In the 3rd Industrial Revolution, the mainframe was the biggest thing! Every business needed one, otherwise they wouldn’t have been able to survive. Decades later, they’re still among us and I just learned that research shows each human interacts about 14 times a day with such a mainframe.

Security is still one of the biggest concerns and reason why companies today are adopting the public cloud relatively slow.

It’s very important that we understand the differences between lawful access and unlawful access when it comes to the cloud. In short, lawful access is when the given party or government has the legal right to access data and under unlawful access the given party, government, or criminal just takes the data.

The cloud is the platform of the future. I strongly believe that every company & individual should embrace the new capabilities of the 4th Industrial Revolution. Because, “the future belongs to whom it takes it.”

To give you some perspective on the topic, I want to take you on a little trip through history.

We live in a mobile first, cloud first world. Mobility and the cloud has pretty much changed everything; how we work, where we work, how business interacts with customers and how we interact with our loved ones.

If you are a business owner or you’re responsible for the integrity and security of your business assets than you need to have an answer to the question:  “What is your security strategy in a mobile first, cloud first world?”.

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In light of my blog answering the question as to why I work for Microsoft, I felt compelled to share this video with you. It’s fair to say that Brad Smith has great presentations, but this one is the best one yet to me.

When watching it, I feel so motivated, energized, and excited to be a part of Microsoft. Not sure if it will do the trick for you, but I believe it’s time well spent.