I wish you and your family a very happy and prosperous New Year!
2009 promises to be an interesting year on the business and technology fronts and hopefully more businesses will realize that they can save money and/or make money by wisely applying technology to automate processes, exposing internal processes to customers, vendors and partners, facilitating better employee and customer communication and collaboration and though the use of business intelligence tools to make better decisions!
Information security will continue to be a major issue for three reasons:
- Businesses of all size collect more data than ever before and in many cases, give little or no thought to the security of it
- Hackers and thieves increasingly realize the value of information and are aggressively trying to steal it for a variety of malevolent purposes such as corporate espionage and/or identity theft
- There is growing government regulation and consumer concern about information privacy and security, which is a good thing, but can have serious consequences for companies that don’t take security seriously!
I’ll talk about all of these things and more in the New Year, stay tuned!
