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200911 ArchiveNovember 2009
Today I'm working on the Integration of IBM's Cryptography solutions for long term archiving in Content Management Solutions like FileNet Image Services. The idea is to encrypt confidential documents on the desktop using SFED (Secure File Encryption for Desktops) and than post them to the Document Archive. This design poses many organizational questions : What if the person who encrypted the file forgot the password ? In that case, there are two main possibilities: 1. Use a Password Store or 2. Allow for password recovery. An Administration Interface allows to recover the password. This requires, in addition to the technology, a strong real life procedure such that the password recovery tool isn't misused. In SFED, the Security Domain of the documents determines if password recovery is possible or not. What garantees that one can decrypt the document within 10 years from now ? The combination of the use of encryption standard like Encryption AES, HMAC-SHA-512 or PKCS#12 and IBM's promises to stay in Business... How to avoid that people use the same password for unrelated files ? (If this password would be revealed for a file, all the other files would be at risk) This is an organizational and security governance issue... You need to learn your end users not to put their passwords on a post-it on the workstation's desk. Security is not only technology... ?What will you do next year ?? is the main question I have to answer these days. Last Tuesday (Nov 17th 2009) I got the approval from IBM that my sabbatical leave has been approved. Therefore, in 2010, I will not go to work as usual. So, this week I met many people who have heard that I'm having a year off. Their main concern is ?What will you do ?? but also ?Will you be back in 2011 ?? . As the Black Eye Peas would sing, I have a feeling that 2010 is gonna be a good year. What will I do ? I will have 3 main objectives in 2010: 1. Business I will work on the opportunity of starting a business in the field of ePaper. Concretely, there are many activities I want to undertake around ePaper
2. Sport Together with my friend Laurent Saublens, we decided to get to the top of the Mont Ventoux by bike. I hope he didn't forget it because I want to take up the challenge. 3. Free Time For the first time in my life, for one year, I will have no agenda, no obligation. It will be an interesting experience. It might sound crazy but I want to truly understand what I will choose to do of my free time when facing an empty agenda. Here is what I believe I will do:
And I'have just been told there is an additional objective: 4. Spoil my wife who deserves it (which was actually proposed by... my wife who was reading over my shoulder. But ok. Fair enough). So, Will I come back (to IBM) ? It will mainly depend on the successful execution of my business plan. If I'm happy being an independent entrepreneur, I will probably not come back to IBM. If on the contrary I'm not happy with the experience, I could come back to work for the Large Company. I don't know yet today. No rain coming on the Buienradar (http://www.meteox.be/) so let's go for 1H Mountain Bike...
(from Twitter) The good news is that yesterday IBM approved my sabbatical year in 2010.
(from Twitter) Great news for 2010 today !
(from Twitter) Installing the Devoxx - Conference Guide for Android « Conference Guide Blog http://bit.ly/nymt0
(from Twitter) Photos et Vidéos du Weekend familie Declercq http://bit.ly/K6NrZ
(from Twitter) Today most technological companies are faced wihth the same problem : the explosion of technologies. In the past there were maybe only 2 or 3 possible technologies for solving a specific problem. Today you have 10. For example, in the 80s most of programmers in large companies would work on the IBM Mainframe. Today, there are several populations : J2EE, Oracle, Microsoft, open source, Web... You only have to look at the agenda of next week's devoxx conference to get an idea of some recent technologies which didn't exist 10 years from now. As a result of this explosion, IT skills have to evolve. IT people have to deal with going out of their comfort zone. Here is what I identify as key skills for the future IT professionals:
RT @numerikbook: Une image prise sur le vif, en fin de journée, dans le métro, vaut mille mots numériques ! http://bit.ly/3QmxKJ
(from Twitter) LOL ! Lawyer: "Have you lived in this town all your life?" Witness: "Not yet." http://bit.ly/2vr9h1
(from Twitter) Pas mal... mais un peu trop soft à mon goût. RT @mulkers: super morceau http://bit.ly/3PtOoP
(from Twitter) Les cons, ça ose tout. C'est même à ça qu'on les reconnaît.
http://bit.ly/LckfH
(from Twitter) http://twitdraw.com/orbv12 Le ciel (par Thomas) #twitdraw
(from Twitter) "Le Digital Native déborde d'idées, il est ambitieux, imaginatif et multitâches. Il aime travailler en équipe, tout en ressentant un fort besoin d'autonomie et d'indépendance. Il a tendance à rejeter l'autorité, mais accepte la compétition." Ouille, ca me fait penser a quelqu'un... Source : Brainsfeed : (réflexion) > Les Digital natives: une nouvelle génération d'employés |