Join Us Now “Not a moment to lose.” The old adage seems especially relevant in 2020. With little warning, we find ourselves in terra incognita – and we don’t have a roadmap. In situations like these, it’s natural to look for role models and examples. Successful companies like Tesla, Amazon, Zoom, and Adobe share a common trait: They move fast. From my […]
Join Us Now Can You Uncover Data Access Risk? Active Directory, Group Policy, File Servers, SharePoint, and similar systems contain some of the most critical data businesses use. Contained within these systems are user accounts, access permissions, storage of sensitive documents, and more that must be protected from unauthorized access and use. Yet, for many companies, securing the data in these systems remains a major organizational challenge. Data security requires that […]
Join Us Now Google Rebrands Productivity Apps; Battles with Oracle Over Software Code Alphabet announced this week that Google’s G Suite group of productivity apps, which includes Gmail, will be rebranded as Google Workspace. The company hopes the rebranding, along with a shift in pricing, will drive more revenue and increase market share. “The changes might help […]
Join Us Now The unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic has certainly impacted the way technology executives have led their employees and organizations through these uncertain times. The 2020 HMG Live! Boston CIO Executive Leadership Summit, moderated by Hunter Muller, President and CEO of HMG Strategy on September 11, brought together technology executives to discuss how they’ve adapted to these […]
Join Us Now Musk Says He Will Drop Price of Model S Elon Musk, CEO and Co-Founder of Tesla, has tweeted that the price of the company’s Model S will be lowered to $69,420, a reduction of about $4,000. The announcement was apparently a reaction to the introduction of an electric luxury sedan priced at $77,400 […]
Join Us Now I have often said and written that now is the best time to be a technology leader. A series of new data points vividly demonstrates the pivotal role of digital technology in sustaining, supporting and driving our modern economy. Tech firms continue to issue public offerings, and those offerings generally have been […]
Join Us Now Palantir IPO Highlights Strength of Tech Sector Palantir, a data science company that helps government agencies sift through huge amounts of data, had a successful IPO this week, demonstrating the continuing strength of digital technology as a driver of financial markets. “Shares of Asana, a collaboration software provider, and Velodyne, which makes […]
Join Us Now The normal network architecture for reporting voting results in our upcoming election is straightforward: A regional election management system is operated by local officials, and tabulated results are sent across an encrypted link to an election results reporting server. When working properly, results are reported around the country like this: Distributed denial of service (DDOS) risk […]
Join Us Now The pandemic has upended our lives and radically transformed the way most of us operate. The sudden transformation has thrust technology leaders such as CIOs, CISOs and CTOs into the spotlight, creating vast challenges and unexpected opportunities. At a time of turbulence and uncertainty, technology has become the trusted ally of organizations […]
Join Us Now The current state of security operations is harried. Especially in light of recent events—wholesale work-from-home environments where new devices are introduced; attack surfaces are thus increased; new behavioral baselines must be established—security operations center (SOC) teams are overburdened. And it’s not as if SOC teams were sitting idly on the sidelines before. […]
Join Us Now Musk Heralds New Car at Tesla Battery Day Tesla’s Battery Day event this week concluded with CEO Elon Musk heralding a new moderately priced elected car with full autonomous driving capabilities. “Musk promised a $25,000 Tesla electric car that would be available in about three years,” writes Peter Valdes-Dapena of CNN. “That would be […]
Join Us Now I have often said and written that now is the best time to be a technology leader. It’s especially gratifying to know that our sector is driving the rest of the economy by providing a continuous and unparalleled torrent of innovation, talent, vision, productivity and leadership. In these difficult times, we have […]
Join Us Now Leadership. It’s a misunderstood word. In corporations all over the world, people use the term to connote a certain job title, like “CISO” or “CTO” or “CEO.” We see it all over company websites: About Us: Leadership Team. But the anointment of a title does not equal leadership. In truth, one of the main problems […]
Join Us Now Snowflake Shares Surge After Record-Breaking IPO Snowflake, a cloud-based data-warehousing platform founded in 2012, now holds the record for the largest software IPO in history. From my perspective, Snowflake’s debut this week on the New York Stock Exchange is a sure sign that tech remains a powerful driver of the broader economy. “Shares […]
Join Us Now Early in March, executives in global organizations based in North America began to prioritize the need for a work-from-home environment. The magnitude of the COVID-19 crisis became clear, and IT leaders knew that innovations were necessary to accommodate the short and long-term effects. Premier technology leaders assembled for the 2020 HMG Live! […]
