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Featured Blogs The Value of Community Broadband
There are many voices calling for increased initiatives by municipalities to build and operate broadband internet infrastructure as a public utility, but until this week, very little in the way of economic analysis to fully examine whether the benefits justify the costs. A paper released this week finds that local efforts produce small economic benefits, but cause a notable increase in the size of local government. more »
Dec 16, 2014 - by Mark Goldberg - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Access Providers, Broadband One Year Later: Lessons Learned from the Target Breach
As the autumn leaves fall from naked trees to be trampled or encased in the winter snow, it reminds us of another year quickly gone by. Yet, for organisations that were breached and publicly scrutinised for their security lapses, it's been a long and arduous year. It was about this time last year that the news broke of Target's mega breach. Every news outlet was following the story and drip feeding readers with details, speculation and "expert opinion" on what happened, why it happened and who did it. more »
Dec 15, 2014 - by Gunter Ollmann - Comments: 1
Related Topics: Cyberattack, Security Wait and See Approach on Abuse
Wait and see approach on abuse attracts ICANN Stakeholder attention: A few weeks ago I made a detailed argument as to why product safety applies to domains, just like it does to cars and high chairs. I also argued that good products equal good business or "economically advantaged" in the long run. Then I really made a strong statement, I said if we don't actively engage other Internet stakeholders -- those that interact with our products, we would eventually lose the opportunity to self-regulate. more »
Dec 15, 2014 - by Michael Young - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Domain Names, ICANN, Policy & Regulation, Security Business Model Canvas for SaaS Providers
As a follow up to the earlier article on the IaaS business model, here is a high level overview of the SaaS provider business model and some of the strategic options that are in there... As examples in this article I consider two hypothetical SaaS providers. The first one delivers bookkeeping software, the second one delivers a project collaboration platform. more »
Dec 13, 2014 - by Peter HJ van Eijk - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Cloud Computing, Data Center Privacy, Risk and Revenue
The nation's leading organization of government, corporate and academic privacy executives -- the International Association of Privacy Professionals -- recently did what good groups do, it issued a report that validated the pursuit of the career it supports... the IAPP reminded all what has long been understood -- privacy is an important and growing risk management activity under the watchful eye (mostly) of general counsels. With $2.4 billions being spent this year and $3 billion next, it is a growth industry. more »
Dec 12, 2014 - by John Berard - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Law, Policy & Regulation, Privacy Cloud 2015: Top Five Considerations
As 2014 winds down, cloud spending is up. That's the word from research firm IDC -- as reported by IT Jungle, cloud spending will reach over $56 billion this year and won't stop anytime soon. By 2018, predictions peg the cloud as worth $127 billion, and that's just counting "core" cloud services such as SaaS, PaaS and IaaS. Cloud-based peripherals, the Internet of Things and other cloud initiatives are also on track to make an impact; here's a quick look at top cloud considerations for the coming year. more »
Dec 11, 2014 - by David Eisner - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Cloud Computing New .VIN Domain Names: What About Accents?
What exactly is that "reserved list of names" Fadi ChehadĂ© refers to in his letter dated October the 22nd? If we already have an idea, we wonder if they considered protecting more than just "accents". The name of Hogan Lovells was mentioned in the last Safebrands "RINDD" and their input on this question is welcome if they are the company to be working on that list. more »
Dec 11, 2014 - by Jean Guillon - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Multilinguism, Top-Level Domains Early Data Suggests New gTLDs Perform Well in Search Environment
Internet addresses registered in new gTLDs are holding their own against -- and in some cases outperforming -- comparable addresses registered in legacy domains like .COM, according to new data that provides the best window yet into the operational functionality of new gTLD addresses. A question on everyone's mind in the run up to new gTLDs was: how would new domains perform in the wild against legacy domains on the key criteria of search? more »
Dec 10, 2014 - by Paul Stahura - Comments: 2
Related Topics: Domain Names, Top-Level Domains, Web Why OIRA Needs to Coordinate Federal Cyber Security Regulation
Two quick facts about American industry's resilience against cyber-attack, (1) our critical infrastructure is inadequately protected and (2) federal regulation will be required to fix the problem, reliance on market forces alone will not be sufficient irrespective of whether or not Sony Pictures survives. Although regulation is needed, it needs to be coordinated and, above all, cost-effective. Which agency is charge of regulating cybersecurity? Right now, it's a free for all with agencies staking out turf and claims of authority. more »
Dec 10, 2014 - by Bruce Levinson - Comments: 0
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