David Fisher once wrote “What often characterizes visionaries is their lack of vision. It’s a popular idea that people of genius see farther and clearer than other people, but perhaps the truth is actually the opposite. Visionaries often don’t notice the enormous and[…]

Is it possible to build a personal media network that allows you to collect, organize and stream video, pictures and music to all your devices – TV, phone, computer, game console? There seems to be a couple of key components: A media server[…]

A few years ago, I asked an experienced, technically-savvy friend to look at the product that we were building and objectively let me know his thoughts.  He quickly pointed out that while he was initially impressed with the array of features and power,[…]

I’m typically very interested in innovation, especially the disruptors.  A couple years ago in a bout of attention disorder, I ended up stumbling across Bitcoin while researching anonymous proxies and VPN.  At one point, I toyed with the idea of buying some ASIC[…]

My twitter profile currently includes that I am “passionate about #BigData”.  Recently, someone spammed me with a direct message “What is the big whoop about #BigData”?  Typically, I dismiss DM spam but my brain kept whispering “This is a c-suite challenge”. Today, cutting[…]

With all the recent news on government data collection, information flow, etc… I’ve been thinking about the issues of business transparency.  All too often, when risks are the primary focus of management’s attention, I suspect that many executives feel that the best policy[…]

I’ve written a few posts about PCI security.  I get quite a few questions about the cost of building and managing a PCI environment.  In a nutshell, it is expensive.  Below, I’ll outline the expenses that I am familiar with as it relates[…]

I mentioned in my Securing a Cloud Based Platform post that we embarked upon an effort to build a PCI compliant security program; we really needed to improve upon several areas: We needed to improve our documentation We needed to modify existing or[…]

When I’m building business platforms, security is a considerable issue.  Security is definitely one of the technology issues that can get extremely expensive, timing consuming and complicated.  Like so many business decisions, security solution are investments that need to be within the maturity[…]