I’m typically very interested in innovation, especially the disruptors.  A couple years ago in a bout of attention disorder, I ended up stumbling across Bitcoin while researching anonymous proxies and VPN.  At one point, I toyed with the idea of buying some ASIC[…]

My twitter profile currently includes that I am “passionate about #BigData”.  Recently, someone spammed me with a direct message “What is the big whoop about #BigData”?  Typically, I dismiss DM spam but my brain kept whispering “This is a c-suite challenge”. Today, cutting[…]

With all the recent news on government data collection, information flow, etc… I’ve been thinking about the issues of business transparency.  All too often, when risks are the primary focus of management’s attention, I suspect that many executives feel that the best policy[…]

I’ve written a few posts about PCI security.  I get quite a few questions about the cost of building and managing a PCI environment.  In a nutshell, it is expensive.  Below, I’ll outline the expenses that I am familiar with as it relates[…]

I mentioned in my Securing a Cloud Based Platform post that we embarked upon an effort to build a PCI compliant security program; we really needed to improve upon several areas: We needed to improve our documentation We needed to modify existing or[…]

When I’m building business platforms, security is a considerable issue.  Security is definitely one of the technology issues that can get extremely expensive, timing consuming and complicated.  Like so many business decisions, security solution are investments that need to be within the maturity[…]

Yikes, a very long time has passed since my last post, I guess this is what happens when you start a company. Nearly every train ride I think, I should write something because I enjoyed doing this last year. It also got me[…]

At the forest floor, young seedling all look the same and struggle to get sun light. I’m starting to see more Venture Capitalist move down the time line and wait for opportunities with more mature entrepreneurs.

Ron Shaick, CEO of Panera Bread bought software from me in 1982 written on an Apple II+ and invited me in from the cold to write Au Bon Pain’s first accounting software. Ron is retiring in May after a great run. […]