Editorials in English

World Economic Forum on cybersecurity

antonio.ierano@ierano.it 01/27/2022 Editorials, Editorials in English, News From The World, News in English

World Economic Forum Risk Report 2022 is exciting reading. Being aware of the risk is necessary to address them and understand the landscape we live in. It is also a great way to see how risk perception changes year by year. Looking at the short-term global risk picture, we can see we have weather and climate; economic risks are not top of mind. We have “infectious diseases” to remind us that a pandemic can happen, and we have, some years now, “Cyber Security failure.” Since I work in the Cyber Security field, I have had, as evident, immediate interest in…

What is Democracy?

antonio.ierano@ierano.it 08/19/2020 Editorials, Editorials in English, News From The World, News in English, Sic Transit Gloria Mundi

Belarus was on the news recently for the discussed reelections of its leader Alexander Lukashenko. Suspect that the election process was not honest and clear is not insignificant. Malian coup d’etat is just one of the many we listen to periodically in several parts of the world. I wrote recently on Trump threatening to not agree to leave his office in case he will lose the next 2020 elections. Reading or listening news we can easily make a shortlist of how difficult it is to have in place and maintain such a thing known as democracy. In the Middle East…

Hiroshima August 6th, 1945

antonio.ierano@ierano.it 08/06/2020 Editorials, Editorials in English

At 08:14 and 45 seconds on August 6, 1945, the American bomber Enola Gay dropped “Little Boy,” the bomb that destroyed about 90% of the buildings in the Japanese city of Hiroshima. A devastating flash of lightning, the shockwave, lives broken. The devastation and rubble are there, but then… Then the rain and the dust, the real beginning of the horror. Lives are broken by the radioactive fall-out that follows, condemning to death or unspeakable suffering thousands of people, women, men, children, young people, old people who will suffer for years the consequences of hell brought to earth in the…

Shrems II, Data transfer, and the USA: wheels are rolling.

antonio.ierano@ierano.it 07/29/2020 AI Tech Update, Editorials, Editorials in English, Tech Update in English

Probably everyone now has, at least, heard about the EJC sentence called Shrems III that basically rules out the possibility to use Privacy Shield infamous agreement to allow data transfer between EU and USA based on the fact that the USA does not provide enough guarantees EU data will be protected. If you don’t know (but you should) here my previous article: https://thepuchiherald.com/2020/07/17/ops-privacy-shield-bye-bye/ After the sentence one of the question was: what now? Will a Grace period be offered to survive this? (lot of companies were transferring data using privacy shield to USA) And most of all does SCC will…

Ops! Privacy Shield, bye-bye

antonio.ierano@ierano.it 07/17/2020 Editorials, Editorials in English

I was not in the mood to write again on GDPR, there are soo many experts here my voice would be useless (and I Know my fellow accomplices of the #quellidelfascicoloP would agree) but I could not refrain myself from this. Max Schrems did it again and Privacy Shield is gone as his predecessor (safe harbor). This should not come as a surprise, well not at least at this side of the pond. I understand the USA does not have a clue on what we’re talking about, privacy is also a cultural matter and we have a profoundly different approach…

The IoT Files: the call for 5G

antonio.ierano@ierano.it 11/12/2019 Editorials, Editorials in English, Tech Update in English

I have been recently interviewed on 5G issues and this made me realize how confusing is the knowledge and understanding about 5G. Most of the time, when I heard on mainstream media comment about 5G I find form one side apologetic wonders of how this or that vendor with 5G can solve all human problems, form the other side fears related strictly to the fact that 5G today means Chinese or European vendors, for the first time in years the USA is not leading technologically a strategic sector. even lesser I heard about the link between 5G and IoT and what this means. Generally speaking, most of the discussions on IoT are focused…

