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IoT dangers demand a dedicated group

October 4, 2019 0 Comments it governance, IT Leadership, Mobile, Security

Credit to Author: Evan Schuman| Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2019 13:31:00 -0700

The internet of things (IoT) brings with it a wide range of IT security headaches, along with compliance nightmares — and turf wars.

Internal problem No. 1: Departments that typically have little to no interactions with IT are now directly ordering corporate IoT devices. Maybe you’ve got Facilities purchasing IoT door locks or Maintenance buying a ton of IoT light bulbs. Given that those departments have been purchasing door locks and light bulbs for as long as anyone can remember and have never needed IT or security’s signoff, this can be a problem.

Internal problem No. 2: In many ways, IoT devices (think of devices for tracking pallets on ships or for monitoring where every fleet car is and how fast it’s been driven) are very different from anything else that IT or security has dealt with. The units are capturing data that has never been tracked before — Hello, Compliance. Go away, GDPR regulator — and in different ways, such as bypassing enterprise LANs and cloud networks and using internal antennas to directly communicate.

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5 industries that will be disrupted by blockchain

October 3, 2019 0 Comments Blockchain, IT Leadership, IT Strategy, Security, Technology Industry

Credit to Author: Bob Violino| Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 10:37:00 -0700

Here are five major industries that will benefit from blockchain technology in the near future: financial services and banking, government, healthcare, energy, and transportation and logistics.

ComputerWorld Independent

Time-Machine Tuesday: Get a room!

July 19, 2019 0 Comments IT Leadership, Microsoft Exchange, Security

Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 03:00:00 -0700

This security pilot fish is a big believer in automated systems. And he’s very impressed when his company moves into new offices where the meeting rooms take the manual labor out of scheduling meetings.

“There are room wizards outside every door to assist in scheduling,” fish says. “And there’s full integration with Microsoft Exchange, so that your meeting information is accurate and timely and always shows the proper room.”

One of fish’s most important meetings is a committee meeting every month on the day after Patch Tuesday to consider how to handle that batch of Microsoft updates. It’s been a regular meeting for years, and after the move the new scheduling system seems to handle it fine.

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