Can you imagine what your data security nightmare would be? Your worst case scenario? It’s something that any good data security team should have a good grasp of – you can’t plan for the worst if you can’t think of what that worst might be. For Sony, I think one of their nightmare scenarios has [...]
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Elementary
I’m presently reading Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.” At the beginning of The Boscome Valley Mystery, Holmes and Watson are travelling by train to the west of England to assist in a case. Holmes has been reading about the case in the papers, and remarks that it seems “to be one [...]
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I came across this enlightening summary of what Facebook’s internal culture is like a little while ago. It’s very interesting to read about how they operate, but one part in particular caught my eye: after boot camp, all engineers get access to live DB (comes with standard lecture about “with great power comes great responsibility” [...]
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If you’re an executive at a credit reporting agency, you might have had a slightly uncomfortable week. If you’re an executive at the SettlementOne Credit Corporation, ACRAnet Inc, or Fajilan and Associates Inc, then ‘slightly uncomfortable’ is probably an understatement.
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Hi there! I’m Richard, newest addition to the cadre of Grid-Tools bloggers. Grid-Tools employ me as a “Technical Writer;” in practice, my job is all about explaining our products, the ideas they encapsulate, and the context in which they operate. I’ve only been around for a few weeks, but I’m enjoying it: not just because it’s a pleasant place to work, but because I understand the very real problems that the company is trying to solve. Unlike so many projects in the enterprise space, ours aren’t mere buzzwords and blown smoke. Our pitch doesn’t include the phrase “empowering synergies in your solution portfolio.” I have my fingers crossed that it never will, at least while I’m the one providing copy for the sales brochures…
Enough about me. Let’s talk about “cablegate.”
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