Simon Says – Musings of a Technology CTO

By now I hope readers have seen the latest latest report from McAfee that I was involved in – “Underground Economies” where McAfee and SAIC collaborated to investigate perceptions around intellectual capital – the “secret sauce” of companies. The report surveyed over 1,000 senior IT decision makers across the world, getting their opinion on where they thought their valuable data was, their attitude to outsourcing control of it, and questions around how it was protected and the risk of it being “misplaced”.

You can read more from the actual report, or see my corporate blog. There’s been a lot of press on this report, such as

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-20047876-83.html

http://www.digitalninjastl.com/blog/2011/03/28/intellectual-property-theft-fuels-underground-cyber-economy/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12864666