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Preparing for Unified Communications
Monday, October 20, 2008
The sensitivity of unified communications to network performance, especially delay and jitter, make monitoring the network infrastructure essential. Understanding how to effectively measure performance and manage these problems will allow your organization to realize the promises of UC. This article highlights considerations organizations should make when planning, deploying, and managing unified communications applications.
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Proactive eDiscovery: The Key to Reducing Litigation Risks and Costs
Monday, October 13, 2008
Companies that take charge by proactively managing enterprise information reduce litigation risk, maintain compliance more efficiently, and save a bundle in the process. This article explains, among other things, how few enterprises today have an intelligent information management strategy, a coherent and integrated way of organizing, retaining and deleting data. It cites the escalating costs (in unmitigated risk, legal fees, compliance judgments, and more) that such enterprises are vulnerable to. And it offers a number of specific, detailed steps that your corporate counsels and IT departments can take to dramatically cut risk, establish "best practices in information governance," optimize storage, and realize immediate returns on investment.
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Introducing a New Kind of Project Leader
Monday, September 01, 2008
The commoditization and specialization of project management functions are here to stay. It is not hard to imagine any project management function becoming specialized, leaving little for the project manager to do, except lead! To separate from the pack, you must move from tactic to strategic, from departmental projects to enterprise projects and programs, from tools and techniques to people and relationships, from manager to leader--a strategic project leader. If you are to survive and prosper in your project careers, you must redefine yourself--before others do it for you--as a critical component of your organization.
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Software Security Total Risk Management: Blueprint for Effective Program Development
Monday, August 25, 2008
In this article, Reed Augliere examines some of the major challenges of software security risk management and introduces the concept of Software Security Total Risk Management (SSTRM), an innovative programmatic approach by which enterprises can apply software security development and assessment best practices in order to meet the twin goals of enhancing business revenues and protecting against business losses.
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Seven Ways to Head Off Performance Issues at the Pass before They Poison Your Culture
Monday, August 25, 2008
We all know firing someone can be a dicey proposition. So, for your poor-but-does-not-yet-need-to-be-fired performers: what can you do, right now, to keep their below standard performance from snowballing out of control? Well, says Jennifer Forgie, managing partner at OnPoint Consulting, the first step is to take a hard look at the performance management system and determine whether it's really serving you. But here are some more specific tips for giving your "below standards" a performance boost.
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The Origin and Evolution of Bot Attacks
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
In this podcast, Ken Dunham and Jim Melnick, authors of Malicious Bots: An Inside Look into the Cyber-Criminal
Underground of the Internet, provide insightful background on the bot threat. They start with the HangUP Team and some of the early Russian actors as the precursors to so much of the Russian criminal hacking culture that uses botnets today. This leads to a discussion of DDoS attacks for hire. Finally, they analyze the 2007 attacks against Estonia and the recent Russian cyberassault on Georgia.
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Knowledge Is King for Software Licensing Negotiations
Monday, August 18, 2008
This article discusses ways to arm the CIO with accurate, timely information, so IT organizations can work at reducing software spending and mitigate the risk of software vendor audits in an industry where the vendor landscape and pricing models continue to evolve.
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Symantec August 2008 State of Spam Report
Monday, August 11, 2008
In the month of July, 78 percent of all e-mail was spam according to the August 2008 Symantec State of Spam Report. The most notable scams reported in the last month centered on the continuance of headline spam targeting presidential candidates and the 2008 Olympics. Symantec has also monitored a resurgence of spam preying on the economic downturn.
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Communications Data Retention: A Pandora's Box for Rights and Liberties?
Monday, July 14, 2008
This chapter from Digital Privacy: Theory, Technologies, and Practices discusses the retention of communications data as a security measure, which interferes with the right to privacy. Privacy is perceived not as merely a right possessed by individuals, but as a prerequisite for making autonomous decisions, freely communicating with other persons, and being included in a participation society.
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IT Security Report Finds Mismatch between IT Security Challenges and Solutions Deployed
Sunday, June 15, 2008
In a survey released today, business IT executives indicated their biggest IT security headaches stem from the significant number of employees who are using the Internet inappropriately, using unapproved software, and circumventing security infrastructure and policies. The report found a significant disparity between these IT headaches and businesses’ deployment of security solutions that could relieve them, such as Internet content filtering, network auditing, and visibility systems. Only 56 percent of respondents have Internet content filtering and blocking solutions in place, and just 40 percent employ network auditing and visibility systems. Additionally, respondents that reported having these solutions in place also reported a higher level of satisfaction with their end-users’ compliance.
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Eight Rules for Dealing with Employees Who Are Bringing Your Company Down
Monday, November 20, 2006
There are certain problems that most managers would like to avoid. Calling angry customers, for instance. Presenting
unhealthy sales numbers to higher-ups. And yes, dealing with those slow-moving, low-achieving, company-rule-breaking
employees known as poor performers. But Joanne Sujansky has a suggestion: take care of the latter problem and the other
two might just work themselves out.
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Developing Winning Book Proposals
Saturday, June 19, 2004
Keep in mind, several people with various agendas will read your proposal. Some will want to get a quick idea of what your book is about, while others will read every word. Although it's very important to be complete, you should start your proposal with a document no longer than a page that tells the whole story. It will set the context of your proposal for the editor, and it will provide more than enough information for the sales and marketing people. The following document outlines the key questions book publishers ask before they make a publishing decision. Regardless of how you organize your proposal, it should include answers to all the following relevant questions.
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Auerbach's Privacy Policy
Saturday, December 06, 2003
We take your privacy very seriously. Because we gather certain types of information about our users we want to help you
understand the terms and conditions surrounding the collection and use of that information.
This privacy statement discloses the types of information we gather, how we use it, and how you can correct or change it.
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