November 26, 2025 IT service management (ITSM) and IT security have long been two IT management “islands.” However, the traditional separation between IT operations and cybersecurity is no longer sustainable as, with cyber threats growing, ITSM teams must integrate risk-based security into their processes. Importantly, not as an [...]
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October 16, 2025 How is your organization and its employees addressing the spread of misinformation or “fake news”? The latter of these might be [...]
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October 31, 2018 “I’ve had a penetration test done, so the service is secure!” (Firstly, no jokes please…) Too often, in my travels visiting a variety [...]
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October 17, 2018 Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf? It’s easy to get lost in a sea of IT security noise right now. Not a day, week, or month seems to go [...]
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October 29, 2015 The biggest online security threat for any individual is ignorance. Put simply, ignorance is not knowing something you should know, or [...]
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October 9, 2014 I usually write about IT service management (ITSM), but October 2014 is National Cyber Security Month in the USA, so I naturally [...]
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