Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud services live in data centers in specific places. Customer data is generated and most likely stored in this physical location, giving it legal and privacy implications that you can't just ignore. Here are four best practices regarding cloud and geographic compliance, from Forrester Research's James Staten.
If you think the phrase "It's in the cloud" means that your data resides on the Internet and is thus accessible everywhere equally, think again. Most infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud services share the same residence model as traditional hosting and outsourcing deployments - they live in specific data centers
in specific geographies. This means that customer data is generated and most likely stored in this physical location, giving it legal and privacy implications. Unfortunately, Forrester's conversations with end users and vendors suggest that many organizations simply aren't aware of where their cloud data centers
reside. This lack of information can be quite risky...
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Former cybersecurity czar Amit Yoran on why information security is in a "death spiral" -- and what you can do.
Amit Yoran was the Department of Homeland Security's first director of the National Cyber Security Division of the Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection office. But by September 2004 he was frustrated by what he saw as a lack of concern and commitment to Internet security. So he quit his post. More than five
years later, his frustration goes well beyond government. Everywhere he looks -- the vendor community, the typical IT security shop, the boardrooms of private enterprise -- he sees that same cluelessness. At next week's SOURCE Boston conference, he'll outline the problems in a talk with a blunt title: "Security Sucks." In an interview with CSO Thursday, Yoran described it like...
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Your Facebook News Feed can get littered with a lot of junk: annoying FarmVille updates, friend confirmations and inane fan page announcements. Here's how to take control and see only what you want.
The more friends you have, the more often it happens: You log into your Facebook account and find your News Feed cluttered with meaningless messages such as your friends' FarmVille updates, who's now friends with who and who became a fan of what. (Yes, of course you like cheeseburgers. Next!) A cluttered Facebook News Feed makes it more difficult to discover posts that matter most to you-so check out these three ways to manage the information that flows through it...
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"[Apple has] really only begun in the last six months or so taking security seriously and understanding that it impacts their business in a serious way..."
For Marc Maiffret, the turning point in his life came when--at the age of 17--he woke up to an FBI agent pointing a gun at his head. A runaway and high school dropout, he had just returned home and landed his first professional job using his computer skills for the good of companies instead of for mischief.
But his past was still catching up to his present. Young, articulate, and outspoken, Maiffret went on to become...
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Is your salary on par with what your peers are making?
Use our Smart Salary Tool to compare your pay with IT workers in similar jobs from across...
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Talk your way into a raise If you are a good employee, and do your homework, you can still get a raise, even in a bad economy.
On paper, IT salaries are frozen. In real life, there are still ways to get a raise. Here's how.
Has anyone in your IT department managed to get a raise lately? Statistically, the answer is "probably not." Pay for IT employees -- as well as everybody else -- has been flat for a few years now, and many analysts don't expect it to get better this year. In a survey released in November 2009 by the
Society for Information Management
(SIM), 46% of IT staffers polled said they expected to see no bump in pay in 2010, with another 9% predicting that IT staff salaries in 2010 would actually be lower than they were in 2009. But that doesn't mean you can't talk your boss into giving you a raise. "Short of impending financial collapse, even when
there are salary freezes, good employees can always get salary increases," declares...
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The operating system, or its logo, are suddenly everywhere. Open source isn't just a license or a coding methodology, to many it's a religion. And the central prayer of that religion is an ode to Linux. In the spirit of such love, Linux has begun to sprout up everywhere. Here's a compilation of some of the more surprising places you'll find this beloved operating system...
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So says a college professor. Maybe he's got a point.
Zombies are open source, humans are proprietary. Sounds like the latest self-help relationship book for geeks, but it's actually an interesting analogy. A college student at Champlain University in Burlington, Vt., posted two videos this week of one of his professors explaining open source this way. I found it quite interesting
after my post the other day about the problems in teaching the tenets of open source. (Part I, Part II) (Also fun: there actually is at least one open-source zombie video game.) Basically, his initial concept was this:...
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From sex to Nigeria to arguments in bars to Chuck Norris: The Internet has badly affected them all (except Chuck Norris).
For some people, the Internet is the killer app--literally. From newspapers and the yellow pages to personal privacy and personal contact, the Net has been accused of murdering, eviscerating, ruining, and obliterating more things than the Amazing Hulk. Some claims are more true than others, but the Net certainly has claimed
its share of scalps. Here are ten things the Net is making virtually extinct, plus five that have flourished...
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Sure, the marketplace is teeming with competing apps. But there still is tremendous opportunity for scoring big-if you have a great idea. How many times has a friend showed you his or her favorite new iPhone app, and you lamented: Why didn't I think of that? With total application downloads from Apple's iTunes app store topping three billion, and monthly sales of upwards of $200 million, the marketplace for apps is booming. If you're a designer or
programmer, how can you afford not to be creating apps? Well, it's not quite that simple... [Of course, there's more to making a profitable app than just having a good idea. And lots of the work comes after the design and programming is already done. Here are some tips to helping your app turn a profit...]
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