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Category: IT Management

2019.06.05 ID: 340

Vendor Risk Assessment: Hassle or Blessing?!

A Security Questionnaire, RFI, VRA (Vendor Risk Assessment), VR Management…helps customers identify and evaluate the risks of using a vendor’s product or service. Performing such a review is sometimes mandatory based on the industry (e.g. healthcare). During this standard business process, customer collects written information about security capabilities of a supplier and you could barely […]

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2019.05.10 ID: 176

Tech Staff Justifies Incompetence!

Have you ever listened to your tech team trying to justify all the tasks left behind, delayed or procrastinated? Do you have an IT team brining excuses for every project there are facing and try to blame everything except the root cause? Then you are not alone! Here is a known list of IT staff […]

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2019.04.19 ID: 306

Simple Sign of Security Program Has Already Been Failed

The simple sign is your Trust and Confidence: Do you have faith in your security program?   For a moment be honest and ask yourself: am I confident with my company security program? Do I have faith in our security team? Do they really know what they are doing? Does my information security officer worth pay […]

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2019.03.12 ID: 242

Tools vs. Techniques

Operations fail by focusing on tool rather than technique! In context of information technology, with all primary operations like Systems administration, Patching and updating, Backup and replication, Malware protection…and all related sub-tasks, focus on Tools is an enemy of the process! Defining, developing or choosing a technique in advance is crucial to an IT operation. […]

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2019.03.03 ID: 188

Good IT Exercises: Documentation!

Everybody’s talking about importance of physical exercise and routine workouts these days, and of course that’s the result of 21st century life-style which is forced through technology but how about some technology exercises and routine practices which can help reduce the pressure on tech staff workload and leads us to a healthier IT environment? Documentation […]

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2019.02.24 ID: 53

Naturally Secure Windows Machine

How to utilize native Windows security features to get beyond all the tools in the market?! Most of the times ‘extra tools’ are just for doing things in a different way, perhaps more convenient, but not necessary in a better way, or more effective, cheaper or faster way and Windows is not an exception. Speaking […]

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2019.01.17 ID: 9

Five signs IT is overwhelmed with operations

There are signs before your IT department faces a disaster or worse, jeopardize your business by affecting tech operations in different departments. Those are signs of an overwhelmed IT so let’s take a look at common signs and symptoms: 1) Lack of resourcesWhenever your IT staff are always talking about lack of resources be aware […]

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2018.08.21 ID: 290

Manage Numerous IT Projects With No Resource Constraints

IT resource management is crucial in chaotic environments where multiple projects collide…  The most obvious challenge of IT managers is to make sure they meet deadlines and projects deliverables in a timely manner. This is more tangible in environments where tons of big and small projects overlap in shared resources. That is a sign of resource constraint. By resource, I mean IT […]

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2018.03.09 ID: 661

Why Management Fails

The disconnect I’ve spent years watching managers fail at the most basic part of their job: understanding the work they’re managing. Not all of them, I’ve met exceptions but most of the people I’ve dealt with across my career fall into the same pattern. They give orders with confidence, but they have no idea what […]

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2017.11.08 ID: 656

Complexity Is the Enemy of Security

The Wrong Perception of sophistication Every generation of engineers falls for the same trap, believing that complexity equals strength. It doesn’t. Complexity is fragility disguised as innovation. It’s the art of building systems that no one can understand, troubleshoot, or defend. The beauty of the most effective securing techniques is in their simplicity, not in […]

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2017.09.16 ID: 241

IT System Administration Good Exercises: Event Lookup!

Computer administration is all about how the system and network is running at the moment. What else could be more important than how zeros and ones are really interacting in background? System and Network administration starts and ends with lowest level of these environment. Those place that we barely look are the source of system […]

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