Kachina Shaw

Top Predictions for Enterprise IT in 2014 We’ve long been warned that the use of Excel spreadsheets throughout the enterprise line of business seriously hampers many compliance and auditing efforts. The lack of controls and change management makes the spreadsheets problematic at best and disastrous at worst. But in the real world, work must be […]

About six months after suffering a massive data breach, and subsequently removing its CIO and CEO, Target has selected its first Chief Information Security Officer, or CISO. Brad Maiorino served in a similar capacity at General Motors, reports CSOonline, an interesting choice, given that he is not coming from a retail background. However, writes Antone […]

Ten Rules for the Cyber Incident Responder Risk managers’ focus on the seemingly unlimited array of cyber threats to their organizations is steadily growing. The 2014 BDO Technology RiskFactor Report, for instance, which analyzes SEC 10-K filings and other data from the largest publicly traded U.S. technology companies, found that “breaches of technology security or […]

Reduce Risk: Six Vulnerable Points Enterprises Need to Consider Online brand protection strategies have to follow where the customers go and where the bad guys go. Right now, that increasingly means mobile apps and paid search. As more and more companies are producing mobile apps for internal and external use, much of the security and […]

Tech Hiring: The Most In-Demand IT Pros Q2 2014 We don’t often focus much on venture capital funding announcements here at IT Business Edge. We also don’t get many chances to mention Hollywood actors. But today’s news of $66.5 million in Series B funding that has been secured by payroll and benefits startup Zenefits is […]

The International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) this week announced its new certification, the Certified Information Privacy Technologist (CIPT) program. When I spoke with IAPP CTO Jeff Northrop about the announcement, he noted that during the organization’s 14-year history, the release of a new certification program has been quite rare, but that this new cert […]

How to Outsmart Your Interviewer Most interviewing advice, including the advice found here on IT Business Edge, takes prospective employees through the steps necessary to research the companies with which they will interview. There’s an art to finding a company that matches your career desires – and then figuring out how to present yourself as […]

Top Five Trends in Network Forensics Adoption A U.S. utility was recently compromised by a “sophisticated threat actor,” according to an ICS-CERT report. The control system was accessed through a remote access feature and brute-force tactics applied to the password authorization mechanism. In other words, this unnamed public utility placed its control system at risk […]

The Top Ten IT Skills for 2014 While the ability of the President of the United States to create jobs for U.S. citizens is a source of constant debate, his ability to take action to protect jobs in the U.S. is more measurable. Monday’s federal indictment of five Chinese nationals on cyber-espionage charges is the […]

Risk Management: A Look Back at 2013 and Ahead to 2014 When McAfee presented a 10-question quiz on identifying legitimate vs. phishing email messages at this year’s RSA Conference, the firm found that the average accuracy rate for quiz takers was a “C.” It was just another reminder of how difficult fending off spearphishing efforts […]

The Nine Most Despised Work Personalities Multitasking – no matter how many times we are told that we are more productive when we focus on one task at a time, that information doesn’t seem to sink in. Probably because we are trying to write a memo, read email, do neck stretches and drive at the […]

Five Ways to Scale Agile for the Enterprise Is your team failing in one or more crucial aspects? Perhaps it is too small. More likely, it is too large. And that can be fixed. Stanford Professor and straight shooter Bob Sutton recently took a look at how remembering a few truths about team size can […]