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Today's companies are hyper-aware of the importance of security, conditioned by years of disastrous, high-profile data breaches in the news. Still, because of the heightened awareness among corporate IT departments, it's rare that a business gets breached due to a total absence of security systems. More often, it's small holes in their security programs that lead to data compromise. In the past, engineers were tasked with building and inventing - and if they weren't that adept at getting their vision across with words, someone would translate for them. In today's socially networked world, engineers need to be able to effectively convey their ideas. They need clear communication skills to further their careers. It's one of the great classic films of our time, "Monty Python and the Holy Grail." In it, a character known as the Black Knight takes repeated blows from King Arthur's sword, only to protest that the dismembering blows taken are merely "flesh wounds," even to the point where the Black Knight is a torso on the ground. Companies in a recent Juniper Research report are behaving similarly to that oblivious knight, as defined by recent numbers about the state of their cyber security. People who are new to the world of big data tend to think that it can only be leveraged by Big Business and for the benefit of Big Brother. While it may be that big data is often used by major corporations as well as by surveillance organizations, the truth is that even small tech startups can benefit from data-driven practices. In the world of software licensing, software needs to be malleable. User behaviors change frequently; market demands change quickly; and the needs we're trying to meet with software can ebb and flow faster than we get tired of our latest smartphone. The challenge for producers is the delivery process does not always support this kind of change. Top Stories
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