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82% of data breaches due to staff errors; 4% of IT trusts users; IT is still to blame

Posted April 19, 2012 - 11:33 am

Only 4 percent of IT people surveyed by Sophos trust end users, and with good reason. Eight of 10 data breaches are due to their mistakes. Less than half of IT organizations even teach users about basic security and even fewer encrypt the data being lost. You decide who's to blame.
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Embrace your dormant skills and abilities

Posted December 12, 2011 - 5:00 pm

As you grow professionally you will find the need to learn new skills. Some of these skills, of course, will be technical in nature. Other skills, however, may be totally outside your technical areas of expertise.
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Stop insider data thieves: Forget profiling, keep an eye on the grumps

Posted December 8, 2011 - 1:20 pm

Insider data theft isn't sudden or impulsive according to a new study. Disgruntled techies who think the company is persecuting them, stealing their ideas and are badly mishandled by managers who don't see a problem or overreact when one arises make a volatile combination.
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Facebook’s fake friends epidemic

Posted June 28, 2011 - 12:30 pm

A few weeks ago I got a Facebook friend request from a cute young blonde thing named Marjorie. I did not know Marjorie from Adam, but she was certainly enthusiastic about friending me. She even initiated a chat session before I had a chance to respond.
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Survey shows IT still focused on the wrong issues about cloud

Posted June 24, 2011 - 3:29 pm

Surveys differ on whether cost or flexibility is the main driver behind cloud adoption, when the real reason for it is to stay ahead of end users who are adopting it whether IT wants them to or not.
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Cloud isn't making IT irrelevant; IT is doing that itself

Posted June 21, 2011 - 12:31 pm

Let users avoid internal IT; they'll still have to deal with IT at a SAAS or cloud provider, and halve less leverage to get what they want, one reader commented. Yep,and whose fault is that?
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Competition crowns nation's funniest compliance officer

Posted June 15, 2011 - 11:53 am

Recruiter Howard-Sloan crowned a pharma exec nation's funniest compliance officer after a competition pitting the standup of six of the most hilarious stewards of corporate governance.
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Gartner thinks you should play more games at work

Posted May 6, 2011 - 12:00 am

Gartner predicts half of all organizations responsible for innovation will use "gamification" as a way to encourage fresh ideas and teamwork. What the heck,it worked on the playground.
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Failure to see eye-to-eye with users about cloud could mean tough times for IT

Posted April 15, 2011 - 11:58 am

Cloud computing looks like a perfect, low-cost IT solution, at least to business managers, who are increasingly unhappy with IT for not giving them what they want, Accenture report shows.
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Salary survey shows IT losing money, respect, and career prospects

Posted April 5, 2011 - 1:41 pm

Levels of dissatisfaction are rising, along with the pressure to do more with less, and the number of colleagues getting raises while most others do not.
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Consumerization of IT - good, bad, or just the way things are now?

Posted February 24, 2011 - 6:15 pm

Consumer technology has become a staple in today's workplace. Android phones, iPad, netbooks, social media - you name it. Managing these technologies is part of IT's responsibilities today and it isn't easy to say whether this shift has been overall good or bad for IT departments.
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7 Things CEOs want in a CIO

Posted February 23, 2011 - 2:02 pm

CEOs know IT can be a rocket boosting a good business, or a rock holding it down. They know what they want in a CIO, but you probably don't.
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IT leaders must give CEOs bad news the way doctors deliver colonoscopy results

Posted February 22, 2011 - 4:09 pm

Harvard Business Review columnist and computer information systems professor Robert Plant proposes a "system for speaking IT truths to CEOs."
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Cool third-party cloud security apps miss one big problem

Posted February 16, 2011 - 1:51 pm

Third-party security and management tools make cloud computing easier; they don't make organizational or policy issues easier to overcome.
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IT hiring may be back on track, but Santa is out of luck

Posted December 20, 2010 - 11:46 am

Surveys predict IT hiring will be far higher than other job specialties in 2011, though some employment questions remain. Why can good Santas not find a job?
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WikiLeaks signs its own death warrant with threat to businesses

Posted December 2, 2010 - 1:05 pm

Real data-loss prevention is a political as much as a technical problem; the WikiLeaks example and its threat to dish on corporations makes a good case to help IT address both.
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How to extract your LinkedIn contacts

Posted October 14, 2009 - 4:38 pm

A new service from Open Xchange allows you to both import and export your contacts and collaborate on calendars and documents across the Internet, all using open source.
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How to use Twitter-like services for online discussions

Posted September 16, 2009 - 8:43 am

Twitter can be useful to build quick and dirty intranets, or set up real-time status updates without having to maintain an Instant Messaging desktop client running in the background. But it doesn't always fit in with enterprise IT needs, and here are a bunch of different products that can work in these situations.
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