I am not a reviewer. I am a little bored, breaking in a new keyboard and spent more time choosing a pair of wireless earbuds than I would care to admit. Rather than let my struggle be repeated by others, I thought I’d treat you (all three of you) to my thoughts on choosing the […]
Author: Jim
How I Passed the CISSP Exam
Give the Acclaim badge above a click to verify I’m not a giant liar and actually a CISSP This year I decided to invest in some industry certifications to compliment the experience I had gained over my career. After taking part in events ran by the awesome ISC2 North East England chapter and seeing the […]
The wonders of ISO/IEC ISO27001… Why you should think about implementing it in your SME.
I thought it would be a good idea to put together a series of short articles championing the value of ISO/IEC ISO27001 for people with little to no experience with information security and to put it in plain English so it can be read over a cup of coffee. The threat of cyber crime is […]
iOS 11 in the Enterprise
After wading through the WWDC content from a couple of weeks ago, I thought I’d give a quick update on what Apple are giving enterprise customers with their iOS 11 offering, due in September this year. It’s so exciting to see… wait for it…. WIFI IMPROVEMENTS ON KIOSK DEVICES. LOWER BANDWIDTH UPDATE IMPROVEMENTS FULL APPLE […]
Can Block Chain: Help our staff work on documents on their preferred platform?
Those who have been involved with rolling out iOS devices in regulated industries have typically encountered massive problems with securing documents on devices. Shoe-horning some third party editing software into a corporate mobile offering has been OK until now, allowing users to quickly reference content instead to creating it; but with the introduction on the […]
How many miles per gallon does the average human get?
I wondered… If we measured the energy efficiency of humans the way we measured it for cars, how efficient would a human be?? The way we casually measure how efficient a car is in miles per gallon of petrol, lets see how many MPG humans get. So firstly we have to make some assumptions. Cars […]
My 15 Minutes with the Apple Watch
I was lucky enough to grab a 15 minute try on appointment at the Apple Store in Regent Street, and thought I’d share some thoughts about my brief experience with the watch. Firstly – it’s better in person than compared to what you’ve seen in photos and videos. The interface is snappy and intuitive and naturally controlled […]
Choob App for iPhone – A Side project
I came up with the idea for Choob whilst standing on the eastbound central line platform at Bank station. I’d been standing there for about 45 minutes and the station was at bursting point. I connected to the free wifi to check the TFL website only to see that the central line had a ‘Good […]
Dear Amazon, Please Kill TicketMaster.
‘A band you follow is touring in your area!’ Catches my attention from the corner in my eye as a push notification appears on my computer desktop. I’ve been waiting for this band to return to London for a while, and due to a new single release earlier in the year, my hopes of a […]
Let’s Stop Making Faster Horses
The demand for consumer devices to access internal corporate systems is very strong. This is helping to evolve ‘work anywhere’ initiatives in companies, giving employees the freedoms that come with not being tethered to a desk. An observation that is shared among most IT departments is that despite being able to secure data and applications, creating […]