We’d like to introduce to Tony Shelton, our newest Security Consultant with The Garland Group!
Tony has been with us for a few months, and his personal bio is available on our company page. But in true Garland Group fashion, here’s a little off-the-cuff survey we got him to complete to help break the ice. Welcome aboard, Tony!
We here at The Garland Group are a pretty tech savvy lot, and we like to use social media tools to stay in touch. Many of us use a very popular service called Twitter. In fact, we use it so much, we forget that not everybody knows what Twitter is all about. The concept is really simple, but it is really difficult to explain why it is useful. Twitter has showed up in the news quite a bit lately as journalists have tried to report on the phenomenon, but those reports often leave people asking, “why?”
(more…)Here at The Garland Group, we are a results-oriented company. We don’t put stock into standard work week hours. A Results Only Work Environment (ROWE) focuses on getting it done rather than putting in the time. It’s a really fantastic way to work, but sometimes it blurs the traditional distinctions between work life and home life.
(more…)We had a break through at my house this weekend. My son, Anthony, who is 5, figured out he could swim. We attended a birthday party for his friend, Cole at the local Rec Center’s swimming pool. The pool is full of fountains and slides (along with a bunch of kids and their accompanying adults), and is also shallow enough for him to be able to walk around. Normally he wears a floaty suit in the pool, but because it was so shallow we took it off him. Next thing, my wife and I see is him with his head underwater looking like he is thrashing about….only to realize he is doing it on purpose. He was attempting to kick and move his arms. We were amazed. He finally progressed to laying out his body and his swimming became more evident. It was great! It made me realize sometimes, you just have to step out of the box and try things that may or may not be the norm. Amazing things can happen by allowing ourselves a bit of freedom. Perhaps he will now go on to be a world class swimmer….then again, we are just happy he was so proud of his accomplishment. You would have thought he won a gold medal.
(more…)Something we’ve been working on lately at The Garland Group is moving our clients toward something we like to call “Continuous Compliance.” We’ve discussed it a few times on here (intro video here), but wanted to dig a little deeper today. To explain the process and what it entails, Heath Stanley made this video to answer some basic questions about Continuous Compliance:
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(more…)Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke prodded Congress Friday to enact legislation overhauling the nation’s financial regulatory system to prevent a repeat of the banking and credit debacles that had thrust the country into crisis.
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To begin, I am not a lawyer by any means, but I have worked in the industry for almost two decades; the last ten years being heavily involved in the world of information security. I have seen and learned how many legal issues can come from security incidents, leading to a company ending up in court. I am writing this blog to let you know what can be done to take measures against potential legal tangles.
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