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Information Security Ethics
[2008-04-24] Interesting conversation over at Slashdot on the idea of senior management playing fast and loose with compliancy and systems/network audits. The idea of management dropping in their legal obligations as one thing, but as far as information security goes, this is not the first time, and not the last time that security by check box has been an issue.
New Students Don't Want IT Jobs
[2008-04-15] From cube farms, to narcissic personality disorder. From Outsourcing to psychopath managers, people who will never get it, budget issues where IT is always on the edge of the ax, finger pointing to downright hysteria over the latest to chase technology, somehow a free gourmet lunch just does not make up for the strangeness that is a job in IT.
Groundwork 5.2 Released
[2008-03-27] Groundwork, the provider of the open source based IT management and network monitoring solution, announced at OSBC the availability of GroundWork 5.2, a more scalable and extensible version of the product.
Security Engineers Giving Tricks Away
[2008-03-04] Should security engineers and people working in security be giving our tricks away so that anyone can find them on line and use them? This is a good ethical debate for security professionals to be having. There are a number of reasons why I think that security engineers should be openly talking about hackers, hacking, protecting your company.
Protecting Systems from "Malware as a Service"
[2008-02-28] Interesting new research was released today on Malware as a Service, with credentials stolen, and researchers cracking malware.
Where is Software Going this Year?
[2008-02-07] Thanks to my friends at IDC I got to attend an IDC Breakfast on their predictions for 2008.
Surviving the Death of Corporate IT Departments
[2008-01-22] If you have never heard of Nicholas Carr, make it a point today to go visit his blog, and go to Amazon to purchase his books.
If JBoss Developer Studio Support is Extra, What's in the Subscription?
[2008-01-10] By now you may have read my views on OSS 1 & 2.
Problems That Lend Themselves to EDM
[2007-12-17] I was talking with Neil Raden and Tom Davenport today on the subject of decisions - what are the various kinds of decisions and how do companies make them and think about making them.
From the SOA Consortium - IT Needs SOA Skills
[2007-12-13] I am attending the SOA Consortium meeting that is co-located with the OMG in Burlingame this week.
Virtualizing Data to Close the Gap Between IT and Business
[2007-12-12] he Issue: Business units are making decisions outside of IT in regards to Information Access applications and tools - and then expecting IT to quickly provision and support those applications.
Open Source TCO: Looking at the COSPA Frameworks
[2007-12-05] The EC funded COSPA project recently mentioned, defined frameworks to identify possible returns or losses of a transition to Open Data Standards or Open Source software.
Top 10 Information Security Issues
[2007-11-29] Top 10 lists generally help summarize things that people should be doing, or put in context issues and ideas that are going into a nicely bulletized set of things that a company can be doing to beef up their information security program or projects.
Identifying Top Talent in IT
[2007-11-27] It's still possible - Even in this highly competitive market.
MPAA University Toolkit for hackers
[2007-11-26] Probably the best holiday gift ever was presented by the MPAA today, and you can download it for free.
Leopard Directory Services - dscl & Related Commands
[2007-11-19] I was no great fan of Netinfo, and I think it's great that Apple has gone to XML driven Directory Services as a replacement.
IT Staff Must Adapt
[2007-11-08] This is not what you want to hear from anyone if you work in technology.
IT Horror Stories: Interviewing
[2007-10-31] I interview a lot of folks, I coach, I mentor, and I cull resumes with wild abandon.
Viable alternative to SCO OpenServer?
[2007-10-10] I was a little surprised by this Newsgroup thread that began with asking "With the chapter 11 filing and other recommendations, what is a good, long time viable alternative to SCO OpenServer? "
IT Analyst Firms Help in Purchasing Decisions
[2007-09-28] The Motley Fool has a pretty interesting article on IT analyst firms such as Gartner & Forrester.
Marketing IT Services
[2007-09-13] This month's BrandingWire challenge comes from the business to business sector. A small, Canadian IT services company (ITCo) wants to brand itself more effectively.
CMDB Dream Team
[2007-08-29] One of the issues dogging the CMDB hype cycle is the steep requirements for architecting and implementing such systems, even when based on vendor products.
The Evolving Domain Language of IT
[2007-08-23] One of the hallmarks of mature professions is that they have a clear and detailed language - a domain (or universe) of discourse or an ontology.
Souce Code's Value
[2007-08-09] In the past week I heard about two fairly large companies who are in a bit of a jam. Back in the days of the Internet Boom, they purchased an "E-commerce server" from one of two separate niche software vendors (i.e. ISVs).
What You Need to Know about the New Version of ITIL Methodology
[2007-07-11] The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) v3 was released in June 2007, seven years after the last critical ITIL methodology update.
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