It’s been an absolutely fascinating week reading the output of Burton’s Catalyst Conference.  Thanks to Mark Dixon over at Sun for his great recap of the conference.  And to add to the chorus of voices, congratulations to Ian Glazer on his new job at Burton Group!
It’s Ian’s first post on the Burton Group blog that’s [...]

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Two recent Blog posts (by Kearns and JBohren) refer to a damning number - the high percentage of orphan accounts that exist in most applications and most large organizations. An “orphan” is an account that belongs to some person who’s left the organization (or never existed in the first place). It can’t be [...]

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Indian Government Wants Blackberry Keys
The recent issues between RIM and India bring Smart Phone security under the microscope. RIM offers “secure” email and text messaging. It’s secure because it is encrypted, and because it routes through RIM servers. RIM holds the encryption keys. India doesn’t like that, and it wanted RIM to make the keys [...]

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Yesterday, I was fed up with my password mess. I had too many passwords, and despite my “method,” I was losing track of them all. I decided to work on upgrading my method. I started out looking for a replacement “password vault.”
Here are my requirements:

is highly secure, using accepted standards (i.e. - [...]

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I hesitated posting this entry since it seems more personal than business related. The “softer” side, if you will.
Tim Russert, who grew up 3 blocks from my father, moderator of NBC’s “Meet The Press” has passed on much too early. This is truly a tragic loss — to Buffalo, to politics, to family [...]

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