Most popular tech stories of 2019
Credit to Author: Dan Muse| Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2019 11:51:00 -0800
Insider Pro subscribers pick the Top 10 articles published in our debut year.
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Earn your IoT security certification
Credit to Author: Insider Pro staff| Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 04:59:00 -0700
Insider Pro is teaming up with CertNexus to offer subscribers access to an online course that leads to a Certified IoT Security Practitioner (CIoTSP) certification.
Read moreIoT dangers demand a dedicated group
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.
5 industries that will be disrupted by blockchain
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.
Read moreTime-Machine Tuesday: Get a room!
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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Credit to Author: DealPost Team| Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2018 10:27:00 -0700
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CIO Leadership Live with Jack Clare, CIO and chief strategy officer at Dunkin' Brands | Ep 9
In this episode of CIO Leadership Live, host Maryfran Johnson talks with Jack Clare, CIO and chief strategy officer at Dunkin' Brands, about the company's mobile payment, ordering and loyalty apps, and how it's striving to improve customers' drive-through experience.
CIO Leadership Live, with guest Jack Clare, CIO and chief strategy officer at Dunkin' Brands
In this episode of CIO Leadership Live, host Maryfran Johnson talks with Jack Clare, CIO and chief strategy officer at Dunkin' Brands, about the company's mobile payment, ordering and loyalty apps, and how it's striving to improve customers' drive-through experience.