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A few years ago I did some work for an Israeli startup called nLayers that did  applications, servers and devices discovery. They were later acquired by EMC. I thought it was a brilliant idea at the time, since large IT organizations don’t really know what assets they have in their IT portfolio. Therefore, it should …

It just occurred to me – as our partner in Poland was getting ready to drive from Warsaw to Łęczyca for a sales call – that novel H1N1 (swine flu) and seasonal influenza is a great reason to use social media and Web conferencing for customer contacts, sales and support and reduce physical contact and …

If you read Robert Heinlen you know TAANSTAFL -  “There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch”. In the PC world of 2010 we say  stuff like “there is a need for value based decisions in health care”. Over 20 patients a day die in the UK,from the superbug infections, MRSA and C difficile. …

The role of a supervisor in protecting company data. There is a feeling of entitlement in the Western world that enables employees to use company resources for private purposes.  If can use a pencil, you can use a phone, if you can use a phone, you can use your PC to surf the Net on …

As Ben Franklin said – “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”. Three misconceptions regarding data protection and data loss prevention are prevalent in small to medium sized organisations -  whether in manufacturing, distribution or education or in a service business.  In my professional security practice over the past 5 years providing …

Don’t ask me why, but I was invited (and joined) the Pakistan Networkers group on LinkedIn.  I see all kinds of cool job opportunities in the Emirates which I can’t really take but the traffic is interesting. I saw this picture in a post today from the Pakistan Networkers group. It graphically describes the complexity …

This seems to be my weekend for  product counterfeiting.   I was in Tel Aviv last week on Dizengoff and picked up a couple of paperbacks at the “Book Junkie” bookstore for 5 sheqels/book (that’s about $1.25!) – one of them was Michael Crichtons’ novel Airframe (The book is genuine… and they have an amazing collection …

Counterfeiting is a hot issue not only because it hits vendors in the pocket but because of the public health/safety implications. Product counterfeiting ranges from fashion, such as Dolce & Gabbana handbags,  high performance bike frames such as Specialized Bikes to faking innovative drugs such as Viagra. The Israeli onlline business daily “The Marker” recently …

I first got wind that age as a marketing segmentation parameter was becoming much less relevant about 3 years ago when I paid a sales call to Castro Model ( a big Israeli fashion house with a chain of retail stores)  to try and sell them a data loss prevention solution from Fidelis Security Systems.  …

When I was a solid state physics grad student at Bar Ilan, I had two advisors – Prof. Nathan Aviezer and Prof. Moshe Kaveh (who is now the President of the university).     Aviezer was fond of saying that he only does simple things. I was calculating electrical conductivity of aluminum at low temperatures and due …