Kachina Shaw

Prohibition didn’t work for the feds, and it doesn’t appear to work all that well for the enterprise, either. A newly released set of survey results from Smarsh indicates that approaching regulatory requirements by prohibiting technologies and communication channels produces less satisfactory outcomes than allowing and governing them. Among compliance officers, staff and C-level executives […]

The trend of adding Chief Data Officers (CDOs) to the C-suite continues to grow. As I’ve watched the frequency rise, I’ve realized that it’s backward to me, since data consists of unorganized, unprocessed facts, and information is data given structure and context, making it meaningful and useful. Many capable CIOs who are plugged into the […]

During the month of May, IT Business Edge is taking a closer look at the state of health care IT. One approach to the transfer of health information among health information service providers, service providers, health information exchanges (HIEs), government agencies and patients incorporates the three-year-old Direct Project, which has the goal of specifying “a […]

Gartner has released the speakers for its Security & Risk Management Summit, to be held June 10-13 in Washington, D.C. Symantec CEO Steve Bennett, Admiral Mike Mullen and Ferrazzi Greenlight CEO Keith Ferrazzi are featured keynote speakers. The summit also has a new dimension: industry-specific content. IT security; business continuity management and risk, including network […]

While much of our collective attention has been absorbed in politics, terrorist attacks and, this week, the Kentucky Derby (especially for those of us here in Louisville), a potentially devastating threat has been developing quickly. If you’ve not seen the latest on the H7N9 avian flu strain, you may not be aware that some believe […]

Based on a study of 3,000 execs and 220,000 employees, advisory company CEB says that in too many instances the outdated approach of risk management based mainly on risk reduction is hurting the bottom line. According to its Executive Guidance report, fully 72 percent of companies are restricting access to information in ways that hurt […]

The list of criticisms of ICANN’s plan to release in the near future new generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, is growing longer. Verisign seems to have opened the door for other complaints to be aired with its detailed report last week, though the exact reason for the report is unclear and under debate itself. As […]

It seems a bit silly to be thrown into a minor pit of existential doubt by the whole dongle joke situation, but that’s how it happens sometimes. The story got me thinking about what was going through the participants’ minds at PyCon? That is, which of their personas were they acting as in each moment? […]

Boards of directors and their C-suite colleagues are getting an education in enterprise risk management right now, as the discipline as a whole takes a turn toward a more holistic approach, and IT is largely taking the role as educator. The Institute of Risk Management’s Risk Management in 2020 projection says since the 1990s-style siloed, […]

The announcement last week that the TSA would begin to allow passengers to carry small pen knives onto commercial flights received mostly negative reactions from the public and from aviation professionals who staff those flights. As the spouse of one of those aviation professionals who could potentially be directly – and very negatively – affected […]

A lot of business tech articles, including here on IT Business Edge, start from the assumption that a project or tech purchase has been decided upon. It’s the project and product details, the staffing, the timeline and budget that need to be cleared up before completion. That’s not likely to change, as our readers are […]

At the upcoming RSA Conference 2013, Agiliance will officially announce a new Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) program, billed as Managed Risk-as-a-Service (M-RaaS). Focused on bringing together assessment and action for organizations already familiar with managed security service, M-RaaS, said Ron Borsholm, senior security solutions consultant and qualified security assessor at Bell Canada in the […]