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CIOs face more complexity than ever as an array of new technologies, from social media to cloud computing, open up new opportunities - and vulnerabilities. In ensuring that their businesses aren't exposed to new threats while charging into these new frontiers, IT security teams are essentially helping to enable emerging business models. Whether that means training employees on social media or pressuring cloud vendors to disclose their security practices, IT security will continue to evolve from its historic focus on protecting IT systems to playing a more entrepreneurial role in business.
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Web security research gurus with the Santa Clara, Calif.-based Web application security firm Cenzic uncovered their findings at RSA from data collected during the second half of 2009. Though CIOs are constantly struggling to get their development teams spinning up new business-enabling Web applications as quickly as possible, leaders would do well to take a lesson from the disconcerting trends laid out in Cenzic's most recent report.
The vast majority of proprietary web applications developed in house contain some sort of vulnerability or another, as seen by scans of customer applications conducted through the company's managed services. The following nine types of vulnerabilities are the most common found through Cenzic's scans of customer Web apps.
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The Google-China standoff has entered week eight, and no one's budged yet. China's still demanding that Google censor its search results there. Google's still refusing to censor them, while publicly lingering on its intentions to pull out of China if the government doesn't back off. And now the Obama Administration is considering joining the fray. The drama builds. Will Google really shut down its operations in China and walk away from such a potentially lucrative market? Will China actually let Google walk away, taking with it a critical window into the Western economy? Okay, okay, everyone calm down. No one’s going anywhere. Here are 8 reasons we continue to believe Google and China will settle their differences:
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Healthcare providers face more challenges with identity theft than financial services firms, a panel of experts said at the RSA 2010 conference in San Francisco.
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Even though many IT professionals have seen flat to declining pay rates, there are some bright spots in the IT job arena. According to Foote Partners, publishers of the esteemed quarterly IT Skills and Certification Pay Index, there has been a definite demand for SAP and enterprise applications skills over the last six months. Here are the top 20 distinct skills by market value growth over the last six months, according to the most recent index.
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The quarterly Foote Partners IT Skills and Certifications Pay Index examines in depth how certain skills and certification can affect the pay of IT professionals. Unsurprisingly, the index found that most skills and certifications decreased in value last year.
But as a percentage of the "base salary" for IT professionals, most types of certifications gave recipients an edge in remuneration. Typically, IT certification holders made 7.46 percent more than average IT workers in the fourth quarter of 2009.
CIO Insight examines how much extra certain types of IT certifications have garnered professionals over the last three years. The percentages are all measured as additional value on top of the base IT salary, as determined by Foote Partners.
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Applied Research West recently tallied up surveys from over 1,700 organizations of all sizes from around the world for Symantec's annual State of the Data Center report. Unsurprisingly, the biggest priorities within these organizational nerve centers focused on availability and reliability of data, and on cost-saving measures such as virtualization, cloud migration and consolidation.
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2009 was a tough year all around, but these people (and a vendor) had the roughest of them all. See who made our list for tech's biggest losers of 2009.
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A look at some of the new year's big issues on the security front, courtesy of ICSA Labs, a vendor-neutral testing and certification lab used by many top security vendors.
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Some basic security practices are starting to become pervasive within small-to-midsized businesses, although these organizations may still leave a few gaps in the armor. A recent study sponsored by GFI Technologies polled 540 SMB IT managers; the research found that most of them employ some form of security, primarily in the area of antivirus technology. Nevertheless, the study found that gaps in insider threat protection still remained.
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Testing is becoming as necessary a “profession” as design and coding.
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Our annual Vendor Value Study reveals what CIOs think of their hardware, software, security, telecom and networking providers in terms of value, reliability and loyalty. Here are the vendors ranked 20 through 11.
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Our annual Vendor Value Study reveals what CIOs think of their hardware, software, security, telecom and networking providers in terms of value, reliability and loyalty. Here are the technology companies ranked 30 to 21.
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What a difference a recession makes: Most vendors have raised their value proposition significantly over the past year, making customers more satisfied. Vendors that haven’t responded fell in our rankings.
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Do social networking sites serve as useful tools for connecting within the business world, or are they simply time-wasters? More than half of enterprise IT leaders lean toward the latter perspective, according to a new survey conducted amongst 1,400 CIOs by the employment experts at Robert Half Technology. The results conform with data collected from a previous study released by Nucleus Research earlier this summer; this slideshow compares results from both studies to paint a picture of social networking in the workplace. Also see: Work-Safe Social Networking.
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