Please help me to share for my phishing friend sake

antonio.ierano@ierano.it 11/06/2019 AI Tech Update, Editorials, Editorials in English, Tech Update in English

ok, do you know those beautiful phishing emails claiming a bad guy hacked your email and take pictures or videos of you doing bad stuff? I receive tons on my personal accounts, and usually, I answer to them asking to share the videos so I can publish on my socials as well and become famous, rotfl, alas the bad guys never react…. (I know I am so childish) so let me share with you last one: Analyzing the headers I saw my friends sent the email from a chinese address (how nice to be renown from such a distant place)…

Happy Holidays

antonio.ierano@ierano.it 12/19/2017 Editorials, Editorials in English, News From The World

Where have we been? For quite a long time I have not written anything here and I am truly sorry, but it is holiday seasons so let me wish you all a Merry Christmas, and a wonderful New Year. merry christmas and happy new year in your language Related articles Wavves – “Christmas Time Is Here” (Vince Guaraldi Cover) LED it glow! Ho-Ho-Homes lit up for Christmas, in pictures NAN Chapel holds maiden Christmas Carol 23 spectacular Christmas gift ideas for travellers These are the most in demand Christmas toys from the last 30 years (34 Photos) 5 Awesome Charities…

Privacy Shield just born already dead

antonio.ierano@ierano.it 07/07/2017 Editorials, Editorials in English

The new move coming from the other side of the Ocean (and yes I mean the USA) is aligned with Mr. Trump approach to international agreements. After the Paris climate agreement, Donald Trump’s presidency is shining again in its confrontation with old Europe. The target now is the Privacy Shield Agreement, the agreement that has been reached between the USA and EU in order to protect the privacy of EU citizens whose data are collected by the USA company. It should not comes out as a surprise, historically the two sides of the ocean have had a deep different approach…

hit by “wannacry” (may be you deserve it) …

antonio.ierano@ierano.it 05/15/2017 AI Tech Update, Editorials, Editorials in English, Tech Update in English

Guys Again a ransomware outbreak on the news. May I say I am not surprised at all? And may I say that the media coverage has been ridiculous and instead of presenting the event as something that should highlight the incompetent behaviour of managers targeted by this issue they claims about “cyberattack” which is a completely different thing. And yet people asking why? how come? how this can be possible? again really? We know that CyberSecurity is always a side though from most of the management no matter where. The proof, beside the claims from CEO, IT Managers and generally speaking CxO,…

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Antonio Ieranò Evangelist, Manager, BDM, Advisor, Writer, Speaker, Coach HOME: Via Gabriele D'Annunzio, 29, 27010 Vistarino (Pavia) Italy. Mobile phone: +39 347 9293757 E-mail: antonio.ierano@ierano.it; Twitter: @ antonioierano @thepuchiherald Web: http://ierano.it I am an IT professional Manager, BDM, marketing specialist, and tech evangelist with over 16 years of experience serving as a community liaison, subject matter expert, and high-profile trainer for key technologies and solutions. My experience includes acting as the public face of Cisco security technologies; leading pan-European technical teams in development of new Cisco security products; and serving as a key public speaker and trainer on behalf of new high-tech products. My expertise spans IT development and implementation, marketing strategy, legal issues, and budget / financial management. Specialties and Executive Expertise IT Strategy, Technical Audits, Enterprise Architecture & Applications, Technical Sales Liaison, Solution Architecture, Network Design, Architecture, & Security, Vulnerability Assessment & Management, Systems Engineering, TCP / IP, Data Privacy, Cloud Computing, Marketing Strategy, Budget Management, Consultative Sales, Social Media Marketing, High-Impact Presentations, Security and Technical Advisor: I have a strong experience and knowledge in the technology and security areas, I can provide the needed expertise to better direct technical needs, giving indication for cost effective, solid and efficient solutions. Project Management: with a solid background with project delivered with success in different areas I can provide a key support to drive customer projects to success. With a Microsoft Solution Framework background and PMI solid knowledge mixed with communication skills at any level i can lead the project group and it's stakeholders to achieve the desired goals. Business Developement and Marketing: With a deep knowledge of the extended EMEA technology market needs a focus on worldwide security I can drive business developement to a solid and reliable growth being able to relate with all the stakeholders, from production to sales and channel and, of course, customers.