Kachina Shaw

Transportation firms, like airlines and trucking companies, are well-acquainted with weather-related costs, to the tune of around $3 billion and $3.5 billion, respectively, in the U.S. each year. And the total cost to the U.S. economy from weather changes could be as high as $534 billion annually, according to insurer Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty […]

The 21 Questions You Need to Ask in a Job Interview It’s not difficult to find articles and stats on the red-hot tech hiring going on, especially for developers with very specific skill sets and the stamina to apply them in an endless series of all-nighters. Mobile, data and security advancements continue to whip up […]

Too often, IT’s responsibility in compliance efforts turns into a repetitive, reactive stance, ruled by auditor demands, updates to regulations or tools, or any project that pops up to create a crisis-type demand for data. Just today, for example, IT Business Edge’s Mike Vizard reported on major changes to the PCI 3.0 specification that will […]

Five Tips to Keep the Best IT Staff on Board Employee evaluations are on the minds of many at year’s end. They’re in the news, as well, as Yahoo and Microsoft have both recently announced and begun to implement new performance review processes. Making for an interesting compare/contrast situation, the two tech giants are moving […]

The Most Famous Advanced Persistent Threats in History The ongoing shortage of qualified cybersecurity IT professionals is creating a set of problems that goes well beyond the immediate security of data and systems, according to everyone from the U.S. government to corporations like IBM. It is also inhibiting the effective adoption of key technologies in […]

News of another 250 job cuts by BlackBerry in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, hit today. While the 4,500 total job losses planned by the company will affect multiple cities in Canada and the U.S. to one degree or another, observers are debating whether Waterloo will be able to keep its standing as a tech hub. The […]

Eight Frequently Asked Job Search Questions Is an MBA one of the hottest degrees right now for ambitious professionals who want to work in innovative tech companies? The troubled finance sector is one factor in a growing stream of new MBAs heading toward the tech sector, according to The Wall Street Journal. Students from prestigious […]

The Six Deadly Sins of Project Management Leadership With all eyes on the unfolding drama of the disastrous rollout of the federal website for the administration of the Affordable Care Act, the value of IT project management is having a moment. The post mortem on this entire project would have been enormous even if it […]

Landing the Job: Five People to Include on Your Reference List Tomorrow, Tuesday, October 29, Atlanta will host JobMobile Atlanta, one of a series of career events being held across the country by TheLadders. The focus of the event is on how mobile staff recruitment is changing the hiring landscape. (Registration is available online.) TheLadders […]

IT Business Edge’s approach to user policy creation, for social media use or almost anything else, comes from an optimistic philosophy: Policies work when users are educated, informed and trusted to keep the organization’s best interests front of mind. The balancing act of user policies and technological controls works precisely, in fact, because employees primarily […]

Straight A’s for Determining Risk and Avoiding the Big F Privileged access. Privileged users. These words should make us all uncomfortable at this point. While IT, management and users are all bombarded with and distracted by daily news of new malware attacks or software vulnerabilities, the more serious threat to network security and data integrity […]

A rocky rollout of Affordable Care Act (ACA) health insurance services on HealthCare.gov has President Obama angry, and he has put IT on the case to fix the site’s issues, he said today. In fact, upon news of apparently widespread malfunctions with the site, private tech companies are “reaching out and offering to send help.” […]