Dan Stroot

One of the most common mistakes I see is thinking of people as interchangeable, as if “who” doesn’t matter.

Can companies create human "denial of service" attacks against their own employees?

When measuring culture note that culture is an outcome.

You are contributing value, whether you like it not, when you make your code public.

The answer will depend primarily on how quickly the technology team contained the infection, how much effort it will be to eradicate the malware and restore the systems and data, and whether backups are immutable.

People go into technology because they love building new things, solving business problems, and making businesses operate better.

Every team has manual procedures or checklists that they haven’t gotten around to automating yet.

Recently I took on a new role and I was considering ordering new business cards.

Years ago I read a great article on clear communication.

As of this writing, in early 2019 Sears announced it is near liquidation, with a $4.4B bid to keep operating.

There is a post from 2005 by Benji Smith in the old (and now closed) Joel on Software Discussion Group.

Web development has evolved faster than nearly every other software engineering discipline.

A year ago I wrote about how big data, collected from social media sites, and machine learning was used to influence voting in the United States in "The man least likely to succeed in politics".

I have already described the "inside out" corporation.

Internet access is so fundamentally important that many people believe that Internet access should be a legal right.

Do you want to become invincible?

In every organization I have worked with managing user authentication and passwords was a huge challenge.

The Second Amendment was passed fifteen years after the American Revolution, in 1791, as part of the Bill of Rights.

Most companies still have a separate corporate network, protected by firewalls, intrusion prevention/detection, dedicated administrators, VPNs, etc.

Dick Nixon understood that getting the smart, popular kids to vote for you didn't matter.

When I was growing up, when you read the paper, watched the news, saw a film or a picture, you inherently believed in it.

Saw the new Microsoft Surface Studio this weekend at the Microsoft store at the South Coast Plaza.

Is there a such thing as perfect security?

At one point in time I worked for an organization that banned the use of open source software.

Most information security practitioners do a poor job explaining the relative nature of security.

Ask a programmer to review 10 lines of code, they'll make 10 suggestions.

Financial services companies are among the most highly regulated industries in the world.

I've been a fan of Microsoft during my whole technical career.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation just released it's annual letter.

Having done some user interface work over the break I discovered that my design approach was...

Today President Barack Obama has come out in favor of net neutrality in very public way.

The White House announced on Monday, August 11th 2014, that it is formally launching a new U.S.

President Barack Obama, on his first day in office in 2009, signed an executive order stating that all government information that did not have to be kept secret for security or privacy reasons should be made public.

I have been playing around with CoreOS to get a sense of how everything works.

Personally I think the next wave of infrastructure efficiency will be driven by Linux container technology (LinuX Containers = LXC).

One of the challenges in a large distributed enterprise is "finding stuff".

Google’s IPv6 measurements crossed the 3% milestone just under five months from when the 2% milestone was crossed.

This morning I saw a post on LinkedIn by Bob Sutton who is a Stanford Professor and Co-author of Scaling up Excellence.

Today at the Open Compute Summit, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that "In the last three years alone, Facebook has saved more than a billion dollars in building out our infrastructure using Open Compute designs.s This post Facebook Saves a BILLION Dollars via O…

You read that right: one billion.

I was reading up on the "MEAN" stack: Mongo, Express, Angular and Node and came across a blog post from [Francesca Krihely](http://francescak.me/blog/2013/04/09/fintech-hackathon-recap/) about the FinTech hackathon in NY from back in April, 2013.

This is a pretty amazing technology demonstration of what is possible using the currently available open source tooling, open source data, and using cloud service providers for hosting and content delivery.

I have heard some people speak of "mobile-first" and "responsive design" interchangeably making them sound as if they were one and the same.

Asymco has done a fascinating piece of research mapping technology adoption curves, technology refresh rates, and human lifespan, to predict technology lifetime ownership. "...knowing how what innovations become universal and the speed at which these tech…

Apple’s most recent 10-K filing with the U.S.

As a CIO in a large, publicly owned financial services company I held the responsibility of keeping our clients (and our corporate) data safe and secure.

If other people are putting in 40-hour workweeks, and you're putting in 100-hour workweeks, then, even if you're doing the same thing, you will achieve in four months what it takes them a year to achieve.

If you watch someone run the 100 meters, they sneak glances around.

Many large organizations work exceptionally hard minimize "risk".

The United Arab Emirates holds the largest biometric database in the world, the Emirates Identity Authority has announced.