by Colin Rand | Jul 13, 2023 | Blog
Recently, I came across a slick new generative AI tool that proposed to take your presentation, read the content of each slide, give a generated background picture, and modify the layouts to produce a work that looked like it had a team of designers cranking all...
by Colin Rand | May 26, 2023 | Blog, Use cases
Modern-day SDRs (sales development reps) perform acts of phishing for a living. Today’s business culture, especially in technology sales, accepts this as how business gets done. They do lead generation to identify their target company, cadence messaging to engage and...
by Colin Rand | Apr 12, 2023 | Blog, Improved User Experience
Oh, network-centered security. What a brilliant idea. Let’s put all our faith in the network and forget about those pesky little devices that connect to it. Who needs to worry about laptops, tablets, and smartphones, anyway? They’re just small,...
by Colin Rand | Apr 11, 2023 | Blog, Improving Legacy Technology
Compare sitting at a desk today to sitting at a desk five or ten years ago; the way we work and access information has drastically changed. Employees may or may not be at their desks in a centralized office, working on desktop computers connected to a secure network....
by Colin Rand | Apr 6, 2023 | Blog
At my first job in the mid 1990s, I was given a workstation to use (a DEC Alpha, for those that were also there). When it came time to look for a new job, I remember using that computer in the office to format my resume and apply for new jobs. Since that first...
by Colin Rand | Nov 17, 2020 | Blog, Use cases
This is the second in a series of blogs on dogfooding your own product. The first in this series covered how we approached compliance, and in this one we’ll look at how we went about protecting other critical R&D assets. In later posts, we’ll cover remote access...
by Colin Rand | Nov 3, 2020 | Blog, Company News, Use cases
Dogfooding your own product is a long-standing tradition in software development. The benefits are many – from finding and fixing glitches before any customer rollout to developing empathy for the end user (since that end user is you). Great stories arise from the...
by Colin Rand | Oct 19, 2020 | Blog, Improved User Experience
Engineering teams need secure access to dynamic hosts, services, and applications to productively do their jobs. VPNs, falling short of today’s security requirements with their “one size fits all” strategy, are often at the core of serious usability, manageability,...
