Beyond Hope: Why Your Cybersecurity Budget Can't Wait

Beyond Hope:  Why Your Cybersecurity Budget Can't Wait

In a bunch of my work lately, a number of CISO's have said that they wished they had just paid the money for better security than gone through the headache of the last 10 months or so, trying to recover from a breach they had. Invest now for cyber attacks. Hope is not a strategy.

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Facebook Storage Infrastructure w/o FB IT Costs

Facebook Storage Infrastructure w/o FB IT Costs

In 2012 I did a blog post on Facebook going public. The premise of the piece wasn’t about the fad that surrounds social media or that a social media company was going public, it was that the group of IT practitioners that manage Facebook’s storage infrastructure had deployed something pretty amazing.

In 2009 I quoted a few simple stats:

Facebook had about 1 billion users - remember, each user has a mailbox for messagesUsers were… Read more »