Ericka Chickowski

The State of Enterprise Architecture Forrester reported that only 40 percent of respondents claimed EA’s governance structure as matching IT’s structure No Title EA primarily reports to:CIO (42 percent)Head of technology planning/strategy/governance (20 percent)CTO (15 percent) No Title 35 percent of EA professionals believe corporate management and line of business leaders are unaware of their […]

Partner Security Checklist RSA SecurID Breach Improve Physical SecurityThe physical security of token servers is tantamount, and similarly partners need to stress the importance to token holders of keeping close track of their devices. Depending on the attack, physical access may be the only thing a well-equipped hacker needs at this point. No Title Consider […]

State of IT Healthcare Security More Breaches Only four percent of respondents indicated that they don’t have any concerns about thesecurity of electronic medical information at their organization No Title Approximately 26 percent of organizations reported experiencing a security breach in the last 12 months. No Title That’s slightly up from the 23 percent of […]

Oracle With so many Oracle acquisitions in recent years putting pressure on SAP’s major markets already, Ellison’s gang has been a constant thorn in SAP’s side. The biggest sting, though, was a $1.3 billion jury award granted Oracle from SAP last year for intellectual property theft. IBM Like Oracle, Big Blue plays in most of […]

Risk management and mitigation Organizations will increasingly look to third-party consultants and services firms for advice on avoiding disaster projects and products with costly hidden TCO. Increasing focus on organizational change management. Managing risks means making meaningful changes to the organization. Executives are learning that org change is not just an option anymore – it’s […]

Just a few days following the announcement by EMC security subsidiary RSA that its most popular authentication token product was the target of a very focused security breach, the obvious question on many minds is how much brand damage the incident will inflict on RSA and its partners. The short answer from many security pundits […]

Hackers Will Use Those Database Weaknesses Elsewhere In The Infrastructure The first foray into your email database may be just the tip of the iceberg for hackers’ future attacks. They could potentially use access into a less sensitive database as a toe-hold to gain access into other more important databases. Youre Probably Breaking Privacy Policy […]

RSA channel partners are seeking more information and counseling their clients on risk mitigation following the publication on March 17 of an open letter from Art Coviello, CEO of RSA, an EMC company, that outlined a breach that compromised its highly popular authentication token SecurID product. Used by a wide range of organizations such as […]

Healthcare IT Priorities for 2011 An Inside Look Currently HIMSS reports that the average information systems operating expense is about 2.4 percent of total expenses for U.S. hospitals. No Title Approximately 76 percent of respondents said their organization’s operating budget for 2011 would increase over 2010. No Title Close to half said their budget would […]

Security vs Coffee Spending 10 Reasons Why Web Applications Are Easy Targets While 73 percent of the organizations in the study have been hacked at least once in the last 24 months, 72 percent of the respondents test less than 10 percent of their applications. No Title Twenty percent of organizations do not test their […]

Many IT departments have put off public cloud deployments in favor of private cloud virtualization projects under the guise of security concerns — but new findings show that these private cloud deployments may be no more secure than their public counterparts.  That’s good news for managed service providers with the right security chops and infrastructure […]

Electronic health records (EHRs) were on everyone’s mind at the annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society conference recently, a buzzing show that drew a record-breaking crowd of 31,225. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius set the tone for the show in her keynote, in which she gave an update on the state of […]