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I’ve said it for a few years now, but host-based antivirus is really not working out anymore. Not with its reliance on signatures to detect malware. Recently, several prominent antivirus vendors have experienced problems with faulty virus definitions:
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Long ago, in days or yore, it was common to complain that most information technology leaders and staff were too focused on deploying cool technology just for the sake of technology rather than ensuring that there was valid business justification for
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Based on a number of surveys taken since the recent economic downturn began, it would appear that there is a fairly substantial disconnect between how employers and employees view the job market and the joys of employment. Within the past two years, many
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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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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 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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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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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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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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I just came across the following article while checking through my LinkedIn group discussions: Some IT Leadership Principles for CEO's & Business Leaders It is definitely a worthy read, and requires very little commentary. These simply
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There is an excellent discussion taking place on the LinkedIn group for CIO magazine under the heading of: Some thoughts on IT-Business Alignment from the Chase Zander IT Director Forum (as influenced by CIO Forum members) So far, there are over 35 responses,
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In 2009, there is no time to complain about how tight and unfair the job market is, or how hard it is to get a resume in the door. There is no more room for complaining about unqualified people using their personal or family connections to get into
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