Author Archives: Stephen Wilson
The Constellation Research Disruption Checklist for 2015
The Constellation Research analyst team has assembled a “year end checklist”, offering suggestions designed to...
Too smart?
An Engadget report today, “Hangouts eavesdrops on your chats to offer ‘smart suggestions’” describes a...
Thinking creatively about information assets in retail and hospitality
In my last blog Improving the Position of the CISO, I introduced the new research...
Improving the position of the CISO
Over the years, we security professionals have tried all sorts of things to make better...
Letter: Online threats do damage
A letter to the editor of The Saturday Paper, published Nov 15, 2014. In his...
The Prince of Data Mining
Facial recognition is digital alchemy. It’s the prince of data mining. Facial recognition takes previously...
From Information Security to Digital Competitiveness
Exploring new strategic opportunities for CIOs and CISOs. For as long as we’ve had a...
An unpublished letter on The Right To Be Forgotten
In response to “The Solace of Oblivion”, Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker, September 29th, 2014....
The worst privacy misconception of all
I was discussing definitions of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) with some lawyers today, one of...
PKI as nature intended
Few technologies are so fundamental and yet so derided at the same time as public...