Brian Greenberg
Brian Greenberg
@bjgreenberg@briangreenberg.net

Brian Greenberg is a technology and product leader, Forbes contributor, and is a member of the Forbes Technology Council. He lives in Chicago and has been working at companies of all sizes from the Fortune 100 to startups for over 30 years including international experience as an expatriate in Japan and Europe.

In addition to being part of the Adjunct Faculty in the College of Computing and Digital Media at DePaul University, Brian Greenberg is an award winning CIO & CTO, considered a dynamic, entrepreneurial, and visionary leader, accomplished at strategic planning, process improvement, product development, and reengineering of key business processes. Highly successful in achieving financial results through strong customer loyalty and long term relationships with suppliers and vendors. Ability to achieve business results through strategic application of technology to business challenges. Readily pursues “stretch goals”, not afraid to take risks, and is grounded in a strong teamwork approach. Regarded as a skilled communicator, team builder and negotiator who maximizes efficiencies and productivity through boosting employee morale and performance.

Brian Greenberg has expertise in digital transformation, automation, turnaround management, security, data storage, and data protection. He is also a storyteller and an improvisor in Chicago’s comedy community.

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  • Cyber Insurance And Reassessing The Cyber Business

    As incredible as it may seem, people have been getting insurance for thousands of years. The Code of Hammurabi, written in 1755 B.C., is the first known legal text to describe the concept of insurance. Today, people and companies alike purchase insurance to protect themselves from financial loss. It’s a way to manage the risk…

  • Entity-Level Encryption: The Only Defense Against Ransomware

    Ransomware is a grave threat to any business. It’s an incredibly complicated problem that traditional IT defenses have been unable to stop, and a single strategy cannot fix it.

  • Zero-Day Vulnerabilities: The Achilles’ Heel Of Business Technology

    Even the smallest unknown or unpatched computer vulnerability can be catastrophic to an organization and its customers.

  • To Delete Or Not To Delete — That Is The Question

    There seems to be confusion in corporate America about whether or not to delete data. On one hand, there are legal departments that advise keeping everything forever, and on the other are those that recommend deleting everything as a matter of policy as soon as possible — whacking away at files and folders on your…

  • Three Considerations To Help You Get A Grip On Your Data.

    Originally published on 1/8/18 at Forbes. Hacking is no longer new. It’s become a daily conversation in newsrooms and boardrooms everywhere; hacking and data breaches are the never-ending security story of the 21st century. Hackers illegally make their way into the computer systems of companies, hospitals, government institutions and our homes on a daily basis.…

  • Three Considerations To Help You Better Secure And Control Your Data

    Hacking is no longer new. It’s become a daily conversation in newsrooms and boardrooms everywhere; hacking and data breaches are the never-ending security story of the 21st century. To rise to this occasion, strong IT leadership is essential. Data breaches can happen at any moment, and we now need to assess the influx of increasingly…

  • Listen. Feedback matters.

    Look, I don’t want to be a beta tester, but if I must, because you’re unable to create a reliable product on your own, then you better put in a working feedback mechanism.

  • This is Inbox Hell.

    Warning! Don’t do it… don’t pick up your phone… don’t login to your computer… don’t do it! Next thing you know, you’ll be with me, in the depths of inbox hell. With all the email accounts, calendar invites, text messages, Facebook messages, LinkedIn messages, and everything else—I just can’t keep up with it all!

  • What’s your identity worth to you?

    Hacking is in the news nearly every day and people constantly reach out to ask me if their information is safe. Are they at risk? What can they do to be more protected? Should they get a VPN or use Tor? The best thing to do is to start simply. Begin with your passwords. Do…

  • Backup; the panacea for computer viruses and ransomware.

    Backup just may be the panacea for computer viruses and ransomware.

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