Recent Posts by Greg Jensen

The debate continues on who actually said the phrase: “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” Was it Peter Drucker or was it former-CEO of Ford Motor Company, Mark Fields?  Never the less, it is a phrase that can be attributed in today’s world of security. The best of intentions and planning can never equal the commitment and aptitude to execute. It is the security culture of today’s modern businesses that has the greatest impact to their success over all the strategic...

How the ‘fast and furious’ pace of cloud is increasing risks to data protection As we look back across 2019, organizations saw a tremendous increase in not only the use of cloud for business, but the valuation of the data and applications hosted in the cloud. According to Oracle and KPMG’s annual Cloud Threat Report for 2019, seven out of 10 indicated they use more business-critical cloud services than in 2018. Businesses have been utilizing cloud services in their business for...

Contributed By: Chris Pickett, Senior Director, Manageability & Security Experts, Oracle APAC With Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker about to hit the big screen, fans may be looking back to where The Last Jedi left off.  This was a film where nothing seemed to go to plan. But more than being a story about failure, it was about what it means to fail and how it’s what you do about it afterwards that counts. This must be a feeling that anyone in business with a...

When midsize and medium businesses start moving their on-premise applications to the cloud, they often start with enterprise resource planning (ERP). This makes sense because ERP essentially manages the core of business activity—financial assets. But what doesn’t make sense is using the same security model for the cloud that was used for on-premise applications. Doing so leaves your essential systems exposed to risk of fraud or data loss. With cloud, finance workflows are no...

Medium and midsize businesses often are less risk-averse than big companies when it comes to shifting applications to the cloud. This means they can transform into more agile organizations faster, but it can also mean they sometimes adopt cloud strategies without fully understanding how they differ from previous approaches—and how that impacts the goals of IT operations and SecOps across the organization. Security is a critical area where this misunderstanding can cause...

McAfee CEO, Chris Young with Oracle’s SVP of SaaS Security, David B Cross. On the heels of Oracle’s highly attended OpenWorld Conference in San Francisco, Oracle was invited to co-present within McAfee CEO Chris Young’s keynote address at their annual McAfee MPower Cybersecurity Summit. This is part of a series of announcements where the industry is seeing Oracle continue to extend our strategic partnerships on the heels of announcements with Cisco, VMware, Microsoft...

So by now, many of you are already seeing that there is something new this year at Oracle’s OpenWorld. A new look! Oracle is venturing into a new area of our brand that extends us beyond the cold boardrooms of yesterday into a look and a message that will start to unfold next week that will allow our customers to experience the new Oracle. One filled with passion for what we do. Produce amazing solutions for our customers around the globe, across our communities and...

We have seen it throughout history where changing geo-political demands have created opportunities to enhance the way we respond within the government itself.  As a history buff, I look often at the structure of the US military back in WW2. Many simply don’t recognize that back then, we didn’t have a US Air Force, or Coast Guard, Space Command, NASA or Cyber Command or Department of Defense.  These departments all were created after WWII ended to create focused capabilities...

There are not many positions in this world more sought after in the good times, but also more avoided in times of duress than that of the chief information security officer (CISO).  It’s often been joked that CISO stands for Crisis Induced Sacrificial Offering and for good reason.  In many of today’s organizations, the CISO is looked upon to help set the tone for how they ensure security, privacy and confidentiality of customer’s information…and their own.  When lapses...