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Luis Corrons says on our Network Security Edge site: Security experts estimate that Conficker, a particularly malicious worm, targeting MS Windows, has already infected more than 7 million computers around the world. Last year, there was much hype that the Conficker worm would cause an April 1 meltdown, although security researchers said such fears were […]

Top 10 Guidelines for Social Media Participation This handy template can ensure that your employees are making the most of their time on social media networks while not exposing your enterprise to liability or too much wasted productivity. Rather than devising policy documents from scratch, IT managers can use this handy template provided by Parry […]

Internet Postings Policy Having social media guidelines in place for your business makes such good business sense. Use these guidelines from Cisco Systems, Inc., to create your own social media policy to fit your business needs. In their “Internet Postings Policy” document, Cisco Systems clearly lays out the corporate stance on social media: “With the […]

Job Description: Migration Specialist Migration specialists assist new and existing customers with complex integrations and migrations of their web applications. The attached document is a typical job description for a Migration Specialist. The accompanying document was provided by IT Staffing and Tech Recruiting firm G.1440. Migration specialists assist new and existing customers with complex integrations […]

IT Business Edge’s Knowledge Network contains a robust  selection of book excerpts designed to help lighten the management load for IT  managers and decision-makers. From project and portfolio management, to IT department management, to measuring and managing performance, our high-quality  excerpts, provided by leading authors on the subjects, target critical  management issues. Get—or build on—your […]

When it comes to acquiring business intelligence (BI) capabilities, many small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have traditionally been at a disadvantage. They often cannot justify the large CapEx demanded of them, do not have the IT resources to run an on-premise database and server system, and are not sure that they have the breadth or […]

The midmarket CIO lives in a unique IT world. Most IT discussions focus on the trials and tribulations of enterprise IT executives that have huge staffs. But more often than not, the midmarket CIO is taking on many of the same challenges facing Fortune 1000 CIOs with staffs that consist of 10 or fewer people. […]

How to Manage Outsourced Projects Outsourcing presents a rising demand for project managers who have strong, proven project procurement skills. This how-to guide, provided by project management expert Michael Taylor, gives managers practical methods for handling challenging projects. In the past many corporations would downsize when the economy turned downward, and upsize when the economy […]

Facebook should have learned its lesson on protecting user privacy after the public outcry when it launched the Beacon targeted advertising program, or perhaps after the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and other stakeholders began contemplating online privacy regulations. Yet Facebook continues to hear from U.S. and European regulators, privacy advocates, and an increasingly unhappy user […]

One of the most heated debates in all of enterprise computing these days centers on the security of cloud computing. One IT camp argues that cloud computing is inherently more secure because of the ability to invest in all the policies and expertise required to make the overall IT environment secure. The other camp argues […]

New laws and regulations regarding data security breaches and disclosure laws affect the way in which nearly all organizations do business in the United States. This study, by Perimeter CTO Kevin Prince, provides a review of the scope and impact of data security breaches in an effort to encourage proactive modification to risk mitigation technologies, […]

The biggest challenge confronting most chief technologists today is how to fund the transition to new emerging technologies that are needed to enable strategic initiatives such as private cloud computing. As noted in a survey of 560 worldwide IT leaders and business executives conducted by Coleman Parkes Research on behalf of Hewlett-Packard, both business and […]