December 2014 – getwired.com

Mobile devices or cloud as a solution to the enterprise security pandemic? Half right.

December 24, 2014 getwired

This is a response to Steven Sinofsky’s blog post, “Why Sony’s Breach Matters”. While I agree with parts of his thesis – the parts about layers of complexity leaving us where we are, and secured, legacy-free mobile OS’s helping alleviate this on the client side, I’m not sure I agree with his points about the cloud being a path forward – at least in any near term, or to the degree of precision he alludes to. The bad news is that…

Who shot Sony?

December 15, 2014 getwired

I’m curious about the identity of the group that broke in to Sony, apparently caused massive damage, and compromised a considerable amount of information that belongs to the company. For some reason, journalists aren’t focusing on this, however. Probably because it doesn’t generate the clicks and ad views that publishing embarrassing emails, salary disclosures, and documented poor security practices do. Instead, they’re primarily focusing on revealing Sony’s confidential information, conveniently provided in multiple, semi-regular doc dumps by the party behind…

Shareholder Shackles

December 3, 2014 getwired

Recently, Michael Dell wrote about the after-effects of taking his company private. I think his words are quite telling: “I’d say we got it right. Privatization has unleashed the passion of our team members who have the freedom to focus first on innovating for customers in a way that was not always possible when striving to meet the quarterly demands of Wall Street.”, and “The single most important thing a company can do is invest and innovate to help customers succeed…” Early…

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