Editorials in English

Will Safe Harbor closure disrupt the internet?

antonio.ierano@ierano.it 01/23/2016 Editorials, Editorials in English, News From The World, News in English

The biggest threat internet has ever seen is related to a sentence of the European Court of Justice, its consequences could block the data flow between countries closing internet into “areas”. Last October, the European Court of Justice struck down the Safe Harbor agreement, a 15 year old transatlantic arrangement that permitted U.S. companies to transfer data, such as people’s Google search histories, outside the EU. In invalidating the agreement, the ECJ found that the blurry relationship between private-sector data collection and national security in the United States violates the privacy rights of EU citizens whose data travel overseas. Basically…

Terrorism, religion and us

antonio.ierano@ierano.it 11/22/2015 Editorials, Editorials in English, Sic Transit Gloria Mundi

Recent events in Paris raised once again out attention on terrorism, and fueled once again the trumpet of hate and rage. It is horrible what happened, it is horrible because innocent people died, it is horrible because a God and a Religion have been used once again to justify what is only the pleasure of killing from sick animals, it is horrible because will bring a long chain of sufferance again even between muslins. It is easy to see now people claiming we don’t have to accept Syrian refugee: at the end they are muslin too, and therefore terrorist. Such…

Managers role, leaders and VW

antonio.ierano@ierano.it 10/09/2015 Editorials, Editorials in English, Sic Transit Gloria Mundi

One of the things that make me think about the Volkswagen Diesel gate is the role of the management inside a company. All Diesel gate is a demonstration of how dangerous is to have bad managers in a company. It is supposed that managers have the responsibility to take decision and drive the company to reach the goals, this is the justification for their paycheck at the end a manager have to take decisions take responsibility but is this actually the truth? My experience as trainer, consultant and coach alas told me that the truth is quite different, and we…

MÉXICO: PRIMER ANIVERSARIO DE LA DESAPARICIÓN FORZADA DE LOS ESTUDIANTES DE AYOTZINAPA

antonio.ierano@ierano.it 10/02/2015 Editorials, Editorials in English, Sic Transit Gloria Mundi

MÉXICO: PRIMER ANIVERSARIO DE LA DESAPARICIÓN FORZADA DE LOS ESTUDIANTES DE AYOTZINAPA La desaparición forzada de los estudiantes de Ayotzinapa en 10 escalofriantes cifras 43 – Estudiantes detenidos y sometidos a desaparición forzada por la policía el 26 de septiembre de 2014. 6 – Personas ejecutadas extrajudicialmente la noche del 26 de septiembre de 2014 (tres estudiantes y tres transeúntes). 25 – Personas heridas. 42 – Estudiantes cuyo paradero aún se desconoce. 1 – Estudiante de 19 años, Alexander Mora Venancio, cuya muerte se confirmó el 6 de diciembre de 2014 después de que expertos de la Universidad de Innsbruck…

Time for enterprises to think about security, seriously

antonio.ierano@ierano.it 09/08/2015 Editorials, Editorials in English, News From The World, News in English

View image | gettyimages.com UE directive on Attack against information systems give us no more excuse to deal seriously, Under the new rules, illegal access, system interference or interception constitute criminal offence across the EU. But while the legislator is working to create tools to address cybercrime as a Whole system problem, that is affecting EU economy, what are enterprise doing on this side? The problem is that if enterprises does not align their cyber security defence to the correct approach every legislation will be useless, because the target will be always too easy. Makes absolutely no sense to start…

IoT, Internet of Things or Internet of Terror?

antonio.ierano@ierano.it 05/30/2015 AI Tech Update, Editorials, Editorials in English, Tech Update in English

Why we all talk about IoT I know that there are a lot of good reasons to love the IoT or IoE (where E stand for everything) idea. I can just highlight a couple: Business and easier life. The business behind IoT The first point is quite clear, the tremendous growth of the Smart devices has create a new business that has gone beyond any analyst prevision. Nowadays it seems that it is impossible to think a world not interconnected. Anyway there are still great areas of improvement in terms of quality of the services provided and the spread of…

Some times they come back

antonio.ierano@ierano.it 03/17/2015 Editorials, Editorials in English, News From The World

View image | gettyimages.com I wrote a few time ago about double standards in IT security that affect eastern countries’ companies as Chinese Huawei and ZTE or Russia’s ones when dealing with western countries. I wrote this effect is quite evident every time you read news on cyber security threats. Guess what… I was reading some news lately and I encounter some statements that make me think (again) about it: Let’s take the FREAK attack as an example. FREAK attack is a security vulnerability that breaks HTTPS protection. The troubles today owe to ‘export grade encryption’ – a deliberately weaker form of encryption baked into products shipped outside of the United States, enforced by the American government. The restrictions were removed…

Are we using a double standard in IT security?

antonio.ierano@ierano.it 02/12/2015 Editorials, Editorials in English, News From The World, News in English

Are we using a double standard in IT security? In the last years Cyber Security has raised as a major concern in any sector of our lives, from government to business and even at private and personal level. But I am wondering if there is a sort of double standard when we judge facts happening when they are related to cybersecurity. Let’s make some example: We all have read concerns rising form the rumoured new rules that china will impose to companies selling IT equipments in some sensitive sector like financial, western expert have raised all so of questions pointing out that…

the hypocrisy of religious extremism

antonio.ierano@ierano.it 01/14/2015 Editorials, Editorials in English, News From The World, News in English

No matter wich side you watch it, religious extremism is always using things to justify its own acts. There is no place for self-criticism, just only God rules as they claim to be. Science is one of the first victim, as well as the freedom of speech and the right to criticism. No other idea can be admitted, just only the truth and righteous one, and of course there are only a few that can show what this truth is. Can be the Koran, the Bible, the Torah and Talmud or the Book of Mormon, we always find someone who…

Charlie Hebdo: I’m with you guys

antonio.ierano@ierano.it 01/08/2015 Editorials, Editorials in English, News From The World, News in English

Let say it straight, what happened yesterday in Paris has been terrible. I do not have the all the words to describe all the feeling I am going through. Rage, sadness, fear, shock … I could not believe it, and still I can’t understand how someone could kill in the name of a god someone else just because of a drowing, a statement, a word… they killed people who dare to express their respect for freedom using pencils and words. There is no justification, and there are not religious beliefs that can justify acts like that one. This is not Islam: the poor policemen…

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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.