Apparently the CEO of Heartland is now advocating for “end-to-end encryption” to prevent any future data breaches (Read the NWW article). Hmmm…. I think (and this is just a guess) that perhaps the push for encryption is less about preventing a breach and more about limiting liability when the next breach occurs… and, by [...]

There’s nothing worse than a tragedy that could have been prevented.  My wife and I were recently chatting about how mobile our son has become.  He’s now 22 months old.  He walks, runs, jumps, and most recently has shown an independent side, trying to tackle the staircase on his own.  We’ve installed a gate at [...]

First off, Happy New Year!  2008 was a wild ride for many organizations that continue to struggle to keep their data secure.  Here’s an analysis of over 310 data loss incidents on record for 2008:
Businesses (B2B and B2C) beat out education, government, and medical fields (see Chart 1) as the leading sector for data loss [...]