Common Sense Security Tips to Protect Your Computers and Devices

Common Sense Security Tips to Protect Your Computers and Devices

If you want to make yourself too anxious to sleep at night, take a security expert out to lunch and ask about all of the ways in which your personal information is vulnerable at home, work, and on the internet. It will be an eye-opening experience! You’ll hear about encryption standards, key management, multi-factor authentication, SQL injection, DDoS attacks, men in the middle, attack vectors, AppSec, OWASP, Pen Tests, social engineering, black hats, white hats, grey hats and one hundred different terrifying data breaches (Target, Sony, Anthem, Home Depot and the like). Here’s some advice on how to protect yourself.

When Bad Projects Happen to Good People

When Bad Projects Happen to Good People

One of my favorite software-related quotes is the opening line of Anna Karenina: “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” It seems that every software project that goes off the rails is the result of its own unique set of...
Are You Really Ready to Develop an App?

Are You Really Ready to Develop an App?

This keeps happening to me: people find out I’m involved in app development and they immediately start pitching their application ideas to me. In restrooms, at children’s parties, even in line at the DMV. I’ve heard all kinds of app ideas. Some innovative. Some banal....
Creating Consumer Apps: What you need to know

Creating Consumer Apps: What you need to know

The overwhelming popularity of mobile apps has contributed to many success stories for a lot of companies, but that popularity has also caused a saturation of the market as many app developers try to cash in on the trend. Back in 2007, when Apple launched the iOS...