A very thought provoking discussion started on CIO.com:
How Do You Manage Your Social Networking Identity? | Advice and Opinion
They (CIO Mag) had an article on the topic, too:
Facebook Users get a Crash Course in Reputation Management
As more professionals sign up for Facebook, the site’s earliest users are finding they must reevaluate how they manage their profiles and the information posted to them, according to experts in online identity and reputation management.
Dude, where’s my perimeter? - CNET reviewsAt one time, IT departments concerned themselves with hardening the perimeter. The idea was Medieval: build a fortress around yourself and don’t let outsiders in. Then came remote workers. Then chat apps. Then Web mail. And then mobile devices. And suddenly you have more exceptions than the rule. Desktops inside the corporation, which at one time weren’t as well secured, needed to be so. Within the past week, both Harvard University and Hannaford, a supermarket chain, reported significant data breaches. How they broke in, says Dan Geer, vice president and chief scientist for Verdasys, isn’t as significant as what they took. Geer is part of a growing number of security experts who feel that the perimeter, as we knew it, is long gone, and that IT departments should instead be focused more on data-loss protection than intrusion protection. [emphasis by me — jm]
From CIO.com:
How PayPal Keeps E-Commerce Humming in 15 Languages at Once
When you’re a global company that keeps expanding into new countries, how do you keep all of your consumer sites updated in the local language—without spending a ton of time and money? PayPal VP Matthew Mengerink shares an exclusive look at how his IT team cracked the problem of efficiently pushing localized PayPal site updates for 15 countries from France to Poland, simultaneously. If you’re struggling with localizing content, consider his advice.
If you’re working on IT-business alignment, you’ve already lost TechRepublic.com
… For some leaders, the answer to this problem is better IT/business alignment. However, “alignment” still implies separation and that, ultimately, will not solve the problem. What’s actually needed instead is a thorough integration of IT into the core business.
From CIO.com…
Buggy Microsoft Excel Patch Causes Bad Math
If you installed one of those Excel security patches issued by Microsoft earlier this week, you may want to double-check your math.
That’s because a bug in the recent MS08-014 patch is causing Excel to return zeroes instead of the correct number when certain types of macros are run within the program.
The issue, which does not affect all Excel users, messes up calculations for Office Excel 2003 users who are grabbing data such as stock quotes or inventory levels from sources in real time and plugging them into an Excel array.
I found this to be a good update on the current state of WiFi security, and it included several items/issues I was unaware of. I hope you enjoy it, too.
Wi-Fi Security is always one step behind | Mobile and Wireless | TechRepublic.com
Maintaining security is the irresolvable angst that all network—wired and wireless—administrators feel. So why focus on Wi-Fi security? To explain, I wanted to highlight a very interesting chat transcript about wireless security on NetworkWorld. The chat features an electronic hero/mentor of mine and renowned wireless security expert, Joshua Wright.
