Archive for June, 2015

It is Time to Set Social Media Rules

Sunday, June 28th, 2015

Over the past couple of weeks, I have spent a lot of time speaking with one of my clients about social media and posts from employees and contractors that may have a negative impact on the business. And the client is right to be concerned.

Most businesses are now using social media sites to communicate with their customers, potential customers, patients, employees, and everyone in between. However, such communications can often go awry at best, and result in privacy and security violations at worst. Here are just a few examples of what can go wrong. (more…)

Change Controls Are Still Necessary

Friday, June 5th, 2015

In the past week I helped a client whose programming staff had just caused a business disruption for the fifth time in two months because of the changes they made in the program code of their online service. The programmers, and so many of my other clients, have expressed the opinion that they can just code something and plop it out into production, without testing. And then they try to tell me that is “agile programming.” No, it is not. It is unsecure and, quite frankly, lazy programming. (more…)