There are a lot of steps IT departments must take to keep their companies’ data secure. One critical activity: making sure all software on servers and user machines is kept up to date.
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Report: Most IT security software is vulnerable to attack
March 19, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Any software IT installs can potentially contain vulnerabilities that give hackers a way to get on the company’s network – and that includes IT security software, one expert warns.
A 5-step plan to cut application bloat
March 14, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Businesses rely on a lot of applications, and are constantly trying new software to meet their needs. That makes it difficult for IT to properly manage its software inventory and avoid running apps the company doesn’t need. In this guest post, Innotas CEO Kevin Kern offers some advice for application portfolio management.
Open source software adds costs (according to Microsoft)
February 28, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Open source software is never completely free, in the financial sense. Even if the applications themselves are available at no cost, businesses still need to pay for support, training, data migration and other needs. But just how much open source costs can be open for debate.
5 free PDF readers that are more secure than Adobe
February 20, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Critical IT security vulnerabilities have been discovered in Abode Reader and Acrobat again. Is it time to look for an alternative PDF reader?
Why 55% of Big Data projects fail – and what IT can do about it
February 13, 2013 By 1 Comment
Big Data is quickly becoming a big deal for companies and their IT departments. However, a recent survey says that more than half of Big Data projects never even get off the ground.
DHS: New Java security attacks mean it’s time to kill the platform
January 24, 2013 By Leave a Comment
The latest round of critical Java security bugs and new attacks has IT pros asking a familiar question: Is it time to kill the software platform for good?
IT pro outsources his own job to China
January 22, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Many companies have saved money with IT outsourcing. But this probably isn’t what they had in mind.
MySQL basics for testers
November 15, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Have you ever been part of this conversation? Development Group: The application is ready to be released! Management: Did you test it? Development Group: Um…yes…we ran our code in our development environment and everything worked great. Management: Test it again!! We hope that you haven’t been on either end of this conversation but many, many [...]