For fun: Reading, woodworking and water skiing.
Wheels: I just bought a brand-new BMW. I've always kept cars for a long time, and I like to tinker with them. This time I wanted a new, sporty, nicer car.
When Damian Drewek first proposed moving Quad/Graphics' production groups from an IPsec VPN to an SSL VPN, they balked at the idea.
"They felt we had a solution, so why spend more money?" recalls Drewek, Quad's director of technical services. He and his IT team explained that the IPsec VPN had security flaws, and that the more secure SSL VPN would be a better fit for the company's overall business continuity and security initiative, which called for replacing IPsec VPN access. SSL is also less labor-intensive, Drewek's team maintained--unlike IPsec, there's no client software to manage.
With the bottom-up corporate culture at Quad/Graphics, IT could win approval from upper management only if it sold the production teams on the SSL approach. A VPN changeover wasn't in the company's tight IT budget.
To realize the benefits of cloud-native software, an application must actually be cloud-native—designed to run in the cloud, interacting with disaggregated cloud services, fully manageable as code—to deliver the expected benefits.
By combining resources and expertise, the AI-Enabled ICT Workforce Consortium will offer a blueprint for how industries can adapt to an AI-dominated future.
IT leaders should heed the guidance of cybersecurity insurance providers who think businesses should prioritize security education, incident preparedness, regular internal audits, and ongoing vulnerability scanning and patching.
