It’s easy for tech people to lapse into a false assumption, and that is that people we talk to have a similar understanding of the technologies we’re talking about at any given time.

When you work around other IT and/or communications technology people all the time, it becomes natural to think that “everybody” knows the acronyms, the underlying technology, and essentially how all this stuff works. More...

While most of the corporate world went into Holiday Hibernation for the last two weeks of the year, we continued to scour the webscape on your behalf. And it’s a good thing we did, because there are at least a couple of interesting items you might have missed.

Both of these fit a common theme, and it’s something that should be on your front burner this year. In the face of increased cybercrime and intrusions, if there is going to be a Year of Security, 2012 should be it. More...