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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Consumer electronics: the next market for Identity and Access Management software?  We just took a giant leap towards that reality with the availability of an “Internet connectivity kit” for the Jura F90 coffee maker.
We take an even larger step towards needing IdM at home when said “Internet connectivity kit” doesn’t require a username or password [...]

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Security is making people NOT fly.
I’m getting old and crotchety. Apparently I’m not alone. CNN reports that 100,000 people a day are choosing NOT to fly, because of the “inconvenience” involved. That’s 41 million flights a year. ( http://www.cnn.com/2008/TRAVEL/05/30/airtravel.decline.ap/index.html )
We all started flying, commercially, 70 years ago because it was “convenient”; [...]

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Funny story of the day…
Ever heard of LifeLock? They describe themselves as an “Identity Theft Protection” service. LifeLock put out a commercial where the CEO hands out his social security number to random people on the street, and puts it on billboards, sides of trucks, etc. Never seen it? Check out [...]

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We’ve had PCI DSS discussion on our blog for 3 days in a row. That’s one heck of a tail-wind. Computerworld’s Ben Rothke has an interesting opinion piece today, “Battling information-security Stockholm syndrome.” Yesterday I mentioned that in my opinion, organizations fail to adopt or even take PCI DSS seriously because of [...]

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