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TechPro Essentials – Is the Outlook for Fitbit a Healthy One? Lots of people are excited about the upcoming IPO for Fitbit, the ubiquitous health tracking device maker, and there are plenty of reasons for this excitement. Sales for the devices are showing strong growth and, if you’re like me, half the people you know are using Fitbit to track their personal he…

TechPro Essentials – Windows Server 2003 Expiration Brings Defense in Depth to Life The termination of support for Windows Server 2003 (WS2003) is less than four months away, leaving many enterprises in a race against the clock before the system’s security patches cease. 61% of businesses have at least one instance of WS2003 running in their environment, which translates into milli…

TechPro Essentials – Post-RSA Conference 2015: Think Big, Execute Small As described in RSA Conference 2015: What We Talked About, my simple little analysis of the titles and descriptions of this year’s 300+ keynotes, events and track sessions suggests that to the extent that the RSA Conference reflects the current state of the information security industry (which I bel…

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TechPro Essentials – Collaborate on Your Own Terms Custom made. Whether one is talking about clothes, furniture, or shoes, everyone understands that something that is made to meet your specific needs and requirements will be superior to an off the shelf option.

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TechPro Essentials – Easing the Burden of Compliance with Automated Monitoring A recent report estimates that data breaches will cost the global economy up to $2 trillion in the next five years. While the finger of blame is consistently pointed at cyber criminals, poor corporate and network security is a culprit as well. Organizations don’t have control of what hackers do, but…

TechPro Essentials – RSA Conference 2015: What We Talked About Many of us look forward to the annual theme of the RSA Conference … okay, I’ll admit that at least I have always looked forward to it. It’s worth noting that from 1995 to 2012, the RSA Conference theme was consistently about something or someone from the rich history of cryptography. Only in the las…

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TechPro Essentials – An Aberdeen Home Game: Alteryx comes to Boston for Inspire 2015 This week I attended Alteryx Inspire 2015 in Aberdeen’s hometown of Boston. CEO Dean Stoecker kicked things off with the morning keynote, wasting no time playing up Boston’s historic charm and connecting the city’s revolutionary history to the conference theme of Analytic Independence. He even snuck…

TechPro Essentials – “Open” Standards and Your Data Center For more than a decade, the notion of ‘Open’ has assimilated nearly every corner of Information Technology. We can say that the beginning of the Open movement was marked with Linux. The open source community, believing that software should be free, consolidated creativity and labor across the plan…

TechPro Essentials – Security Insights from the Happiest Place on Earth – Part 2 In Security Insights from the Happiest Place on Earth – Part 1, we observed that the more Disney has at stake, the stronger the authentication associated with their MagicBand technology – while the more we (their guests) have at stake, the more they emphasize marketing messages such as “effortless”,…

TechPro Essentials – Unsubscribe from the ‘Firewall of the Month’ Club Headlines on the latest major security breaches of Fortune 500 companies are unsettling, and can make us feel like we’re living in an era where protecting your security is harder than ever before.

TechPro Essentials – Is Your Business Ready to Collaborate and Communicate in the Modern Age? Everyone thinks they understand what it means to communicate and collaborate. After all, that’s pretty much the definition of how a typical business operates. We all are constantly emailing, messaging, conferencing and talking to our co-workers, peers and business contacts. But in many organizations…