Candidate searches in an IT environment often ask the question “What will the IT environment be like in 5 years?” Looking ahead in IT is nearly impossible, even 1 year is a challenge. I enjoy listening to the end-of-the-year radio shows where the tech commentators listen to their predictions from 12 months prior and comment on them. Most are quite funny. Could I have predicted the iPad or ubiquitous mobility 5 years ago? Let’s see what I was blogging about 5 years ago.
Turn on the WABAC machine and let’s see. It’s 2006. Pluto was demoted. iTunes store had sold 1.5 billion songs in 3 years (it was only 3 year sold). It’s up to 10 billion now. Daniel Powter was topping the charts with “Bad Day.” My blog posts were few but I was working on adding functionality to our moodle install as well as going to Educause nationals. My focus at Educause 2006 was an interplanetary Internet (a very good keynote), learning spaces were still hot, outsourcing resnet, posting more materials online causing an increase in printing volume, web 2.0 and CMS 2.0.
One of the enjoyable aspects of this blog is using it to gather and process topics I’m involved in at work. On my front burner right now: PCI-DSS. One of my colleagues has been working on this mostly and now I’m joining in.
What is it you ask? I’m sure you’re dying to know. It’s a set of requirements that anyone who processes credit cards must adhere to so that personal information and card information is protected. It was started in 2001 by Visa and Mastercard, then called Cardholder Information Security Program (CISP). It’s since expanded and became PCI-DSS and in 2010 PCI-DSS v 2.0 came out. One result of PCI-DSS is that receipts only should be showing the last 4 digits of your card number.