The first mistake companies make while trying to protect their digital assets is to believe they can be secure. “Forget aspiring to full protection. Hacking is black magic engaged in by a ton of bad guys from Russia to Romania whose citizens do not necessarily view them as the bad guys,” Eric Cornelius shared at Fusion 2017. Cornelius serves as the Director of Critical Infrastructure and Industrial Control Systems at Cylance, a software firm that predicts, prevents and protects its clients, many of them Fortune 1000 companies, from cyber threats. “What you can do,” he argued, “is understand and then manage your cyber security risk from sophisticated threat actors who aim to steal your data or disrupt your business.” Cornelius gained my undivided attention when he explained exactly how one of these bad guys gets past a company firewall and steals the crown…
A new basis of competition demands new business models
Joe Vanden Plas, of Madison’s InBusiness, summarized my keynote address kicking off WTN‘s highly informative FUSION 2012. FUSION is the annual Midwest conference to deepen understanding of the business implications and key success factors associated with new information technology. I’ll blog about what I learned at the conference next seek. For now, read my take on how the information age has transformed the economy and its implications for C-suite leaders and IT professionals. Thanks Joe! Joe’s summary article In their preoccupation with today’s challenged economic environment, business executives might not have noticed that the nature of competition is changing, but failure to adapt could put an organization on the critical list. So says former Madisonian Kay Plantes, a principal with the San Diego-based Plantes Company who still works in Wisconsin. Plantes, delivering the March 8 keynote at the 2012 Fusion CEO-CIO Symposium, said…