Monthly Archives: July 2012

Talking the Future of Mobile (and Marissa Mayer): My ‘Ah Ha’ Moments @BrainstormTech

A couple of weeks back, I had the chance to head out to Aspen for a few days for Fortune Brainstorm 2012 (#FortuneTech). And what an honor it was. Not only did I speak on the “Defending the Device” panel, … Continue reading

Keeping You Safe in the Cloud is a Full-Time Job

Identity is at the center of cloud security. As a result, cloud identity and access management (IAM) is one of the most interesting – and critical – challenges in IT today. The rapid evolution of enterprise IT to the cloud … Continue reading

Yahoo and Formspring Experience Security Breaches: Is Your Password Safe Anywhere?

If one of your many usernames and passwords hasn’t been hacked lately, consider yourself lucky. Just this week, two more companies — Yahoo and the social question-and-answer site Formspring — announced major security breaches. The New York Times reported that … Continue reading

The Right Side of History: Run, Don’t Walk, to Embrace a Mobile Enterprise

I wrote a piece, which ran this morning on Fortune, about why all business leaders need to start thinking — today — about how mobile will drastically change their businesses. Change happens fast, and in just a few years the … Continue reading

Keeping Selenium Tests 100 Percent Blue

I spoke earlier this year at the San Francisco Selenium Meetup about how Okta’s engineering team addresses test failures and keeps its tests 100 percent blue. In the video (embedded below), I describe the team’s strategic iterations toward test automation … Continue reading

Own Your Own Availability: Zero Downtime During the AWS Outage

The East Coast is still reeling from a powerful storm that swept through the region on Friday, but the storm’s effects reverberated beyond the devastation in the Mid-Atlantic. On Friday, a lighting storm partially knocked out one of Amazon’s AWS … Continue reading