A couple of weeks back, I had the chance to head out to Aspen for a few days for Fortune Brainstorm 2012 (#FortuneTech). And what an honor it was. Not only did I speak on the “Defending the Device” panel, but I also had a chance to meet with a number of thought leaders across the tech ecosystem.
Out of those many sessions and conversations I had…
Identity is at the center of cloud security. As a result, cloud identity and access management (IAM) is one of the most interesting – and critical – challenges in IT today. The rapid evolution of enterprise IT to the cloud has rendered on-premise identity solutions ineffective. With the acceleration of mobile device access, cloud business apps and…
If one of your many usernames and passwords hasn’t been hacked lately, consider yourself lucky. Just this week, two more companies — Yahoo and the social question-and-answer site Formspring — announced major security breaches.
The New York Times reported that 450,000 Yahoo accounts were comprised and according to CNET, Formspring had more than 420…
I wrote a piece, which ran this morning on Fortune, about why all business leaders need to start thinking -- today -- about how mobile will drastically change their businesses. Change happens fast, and in just a few years the enterprise will look vastly different from how it looks today. I'll also discuss this topic during next week's Fortune…
I spoke earlier this year at the San Francisco Selenium Meetup about how Okta's engineering team addresses test failures and keeps its tests 100 percent blue. In the video (embedded below), I describe the team's strategic iterations toward test automation accuracy, stability and maintainability.
The East Coast is still reeling from a powerful storm that swept through the region on Friday, but the storm’s effects reverberated beyond the devastation in the Mid-Atlantic. On Friday, a lighting storm partially knocked out one of Amazon’s AWS availability zones in Virginia — and companies all over the globe felt the pinch. Netflix, Instagram,…
