Kachina Shaw

Looking to Change Jobs this Year? Read this First Corporate hiring managers, SMBs, government organizations and staffing agencies are currently all looking for IT professionals with Linux expertise, so Dice surveyed over 1,000 of them to find out more. The jobs site also surveyed over 3,400 Linux professionals around the world for its 2015 Linux […]

Cybersecurity is a priority for enterprise executives and their boards, but a serious disconnect also exists in the C-suite on what the risk priorities should be and why, according to recent research. Some of the gap can be attributed to the day-to-day focus of different executive functions, but much of it goes far deeper into […]

The Nine Best Tech Jobs for 2015 Security and compliance skills were named as the top IT skills that hiring managers will be seeking in 2015, according to a survey of 405 senior-level technology professionals conducted by Cybrary.IT from late 2014 to early 2015. And that’s good news for the fledgling cybersecurity training site, which […]

Listen Up CIOs and CISOs: Are You Ready for What’s Coming? What Anthem did or did not encrypt has been a topic of conversation ever since news of its massive breach of customers’ personal information broke last week. It appears that, in compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which doesn’t explicitly […]

Top Seven Priorities for IT in 2015 As awareness of the long-lasting consequences of data breaches grows, alongside the apparent inevitability of such events, more companies are seeking cybersecurity insurance, known also as corporate insurance. To learn more about what cybersecurity insurance can and can’t do to mitigate the damages to a breached organization, and […]

Millennials Expect Brands to Use Their Unique Data for Hyper-Targeted Experiences Everyone, it seems, is seeking market “influencer” status to enhance personal and organizational success. And marketers, especially content marketers, are seeking the influencers, in turn, to more effectively reach their audiences and their goals. For something that has become so universally pursued, the concept […]

Enterprise users of SaaS applications, both in IT and in the line of business, are fans because of the lower fixed infrastructure costs; faster and simpler deployments; and relief from constant managing, updating and patching of apps. Software is often more reliable, more up-to-date, and more directly accessible for users, without going through IT. Software […]

Looking to Change Jobs in 2015? Ten Things You Should Do Now At the same time that organizations take in the message that they better get serious about their cybersecurity policies and protections, some are finding that they need to hire staff, consultants or service providers who have the skills and the wherewithal to stay […]

A new massive open online course (MOOC) has launched for IT and cybersecurity students and professionals, the first to offer introductory and advanced classes in this subject area for free. Cybrary.IT aims to bring highly sought-after and crucial cybersecurity skills training to underserved individuals at no cost — and change IT and cybersecurity training in […]

Top 10 Career Resolutions for 2015 For most organizations, employees, or the human resources, account for the largest percentage of total costs. Northeastern University D’Amore-McKim School of Business Distinguished Professor of Workforce Analytics and Director of the Center for Workforce Analytics Dr. Mark Huselid says the workforce often represents fully 60 to 70 percent of […]

Six Data Breach Predictions for 2015 Thousands of SMBs are woefully behind in protecting the data they collect and sometimes store, and cybercriminals are loving it. With a relatively easy path to a data breach at one or more of these small to midsize businesses, hackers can gain access not only to that company’s stash […]

Workplace Productivity Killers — and How to Combat Them While attention is focused this week on the CES 2015 show in Las Vegas and all the new technology, gadgets and apps that may change the way we work in the near future, Pew Research has a reminder of the technology that we truly consider indispensable […]