Over the last week we’ve received predictions from more Cutter Senior Consultants. Here’s a preview of the latest additions:

Rebecca Herold: Bigger privacy breaches than any that have occurred so far on social media sites will occur as a result of no information security or privacy pre-planning at many to most of these organizations.
James Odell: systems will [...]

The crystal ball gazing continues. Here are more excerpts from Cutter Senior Consultants’ predictions for 2010 and beyond.

Dave Rooney: Agile Software Development will follow the same pattern as two other game-changing trends — Relational Database Management Systems and Object-Oriented Programming over the upcoming decade.
Claude Baudoin: Expect contractors and consultants to be in demand, and many [...]

With the new year upon us, we asked Cutter’s Senior Consultants and Fellows for their business technology predictions. Their perspectives — as always — are quite thoughtful, thought-provoking, and varied. Projections cover the changing role of the CIO, what will happen in enterprise architecture, the increasing adoption of agile, the explosion of cloud computing, the [...]

Since we started putting out the word on Cutter’s annual Summit before the program was 100% final, I’ve received several emails asking about what else is on tap. We’ve got a packed program already, and we’re still squeezing more in! Again this year, there’s nothing “theoretical” about any of the sessions at the Summit. Every [...]

Did you KNOW that January 28 was international Data Privacy Day? I bet most of you did not. Too bad. The way to help improve privacy practices within organizations is to raise awareness of privacy issues.
I recently blogged about Data Privacy Day here and here.
Are you planning to do something for Data Privacy Day? If so, please [...]

The April 2009 Cutter IT Journal — with Guest Editor Cutter
Senior Consultant Rebecca Herold, recently named one of the “Best
Privacy Advisers” and “Best Privacy Consultancies” of 2008 by
Computerworld — invites insightful debate on and analyses of
approaches organizations are taking to ensure that information
security, privacy and compliance areas collaborate, and how to
address the associated convergence issues. [...]

Cutter Senior Consultant Rebecca Herold has been named one of the best privacy experts of 2008 (a distinction she also won in 2007). This was the third year Jay Cline surveyed people responsible for data protection to discover who is the best at navigating the complexities of customer and employee data management. His analysis appeared [...]

I’ve been thinking about the software-plus-service model, where a vendor offers online (hosted) software components that integrate with the vendor’s software installed onsite at the end-user organization (i.e., the customer). Microsoft is pushing this approach in response to on-demand offerings from Google and other providers. More recently, SAP AG has jumped [...]

We recently published the results of our annual Cutter Benchmark Review survey on trends and technologies for the coming year. This is the third yearly issue of CBR where we ask our contributors to look forward to the coming year and see what technologies and IT trends we can expect to endure, which ones are [...]

In the last year or two, I’ve become very interested in cyberflexing. Because I’m a member of a National Academy of Sciences study (in progress) on the subject of “Ethical and Political Implications of Offensive Information Operations,” I must mention that what I’m saying here are personal opinions on many of the issues and not [...]