We live in a world where data breaches and destructive cyber attacks have become a daily headline. By now, everyone has received a breach notification letter or an email apology from a company impacted by cyber bad guys. Boards are asking, customers are asking, employees are asking, the whole world [Read More]
Last week Facebook lost twenty percent of its market value - $100 billion, over concerns of the cost of privacy regulations and financial consequences. This was the largest sell-off of a single publicly owned company in Wall Street history and a warning for all companies who collect, process or oth [Read More]
In many companies, the IT department and its business counterparts just do not get along. In companies like these, when you want to do something with data and/or technology, you have to patiently stand in line and wait for your turn. Your request - be it a new website, new infrastructure, or applica [Read More]
The following article is co-authored with Keith Strier, Advisory Principal at EY. Click here to read more about Keith. Deployments are dead. The notion that implementations are a singular, pivotal, one-time event is over. Welcome to the “Age of Activation.” But what do we mean when we say “activatio [Read More]
Hobbies are funny things. Some people do jigsaw puzzles or collect stamps; I like to build things that solve problems. I’m a tinkerer of sorts: one part developer, one part designer and a pinch "mad scientist." One problem I have seen in my lifetime is the inequity of a good education - not only in [Read More]
"Digital. Now, what exactly is that?" I deal with this question more times than I care to admit. Whether explaining to my mom what I do every day or conversing with clients about their portal and collaboration challenges, the word "digital" seems to be sprouting up more and more in all of our daily [Read More]
The following is a collaborative article with Brian Kelly, Chief Security Officer at Rackspace in San Antonio, TX. All views are in this article are attributable to Justin and Brian and do not represent the views of Rackspace or any other company. Introduction Several years ago, Justin and I had a c [Read More]
The following article is a collaborative guest blog by Rohit Dasgupta, Cauvery Mallangada Kalaiah, Snehal Kasal, Nathan Layman, Aditya Sharangdhar, and Justin Greis. With the holiday season in full swing, many of you are shopping and most likely have already bought one or more electronic gadgets. Ga [Read More]
The following article is a collaborative guest blog by Eli Tsinovoi, Snehal Kasal, Brian Myung, and Justin Greis. As one of the top enterprise content management solutions, SharePoint provides business users with many fantastic features right out of the box. Like any technology-enabled solution, the [Read More]
We all know that Information Technology changes at break-neck speed; that's no secret. New disruptive technologies continue to make us more efficient, reduce cost, grow revenues and eliminate frustration. With new technologies introduced into the enterprise landscape every day, we are seeing signs t [Read More]
To an Excel jockey, true happiness is normalized data. There is nothing more satisfying than looking at a normalized data set and quickly snapping together a pivot table and drilling down on every imaginable column heading. Oooooohhhh, just thinking about pivoty goodness makes me smile. One of the f [Read More]
I was describing to a colleague the course I teach at IU the other day. The course is called IT Governance, Risk and Controls (IT GRC). Even to those of us in the industry this topic can be confusing. As I described the course and the topics we cover, my colleague turned to me and said "...so basi [Read More]
The latest issue of EY's Board Matters Quarterly is out and it focuses on Balancing the risks and rewards of digital technology. The three articles discuss the perils and payoffs of cloud, mobile and social technologies from a board perspective. It summarizes the key questions board members should [Read More]
It is not surprising that there is a lot of discussion in the industry today around cloud computing. What once was a speck on the technological horizon is here in a big way. In fact, many experts argue that cloud adoption is so widespread that we have reached a tipping point and can no longer call [Read More]
This week I attended the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco and boy was it impressive! The lights, the sounds, the crazy vendor displays! It was a buffet for the brain and I literally walked away from the conference floor with a severe case of sensory overload. I had the opportunity to meet wi [Read More]
