Today’s business leaders often don’t realize the biggest threat is  the human element.  One has to look not much further than the daily news  and what is often the top story?  A data breach -  Someone’s data was  stolen. Was it your data? This time you are safe, it wasn’t you.  Are  you ready for when it is you?

In case you didn't know, your child’s toys are telling on you...to anyone listening.

This year there will be a surge in toys under the Christmas tree which will soon be connected to the internet. Welcome to the Internet of Things (IoT) where everything is connected.

Take the technological innovations which have come to fruition over the last 100 years and compress them into a 10-year period. That’s what the next 10 years will be like. Not to mention it will happen again in year 11.

The future is coming fast and from many directions.  Tomorrow we will work, communicate, collaborate, market, sell, purchase/lease/rent, transport, farm, build, design, create, experience, sense, …. the list goes on and on - differently. In just one short decade, everything will be different than it is today. Things will change, and you do not really have any choice.

The hard truth doesn’t smell good.

Have you ever heard the term that employees are the weakest links in the security of the organization? If you don’t know, this statement is completely true. 

Humans are the Weakest Link in Computer Security.

No one person or organization is resistant to making error’s. In sports and business we even measure for error rates. Making a mistake will happen and it will take only one forgotten step or an incorrect click to bring down your web site, your application, your data, your service or worse. As technologies are mounting hackers are setting digital traps ubiquitously to profit from the employee’s one mistake. According Kevin Mitnick, the worlds former most wanted hacker, it’s not a matter of will I be hacked, but when.