Kevin Bohan

A career spent on the cutting edge of technology and its integration with business process. Kevin is currently leads product marketing for B2B technologies at TIBCO. He is the former SVP Global Sales/Marketing with Proginet prior to its acquisition by TIBCO. Kevin also served on the Board of Directors of OSINet Corporation, a non-profit standards based software association, and has served as Chairman of the North American Open System Implementers Workshop at the United Sates Institute of Standards and Technology. His standards work included work on directory services as well as the File Transfer Access and Management (FTAM) standard. Kevin loves American’s pastimes (baseball and football, of course). He also loves adventure and spending time with his family and lives in New York, New York.


Don’t be Held Hostage by Your Own Data

February 1, 2013 by 1 Comment
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Hackers With An Agenda

How much are you at risk of being held hostage by loss of your own information? What steps have you taken to make sure it doesn’t happen? This week we were given something to think about when hackers claiming ties to the group Anonymous hacked a U.S. government website in response to the death of Aaron Swartz, a well-known internet rights activist. Swartz’s recent suicide is widely thought to be linked to his financial burdens and the likelihood of prison time due to his publicly sharing copy-written academic journals.

Avoiding a Threat

In retaliation for what was perceived as overzealous prosecution, the activists from Anonymous embedded a video statement on the homepage of the United States Sentencing Commission. Among other things the hackers threatened the release of sensitive information relating to a number of U.S. judges. [Read more...]

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