A new suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to rewrite notions of time and evolution.

But continual launches of new products and line extensions add complexity throughout a company’s operations, and as the costs of managing that complexity multiply, margins shrink.

At the same time, security budgets, approaches, and tools have remained static. As complexity rises, the risk of breach accelerates at approximately the same rate.

My fellow bloggingheads John Horgan and George Johnson took some time on their latest science talk to dissect my New York Times article on swarms (you can jump to that section here). John wonders ...

The ever-increasing complexity of data about IT environments is making it increasingly difficult for organizations to make effective IT decisions.