Entries by Keith Squires

Leadership Essential in Cybersecurity Dynamics

Are your C-level leaders sending a clear message about Cyber Security? Despite the high profile security breaches making news headlines and increased attention around cyber risks, executives in the C-suites are still lacking commonality and communication of a clear goal when it comes to a cybersecurity strategy. These individuals need to work together to manage […]

Building an IAM Roadmap – A five step process

Since 2003, our teams have been part of over 350 efforts to implement or rescue Identity and Access Management (“IAM”) projects.  Our customers, most of whom have become great friends, are from all over the US, crossing many disparate and unique industries.  In most cases, they are working to solve similar business problems and to […]

Three Characteristics of a Mature Identity and Access Management Program

Identity and Access Management (“IAM”) as an industry started gaining significant recognition and momentum around 2003. During these last 12 years, we’ve seen product vendors come and go, we’ve seen industry consolidation, and we’ve seen important product innovation driven by real business need. While all this has been going on, many companies have leveraged IAM […]

A Sobering Day for All CEOs

Sadly, the CEO presiding over Target during the recent data breach resigned today.  See USA today article. This series of unfortunate events for Target begs a key question relating to the risks every company CEO faces today. Did Target leadership ask the right questions about overall IT security and the risk every company faces? Protecting […]

Breach at Target Stores Affect 40 Million Customer Card Accounts

Target suffered a major data breach losing credit, debit and Red card numbers for as many as 40 million customers across 1900 stores in US and Canada. This will go down as one of the largest breaches in recent history and it comes at the worst possible time.  Consumers may have to cancel their cards just they […]

Giving Thanks at PathMaker Group

This week is Thanksgiving and I have a lot reasons to be thankful. I enjoy my job, I work with great people, and we provide a valuable service to our clients by helping them make sense of an extremely complicated industry. About ten years ago I set out to establish a company that would last […]

EHR Stimulus Incentive

EHR technology is a medical software that can help your practice keep track of and treat patients more efficiently and effectively. Additionally, many of these technologies, when implemented correctly and used properly, are subject to government incentives, making them affordable to install. With the Stimulus Incentive Calculator app for the iPhone, you can figure out […]