Category Archives: Management
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Mitigating Cyber Risks With the Right Security Controls
Understanding that no organization can fully protect themselves from cyberattack is the first step to better protecting yourself and your business. Through a careful evaluation of both your enterprise’s current cybersecurity weak spots and your risk appetite, you can implement the right security controls to mitigate the risk of an attack. To learn more, read […]
The 3 Biggest Mistakes in Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity seems to be an elusive concept for many businesses, big and small. They’ve tried countless solutions and strategic security plans, often without much success. This can be a frustrating process, but you can break the cycle! By taking the time to understand what difficulties you might encounter, you can proactively set up controls that […]
The Wrong Ways to Manage Cyber Security
So, you’re finally convinced that this “cyber security thing” is not going away. Now what? Well, there are many ways to go about this: On the one hand, you can take ownership of the problem and address this clear and present danger to your business, or, on the other hand, you can “lie” to yourself, […]
Fraud and Extortion, delivered fresh daily.
Today, we sent the following email to all our clients. We wanted to share this with you at large – this matter is too important to ignore. -cm. ———————————- Everyone, Cyber attacks are on the rise and projected to grow. This is a multi-million dollar “business” and you are directly a target. Just this last […]
10 questions you should be asking about IT
I have to admit that I don’t often get excited about IT articles. But, the recent article titled “The do-or-die questions boards should ask about technology” by Paul WIlmott, a director in McKinsey’s London office, had me at “Hello!” Now, granted, part of why I got so excited is because what Mr. Willmott writes is […]
Integrating IT
There is change in the air, and it’s not just spring time allergies. Clients, prospects, and colleagues are all talking about technology again. I have a theory about what is going on. Post Nicholas Karr’s famous diatribe, “Does IT Matter?” (Answer: Not really) executives across the spectrum of company size relegated IT to “plumbing” and […]
Isolation Technology!
According to my completely unscientific survey of clients and colleagues, things are not getting any better. Not in the average business, anyway. Stress, market pressure, staffing, revenues, expenses, insurance – you name it. Very few have a positive outlook. Everyone is focused on survival. Focus on what needs to be done, and nothing else. Unfortunately […]
Aftershock
Today is Day One Thursday, November 1, 2012, a commentator on TV announced that “Today is Day One.” Our city and our region, grappling with the worse disaster in memory, are inching forward. Everyone is doing their part, government, businesses, NGOs, and individuals. Here at tmg-emedia, we have been very lucky. Our office on 42nd […]
Be afraid… Be very afraid!
Once again the popular media is abuzz with stories of hacking. Most recently the dating site eHarmony was hacked probably by the same perpetrators that hacked LinkedIn, the “corporate” social network, exposing six million user passwords. Six million! A few months earlier, SONY, the one and only, was hacked twice. The first incident, which they […]
“Remember: Not all business is good business.”
With that, he shook my hand and walked out of my office. It was the first real piece of advice I received when I decided to start my own consulting firm, given to me twenty-four years ago in my office on the 52nd floor of the Pan Am building. I remember it like it was […]
