Building Your Cyber Security Team

We are not all born from kings like Leonidas, but we have the honor and responsibility of protecting our organizations as he protected Greece from the Persians. When building my team of (cyber) Spartans, I […]
We are not all born from kings like Leonidas, but we have the honor and responsibility of protecting our organizations as he protected Greece from the Persians. When building my team of (cyber) Spartans, I […]
Wage and hour compliance is a complex and on-going challenge for public sector organizations. Many government agencies and municipalities have struggled to comply with the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) since the mid 1980s, when […]
We’re too small, we don’t have anything a hacker would be interested in, our IT department says we’re secure, we store everything in the cloud, hackers are only interested in the big cities, counties, states… […]
How many times have you selected a vendor and tried to use their solution to fix a broken process? Or said the words, “I need a tool to fix that”? As IT professionals, we have […]
Here at Oakland County, we realize that the way our citizens seek information has changed. In order to provide our citizens with the best service possible, we made some changes too. Various county departments began […]
The sheer size and diversity of the public-sector workforce have forced governments to rethink how they manage their most valuable asset — people. Among the areas ripe for change are workforce management processes. These include […]
Well, not exactly. As I mentioned in an earlier blog, Creating an Effective Enterprise Architecture Practice for Government, Enterprise Architecture can mean many things to many people; however the goals of Enterprise Architecture remain the […]
If you worked in government long enough, you have probably lived through government building fires, floods, power outages, chemical spills, etc. During these difficult times you realize: “How do we run our government and IT […]
Before sharing became a social media phenomenon, it was just an action verb. Children shared toys. Adults shared advice. People shared knowledge. But those were simpler times. Fast-forward to today, and sharing has a whole […]
The temperature gets warmer. The skies get bluer. The occasional snow squall becomes less frequent. Spring has sprung and we can now come out from under the gray skies of winter. But what should we […]