According to a recent report released by Information Services Group, a technology, insights, market intelligence and advisory services company, the government could save more than $5 billion just by updating their IT systems. Some of the systems in place are almost half a century old, and the older they get the more vulnerable they become. According to ISG’s report, in … Read More
Data Breaches in Healthcare: Costly for Providers and Dangerous for Patients
Though credit card breaches and data breaches in retail stores are more likely to make the news, the most common breaches actually happen in the healthcare industry… and that is far scarier than someone receiving your credit card information. Why? Because when a bank or credit card is breached, the data quickly becomes useless once the breach is discovered and … Read More
Card-stealing Malware Strikes Again
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve noticed the almost daily news stories focusing on hacked credit card information happening everywhere from toy stores to hotels. The latest in this sting of thefts has hit the Omni hotel chain. A spokesperson for Omni Hotels said “an attacker managed to infiltrate its IT network and inject a software nasty into … Read More
The Kids Are Not Alright!
We’re all familiar with the major retail security breaches from major retailers like Target and Best Buy, where a lack of updated software systems put millions of customers, and their sensitive personal data, at risk. Just this month, Kiddicare, a children’s wear retailer, encountered a breach that leaked personal details of its customers including names, e-mail and home addresses and … Read More
15 Tips For The ISV Needing To Modernize
You’re an ISV. As sure as day follows night, someone is coming to eat your lunch, or at least try to. It could be one of your competitors who is maybe more agile because they haven’t had such an aggressive M&A strategy and, as a consequence, haven’t had to subsume so many different products and technology stacks; or maybe a … Read More
Legacy Systems Stand In The Way Of (Fill In The Blank)
As you might imagine, we have several alerts set up to track news stories and events relating to legacy systems. This week we present two of the most common themes and most interesting recent stories. 1) Legacy Systems Stand In The Way Of… This is an extremely common theme. Most recently Legacy systems stand in the way of customization for … Read More
Out With The Old And…In With Old (The Innovation Challenge)
In the first part of this two-part post, we discussed how Royal Melbourne Hospital’s Pathology department was infected by a new variant of the Qbot malware and responded by upgrading from (out of support) Windows XP to (out of support) Windows 7 (out with the old and…in with the old). I pondered how [intelligent people within] organizations could make such … Read More
Out With The Old And…In With The Old (that and other dirty little secrets)
Two seemingly unconnected blog posts leapt out at me this week and demanded to be read. They also led me back to the world of Simon Sinek and his study of leadership to seek an explanation for some of the craziness outlined in the posts. The first was Windows 7 is not the answer for Melbourne Health – Out with … Read More
Why Outsourcing Legacy Modernization Projects Will Improve Employee Morale
Outdated legacy systems are crippling many sectors of the economy. Federal systems probably lead the way with 80-90% of government IT spend being on keeping the lights on (keeping outdated legacy systems up and running). Congressional investigators recently stated that the government currently operates nearly two dozen information systems that date back to 1980 or earlier. Fallout and continued challenges … Read More
