Lessons from high-profile IT failures

It has not been a good few months for the health and consistency of airline information technology. Two huge outages within a couple of weeks of each other — caused by simple component failures — resulted in massive passenger disruptions and cost two U.S. airlines millions of dollars in lost revenue and customer compensation. See…

China’s Latest Censorship target: Cloud Storage

Dropbox, Google Drive, and other international cloud storage providers have long been blocked in China – and now a number of domestic storage services are facing a similar fate. Vdisk, KuaiPan, and UC net disk – run by Sina, Xunlei, and Alibaba, respectively – have filled the gap left by the government’s censoring of international…

Small Business IT Security: Save Money, Save Face

A few strategic steps can ensure that limited IT budgets don’t increase cybersecurity risks. By Mark Lachniet Mark Lachniet manages CDW’s Solutions Practice for Information Security.   As a security analyst and licensed private investigator, I have often performed computer forensics work in the aftermath of a security breach. The work provides up-close-and-personal views of…