The title of this post was the security pass phrase question I chose when registering for online access to a financial services firm. I called aforementioned financial services firm today and when prompted for the answer by the customer service representative, I responded “because you can’t remember the questions or answers.” Unfortunately, that was not [...]
Archive for May 2010
Why are security phrases a bad idea?
May 19, 2010Small Vendor “Risk”
May 6, 2010What is the real risk of choosing a small, innovative vendor for your critical IT projects? On the one hand, you can purchase a product built by a vendor that specializes in a specific functional area, is passionate about customer success, and adjusts priorities to meet your particular business requirements. On the other hand, you [...]
Stand Up For Standards
May 6, 2010Andre Durand’s keynote yesterday at the EIC conference contained many quotable quotes, but the one that stood out for me was, “Enterprises must stand up for standards.” Andre said this while describing the role pure play vendors have in the greater IT community – keeping the large vendors honest regarding their commitment to standards. IdM [...]
Some Business Stakeholders Might Want Your IT Project to Fail
May 6, 2010What?! That was my response when hearing Dr. Rainer Janssen, CIO of Munich Re deliver his keynote presentation at the EIC conference this week. Dr. Janssen offered many perspectives that I had not heard or thought of before. Many an article has been written and presentation offered that discusses “alignment” of business and IT. Most [...]
