SDM Blog

Subscribe

On behalf of the entire SDM team, congratulations to three great women in security who, this past weekend, completed the 2011 Boston Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure — Holly Tsourides, vice president, Worldwide Sales, VideoIQ; Laurie Aaron, vice president, Government & Alliances, Quantum Secure; and Tracy Larson, president, WeSuite.

So a few hours after posting my blog entry on the RMR potential of identity theft protection services and the sobering new research numbers showing a massive escalation in breached personal data, I walked out to my mailbox and got a little reminder of the incidental, randomness of life. 

Right now, I am researching and writing the September cover story for SDM on new, even surprising, RMR opportunities in the industry. There are definitely a lot of viable, valuable opportunities. Today I saw some research numbers that were both sobering and supportive of an RMR opportunity I’ve frequently heard about while researching RMR opportunities: identity protection.

 Live, from the Twitter-verse, SDM presents its first online interview — taking place tomorrow, Friday July 29 at 12PM CT/1PM ET.  

A few years ago, United Parcel Service ran a series of TV commercials with the slogan, “What Can Brown Do for You?” In the annals of advertising, this campaign probably won’t go down as one of the most memorable or exciting.

 Today, the SIA Government Summit kicked off in Washington, D.C., with record attendance and a record six keynote presentations. 

For the last two years, more than 13+ million U.S. workers have been unemployed, many for very long stretches. Let that number – 13 million – sink in for a moment. That’s like saying the entire population of Illinois has been laid off.

This week I attended the last National Association Oil Heating Service Managers Show in Hershey, PA. Actually, it’s not the last show for this fine organization, but it will be the last show by that exact name.