Two Factor Authentication: SMS vs. Tokens

The numbers are staggering. About 750 million airline passengers must remove their shoes every year because one lone nut, Richard Reid (now a resident of a supermax prison in Colorado), once tried to blow up a plane with a shoe loaded with Pentaerythritoltetranitrate (PETN). The hordes of stamping stockinged feet notwithstanding, PETN is not detectable…

Social Networks Are Risky Business

Why does it seem that most IT departments are woefully un-prepared for IT innovation? Why are they usually viewed as the detractors and inhibitors of technology rather than the innovators and enablers? My own analysis is that the IT department is saddled with processes based on project management that do not allow for innovation. The…