Nobody is safe from online threats–not even IT professionals. I was recently subjected to being impersonated online which, while unpleasant, was also educational. Online impersonation isn’t the same thing as having your social media account hacked and commandeered; it involves a malicious individual setting up a wholly different account similar to your name and with ...

Using the cloud to host your business’s data, applications, and other assets offers several benefits in terms of management, access, and scalability. But the cloud also presents certain security risks. Traditionally, those risks have centered on areas such as denial of service, data loss, malware, and system vulnerabilities. A report released Tuesday by the Cloud ...

Every employee departure is different. Some leave abruptly, some are terminated, and some give two weeks notice and help ease co-workers in the transition. No matter how a system administrator leaves, the result is the same: Disruption. In order to ease co-workers’ minds and alleviate potential chaos certain actions must be taken. Check out TechRepublic’s ...

Passwords are not yet past, but that glorious future land where we don’t have to remember h0rs3##pl7 is getting closer. Microsoft is allowing logins without passwords. Google is allowing logins without passwords. These are secure logins–sometimes more secure than just a user ID and password. Just as a sample, check out these five alternatives to ...

When you get tricked by a phishing mail and open a document attachment that has a malicious macro or a link to a malicious site, or you download an infected application, there’s a file that antivirus software can scan as it’s saved to or opened from disk, and there’s a trail of file activity that ...

Microsoft Ignite was a landmark year for the developer conference, with Microsoft taking a markedly more aggressive stance in positioning the benefits of Azure relative to AWS and Google Cloud, highlighting performance gains in Azure Synapse relative to Google BigQuery and Amazon RedShift. Azure is undoubtedly where Microsoft’s priorities, and futures reside, with the bulk ...

Scrum meetings are short and focus on the backlog of project management tasks or directly related concerns. Whether you are a Scrum Master, a product owner, or part of a development team, following these key do’s and don’ts can help create an optimal environment for scrum meeting success. Learn more in this free PDF download. ...

Layoffs are a fact of life, and–in this age of globalization, downsizing, mergers, and acquisitions–all too common. While you may not be able to control your employment status, you can control how you respond to a potential layoff. Check out the ten ways to survive a layoff in this free PDF download. (These suggestions are ...

Code reviews are meant to be a systematic examination of computer source code, intended to root out mistakes made in the initial development process and improve the quality of the software being created. However, several common mistakes arise that make the peer review process less effective Code reviews typically fall into one of two poor ...

Email is many people’s bane–they stare at the inbox filled with hundreds of messages and their courage fails, causing them to forsake their friends and break all bonds of fellowship. But it does not have to be this way. Learn more about the five tips to get to inbox zero in this free PDF download. ...