by Jack Santos | February 21, 2012 | Submit a Comment
Ronald Reagan’s shadow looms big in the American political scene, and a favorite saying of his was: doveryai, no proveryai; in English: “Trust but Verify” – relating to the START arms agreements that he signed with the then USSR. I think that in IT we have a similar stance on many fronts of security, integrity, [...]
Category: Externalization Vendor Contracts governance practitioner security Tags: Externalization, security, Strategy, vendor
by Jack Santos | January 16, 2012 | Comments Off
This post isn’t about Big Data (a currently trendy term), but it is about data and breaches – and its implications. We are fortunate that current health care laws require that the federal government be notified of breaches of personal health care information (PHI) – and that data is downloadable at a publicly accessible website. [...]
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Category: Healthcare Information Management Predictions Uncategorized security Tags: Healthcare, Predictions, security
by Jack Santos | August 5, 2011 | Comments Off
Just for the record, here’s my picture: I have been told more than a few times that I am good looking, and people always stop me for autographs. Sorry, I am married. (BTW, only one of these statements is true) So now that I am past introductions, I am hoping this blog post throws off [...]
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Category: Cloud Future IAM Mobility Wireless security Tags: consumerization, culture, management, mobility, privacy, security, Wireless
by Jack Santos | May 11, 2011 | Comments Off
I attended a Babson College’s Center for Information Management Studies event yesterday that has been long a staple on my diet of how to stay current. Since coming to Gartner, my role has changed from currency sink to currency source. Last year, Chris Howard and I tagged team a “Cloud Tutorial” event which was very [...]
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Category: CIO issues IT Governance Managment Mobility Wireless management security Tags: consumerization, culture, management, mobility, privacy, security, Strategy
by Jack Santos | May 2, 2011 | Comments Off
Today marks the date in 2000 that “Selective Availability” (SA) for GPS was turned off. Arguably, that move by the US government set the stage for the current explosion in location aware apps. Sure, the argument can be made that efforts (then and now) to fine tune location by cell tower triangulation and other efforts [...]
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Category: Applications Fun Wireless security Tags: consumerization, security, Wireless
by Jack Santos | April 5, 2011 | Comments Off
I met Jing Wang from Kaiser Permanente (KP) yesterday. She works in Information Security at KP. She is a women on a mission. Some biomedical devices being installed in hospitals and doctors offices may be inherently insecure – sometimes held to a lower standard of virus protection and intrusion prevention. Why? speed to market, security [...]
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Category: IT Governance Managment Operational Technology Vendor Contracts management security Tags: Healthcare, management, privacy, security, vendor
by Jack Santos | March 9, 2011 | Comments Off
I have had an interesting juxtaposition of meetings these past few weeks. I meet with a group of CIOs where the zeitgeist is one of being part of the business – to the point of being a major part of the revenue stream (Boeing is doing that with software-based service options). With the CIOs, being [...]
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Category: CIO issues Externalization IT Governance Mobility Strategic Planning Wireless governance management security Tags: CIO, consumerization, culture, Externalization, IT relevance, management, Strategy
by Jack Santos | January 6, 2011 | Comments Off
A few weeks ago I went public with a Facebook breach that I incurred. That post here. I suppose hacking is a relative term. A few years ago, my (then) college aged son got into hot water during the early days of Facebook; he “hacked” Facebook to get a collection of MoveON.org aficionado email addresses, [...]
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Category: Cloud Externalization Managment management security Tags: consumerization, Externalization, management, security
by Jack Santos | December 27, 2010 | Comments Off
One of the healthcare IT hallmarks of the last 2 years has been the increase in regulatory reporting requirements for healthcare providers, not only because of the 2009 HITECH act, but also because of jurisdictional reasons (FTC reporting versus HHS reporting) and reporting at the state and local level. In fact, just a glance at [...]
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Category: Healthcare IT Governance Information Management security Tags: culture, Healthcare, information, management, security
by Jack Santos | December 21, 2010 | 3 Comments
“Watch therefore, for ye know not the day nor the hour” Matthew 25:13 For only the second time in my short 15+ year internet life, I have found myself to be the target of a hacker, and dealing with a serious personal security breach. I post the details here, in the hopes it helps others [...]
