Joshua Weinberger

Managing enterprise security is one of the most complex and time-consuming jobs imaginable. However, applying the simplest and most basic security measures will protect companies from close to 90 percent of the threats they might face. Here are the five basic steps recommended by eWEEK Labs. Assessment Step 1 Security risks in enterprise IT systems […]

Security, unlike beauty, is not in the eye of the beholder. Difficult as it is to measure, security is best described as an absence of vulnerability—and your organization is almost certainly vulnerable to something. No matter how secure you think you may be, someone out there is trying to find a hole you havent plugged, […]

Forget paper cuts. Reducing the manual printing, mailing and processing of invoices with an electronic invoice presentation and payment (EIPP) system may help your company stanch some financial bleeding. This calculator measures the potential return of an EIPP system; Baseline developed it with assistance from CheckFree i-Solutions and industry estimates from Gartner Inc.>

Im a statistician by training, so numbers arent abstractions to me. Theyre more than just digits—they represent real things. In a training program at Ford in the late 60s, I worked on model introduction. The program wasnt about numbers; it was about selling cars to people. But we had to find the right numbers to […]

There are many ways to gauge the success of a project. But how do you measure the success of the request for proposal (RFP) that outlines the project? . If you wait to match a projects actual return on investment against that expected by the RFP, youre too late. In fact, by the time project […]

When I came to BellSouth, the company was just beginning its transformation from a local phone company to an information-services company. It wasnt just a technology transformation, but a business one. The company needed to design what its business was going to be and shift the technology to meet those needs. Any transformation requires developing […]

Knowing your technology department can deliver on time and on budget is one thing—but how do you know its working on the right initiatives in the first place? By assessing your corporate strategies, assigning a real value to each project and enforcing some strict guidelines. Facing tight budgets and tightened belts, some organizations have turned […]

Managers Profile: Jim Albin came to Toledo-based Mercy Health, a division of Catholic Healthcare Partners that operates hospitals in northwestern Ohio, three years ago. As chief information officer, he shepherded 4,800 projects in his Pacific Edge system last year. What he faced: The technology department at Mercy Health was fused together from several hospitals, each […]

Gobble up everything in sight, and you may get indigestion. Parent company Tyco International was already collecting security firms when it bought ADT in 1998—and then went right on munching. Tycos accounting during the growth spurt has been the subject of close scrutiny, and ADT was the source of substantial mistakes. Tyco recently took more […]