Category: IT Management
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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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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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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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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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Three Reasons To Trust SECURE TARGET
Articles will be revealing in many aspect of information security and information technology in general, but why would you trust SECURE TARGET?
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Why You Keep Going Down the Security Rabbit Hole and Still Aren’t Secure
One of the most frustrating things I have observed throughout my career is the number of organizations that continue spending more money, hiring more security people, deploying more security products, attending more security conferences, obtaining more certifications, and yet somehow remain just as vulnerable as they were years ago. In many cases they are actually…
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Why Environment Constantly Faces Insecurities?
There is no doubt that security is not a project, there is no end and we need to constantly evolve but does it seem to you that you may put more effort you expect? You would sense some doubt about why you are constantly running after fixing issues, but is this the way security works? …
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The Only Tool You Need
The Case for Nmap If you are looking to secure a network, stop looking for the latest “all-in-one” suite of bloated software. If I had to clear my desk and keep only one tool, it would be Nmap. Eight years have passed since it was released in 1997, and my opinion has not wavered. It…