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Tech career news this week included taking a fresh look at roles in cybersecurity, imagining what a day without data would be like, new hiring problems in Silicon Valley and more. Cybersecurity Hiring Hot – and Cool Hiring in security-related IT positions has been strong for awhile now, and Ben Johnson, chief security strategist with […]

The Nine Best Tech Jobs for 2015 When Cristina Dolan, MIT Media Lab Alumna and co-founder of OneMain, organized the first Dream It. Code It. Win It. competition in 2014, she ended up winning the Traders Magazine Charitable Contribution Award and an MIT Volunteer Honor Roll nod. Four of the 2014 teams of finalists went on […]

When reports came out last week that a breach of an unclassified but sensitive White House network was the result of spearphishing, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said in a speech that government officials and private businesses needed to teach employees what spearphishing looks like. Having been following the story closely, KnowBe4 CEO Stu […]

Tech career news this week included surprising sources of increased productivity, information on how to successfully interview a potential new boss for a good fit, and a huge acquisition in online education. Work Remotely, Be More Productive Employers are benefitting in so many ways by utilizing remote workers more often. A new survey by unified […]

Seven Ways to Improve Cybersecurity Through Behavioral Analysis Details released this week of a 2014 breach of a White House network described at the time as unclassified now suggest that the attackers were able to access sensitive information, including the President’s personal schedule. CNN reports that these same attackers earlier successfully hacked the U.S. State […]

Getting Ahead of Your Organization’s IT Skills Gap No matter the department or level within an enterprise that a graduate of the Yale School of Management MBA program may land, management of software development projects and developers will be a requirement. That is the thinking behind the addition to that MBA program of a Management […]

Eight Frequently Asked Job Search Questions With so much interesting career news this week, a roundup seems in order. These are highlights from IT Business Edge’s IT career coverage, plus other notable happenings. What Did You Just Say? Addictive career site Glassdoor’s lists of oddball interview questions are always popular. It’s comforting to know that […]

Seven Data and Information Security Mistakes Even Smart Companies Make The difficulties of crafting federal legislation that still has teeth after all parties have been heard is playing out in discussions of the most recent attempt at national data protection and breach notification legislation. First floated at the beginning of the year and hyped by […]

Five Secrets to Impress a Job Interviewer For at least a couple of years, the lack of qualified, experienced IT professionals ready to step in and get to work in health care organizations has been bad enough that management has reported delayed IT projects as a result. Many are focusing on in-house staff training strategies, […]

Beyond Protection: Security as a Business Enabler Keeping up with and fending off cybersecurity threats is a daily topic for all organizations, but for health care providers and systems, failure in that regard can result in much more dire results than a financial or reputational loss. It can result in bodily harm or death. It’s […]

The Nine Best Tech Jobs for 2015 The potential value in the Internet of Things (IoT) is bringing to a fever pitch the focus on data as one of the enterprise’s most valuable assets. Clearly, those who carefully collect, transform, analyze, model and report on IoT data are seeing their influence rise. As much of […]

Eight Critical Factors for Business Success The gloom and doom message around security is overwhelming for IT and end users alike, with new and larger threats announced weekly. And while maintaining awareness of what types of malware, phishing and other threats are being discovered – along with a healthy level of paranoia – is crucial […]