Quality Management has four components: quality planning, quality, assurance, quality control and quality improvement. This article will analyze quality assurance and quality control. Before my many years in the quality assurance and quality control arenas, I assumed they were the same. I could not have been more wrong. I did not realize there are clear…
Fraud and other cyber-crime incidents always spike around popular sales events – holidays, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and Memorial Day are some of the best times of the year for fraudsters. People are busier than usual making personal arrangements and preparing for those blockbuster sales everyone loves. As a result, things get missed, corners get…
Back in June of 2016, I was preparing to start work, as any normal day when I heard it. Someone driving a Tesla Model S was killed when the autopilot in their car failed to “see” a tractor-trailer in front of it. I didn’t even know we had achieved self-driving yet! It turns out that…
This will not be an exhaustive list, because your site/app is likely highly unique. This is intended as a periodic reminder that revalidating, retooling, resetting, and refreshing your site/app is a continual process, and there are many things along the way that can impact your site/app. Taking a special “timeout” to focus on spring cleaning…
There is absolutely no doubt that COVID changed the world for nearly every inhabitant of the globe. In history, no event touched the global population so deeply, not just in health, but in all areas of life. It happened on a real time stage with web and mobile technology available to bring instant access to…
It feels like a cyberattack of some kind is constantly in the news – hackers stole sensitive information from this credit card company or all client data was stolen from that bank. Unless the attack directly impacted you – personally or your business – it just becomes background noise in the sea of headlines. However,…
It feels like a cyberattack of some kind is constantly in the news – hackers stole sensitive information from this credit card company or all client data was stolen from that bank. Unless the attack directly impacted you – personally or your business – it just becomes background noise in the sea of headlines. However,…
In the decade since web-capable smartphones came into prominence, mobile web use has skyrocketed at a consistent rate. Mobile devices account for over half of web traffic worldwide, and with the convenience, accessibility, low barrier to entry, and near-ubiquity of modern smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices, that number can only be expected to increase. As…
We all make mistakes. Mistakes are a huge part of how we learn. For corporate security, the human factor is your biggest problem. Offices, computers, communication systems, etc can all be locked down as tight as possible and, still, one careless action can bring it all crashing down. Human error is the main cause of…
As a modern user on the web, we tend to expect a few basic things out of each website we interact with; security and performance. If we are doing online shopping and are required to enter personally identifiable information like your home address, social security number (in rare cases) or your credit card information, we…
