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Data security compliance regulation such as PCI DSS 1.2 is a double-edged sword – as a security checklist it’s an important step for the payment card industry but too much regulation, especially for small to mid-sized businesses is too much of a good thing. As my maternal grandmother, who spoke fluent Yiddish would yell at …

A colleague who has a startup in the US for social networking for doctors was whining to me the other day that advertising business models are dead for everyone except the top 5-10 Internet properties like Yahoo and Google. He said that Google does a great job of aggregating ads from small Web site but …

Is a little fear in the workplace a good thing? Management Rewired, is a new book by the consultant Charles Jacobs. Instead of standardized procedures, dictated targets and harsh but true feedback, Jacobs suggests we’ll get better results “if, rather than trying to thwart their natural inclinations, we just accept how people behave and make …

These days everyone has a DLP solution – it’s like a Dilbert cartoon. The latest and definitely most effective DLP product is – you guessed it – the venerable Cheyenne Arcserve Backup. I got this in the email today. THIS FEATURED DOWNLOAD SPONSORED BY: CA IT Problem: IT managers are expected to withstand a wide …

The next age of discovery is upon us it seems. A digital arms race has been heating up in recent years as companies pour millions into large-scale digitization projects, including Microsoft’s effort to scan 80,000 books at the British Library and IBM’s multimillion-dollar project to create a virtual version of China’s Forbidden City By taking …

Keeping the organization robust in a highly dynamic threat environment Our capacity to predict will be confined to . . . general characteristics of the events to be expected and not include the capacity for predicting particular individual events. . .Yet the danger of which I want to warn is precisely the belief that in …

For a change – ethics based regulation that differentiates between the medium and the message. Dr. Jean Ah Kang, works at DDMAC and is in charge of Web 2.0 policy development. She speaks very well at her interview with  Mark Senak, a regulatory affairs lawyer ( eyeonfda.com ).  Here is the podcast:  FDA’s views and …

I recently read an article by Adriane Fugh-Berman and Douglas Melnick about Off-Label Promotion, On-Target Sales In the pharmaceutical industry, there are two ways to market an approved drug for a new use: the “indication” route—performing studies necessary for regulatory approval—or the “publication” strategy, which stimulates off-label prescribing by using research “to disseminate the information …

I recently saw a great piece of pseudo-science courtesy of Websense describing  the cost of data loss and amazing ROI for the Websense Data Security solution. (a friend who studied physics with me used to call this sort of writing “Scientific New York Post”)  See  Websense white paper ROI of DLP Bruce Schneier correctly notes …

User-Driven Design versus User-Centered design Alan Cooper, in his book The Inmates are Running the Asylum, draws a distinction between user-centered design and user-driven design. User-driven design is about collecting, prioritizing and implementing a system to the user requirements – we’ve all been seen software development projects where the requirements spiraled out of control and …