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Learn To Hack -- Ethically!

Posted by Keith Ferrell 04:37 PM ET | Feb 21, 2008

Know your enemy means knowing how your enemy works. That's the philosophy behind McAfee's Foundstone Professional Services Ethical Hacking course. You, too, can learn how to find and exploit network vulnerabilities -- but only if you pledge to use the knowledge for good.

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Survey: 40 Percent Of You Still Think Your Networks Are Insecure (And You're Probably Right)

Posted by Keith Ferrell 09:34 AM ET | Dec 14, 2007

And most of the rest of you continue to leave endpoints unguarded, according to a new survey of small and midsize businesses.

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SANS Says You And Your Employees Are Top Security Risks. Ya Think?

Posted by Keith Ferrell 02:58 PM ET | Dec 4, 2007

Computer security trainer SANS Institute came out with its top threats of 2007 recently, and guess what? You're on the list, and so are your employees; so am I, and, probably, so is everybody we know and most of the people we don't.

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Security Training: Take This Job And Secure It!

Posted by Keith Ferrell 09:27 AM ET | Nov 6, 2007

Did you hear the one about the technology that was changing the way people do business? The one everybody wanted but nobody wanted to learn how to use safely?

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Business Security Requires Network Security Requires Employee Security Requires Job Security

Posted by Keith Ferrell 11:27 AM ET | Oct 8, 2007

The employee security I'm talking about here is your technical team's -- and your ability to hold onto them.

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Network Security Problems? Blame The Boss!

Posted by Keith Ferrell 01:04 PM ET | Oct 4, 2007

A recent pre-prison interview with a convicted hacker offers some surprising and important lessons in network and computer security.

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Consumers May "Get" Cyber Security -- But That Doesn't Mean They've Got It

Posted by Keith Ferrell 10:52 AM ET | Oct 3, 2007

More than 90 percent of consumers think their PCs -- and their computing habits -- are safe. Half of them are wrong.

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Disaster Recovery: Plan for Recovery, Not for Disaster

Posted by Keith Ferrell 10:27 AM ET | Sep 27, 2007

So many elements to business IT operations -- so many elements that can get sliced, diced, slammed, flooded, flamed, hacked, attacked, smashed and just plain hammered that your disaster recovery plan has to be universal to be effective.

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Some Total! Calculator Whiz Smokes Competition

Posted by Cora Nucci 11:04 AM ET | Sep 13, 2007

Why is America losing the accounting wars? Outdated software? Slow servers? Legacy reporting systems? Wake up, people. It's because our business schools don't teach students how to add columns of numbers as quickly and accurately as the young woman in this video clip from Japan.

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IT to Execs: Go Back to School

Posted by Cora Nucci 08:14 AM ET | Sep 7, 2007

Steve Andriole, a professor of business at Villanova University and contributor to Datamation, ruffled executive feathers last month with Ten Things the IT Department Should Tell Management. Readers from the management ranks "argued that while being a smart ass was entertaining, it wouldn’t sell on mahogany row."

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