I’ve been in the IT industry my entire adult life, so sometimes I use words and just assume everyone thinks they mean the same thing I think they mean.  I was recently challenged with the word, “redundancy.” “What does that even mean?” asked my friend. “It means you have more than one.” “So what?” “So … Read more

I have a friend, let’s call her Mandy.  Mandy is an identity theft victim.  Mandy is not her real name because this is a private story and she wants to maintain her privacy.  She’s willing to share it, anonymously, because she read “Bullseye Breach” and she knows what I do for a living.  She’s hopeful … Read more

I was in a Barnes and Noble bookstore a few days go, pitching my new book, “Bullseye Breach,” to one of the folks working behind the counter.  I know all the big decisions are always made at corporate headquarters, but nobody invited me to corporate headquarters and I have to start somewhere.  So I started at … Read more

The short answer is, no. The pro argument says law enforcement needs this tool to fight crime and terrorism, and we can build appropriate safeguards into any law to prevent abuse.  The con arguments point out the danger in granting more power to the government, suggesting that safeguards have limited value. I’ve read through the … Read more

Tam Henderson was a Christian missionary with roots in Minnesota, but deeper roots in a war ravaged Vietnamese orphanage.  Eternally grateful to the American parents who adopted and raised him and taught him to love Jesus, he dedicated his adult life to sharing the Gospel with Vietnamese children and their parents. And that was why … Read more

If you’re part of an IT department or a help desk, feel free to share this story with your end users.  Especially the ones who have trouble believing IT security is important.  This story is fiction – I made it up – but it’s realistic.  Enjoy. ************************ Abby Kramer was a third year student at a Bible college in Colorado. … Read more

I just finished my own disaster recovery operation.  There are still a few loose ends but the major work is done.  I’m fully operational. Saturday, Dec. 20, 2014 was a bad day.  It could have been worse.  Much worse.  It could have shut my company down forever.  But it didn’t – I recovered, but it wasn’t easy and … Read more

By Jan. 4, 2015, I now have an automated backup script in place.   Every day at 4 PM, I backup the website and supporting files to my Windows server.  From there, it goes to an external backup system every night.  I built another test VM and restored my backups to it and viola – … Read more

By now, we’ve all read and digested the news about the December 2013 Target breach.  In the largest breach in history at that time and the first of many sensational headlines to come, somebody stole 40 million credit card numbers from Target POS (point of sale) systems.  We’ll probably never know details, but it doesn’t … Read more

­ I parted with some money 2 years ago and bought myself a tablet.  My wife – the most un-high-tech person on this planet said, “Greg, you need to get one of those.  The world is changing and you need to know what’s going on.”  Just one many reasons why love her. So I bought … Read more