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Survey: Canned IT Employees Will Steal Your Info

"Exercise extreme caution when it comes to dismissing employees with knowledge of your IT systems," warns security vendor Cyber-Ark Software.

Disruptive Technologies for the Next 4 Years

Gartner, an IT industry analyst firm, has published a report on what its analysts see as the top ten disruptive technologies for 2008 to 2012:

Google Pushes Its Security And Compliance Products

IT people, please don't blame us.  We neither conducted nor responded to this security and compliance survey.  But the survey's results indicate that some people (and perhaps a certain search giant) feel you're not overly effective or efficient.

Companies Using Universal Search Internally

If you use Google to search, then you have probably seen their universal search, which shows more than just html documents in the search results. Major companies are now seeing the benefits of using universal search to search their internal resources. Professional services firms, especially law firms, are using universal search tools to instantly locate content, wherever it’s located.

Interview with Web Analyst WDave

Continuing my series of interviews with Web Analysts, here is an interview with Wandering Dave Rhee also known as WDave.

MySQL and the Google MacGyver Connection

A reader commented that MySQL isn’t “enterprise ready”, to which another reader wrote: “I hate it when snobby DBAs or managers scoff at MySQL as if it isn’t ready to play with the big boys. Google called, they’d like to loan you a clue.”

Mike Rhodin Speaks at Lotusphere

Chris Miller: With the entrance into Social Networking with Connections, what will Lotus do as we get to 3.0? MR: Challenges hierarchical systems, business systems could break down private information shared.  dangers regulatory meltdowns on sharing regulated

Enterprise Decision Management and Managing Costs

While the primary focus of applying EDM to customer service should not be cost containment or reduction, there is still a role for EDM in managing costs. For instance:

Internal Departments & Your SEO Firm - A Play

Many companies are not aware of the different roles that various departments in their organization will fill when they begin to work with an outside SEO firm.  What follows is a demonstration, in play form (bear with me), of which internal departments are involved in a typical SEO campaign and why. It also demonstrates some of the resistance that may be felt by those departments as well as what valuable contributions a company can make to help its SEO firm craft a successful campaign. The Players

Strategy Before Tactics

If you have no defined strategy then what ever tactics you employ probably won't meet your goals. How many of us in the information security business bought a product, tool, policy or process from a company because we needed to meet a legal requirement, a passing interest in a neat new toy, or a recommendation from a group or consultant without really visualizing how it will fit into our strategic and tactical goals for the company?