ST. LOUIS - An annual study commissioned by Savvis, a provider of cloud infrastructure and hosted IT solutions for enterprises, predicts the number of companies that outsource their IT infrastructure will increase globally from 17 percent today to 64 percent in 2020. Independent research firm Vanson Bourne in April surveyed more than 600 IT and
ANN ARBOR - The results are in and social media marketing for businesses is here to stay. The benefits of social media marketing to business are countless: it provides a way for businesses to market without having to loosen their financial belts. A survey by Re:NEW Michigan reported that 74.6 percent of respondents state social
WASHINGTON DC - Hello and thank you for the opportunity to introduce myself as the new unit chief of the FBI Cyber Division's Public & Private Alliance Unit, which includes the InfraGard Program. Before I arrived, I heard so many positive things about InfraGard and the membership. It is truly a privilege to join this
SAN FRANCISCO - SenSage has announced the results of an industry survey on security management practices taken during last month's RSA Conference. The survey of 360 security professionals identifies several weaknesses in respondents' log management, compliance reporting, real-time monitoring, forensic investigation and incident response processes. Fifty-two percent involve only one or two groups in security
LANSING - Two high-profile events this week provided an excellent opportunity to promote our diversification efforts and showcase some of the great things happening in Michigan. On Tuesday, Governor Granholm and I met with venture-capital firms and life-science industry leaders at the 2010 BIO International Conference (BIO) in Chicago. BIO featured high-level industry leaders discussing
BIRMINGHAM - Scenario planning is an important tool in the realm of cyber security. Stakeholder teams are assembled to create plausible scenarios of possible future threats. Repercussions are predicted to help quantify risk and justify mitigating investments in technology and changes to policy and operations. Here are several cyber security scenarios. The scary thing is,
BIRMINGHAM - Wired's ThreatLevel reported that a disgruntled ex-employee of a car dealership in Austin, Texas, used a black box lock-out device on over a hundred vehicles to disable them or make their horns sound. The service he used is provided by Payment Technologies in Cleveland. The product is well thought out with safety features
LANSING - The headlines definitely point to the kind of week we had at MEDC: "Gov. Jennifer Granholm announces more than 17,300 new jobs for Michigan," "Yacht maker Four Winns to hire 2,320 workers in Cadillac," and, my personal favorite, "2,500-Job Surge to Energize Michigan." On Thursday, company leaders, community representatives, local partners, the Capitol
NEW YORK - Technology executives are signaling a readiness to make critical IT investments, a new survey shows. More than one-third (37 percent) of chief information officers (CIOs) interviewed said, post-recession, they plan to implement software and hardware upgrades that had been deferred due to a soft economy. Others foresee moving forward with virtualization projects
SAN FRANCISCO - We've heard a lot about security issues with the iPhone, but the BlackBerry isn't immune to threats from malicious apps. Tyler Shields, a senior researcher at the Veracode Research Lab, has written a piece of spyware that allowed me to shoot an SMS command to his phone and have his contact list