Does your organization support teleworking?  Are you on the fence about benefits?  I’m a beneficiary of flexible work options, but the company benefits from the arrangement too.  I have a small cubicle and work in the office most days.  However, I’m able to work from home in the afternoons.  It’s a big win for me to be home when my kids get out of school.  The company wins because I almost never shut down my computer until late into the evening so they end up getting more hours of work out of me thanks to the arrangement.  On the flip side, I’ve also worke

Just last week I blogged on the rise of the virtual office  and the importance of apps to enable the workforce to have the same productivity tools while on-the-go that they’d have access to from the desktop.  I hadn’t planned to write on mobility again so soon, but, having just read Matt Hamblen’s article at Computerworld, “Chief mobile officer:  A job title

Just like the ancient city of Jericho, the walls of the traditional office are crumbling down.  Welcome to the world of the virtual office where the physical and the traditional 9-5 boundaries of the workday have disappeared for many workers.  I can certainly say that over the past 20+ years of my career, where – when -- and how I do my job has completely transformed from office centric to anywhere, anytime and virtually always-on – in large part due to mobile devices and the cloud.   

 “Across all sizes of business, more and more busines

Last day of the month and it’s time for me to wrap up our deep-dive into imaging and printing security.  Today I complete the series with a discussion on how to preserve integrity of print data and printed documents.  If you missed the any of the rest of the series you can catch up and review the first four articles to give you a complete understanding of all the elements of print security along with strategies and solutions to secure your own print environment.

If you’re just catching up, you’ll want to review the first 4 articles:

If you’ve been following my series on how to lay a foundation for a secure print environment, you now understand that there is more to print security than most people realize.  By the end of this series, you will understand all the elements of print security along with strategies and solutions to secure your own print environment.  

This week I continue with part 4 in the series, taking a deep dive into maintaining compliance.  If you’re just catching up, you’ll want to review the first 3 articles:

This week we continue the discussion I began this year on how to Lay a Foundation for a Secure Print Environment.

Last week I kicked off a series of articles on secure printing starting with “Laying a Foundation for Secure Printing.”  This week we continue the secure printing discussion with a focus on risks and solutions for addressing privacy concerns within an enterprise print environment.

Consider this scenario: Patient confidentiality - A prominent medical center

Welcome to 2012!  If you’re contemplating IT resolutions for the New Year, shoring up your overall security plan would be a wise choice.  Information is one of an organization’s most valuable assets, from proprietary intellectual property to confidential customer details. News headlines frequently highlight sensitive information breaches, either by groups such as Anonymous and WikiLeaks, or through employee mistakes or oversights.

It's mid-December, nearly year-end, and I'm in clean-up mode.  I'm working to get organized and prepared to take some much needed time off while simultaneously preparing for returning to work after the holidays -- hopefully without missing a beat.  End of year is the perfect time to take a step back and review the processes and operations that keep your organization running smoothly too.  What needs to be "cleaned-up" for the new year?  A likely candidate is managing the older IT assets your organization no longer needs. 

Removal of surplus IT equipment is a

President Obama issued a memorandum Monday, November 28th ordering federal agencies to move to a digital-based records keeping system in an effort to save taxpayer dollars, promote accountability and increase transparency.  According to the White House, a recent report by the National Archivist and Records Administration cites that agencies have done a poor job of managing the increased volume and diversity of information that come with advances in information technology.

 “The cu