Cybersecurity: Seven Approaches For Improving Employee Buy-In
Cybersecurity is a must for modern businesses: Cybercrime accounted for more than $1.33 billion in monetary damages in 2016, according to a report on Statista. While companies are deploying numerous security measures, cybersecurity only works as well as the weakest link — meaning employees who may not be up-to-date, or onboard, with security routines have the potential to let […]
The Advantages of Cloud Computing in Healthcare
Information Technology plays a vital role in maintaining the efficiency and effectiveness of today’s healthcare organizations. To support operational and clinical care needs, each facility’s infrastructure has been expanding in recent years to keep up. This need to scale won’t change anytime soon—companies are only becoming more dependent on technology for administrative, financial, and clinical […]
What’s Next for IoT in 2018?
2017 has been a rollercoaster of a year for the Internet of Things (IoT). As the year comes to a close, IoT developers are still picking up the pieces from vicious hack attacks, and we’re still in the midst of an all-out smart home war between tech titans. With so much uncertainty in the air, […]
Ransomware Attack Exposes Cybersecurity Problems Worldwide
Businesses around the world are still on edge after Friday’s massive ransomware attack. The cyberattack, which exploited a vulnerability in the outdated Microsoft XP operating system first noticed by the N.S.A., locked down hundreds of thousands of computers in more than 150 countries. In order to regain access to their encrypted files, victims were asked […]
Dogtown Media Champions Email Privacy Act at AppCon ’17
It’s been a whirlwind day on Capitol Hill as Dogtown Media CEO Marc Fischer met with a number of policymakers on the day two of AppCon ’17. He lobbied for smart tech policies in meetings with Paul Nagle, Chief Counsel on the Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection, Representative Danny Davis of Illinois, staffers […]
Obama to Pardon Manning but not Snowden in Final Hour
App developers across the country have been watching whistleblower cases with particular interest after Edward Snowden’s world-changing disclosure on the true scope of the NSA’s surveillance power. The tech community has overwhelmingly been in favor of a softer approach to Snowden and whistleblowers in general, circulating petitions for years to help pressure the Obama administration […]