Home Depot Breach

Home Depot Breach Today’s Home Depot breach is another in the series of cracks that show up weekly in companies security portfolios. Information that I received this morning, Home Depot did the right thing and came clean about the breach. Big corporations, the US...
Defense in depth

Defense in depth

Defense in depth Defense in depth is the only answer. The question is what are people and businesses to do about the growing security threats? Tekmar has been providing comprehensive Threat Protection since the late 1990s. Many in our industry are getting on the...

Beware when updating

All internet users should beware when updating their systems. Business people should push back against busy work. Busy work is the part of business that makes more work but does not get you nearer to your goals. All kinds of busy work are a drain on good energy needed...
Reputation risk preparedness

Reputation risk preparedness

Reputation risk A security breach is a big reputation risk. Reputation risk is the number one concern of members of boards of directors at medium and large businesses. This statistic is the same for the second year in a row. It actually increased. According to the...

Net Neutrality

Net Neutrality EFF to FCC: Defend the Neutral Internet: Agency Must Abandon Dangerous Traffic-Discrimination Plan The Internet is a network of networks. People often talk about it as the cloud today, but that is a marketing term. It is the same Net we businesses and...

Mac PC War Rages

The anti-Microsoft attitude is curious. The Mac PC war rages on even though both are less dominant brands than they recently were. The anti-Microsoft approach is especially interesting when expressed by people and companies whose practices are built around PCs and...

Reset the net

Reset the Net for safer browsing Reset the net is an initiative to take back privacy on the internet. It was a day targeting privacy and security on the net. The mission statement: We can’t stop targeted attacks, but we can stop mass surveillance, by building...
Vision and Mission

Vision and Mission

Vision and Mission Vision and mission are critical concepts in regard to your IT Blueprint. Not in the business management and strategy sense, but with a getting the most out of one’s technology investment formula. What do you see the cog doing for you and your...

Security is a necessity

Security measures need to be applied today at or near ones information systems. http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/PCAST/pcast_cybersecurity_nov-2013.pdf When Adobe was attacked last October, The NY Times reported that there was evidence...