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Starting a new position is always an interesting challenge, especially if you have a leadership role. It should go without saying that it is very important to start things off on the right foot. While it is possible to recover from all but the most egregious
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Online communities are an excellent way for people to interact with other individuals who they can help or who can help them. For business and technology professionals, they also represent a way keep an eye on trends and thought leadership within
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Google is in the news quite a bit, lately, but not all of that publicity is good… Google lists $350 fee for early Nexus One returns Update: Google may pull out of China because of cyber attacks Nexus One fiasco continues for Google Contrary to popular
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Yes, you heard me correctly… We still think about personal and corporate security only as an afterthought. Despite all the regulatory and industry compliance that has been created and updated in the past 15 years, as we close out this decade, we are hardly
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Earlier this month, I came across a provocative article in ComputerWorld that outlined some of the reasons why many organizations get inconsistent results from their Information Technology departments. Later, this article was made the source of
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The role of an organization’s technologists are to protect the technology and information assets of the company, while facilitating productivity to move the business forward. This is always a balancing act, as no technology department that I am aware of today has anything resembling an unlimited budget.
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The prevailing wisdom says that technology is supposed to be getting simpler all the time. This belief appears to be pervasive with many corporate leaders who insist that there should be less of a need for expensive technology experts in an organization
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There are several major challenges to the successful implementation of good information security in many organizations today. It is not because business owners do not think that security is important. No, the issues exist because they do not
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There used to be a time when most IT recruiters were pretty capable and diligent about their craft. Many of them had come from the IT ranks themselves, and understood the technology enough to be able to get good job requirements from employers.
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I recently read an article by Meg Guiseppi entitled, “ 14 Reasons I Won’t Follow You on Twitter ” , and I found that I shared many of her views on what constitutes a good network connection on Twitter . In my case, however, I am a member of multiple social
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It has long been accepted that Information Security should be implemented in layers: Defense in Depth . The idea being that you should add overlapping protection mechanisms to either stop or slow down an intruder. To use a simple analogy, if you
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Lately, I’ve been getting lots of good ideas for blog entries from my participation in various LinkedIn group discussions . One recent topic was about what IT should focus on in any organization. Another was about whether we should
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For many years, there’s been an interesting joke that the CIO position is a dead-end role. Some have even suggested that the acronym means C areer I s O ver. Recently, I have even seen several LinkedIn discussions that have insinuated that if a
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Everyone wants to see the economy recover, and they’re suggesting all sorts of ways that it can get back on track. As I read the following article from MSN about the fizzled stock market rally , it occurred to me that there are two key points about an
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I just finished reading a provocative Computer World article about the PCI compliance process, entitled “Will the Real Enemy of Security Please Stand Up?” , and it highlights a common misconception about the role of auditing and auditors in the compliance
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