TENAFLY, N.J. - No business can avoid ?the cloud.? Some embrace cloud based services with enthusiasm as a formal way of delivering all or part of a given organization?s IT requirements, whilst others grudgingly accept them because it is near impossible to stop individual users or lines of business from building them in to business
TENAFLY, N.J. - One of the security-related topics that has the least actual impact on enterprise security has been getting the most attention from the security press and the security Twitterverse: the Edward Snowden NSA surveillance disclosures. If you made a list of the top 100 risks to any company (or any individual) NSA intercepting
TENAFLY, N.J. - As we approach the Internet of things, more and more things are keeping tabs on me. My toaster is watching me, and the blender is looking at me funny. Increasingly companies that collect data will have to have robust privacy policies about what they collect and store, who they share it with,
TENAFLY, N.J. - A European judge recently blocked a security researcher's paper describing how to bypass a car's immobilizer theft-protection system. The Next Generation of airline control systems is designed to efficiently improve air travel, but the new system reportedly uses no encryption on its communications links, and is also missing authentication mechanisms meaning false
LANSING - Persons seeking unemployment benefits would be rejected if a prospective employer withdrew a job offer because they failed a drug test required as a condition of employment, or refused to take the test, under a bill signed Tuesday by Governor Rick Snyder. HB 4952 (PA 146, immediate effect) drew criticism from some Democrats
LANSING - The state should be helping small farmers with safety certification and financing and encouraging development of more farmers' markets, the Food Policy Council said in its final report approved this month. The goal of the council's recommendations is to ensure access to healthy food across the state, and particularly to locally-grown foods, the
LANSING - A bill to essentially allow telecommunications companies to end landline services to customers with a 90-day notice has several big names concerned about ensuring residents have access to reliable voice communication service in the future, but proponents of the bill say consumers are already making the decision to get rid of landlines, and
NOVI - Just as a fire department might recruit volunteer fire fighters to train and prepare for an emergency, the State of Michigan announced that it would be creating a Cyber Civilian Militia. During the sold out 2013 Michigan Cyber Summit, themed around the growing risk of cyber attacks, Gov. Rick Snyder made the formal
LANSING - Michigan would stand to lose jobs and money if the federal government eliminates the renewable fuel standard, officials said at a media event Monday. The state currently has five ethanol plants, and at least three of those would close if the current requirement for ethanol content in motor fuel was eliminated, said Bill
LANSING - The state employer and state employee unions will be asking an impasse panel to help resolve the next round of contracts, but state officials were still hopeful that the contracts could be resolved before the panel actually hears arguments. Both sides had to indicate by Monday that there were unresolved issues to take