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Forget systems … it’s your own people who are your greatest security threats. Luckily, and with training, they can also be your first line of defense.
Experts in sales, marketing and customer relationship management share their thoughts regarding which CRM features and trends will be the most buzzed about in the year ahead.
Within most large organizations – as well as smaller businesses – time and resources are in short supply yet high demand, making project selection more difficult. Evaluating and prioritizing projects can be complex, but this vital first step can nega
Microsoft’s support for SQL Server 2005 ends in April and just like with Server 2003, you should take the end-of-life announcements from Microsoft seriously.
The days of running roughshod over IT is over. Learn the correct steps to create a collaborative environment.
CIOs and tech pros may wish Apple took a more traditional approach to IT support, but the fact is the company has reason to maintain a degree of separation — and it may never truly embrace enterprise.
A full system replacement can be costly and difficult. But for one Vermont insurance company, ditching stodgy technology opened new business opportunities.
More than 50 percent of post-9/11 veterans will experience a period of unemployment after they return from service. Here are four organizations leveraging IT to help military veterans find employment.
An IDG Enterprise survey of IT buyers indicates that, on average, more than half (56 percent) of a company's IT environment will be hosted in the cloud by the end of 2016, up from 44 percent today.
Honesty can still be the best policy, but there are some precautionary measures to take.
Onboarding new employees is vital if you want them to stick around, but it's also time-consuming and expensive. Tasytt looks to eliminate some of the burden and cost associated with this critical process for new employees.
If you can only have one, you’ll want to check out these reasons for choosing the iPad Pro over the MacBook – and vice versa
Tomorrow's IT projects will use rapidly assembled casts of specialists, with a digital strategy officer role emerging to take the lead as the project producer and director.
Do as I say, not as I do: Admin mistakes often surpass the severity of those made by users. Here are 10 of the most common -- and their remedies
The latest upgrade to Windows 10 offers a variety of fixes and tweaks -- and misses a couple of major ones.
Businesses are increasingly finding IT talent in the Silicon Prairie -- outside of the traditional tech hot spots of California and New York City.
Synack, a company founded by former NSA analysts, attempts to leverage the best of man and machine approaches to provide enterprise cybersecurity protection.
Email overload is a fact of daily business life. Or is it? While plenty of applications promise to help you manage the morass of messages munging up your mailbox, these five may actually deliver on those promises.
While most companies have processes in place for managing administrative and other privileged accounts -- the sorts of credentials frequently used in high-profile data breaches for the past several years -- most do a poor job of enforcing those proce
Forrester Research predicts large enterprises will shift their focus to public cloud vendors in 2016. It also warns that the market will consolidate around industry stalwarts and IT pros should reformulate their cloud decisions accordingly.
Good things may come in small packages, but microservices can present big challenges for software application design. Here’s how to make the most of modular design without sweating the small stuff.
The severe shortage of cybersecurity talent is leaving the U.S. vulnerable to attacks. Women, in particular, are key to closing both the security skills gap.
Enterprise apps are becoming the norm in the workplace, but too many are unappealing to employees. Here are the most important items to consider if you want to build compelling internal mobile apps.
From unstructured data mining to visual microphones, academic labs are bringing future breakthrough possibilities to light
For many IT organizations, a hybrid IT environment made up of multiple cloud and on-premises applications is inevitable. But it requires new people, processes and systems to manage effectively. HotLink CEO Lynn LeBlanc shares experiences from her ear
An interview with the author of "Lights Out"
Many IT pros feel more secure today about their career prospects, but some roles are still extremely stressful.
Who has it, who wants it, who gets it?
The capability to profile potential cybercriminals, along with the implementation of chip-and-pin credit cards, may produce a reduction in the amount of money lost to online fraud each year. But that doesn’t mean the threat will go away entirely.
Long autonomous, IT and operations are now forced to work together, spurred by increasingly complex digital devices that pose fearsome cybersecurity threats.
In a world of bland resumes, color, graphics and creative formatting will get you noticed. But how much is too much? Award-winning resume writer and career coach Donald Burns helps one client successfully add personality in this month's makeover.
A third of data center servers are not productive. Here's why the problem exists, and what to do about it.
Research from PwC and Iron Mountain reports some surprising statistics about how companies are using the data they collect.
CIOs are scrambling to purchase cyber-insurance, but the need may be outpacing a market that continues to evolve in the face of significant cyberattacks.
Forget Nigerian princes -- today’s spearphishing is sophisticated business, fooling even the most seasoned security pros
Several great new Android phones have been introduced recently. Which to choose? This features chart may help.
The concept of security these days goes well beyond insisting on complicated passwords. Are you sure your company is up to the task?
Detroit might not be the first place that comes to mind when you think of technology, but that's changing. Amazon recently announced plans to build corporate offices in downtown Detroit to help an already fast-growing tech industry in the Motor City.
With the aid of large customers such as IBM, Apple is making the case that Macs are more secure and less expensive to manage than PCs. IT leaders, however, may still be turned off by the high upfront costs and associated infrastructure challenges.
Momentum will continue to mount around cloud-based enterprise applications in 2016, according to a new survey of CIOs and other tech leaders, and though many security challenges remain, concerns over shadow IT are on the decline.
Make the most of Microsoft’s command line by mastering the nuances of the PowerShell language
When customers got a better experience, these companies got a revenue kick, thanks to accurate and timely analytics data in the hands of salespeople.
Major connectivity issues are bound to happen sooner or later. Will your employees be able to keep working, or is an Internet outage a prelude to sending everyone home for the day?
A recent Forrester Research report shines a spotlight across different industries on companies whose people skills leave a bit to be desired, to say the least.
Open your phone and say Ahh
Off-the-shelf isn't an option for Rhonda Winter. Instead, she borrows great ideas.
