In our first installment, we defined technical debt, its continuously rising importance and why all should care about its mitigation within business. In our second installment, we learned how to share ...

As the Trump administration pushes agencies to break down data silos, the IT officials leading the charge are grappling with a problem that has occasionally complicated matters: figuring out how to ...

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, today announced it has been named a Sample Vendor in the 2025 Gartner report titled “Reduce IAM Technical Debt” by Nat Krishnan and Erik Wahlstrom.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The critical nature and impact of technical debt on the business Why everyone should care about technical debt How difficult it ...

Technical debt is a concept most IT professionals are familiar with, but too often it is discussed primarily in terms of application code. Yet, databases are equally susceptible to technical debt, and ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna and two ...

The bigger the cybersecurity technical debt the bigger the risk of being exposed to security flaws. Experts share how to reduce the debt therefore reducing risk. Most veteran CISOs implicitly ...

Ask any development team about technical debt and you're likely to get a nod of recognition--followed by a shrug. It's a familiar term, but too often treated as a theoretical concept rather than a ...

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This paper explores where security debt comes from, how it grows, and its consequences when left unmanaged, and shows how visibility, accountability, and shared ownership can turn debt from a ...

Generally seen as difficult to measure, McKinsey’s Tech Debt Score is an easy way for organizations to quantify technical debt. Generally seen as difficult to measure, McKinsey’s Tech Debt Score is an ...