"The dirty little secret of cloud spend is that the bill never really goes down," says J.R. Storment, executive director of the FinOps Foundation. This quote was found in a recent ZDNet article espousing the ... Continue Reading

As we come to our 7th and final article in the HITRUST Certification series, we come to the last question: Is HITRUST Certification really necessary? Truthfully. No. "What?!? You just spent 6 other articles espousing what it ... Continue Reading

You have achieved HITRUST Certification. Great! But now the real hard part comes: adhering to your new policy. Do not underestimate the importance of this. HITRUST Certification follows a validated assessment every ... Continue Reading

If the first question when first considering HITRUST Certification is how much will this cost, the second question is how long will it take? It's a valid question. Any project you take on should ... Continue Reading

I have mentioned before (and will continue to) that HITRUST Certification didn't secure the system itself; rather, it codified and proved out the existing security apparatus. However, one could argue that it made the ... Continue Reading

"So how was the HITRUST Conference?" I asked the Network/Server Admin I tasked with the initial HITRUST requirement fact finding. "They expressed a lot of doubt that we were going to be able to do ... Continue Reading

Picking up on the theme from a few days ago, let's tell another story about a time I went head to head with an MCO and lost: HITRUST Certification. You might be beginning ... Continue Reading

Most of us would probably agree that the roll out of the COVID19 vaccine has been anything but stellar. The large task of developing a vaccine in a lot of ways went smoother ... Continue Reading

Thinking of selling your company in the near future? Great. It's an amazing time of your life. A lifetime of hard work culminating into a single event. Similar to a wedding, only this is ... Continue Reading

It may be because there is nothing on TV. It may just be general curiosity. Either way, I find myself consuming a bit more news than normal in these interesting times we ... Continue Reading

Core Values Series: This is the final of an eight part serieshighlighting the backstories to our core values When I was a boy my dad would ask, like most fathers, "how was school?" I'd ... Continue Reading

Core Values Series: This is the fifth of an eight part serieshighlighting the backstories to our core values Church was not part of my childhood. I started going in Middle School without my family ... Continue Reading

Core Values Series: This is the fourth of an eight part serieshighlighting the backstories to our core values It has been a joy living in four very distinct places in my life. The first ... Continue Reading

Core Values Series: This is the first of an eight part serieshighlighting the backstories to our core values My Grandfather - Bill Borgmann (#6) - played football for University of Michigan back in 1934. ... Continue Reading