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These five areas define the decisions that must be made as the business technology field fundamentally changes from the world we understood just five years ago. Is there some urgency here? Absolutely, because the nature of the changes we've been tracking is so profound that a misstep here could cost a great deal of time, effort and money.
Crime and fraud on the Internet, once pitched mainly toward individuals, now represent significant and increasing risk to organizations with a digital presence. The risk is aggravated by such factors as personal use of corporate computers, loss of laptops, insecure wireless networks, indefinite retention of personal information, poorly thought-out backup and archiving measures, and offshoring.
As I write this Advisor, the news about a possible swine flu pandemic is changing almost by the hour.
Recently, I was in Tampa and Chicago during the same week to speak at data management and business process conferences. It gave me a chance to find out what some of the best and brightest in the business were forecasting for the future of technology. I would imagine that all told there were more than 1,000 technology folks at these conferences.
It started innocently enough. A US educational institution (which we shall call WhoU) was looking to update and standardize the PII of current and former students in its electronic database and upgrade its software to automate much of this process on a going-forward basis.
