In the last article on serverless, I referenced the old ad in the New York City subways for a trade school. Their tagline was similar to, "technicians will always be needed, because things always will break." We technologists are familiar - intimately - with fixing broken things. Sometimes, it is our own software, devices or infrastructure; other times, it is someone else's. Either we have become responsible for it, or we need it to work under certain circumstances where it simply fails.

Yesterday, Vala Afshar tweeted out the following https://twitter.com/ValaAfshar/status/706678404884652032 ... to which Paul Graham of YCombinator fame responded: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/706710881652965376 I beg to disagree with Paul, but not how you would expect. One of the valuable intellectual behaviours one learns from studying Talmud is to analyze a situation from all directions, teasing out all potential logical explanations, no matter how strange or absurd they appear at first. If all of the following is true:

Today, we are honoured with the first of two guest posts in a series by Ted Lloyd, editor of OnlineCISO. Cybercrime has emerged as a multi-billion dollar business and spawned another mufti-billion dollar business to combat it. As 2014 closed, Gartner estimates that global spending on information security will top $71 billion representing a nearly 8% increase in spending over 2013. The trend and trajectory are expected to remain steady for 2015 as well.