Security Is Happening....Finally

I've got to resign myself that I'm cursed with longer eyeballs than most. It seems I'm like a B movie psychic when it comes to IT sometimes - I see whats going to happen, but there's not much I can do about it. It's not that I'm smart, mind you. It's only that I have the luxury of watching things for a living. Sometimes if you look long enough, you just see the way the game is going to play out. Security is one of those things. I'm not the guru - I was just smart enough to hire the guru three years ago (Jon Oltsik). Last year I hired another one (Eric Ogren) because the privacy laws started to be violated. You don't have to be a NASA engineer to figure out that consumer privacy breaches (or threats of breaches - as most of the laws cover) aren't a new phenomenon - only newly reported. I knew it would get juicy. So here we are - now every day it seems some new debacle is on the news around who lost what consumer data. It's going to get worse - much, much worse. Most states in the U.S. still don't even have privacy laws. Check out this free abstract of Jon Oltsik's "Del.icio.us") | Yahoo! My Web Technorati: Steve Duplessie is the author of the "