by Jack Santos | July 31, 2012 | Comments Off
Dan Ariely, who has been a guest of ours in prior webinars, has really gotten some great press on “The Honest Truth About Dishonesty. How We Lie to Everyone – Especially Ourselves”. This is a must read for any CSO or any IT person involved with security. Actually a must read for just about anyone. [...]
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Category: career Innovation management Managment practitioner security Tags: career, Catalyst-NA, culture, innovation, management, security
by Jack Santos | July 26, 2012 | Comments Off
I’ve noticed an increase in rogue Facebook “Likes” lately, especially for these 3 topics (Wal-Mart, Target, and – specifically – “Obama is clueless”). In every case the Facebook user was (purportedly) nowhere near Facebook, or even a computer. Yet someone (an app, script kiddies) posted a “like” to those topics/pages on their behalf. My recommendation [...]
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Category: Catalyst 12 security Social Media Tags: Catalyst-NA, culture, privacy, security, Social media
by Jack Santos | July 23, 2012 | Comments Off
That’s what happens when you get old – that is, anything beyond adolescent. You suddenly wake up one day and find that the rest of the world has passed you by, and you have become irrelevant. Sometimes it’s just because you have grown too fat – who hasn’t heard of the obesity problem. And it’s [...]
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Category: Catalyst 12 Windows 8 Tags: Catalyst-NA, Mergers, mobility, vendor
by Jack Santos | July 19, 2012 | Comments Off
I am sure many of you have seen this video over the last few years: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00KvfeZm9VE /Start *rant* Since this video, not much progress has been made on the protocol for for online conference calls. The biggest mistake is that meeting leaders expect dozens, if not hundreds, of people to do the exact same thing [...]
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Category: management Managment Social Media Tags: Catalyst-NA, culture, Social media
by Jack Santos | July 17, 2012 | Comments Off
All the wires are hot about a new role for Paul Maritz at VMware….probably with a spinoff. It reminds me of a time when corporate shenanigans in a company I was with resulted in some major cutbacks – including at senior levels. Imagine my shock at the time when hearing about a recently let-go divisional [...]
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Category: career Catalyst 12 CIO issues Fun Tags: career, Catalyst-NA, CIO, management
by Jack Santos | July 11, 2012 | Comments Off
“Advanced Persistent Threats” has become a euphemism for state sponsored cyber threats. The kind the US has legitimized with cyber sabotage, like stuxnet and follow on cyber attacks. I wonder if enterprises (especially multinational and financial services), might be considering their own “plausibly deniable” skunk works that at best are looking at defensive postures beyond [...]
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Category: career Catalyst 12 security Tags: Catalyst-NA, consumerization, culture, security
by Jack Santos | July 9, 2012 | 1 Comment
Many of us old timers remember the tiff over Y2K. Many person-centuries of work to bring our systems up to speed and handle the year change. I actually remember coding systems with 2 digit years, thinking “that’s so far out in the future, we won’t need to worry about it”. Then Y2K came. and went. [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: Catalyst-NA
by Jack Santos | July 2, 2012 | Comments Off
A recent New York Times article on an outsourcing trend in the public sector, and a video summary. I wonder if this is the model for Enterprise IT in the future? Some think it is. In fact, some think it’s the model for enterprises as a whole, with only a core management team in place [...]
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Category: Uncategorized Tags: Catalyst-NA
