Michael Dortch
As an IT industry analyst, consultant, journalist, and marketer, Michael Dortch has been translating bits and bytes into dollars and sense for four decades. His areas of expertise include strategic content planning, development, and creation, core content execution, and social media and online community development and outreach. Michael has helped to launch new products, enable sales teams, influence influencers, and grow web site traffic, prospects, leads, and positive perceptions for companies large and small. He also enjoys cooking, eating, traveling, and singing.
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TWiTIoT: This Week in The Internet of Things – New Warnings from the FBI – and Hawai’i’s Kilauea Volcano!
Greetings, and welcome. This week, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) joins the growing concern about IoT device security. Meanwhile, scientists use IoT sensors to warn of pollution from Hawai’i’s Kilauea volcano. As always, your thoughts, reactions, and suggestions welcome. Just send a quick email to medortch@dortchonit.com. And for more on the IoT and
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TWiTIoT: This Week in The Internet of Things – Even More Fun with IoT Cyber(in)security!
Greetings, and welcome. This week, yet another new survey highlighting the lack of cybersecurity in business IoT deployments, and yet another IoT device vulnerability – 20, actually. As always, your thoughts, reactions, and suggestions welcome. Just send a quick email to medortch@dortchonit.com. And for more on the IoT and IIoT, check out “DortchOnIT’s Industrial Internet
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TWiTIoT: This Week in The Internet of Things – IoT Cybersecurity? What IoT Cybersecurity?
Greetings, and welcome. This week, a decade-old security flaw threatens nearly a half-billion IoT devices, while hackers use other long-known vulnerabilities to enslave thousands of IoT and other connected devices. What are we doing about IoT cybersecurity? As always, your thoughts, reactions, and suggestions welcome. Just send a quick email to medortch@dortchonit.com. And for more
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Friday is SysAdmin Day – Show Yours Some Love!
Happy SysAdmin Day, everyone! Where there’s IT, there are system administrators, or sysadmins. This Friday is a day to celebrate and thank those hard-working, often-underappreciated stalwarts. Yes, friends, Friday, July 27, is, according to the web site www.sysadminday.com, the 19th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day! From Humble Origins to Worldwide Celebration As Wikipedia explains, System
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TWiTIoT: This Week in The Internet of Things – Mo’ Money (Spent), Mo’ (Security) Problems
Greetings, and welcome. This week, prodigious predicted growth in IoT security spending, plus the dawn of IoT-enabled stickers. As always, your thoughts, reactions, and suggestions welcome. Just send a quick email to medortch@dortchonit.com. And for more on the IoT and IIoT, check out “DortchOnIT’s Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) Weekly.” Thanks. Analysts Predict IoT Security
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TWiTIoT: This Week in The Internet of Things – IoT-Enabled Domestic Violence and Personal Security
Greetings, and welcome. This week, a helpful response to a troubling rise in domestic violence via IoT devices, and a new IoT-enabled personal security device. As always, your thoughts, reactions, and suggestions welcome. Just send a quick email to medortch@dortchonit.com. And for more on the Internet of Things and IIoT, check out “DortchOnIT’s Industrial Internet
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New Threats from Technology – and How IT People Can Help
Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and the Internet of Things (IoT) are transforming every aspect of life, from how we lock our doors to how we govern ourselves. Unfortunately, for every emerging technology, there are apparently those ready, willing, and able to misuse it to threaten or hurt others. Several recent reports from around
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Intelligent Automation – An “ATM” for IT?
On June 28, I was honored to be a guest speaker at a webinar hosted by Astound, purveyors of AI solutions designed to improve IT service management (ITSM). During my discussion with Rob Young, Astound’s Senior Director of Product Marketing, an analogy about intelligent automation occurred to me. The analogy seemed to resonate with Rob and
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