Caron Beesley

Electric utilities have many choices when it comes to their digital design software, often using a master utilities design tool, like Bentley, then adding on multiple software solutions to solve different problems. This creates several challenges, including a disparate technology stack and pricing issues, with costs varying wildly from year-to-year.
Another challenge for the utilities design teams is that the workforce is changing rapidly. Many of today’s younger generation of designers and e...

When your small business is in its infancy, with only two or three people on payroll, it’s easy to communicate and collaborate with your team. But, as your business grows and time becomes more precious, you’ll need the right digital collaboration tools to help you and your employees get organized.
How Digital Collaboration Tools Can Help
As the remote workforce grows and new cloud-based collaboration tools hit the market, small businesses are looking beyond email and file-sharing sites to ado...

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is one of the most sweeping acts of legislation in the U.S. relating to the protection of personal consumer information collected by businesses. But what does CCPA mean for cybersecurity and risk leaders? In this post, we explore the key compliance requirements of the CCPA and what actions businesses need to take from both a data privacy and cybersecurity standpoint.
What is the CCPA?
Officially called AB-375, the CCPA is designed to afford residents...

Money makes the world go around. Yet, despite a healthy economy and low unemployment, most Americans live on the brink of financial crisis. Studies show that nearly 40% of the population doesn’t have enough cash resources to cover an unexpected $400 expense, while a $1,000 emergency or a missed paycheck would push many Americans into debt.
Faced with such a predicament, most people have few options except to dip into their retirement accounts, borrow more money, cut household expenses, take a...

Ghostwritten article on financial literacy and wellness among youth for Denver Business Journal.

Technology platforms have the power to automate and streamline key business functions, freeing you to focus on high-value tasks. The question then becomes, should you build your own in-house platform or buy from a third-party vendor? Here’s a breakdown of the pros and cons to each, along with a few important considerations to take into account.
Building Your Software
Pros
Building your own technology platform makes sense in certain scenarios. For example, if you’re in a niche industry that is...

Mimicking reality is the latest frontier of cybercrime and it’s a growing threat. Cyber criminals are increasingly deploying AI and machine learning to fool unsuspecting victims into believing that they’re seeing or hearing something that they’re not--and pulling off deepfake scams in the process.
Deepfakes involve manipulation of video footage or voice cloning to make a person appear to say or do something that they never said or did. Here’s a deepfake video of Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg ...

Autodesk University 2019 drew more than 12,000 digital design professionals to Las Vegas for four days of sessions, certification, networking, and product showcases.
If you couldn’t make it this year, here’s a recap of some of the highlights, plus links to recorded sessions that you can now view on-demand for free.
Climate change took center stage
Autodesk CEO, Andrew Anagnost, used his keynote platform to reiterate the company’s commitment to climate change policy and developing technology t...

Although cloud adoption in government is growing, it can be a challenging technology to envision. Many cloud deployments don’t go as planned, take longer than expected to implement, or fail completely. In the private sector, studies suggest that 74% of those organizations that move an application to the cloud moved it back into their own infrastructure.
A lack of in-house skills, choosing the wrong cloud migration partner, adoption issues, security concerns, and a lack of ongoing technical su...

Cyber-attacks have dominated the headlines in the past decade; wreaking havoc with systems, holding data to ransom, undermining public trust in corporations and governments, and causing untold financial damage.
As security and business leaders prepare for a new year, let’s take a look at the top five cybersecurity threats and priorities they will likely face.
1. Election security will take center stage
If 2016 was a proof of concept for how elections can be manipulated, 2020 will prove to be ...

Today, 59% of data breaches originate with third-party vendors. And, as globalization brings more interconnected supply chains, that number is anticipated to grow.
Yet, even with vigorous security controls in place, the vast majority of organizations struggle with supply chain cybersecurity risk management.
A key challenge to managing third-party cyber risk is that everything is out of your direct control. How can you gain insight into your vendor's security posture so that you can make infor...