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	Survey: IT certifications lead to jobs, higher pay In this survey of 700 IT professionals, most say certifications have led to raises and better jobs, busting the myth that certs are nothing but a scam. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Managing Cloud Services from Request to Retirement This lifecycle is tailored to the needs of the business, with both the flexibility to deliver the full required software stacks and the management rigor to ensure the operational integrity of the cloud. Learn More! In this Issue FAQ: What's the big deal about Duqu? Researchers find new way to hide messages in VoIP Will Thanksgiving Day upstage Black Friday for online tech sales? 7 hot jobs for 2012 Resume Makeover: How to Write an IT Executive Resume How to Find Out What Employees Really Think Why healthcare IT security is harder than the rest Don't blame Anonymous for Facebook porn storm, says researcher Do smaller businesses think they're immune to security threats? Unemployed Romanian hacker accused of breaking into NASA New Wi-Fi routers, cloud services simplify branch networks Mobile devices, virtualization seen as biggest security challenges: Ponemon survey IBM targets managed security service at iOS, Android, Windows, BlackBerry smartphones WHITE PAPER: IBM Smarter Commerce is redefining value chain visibility Smarter Commerce is redefining the value chain in the age of the customer. It starts with putting the customer at the center of your operations – which of itself is not a new idea – however, truly operationalizing this strategy is not easy. Read More! FAQ: What's the big deal about Duqu? The recently discovered Duqu Trojan has gotten a lot of attention in the security research community. Here's why. Read More Researchers find new way to hide messages in VoIP Researchers have devised a new scheme for hiding secret data within VoIP packets, making it possible to carry on legitimate voice conversations while stolen data piggybacks on the call undetected, making its way to thieves on the outside. Read More Will Thanksgiving Day upstage Black Friday for online tech sales? Best Buy, Target, Sears, Staples and other major retailers have been releasing their Black Friday ads and circulars for the past week, setting up for what should be a busy shopping day for TVs, laptops, tablets and other electronics. But savvy shoppers who can negotiate time away from the family, turkey and football on Thanksgiving Day itself could also score bargains. Read More 7 hot jobs for 2012 Mobile applications developers, data warehouse analysts, and user experience designers are among the jobs tech recruiters say will be in strong demand in 2012. Specifically, Robert Half Technology identified seven jobs with a high potential for growth. Here's how the staffing firm describes these seven jobs and how much it expects companies to pay to fill these positions in 2012. Mobile applications... Read More WHITE PAPER: Raritan Why Managing VMs is So Complex Because virtual servers coexist with nonvirtualized ones, it effectively doubles the tools and efforts relevant to data center administration. Discover how a unified, out-of-band approach that aggregates management tools into a single, consolidated platform, renders the virtual and physical layers transparent from an IT management perspective. Read now! Resume Makeover: How to Write an IT Executive Resume Henry Cole has held his position as an IT manager with a global life sciences company for nearly eight years. Like all ambitious IT managers, he wants to move up to the executive level. Cole believes he's ready to step into an executive-level IT management position with a large company or into the top IT management spot at a small company based on his accomplishments, positive feedback he's received from his employer, and recognitions with which he's recently been honored. Since there are no opportunities for career growth with his employer, he's looking outside his company, as he has been for the last year and a half. Read More How to Find Out What Employees Really Think Sentiment analysis software, often used for monitoring customer opinions, can also be used to analyze email and intranets to gauge employee morale. But be forewarned: Employees may see it as Big Brother surveillance. Read More Why healthcare IT security is harder than the rest In this interview, security expert Gunnar Peterson explains why securing health care IT systems is quite different from other types of business IT infrastructure. Read More Don't blame Anonymous for Facebook porn storm, says researcher The recent spam attack that planted pornographic images on Facebook was not the work of Anonymous, a security researcher said today. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix 8 Reasons Why Citrix Beats F5 Is your network ready for the Cloud? Not with F5. Shift to Citrix NetScaler. Shift up to the Cloud. Download 8 Reasons Citrix NetScaler beats F5. Read now Do smaller businesses think they're immune to security threats? Do small to midsize businesses (SMB) think they're somehow immune to security threats? Read More Unemployed Romanian hacker accused of breaking into NASA Romanian authorities have arrested a 26-year old hacker who is accused of breaking into multiple NASA servers and causing US$500,000 in damages to the U.S. space agency's systems. Read More New Wi-Fi routers, cloud services simplify branch networks Aerohive unveils simple but powerful branch Wi-Fi routers that integrate closely with a range of virtual and cloud-based services, including third-party Web security offerings. Read More Mobile devices, virtualization seen as biggest security challenges: Ponemon survey Increased use of mobile devices, especially smartphones, in addition to the transition to virtualization, are key factors weighing on enterprises trying to sort out security strategy and budgets, according to a survey of 688 information and security managers. Read More IBM targets managed security service at iOS, Android, Windows, BlackBerry smartphones IBM is offering a cloud-based managed service for mobile devices that will let IT managers exert management and security controls over devices based on Apple iOS, Google Android, the RIM BlackBerry, Symbian and Microsoft Windows Mobile. Read More
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