Your Mobile Phone Is Your Identity. How Do You Protect It?
The average cost of a data breach has risen 12% over the past 5 years and is now $3.92M. U.S.-based breaches average $8.19M in losses, leading all nations. Not integrating mobile phone platforms and protecting them with a Zero Trust Security framework can add up to $240K to the cost of a breach. Companies that […]
How To Deal With Ransomware In A Zero Trust World
Lake City, Florida’s city government paid ransomware attackers about $530,000 or 42 Bitcoins, to restore access to systems and data last month. The City of Riviera Beach, Florida, paid ransomware attackers about $600,000 to regain access to their systems last month. Earlier this month, LaPorte County, Indiana paid over $130,000 worth of Bitcoins to ransomware […]
AI Is Predicting The Future Of Online Fraud Detection
Bottom Line: Combining supervised and unsupervised machine learning as part of a broader Artificial Intelligence (AI) fraud detection strategy enables digital businesses to quickly and accurately detect automated and increasingly complex fraud attempts. Recent research from the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), KPMG, PwC, and others reflects how organized crime and state-sponsored fraudsters are increasing the sophistication, scale, […]
AWS Certifications Increase Tech Pay Up To $12K A Year
AWS and Google certifications are among the most lucrative in North America, paying average salaries of $129,868 and $147,357 respectively. Cross-certifying on AWS is providing a $12K salary bump to IT professionals who already have Citrix and Red Hat/Linux certifications today Globally, four of the five top-paying certifications are in cloud computing. These and many […]
What really is “Go-to-Market”?
The single most bastardized, watered-down term in the business of enterprise tech is “Go-to-Market”. Go-to-Market (GTM) gets bandied about as the cure-all to everything from missing 2 sequential quarters to losing critical deals to a single competitor, to seeing a tepid uptick in demand, to my least favorite – a one-time effort to coordinate activities […]
10 Charts That Will Change Your Perspective Of Amazon’s Patent Growth
Since 2010 Amazon has grown its patent portfolio from less than 1,000 active patents in 2010 to nearly 10,000 in 2019, a ten-fold increase in less than a decade. Amazon heavily cites Microsoft, IBM, and Alphabet, with 39%, 32% and 28% of Amazon’s total Patent Asset Index Amazon’s patent portfolio is dominated by Cloud Computing, […]
Oracle is a marketing company not a tech company
In an industry where transparency is important, and everyone is committed to improving it’s natural that some review of any outcome is expected. So, after some good quarterly and annual financial reports, there are inevitably Monday morning quarterbacks who will find nits to pick. These are distinctly different from the people forecasting doom and gloom for […]
Stopping Inception Churn: The Prospective Customer Success Review
I think for many sales-aggressive enterprise SaaS startups, a fair amount of churn actually happens at inception. For example, back in 2013, shortly after I joined Host Analytics, I discovered that there were a number of deals that sales had signed with customers that our professional services (PS) team had flat refused to implement. (Huh?) […]
Roadmap To Zero Trust For Small Businesses
Bottom Line: Small businesses don’t need to sacrifice security due to budget constraints or productivity requirements – a Zero Trust roadmap can help them keep growing and stop breaches. Having worked my way through college in a series of small businesses and having neighbors and friends who operate several today, I see how cloud, databases, and […]
Top 10 IoT Startups Of 2019 According To IoT Analytics
IoT startups have received $3.6B in funding this year alone, according to IoT Analytics’ estimates. Manufacturing is attracting the highest percentage of vertically-focused IoT startups at 30%. 43% of all IoT startups are founded in North America, the leading region globally of startup activity. 7 of the top 10 IoT startups primarily focus on AI, […]
