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Allow me to introduce myself. I am Renee Murphy, and I am new Sr. Analyst here at Forrester Research. Prior to joining Forrester, I was both an internal and external auditor. My experience includes...
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View ArticleAllow Me To Introduce Myself…
Allow me to introduce myself. I am Renee Murphy, and I am new Sr. Analyst here at Forrester Research. Prior to joining Forrester, I was both an internal and external auditor. My experience includes...
View ArticleAre You In A Decision Trap? You Decide.
Before joining Forrester, I ran my own consulting firm. No matter how ridiculous the problem or how complicated the solution, when a client would ask if I could help, I would say yes. Some people might...
View ArticleNASA Flunked Its Cloud Computing Audit: Are You Next?
Ok, so NASA failed an audit. Don’t we all? I think it is important to understand the government’s cloud computing adoption timeline before passing judgment on NASA for failing to meet its cloud...
View ArticleScenario modeling is anything but a guess
Emergency management professionals say, “The plan is useless, but the planning is priceless.” There is a lesson in there for risk managers and it’s about the value of scenario modeling. The Federal...
View ArticleCold War Security: Four Phones, Two Doors, A Scrap Of Paper, And A Lighter
Outside of Tempe is a place called Sahuarita, Arizona. Sahuarita is the home of Air Force Silo #571-7 where a Titan missile, that was part of the US missile defense system and had a nine-megaton...
View ArticlePrivacy Activists Are Cheering For The NSA Ruling, But It Won’t Be A Lasting...
Privacy is on trial in the United States. Legal activist Larry Klayman asked US District Judge Richard J. Leon to require the NSA to stop collecting phone data and immediately delete the data it...
View ArticleThe Shuttle Challenger Anniversary Still Offers Risk Management Lessons, If...
January 28th was the anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. The Rogers Commission detailed the official account of the disaster, laying bare all of the failures that lead to the loss of...
View ArticleDon’t Blame Target’s Audit Committee For The Sins Of Technology Management
Yesterday, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), a third-party advisor to Target Corp. investors, recommended ousting Target’s Audit Committee because they failed to do appropriate risk management,...
View ArticleThe FCC is the Most Powerful Privacy Regulator in the Land…What Will Happen...
Since the bulk collection of telephone metadata began, the NSA has been keeping those records in a vast database and maintaining and querying that data for 5 years before being required to purge it....
View ArticleNetflix Hack: Key Lessons In The Economics Of Ransomware And Managing...
Netflix recently experienced a third-party breach. The data lost is Season 5 of Orange is the New Black, which is original Netflix content. Many are calling it the largest entertainment industry hack...
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