I am extremely organized and don’t forget much. However, when I was young, my parents claim I used to point out red brick buildings wherever we were (could have been another state) and exclaim, “That’s daddy’s building!” But aside from some visual impairment and a lack […]
