Harvest Now, Decrypt Later: Why Your Encrypted Data Is Already at Risk
Right now, a copy of your encrypted data may be stored elsewhere, outside your control. While it can’t be read yet, that assurance is temporary. … Read more
Greg Scandrett
The Question Every Executive Is About to Be Asked: Are We Quantum Ready?
For years, post-quantum cryptography was a topic for researchers and standards committees, something an executive could reasonably file under “important, not urgent.” That filing is … Read more
Does Your Legacy Software Have a Software Bill of Materials?
When regulators, customers, and insurers started asking for a software bill of materials (SBOM), most engineering teams had a confident answer ready for their newest … Read more
Private Equity Sits on a 9-Year Backlog
The Wall Street Journal published a number last month that deserves more attention than it is going to get. At the current pace of exits, … Read more
Why Legacy Modernization Keeps Failing the Same Way
Every modernization program starts with the same artifacts: a technology assessment, a target architecture diagram, a migration timeline, and a budget built around infrastructure and … Read more
You Don’t Need a Big Consulting Firm to Modernize Legacy Software
Somewhere in your organization is an application that only two or three people fully understand. It has been patched, extended, and quietly kept running for … Read more
The Deadline You Bought Two Years to Avoid
In 2027, the decision a great many organizations deferred comes due. The version of VMware they upgraded to specifically to buy time reaches the end … Read more
Your VMware Provider May Not Be There in 2027
Broadcom has narrowed the VMware partner ecosystem to a fraction of its former size. For organizations running on a hosted VMware environment, the question is … Read more
Do Your Legacy Systems Belong in the Secure by Design Conversation?
Regulators and security leaders increasingly expect software to be secure by design. The harder question is what that expectation means for the legacy systems quietly … Read more
Everything Was in Place. The Modernization Still Stalled.
We recently conducted an internal debrief with a software portfolio leadership team that had, on paper, done everything correctly. The modernization roadmap was defined. Funding … Read more
