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Bruce Schneier writes:

One of the newest trends in IT is consumerization, and if you don't already know about it, you soon will. It's the idea that new technologies, the cool stuff people want, will become available for the consumer market before they become available for the business market. What it means to business is that people -- employees, customers, partners -- will access business networks from wherever they happen to be, with whatever hardware and software they have. Maybe it'll be the computer you gave them when you hired them. Maybe it'll be their home computer, the one their kids use. Maybe it'll be their cell phone or PDA, or a computer in a hotel's business center. Your business will have no way to know what they're using, and -- more importantly -- you'll have no control.

Full article: Is Antivirus Dead?

You know those of us in the security industry have been wringing our hands over that question for years, for decades. Why don’t they do it? There are a couple of reasons. The first is -- it’s sometimes hard to tell what a secure product is. I can hold up two products; they use the same buzzwords. They have the same protocol standards. What is secure, and what isn’t?

Bruce Schneier has a good article up at Forbes.com about "Why Spam Won't Go Away":

Spam is filling up the Internet, and it's not going away anytime soon.

It's not just e-mail. We have voice-over-IP spam, instant message spam, cellphone text message spam, blog comment spam and Usenet newsgroup spam. And, if you think broadly enough, these computer-network spam delivery mechanisms join the ranks of computer telemarketing (phone spam), junk mail (paper spam), billboards (visual space spam) and cars driving through town with megaphones (audio spam). It's all basically the same thing--unsolicited marketing messages--and only by understanding the problem at this level of generality can we discuss solutions.

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Real communication consists of information flowing in two directions. The obvious direction being "out," the other direction is "in." "Incoming" information is often referred to as "listening," which can be literally listening as well as reading, watching, etc. If you aren't listening, you are not actually communicating. Even if you are speaking/talking/writing, if there is no input/listening, you are not communicating, you are broadcasting.

It is important, then, to know when you are not listening. The first and most obvious sign that you are not listening is that you are talking. This, however, is not the only time that you aren't listening.<--break-->

Communication is critically important in all relationships at all times. If you don't communicate, you will create a point of failure.

How many businesses have closed down, and you hear people say, "I thought they went out of business years ago?" The business closed due to lack of customers. The customers stopped coming because there was no indication that the doors were open. Not communicating life, the business communicated that they were closed.

This communication is not limited to running TV, radio and news paper ads (for local businesses). For small, or local businesses, broken glass, damaged signage, chipped and pealing paint, darkened windows communicate decay, loss, "Sorry, We're Closed."

Content Management Systems (CMS) are tools that any business with a web page should consider. If you have questions, call us, we'll work with you to select the right tool for the job. We have experience with a number of Content Management Systems, and we won't force you into a CMS that doesn't fit your organization and your goals.