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Employees can pose security threats to your enterprise IT infrastructure through mobile devices such as smart phones and laptops, as well as the various networks and applications with which their unsecured devices are liable to interact. Enterprise IT administrators, network administrators, and enterprise security workers and consultants should be aware of these security risks.
The Password Paradox
The Password Paradox states that most security professionals try to increase the security of their enterprise applications with more and more passwords. The problem is that with too many passwords users can't remember them all, and they end up calling up the help desk, which drains productivity, or writing them down in an insecure manner. After a point, says Bill Carey, vice president of marketing at Siber Systems, systems will end up being less secure. Find out more in this IT Link podcast.
It's Just Business, Personalized
AMR Research president and CEO, Tony Friscia, and research director Rob Bois discuss how Web 2.0 technologies such as wikis, blogs and social networks are changing the face of customer management.
Staying Ahead of the Security Curve
As more security tasks such as patch management migrate to managed services, solution providers have to meet the challenge of staying up to date with new technology, says Matt Mosher, senior vice president of sales for Lumension Security.
Better Careers: Wanted, Business-savvy techies
It’s no longer enough for a programmer to be just a programmer; in today’s multi-function world, even techies need to possess more of skills traditionally associated with other business functions—skills like strategic thinking and interpersonal communication.
IT spending growing faster in smaller companies
Companies with less than 1,000 employees are weathering the economic downturn better than their larger counterparts, according to a study from AMI Partners.
How to Defend Security amid Budget Tightening: Four Approaches
The biggest threat to a company's security might not be hackers and thieves, but its own budgetary process. nCircle Vice President Elizabeth Ireland explains how to address that tough hurdle.
It's All About Efficiency
Costs of fuel and power consumption hurt everyone in this economy.
Dell Crafts Security Services for Laptops
The new security and recovery services are targeted at Dell laptop users who take their notebooks on the road and the IT managers charged with protecting data.
Lenovo Eyes Consumers with New Desktop
While the market for desktops continues to fall, Lenovo is looking to make inroads in the U.S. consumer market to go with its business-class PC efforts.
Symantec Builds Out DLP Technology to Aid Data Discovery
Symantec adds native support for SQL databases in a push for Storage DLP.
How to Defend Security amid Budget Tightening: Four Approaches
The biggest threat to a company's security might not be hackers and thieves, but its own budgetary process. nCircle Vice President Elizabeth Ireland explains how to address that tough hurdle.
Free software, big value
Today, some free software is so reliable, feature-rich and easy to use that it compares quite favorably with software sold for hundreds or even thousands of dollars.
Free, cheap software comes of age
Free and low-cost software has gotten a bad rap over the years. While some of it well-deserved—they all can’t be gems—free software has improved so much that even mid-sized companies might consider giving it a try.
Cutting IT costs the smart way
You’ve heard it before, and you’ll hear it again: Find a way to cut IT costs. Chances are, you’ve already taken a stab at it. Most companies, for example, have implemented some sort of server consolidation or virtualization to simplify management, reduce power and cooling, and increase capacity utilization. Others have chosen to put off new projects or hire new staff. But clearly, that’s not enough.
Lenovo Offers Cheap ThinkPads
Less expensive ThinkPad notebooks are geared toward businesses with fewer than 100 employees and limited IT staffs.
IM in the workplace: Productivity gain or drain
Face it, experts say: IM is a fact of life for the workplace. Not only do employees expect it, but used properly, it can provide a lot of value to the business.
Moving your financials into the 21st century
You hear it all the time: & Our financial processes are unique& . & Nobody can do it as well as we can, because we know the subtleties and intricacies of our business& . & What we have isn’t elegant but it works, so why change it?& While these adages may be common, they are usually wrong, experts say, and can lead to bad decisions.
Caution: Growth Ahead
When companies are small, they can often get away with the minimum when it comes to technology, like consumer or SOHO-oriented software, a handful of networked PCs and a single server, and a jack-of-all-trades tech employee who probably also does the books. But if the company is doing well, inevitably, it will grow--not only in terms of revenue, but in terms of employees and complexity. And that means technology has to take a leap as well.
Increasing website profitability
With websites being such an integral part of business today, you would think that companies would do whatever they could make them pay off.