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  Vendor Access Policy

  It’s common for third party vendors to require access to company systems, resources or facilities in order to provide service or maintenance, support company functions and personnel or engage in security or monitoring endeavors. Whether on-premises or cloud-based resources, vendor access should be carefully regulated with access allowed only to authorized individuals to perform the ...

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  Hiring Kit: Marketing Manager

  Just because an organization objectively produces the best product on the market or provides superior service for its customers does not mean that the organization is also guaranteed success. In a crowded and global marketplace, organizations have to step out and above the competition with an effective strategic marketing scheme. To develop and implement this ...

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  Top 3 Linux desktops for enterprise businesses

  If your business is either considering or planning a migration to Linux desktops, you might be wondering which distributions are your best options. Given how many Linux distributions are available, that decision may seem like an insurmountable hurdle. It’s not. In fact, once you weed out the distributions that aren’t a good fit for enterprise ...

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  Research: Workforce training is worth the investment, increasing productivity and job satisfaction

  In addition to the COVID pandemic, analytics, automation, artificial intelligence, digital transformation, and other tech trends are changing business needs more rapidly than in recent years. It’s also causing companies and workers alike to grapple with a growing skills gap that must be closed. Should companies offer employees retraining, upskilling or other educational and development ...

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  8 must-have tools for developers on Linux

  Many developers use Linux as their platform. This choice is becoming even more widespread as enterprises continue to grow dependent on Linux and open-source software, tools, frameworks, and languages. Developers new to the Linux platform may not know what is needed to get started. You may even think that gathering all the necessary tools is ...

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  Hiring Kit: IT finance manager/budget director

  The IT finance manager/budget director position requires a unique skill set that mixes finance and accounting skills with IT experience and knowledge. This Hiring Kit, from TechRepublic Premium, contains a job description, sample interview questions, and a basic want ad to help you find the best candidates for this challenging position. From the Hiring Kit: ...

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  Hiring kit: Chief diversity officer

  The chief diversity officer develops, implements, and monitors enterprise-wide programs that promote the hiring of employees with diverse cultural and educational experiences. This hiring kit includes a job description, sample interview questions, and a basic want ad you can use for your candidate recruitment search. From the job description: Introduction The success of any business ...

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  Feature comparison: Time tracking software and systems

  Choosing the right time tracking software or service for your organization requires a thorough assessment of your current business operations. These guidelines and comparison tool, from TechRepublic Premium, will enable your business to assess and document key criteria as you evaluate your options. From the guidelines: Tracking, measuring, and accounting for an employee’s time is ...

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  7 steps: Learn how to migrate to Linux desktop

  Many businesses depends on Linux and open source in the data center or any number of Linux-based virtual machines hosted on a third-party cloud service. So why are you continuing to ignore Linux on the desktop? Is it because Windows is simply the desktop operating system you’ve always used and can’t figure out a reason ...

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  DNS and DHCP usage policy

  Domain Name System (DNS) and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) are the foundation of essential network configuration and communication, especially DNS. Internal and external network access could not work as we know it without DNS, and DHCP is invaluable in provisioning temporary IP addresses for workstations and devices to utilize to facility connectivity. The criticality ...