As the job market remains competitive, it remains a seller’s market. Roger L. Martin offers tips for managing top talent in the HBR article, The 3 Simple Rules of Managing Top Talent. Summary highlights follow. First-Class Service Martin’s advice begins with how you treat top talent. From the article, “First, treat star employees as individuals, […]
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Security breaches continued to grab headlines in 2018 at a staggering pace. The real losses, potential losses, and vigilance from both corporate and government entities are creating a lucrative, and important opportunities for staffing IT security professionals. What certifications are the most valuable to your career? Here are five you may want to consider. CEH […]
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One section of the SIMs survey discussed cyber security practices within the survey taker’s organizations. Out of the SIM members that took the survey, 45.82% of the organizations had a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) or equivalent position on board. This position takes into concern how information security affects legal requirements; thus taking accountability for […]
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Analytics/Business Intelligence/Data Mining/Forecasting/Big Data Data analysis, systems analysis, business analysis, and financial analysis are all very important factors within an organization. Having an educated team and the correct software, your organization can use data to predict demographic purchasing trends, financial forecasting, target key demographics with certain marketing, and many other things that can help your […]
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The Society for Information Management (SIM), was founded in 1969 and has been highly regarded as the premier network for IT leadership. SIM is a community of thought leaders who share experiences and rich intellectual capital, and who explore future IT direction. (www.simnet.org) The SIM survey was filled out by 1213 SIM members, which included […]
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October 21st, 2016 began as another innocuous day for many yet ended up as one of the largest Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks ever to be unleashed upon the United States. The route of the attack was unprecedented however, through many of the things we enjoy every day in our modern connected world. A […]
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What is a constant? In mathematics and physics a constant is a value that never changes. A sum or condition that exists across all other permutations of variables. In the Information Technology industry, constant is the most accurate way to describe security threats facing businesses around the world. Every day, twenty-four seven, security threats originate […]
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With the technology advances in the modern industry, we are seeing new and emerging roles that take on the ever expanding factors that relate to the business needs of an organization as it pertains to technology, information, and security (and any permutation thereof). We generally have the Chief Technology Officer (CTO), a Chief Information Officer […]
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Our industry has experienced many waves of change which brought opportunity to those who observed them and prepared. Examples of these surges of demand date from the early days of COBOL, to the growth and death of the mainframe, to local area networks and client-server systems, to the Internet, to the Cloud, and now, in my opinion, […]
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