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• BrandPost: Cybersecurity Spending: Are You Patching Holes or Checking Boxes?

  20-07-2017 20:50
  
  We often hear clients and prospective clients asking “how much should I be spending on cybersecurity?” That is a very complex question and one that is not easily answered without first having an understanding of what you mean by cybersecurity. There are many different versions of cybersecurity being pushed in the market and there is no "one size fits all" solution, despite what your vendor might tell you.The key: Spending for what is right for your organization, not simply settling o
  
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• BrandPost: Sunsetting: The Right Way

  20-07-2017 19:20
  
  It’s hard to overstate the challenges inherent in managing the retiring of important applications, operating systems, and databases. Lack of support, compatibility issues, and increased security risks can have far-reaching effects on your organization—especially when it comes to database environments.As enterprise software approaches end-of-life, organizations running older versions need to carefully prepare to sunset it or face the risk of putting data and applications in peril. How
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Harvard students partner with U.S. government to address digital skills gaps

  20-07-2017 17:15
  
  Recently, I interviewed Neel Mehta, a senior computer science major at Harvard University with a 4.0 GPA. He has interned at Khan Academy, Microsoft, and the U.S. Census Bureau. In addition, he was a technology fellow with Partners in Health. Neel is passionate about civic tech, and there were no good civic tech internship programs around for undergraduates to engage with government, so he started his own Civic Digital Fellowship, a fully funded data science and technology internship program in
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Data is your biggest digital hurdle. DataOps will help you clear it

  20-07-2017 15:35
  
  I spend a lot of time talking to senior executives at large companies, and if there’s one phrase I hear them all talk about consistently — perhaps a little too often —  it’s “Digital Transformation.”Ask 10 people what it means and you’ll get 10 different answers, but in broad brushstrokes it means using the power of software to transform and improve business processes large and small, and to study the data that software generates for new ways to boo
  
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• IT Resume Makeover: Start strong from page one

  20-07-2017 12:00
  
  Once you hit the executive level, your resume needs to show what you can offer beyond your career history and education. Phillip Marlowe, whose name has been changed for this makeover, had an IT resume that looked like most others — long in verbiage and short on professional branding.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• IT Resume Makeover: Prove your path to CIO on page one

  20-07-2017 12:00
  
  Once you hit the executive level, your resume needs to show what you can offer beyond your career history and education. Phillip Marlowe, whose name has been changed for this makeover, had an IT resume that looked like most others — long in verbiage and short on professional branding.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• Hiring in the age of dispersed technology spending

  20-07-2017 12:00
  
  Technology is spreading beyond the confines of IT, and with this shift is a change in control over technical hiring.Rather than rely on IT to configure and administer technologies they procure themselves, line of business (LOB) units such as HR, finance and marketing are hiring their own IT expertise in the form of hybrid positions that mix business and technical skills.“These roles are different from typical IT roles as they often focus on configuration and best practice implementation of
  
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