The challenges of securing organizations haven’t changed much in the past year, and that means there’s still a lot more that needs to be done — especially as generative artificial intelligence and chatbots will require new tactics to fight attackers. That’s according to two panels that presented at last week’s RSA Conference in San Francisco. Among ...

I have a confession to make: I am a complete Bruce Schneier fanboy. I have been following the cryptographer, Harvard lecturer and privacy specialist for many years, and was delighted to meet him face-to-face at last week’s RSA Conference in San Francisco, where he gave one of a keynote (registration required) on how to reinvent ...

I have been using Pandora’s online stream music service off and on for several years. What got me more interested lately was it being one of the many services on my Roku video streaming box, which my wife and I use mostly for watching movies from Netflix’s "watch instantly" queue. As I investigated the service ...

Pardon me for adding yet another iPad analysis (certainly, when a computer product launch makes it into Doonesbury, we have crossed a new threshold of hype), but one thing actually missing from the copious words and videos on yesterday’s event at Moscone was the simple fact that we have a new browser war on our ...

We all know by now about the horrific Haiti quake and how it has decimated that already impoverished country’s infrastructure last week. I have been spending time looking into how our own charitable infrastructure is holding up in getting funds and manpower to the relief effort. So far, the efforts have been mixed, to say ...

Remember Chance the Gardener character in Being There? "I like to watch tv" was his famous line. The problem with most business videos is that we produce a lot of unwatchable footage, especially those taken by security camera systems. And there aren’t any Chances around that want to watch them, either. The trouble is that ...

I had an opportunity to audit a computer science class this week at Washington University, a class that was teaching students how to write iPhone apps. It was their final presentation, and I got to see a dozen apps that were very impressive. As I was watching the kids present, I was thinking back to ...