Ben Rothke

Secure Your Shredding

For years, companies have been routinely shredding physical documents to ensure that confidential and sensitive information doesnt fall into the hands of competitors. This practice is partly due to...

Anti-Spyware Efforts Trump the Law

Congress is considering anti-spyware legislation, and while the intent of our legislators is laudable, it is doubtful that Congress can pass an effective, enforceable anti-spyware bill. First, spyware is difficult...

Music Industry Security Sings the Blues

Why cant the music industry get security right? Why cant the industry that whimpers about billions of dollars in losses via peer-to-peer services find an effective security mechanism to...

Superficial Security

In a new book, "Business Under Fire: How Israeli Companies are Succeeding in the Face of Terror—and What We Can Learn from Them," author Dan Carrison interviewed consultant Danny...

How Do We Know if E-Voting Is a Success or Failure?

In the days after the Nov. 2 presidential election, we were treated to headlines such as "E-voting passed the test" on Techweb.com and "Success claimed for US e-voting machines"...

Latest Posts

NVIDIA Eases The Complexity Of Robot Training

This week, GPU market leader NVIDIA is holding its virtual GPU Technology Conference (GTC). Over the years, GTC has evolved from a graphics and...

Best Data Governance Software and Tools

Data governance tools are software applications that enable organizations to ensure data availability, usability and integrity, with the ultimate goal of ensuring compliance with...

Samsara CIO Stephen Franchetti on Scaling IT to Meet Business Demands

I spoke with Stephen Franchetti, CIO of Samasara, about automation, cloud and IoT as tools to help companies rapidly scale their IT infrastructure to...

Predictive Analytics Best Practices

Predictive analytics is the use of data and other tech tools like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to predict future outcomes. Predictive...

Veritas’s Ajay Bhatia on Chatbot Data Compliance Issues

I spoke with Ajay Bhatia, Global VP & GM of Digital Compliance at Veritas, about how companies can remain data compliant even as AI...