A good hacker knows that a good hack involves three things: 1. Vulnerability 2. Exploitation 3. Maintenance of access Talking to that secretary gave us a lot of information -- the antivirus vendor and version of Internet Explorer being the most important among other things. This tells us...
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CTOLabs.com is a companion site of CTOvision.com Please take a moment to look it over and take advantage of it in your market research and concept generation. Use CTOLabs.com as a reference site and as fuel for your innovative processes. The site provides several technological concept of operation and visions you can borrow from...
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Beginning in late 2004 with its acquisition of PeopleSoft, Oracle initiated an acquisition campaign that has brought over forty companies into the Oracle fold. During that time, Oracle has made five multi-billion dollar acquisitions – about one per year – all of which have made for big news in the ERP software market. But...
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Using wi-fi hotspots at airports, coffeeshops, hotels, conferences or work locations can be a tremendous productivity boost, and your options for connecting to wi-fi are only increasing.  Companies like McDonalds, Starbucks, Panera and Chick-fil-A now offering free connectivity just to help sell their wares. But did you realize that when you connect to a...
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One thing many consumers and enterprise CTOs agree on is the strong desire for more speed to our mobile devices.  Consumers want it for the tremendous voice, video and data options and the applications those empower. Enterprise IT wants it for the same reason plus the continual desire to derive competitive advantage.  And both want...
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Code for America is a great project with an exciting mission.  They exist to help bring programming and technical talent, especially web2.0 talent, to the issues and challenges facing city governments. You are no doubt aware that cities are under great financial pressure.  And we citizens of cities are as well, which means the...
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I remember 3 years ago having a conversation with Vint Cerf and Lewis Shepherd about federal data in the Google Cloud.  Lewis and I both shared what we believed to be key obstacles Google would have to surmount before gaining widespread acceptance of their cloud capabilities by US feds.  In my opinion, today’s announcements by...
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Monday 12 July 2010, Microsoft announced and released a new version of its Windows Azure platform which will operate as an appliance.  This platform, which is supported by a strong partner community (including Dell, Fujitsu and HP), provides enhanced means for enterprises to run cloud services, either internally or for their own customers. This...
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With this post I would like to provide some personal thoughts on the key things organizations should be doing to enhance security, privacy and functionality of their IT.  This includes some specific recommendations for security solutions, including solutions I’m on advisory boards for (read the disclaimer).  So I better caveat this by saying “please...
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Even before the U.S. Cyber Command stood up there was wide-ranging speculation about what the command would do, the authorities it would be granted, and the powers it would wield. No amount of insight from those with knowledge of the command will be enough to assuage the concerns of those who feel such an...
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