Although my first of my three meetings started at 7:30 am, my day actually started three hours earlier with light Things To Accomplish. Suffice it to say that the Bredemarket blog will have daily content until Monday, August 4.
I took a mid-afternoon break before my third meeting, the Inland Empire BizFest in Montclair. I wrote about that here and here, plus on the Bredemarket socials.
Log those business miles.
In fact I knew I would be so busy today that I declined a personal invite at 10 this morning. Good thing I declined, because I was neck deep in a requirements workbook (yeah, Microsoft Excel again) for a Bredemarket client’s end customer. (Can you say TOT? I knew you could.)
Anyway, I left Montclair Place before 7:30 pm and called it a night after a long day.
Thankfully the first day of August only includes a single meeting.
In my work for a Bredemarket client I’ve explored taxonomies for digital assets. But I’ve never explored taxonomies for cybersecurity controls as Erich Winkler just did.
In fact, Winkler categorized cybersecurity controls in two ways: the “how” and the “why.”
“By understanding the different types of controls, you’ll be able to make more informed decisions about which ones are best suited for specific situations.”
Winkler identified six different “why” control types:
Preventive.
Detective.
Corrective.
Deterrent.
Recovery.
Compensating.
For definitions of these six “why” control types, his three “how” control types, 3000 words worth of pictures, and some examples, read Winkler’s Substack post. And if you’re brave, take the quiz.
Winkler sums everything up as follows:
“By now, you understand that cybersecurity isn’t just about buying the latest tools. It’s about knowing why you use them and how they work together.”
Winkler writes expertly on cybersecurity. But if you can’t get him, and you need someone to work with you to create content for tech marketers, turn to Bredemarket.
I recently downloaded an ebook from Canto entitled “The ROI of DAM: How to Prove the Business Value of Digital Asset Management.” If you would like to download it also, visit this page.
Why do you need to manage digital assets? Because if your company has thousands or millions of digital assets, individual ones will be so hard to find that you’ll start adding an “N” to the “DAM” acronym.
Canto argues that its digital asset management solution delivers positive ROI by the following:
Saving time and reducing waste
Accelerating speed to market and improving content quality
Reducing asset production costs
Boosting revenue with brand consistency
Minimizing business risk
The ebook quotes some numbers: $20,000 savings here, more savings there.
Of course, Canto isn’t the only DAM in town, as my former coworker Krassimir Boyanov will not hesitate to tell you. Krassimir heads KBWEB Consult, a boutique technology firm that provides consulting services for Adobe Experience Manager users.
In July 2024, IDC examined the business value of Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Assets. Based on interviews with AEM Assets customers, IDC concluded that the interviewed customers could realize an average annual cost saving of $9.04 million per organization. These cost savings came from multiple sources:
Reduced risk of using out-of-date/unapproved assets (52%)
Reduced risk of accidental disclosure of assets (27%)
Reduced spending of duplicative (62%) or unused (40%) assets
Reduced agency spending by completing work in-house (24%)
Reduced go-to-market time (55%)
Reduced time for content to go from creation to production (47%)
Reduced time for content in a new form factor (39%)
Reduced time to create a new digital asset (66%)
Reduced time to repurpose an existing digital asset (73%)
Reduced time to create a rendition of an asset (60%)
Those are some DAM good numbers. And KBWEB Consult (and IDC) didn’t gate them.
Tech marketers, do you have similar return on investment numbers you would like to share with your end customers? Bredemarket can help you share those numbers. Talk to me before your competitors return YOUR investment to THEM.
The end of the month will go out with a bang for Bredemarket.
I have three meetings today: an early morning meeting that includes a client and the client’s end customer, an internal client meeting, and the Inland Empire BizFest in Montclair. (California, not New Jersey.)
Plus I have to support a fourth meeting that I will not be attending.
I hope this indicates a busy August for Bredemarket.
But if you want to get on my calendar, fill out the meeting request on my “Content For Tech Marketers” page.
“A reported passkey vulnerability has been walked back, and FIDO is recommended as the fix to the vulnerability of “phishable” MFA wreaking havoc on corporate networks around the world.
“The PoisonSeed attack reported by security company Expel earlier this month does not give access to protected assets, if the FIDO Cross-Device Authentication flow is properly implemented.”
Proper implementation and configuration is essential.