Social engineering attacks on the enterprise are trending upward

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	Social engineering attacks on the enterprise are trending upward Amit Klein, CTO of the security firm Trusteer, predicts that social engineering attacks against enterprises will be on the rise in 2012. The problem is that too many people disclose too much personal information on social networks, and this gives thieves the leverage they need to gain and then abuse people's trust. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel Growing Your Business Without a Crystal Ball Learn how an upgrade at Opus Interactive allows scalable storage growth with 40 percent less upfront cost. Read Now! In this Issue Be on the lookout for the malicious insider 5 LinkedIn Tips for Career Success in 2012 Tips from IT professionals on how to handle virtual desktops, wireless, network performance issues Consumerization creates IT management blind spots, increases business risk: survey IT pros lament: Low pay, no perks Bandwidth bottlenecks loom large in the cloud Mobility, cloud, analytics to reshape IT in 2012 WHITE PAPER: Splice Communications Offloading Telecom Delivers a Big Payback for IT Inaccurate invoices, complicated contracts, slow provisioning and poor support from Telecom carriers wastes time, money and resources. Learn the difference a custom data network solutions provider can deliver. Read Now! Be on the lookout for the malicious insider A new white paper from Symantec profiles the risk indicators of the malicious insider. There are key patterns and technologies that can help you identify the employee who might have a penchant to steal your company's intellectual property. Read More 5 LinkedIn Tips for Career Success in 2012 When 80 percent of people reportedly don't know how to use LinkedIn properly, a New Year's resolution is born. Read More WHITE PAPER: Sybase Enterprises Falling Short with Analytics Tools This paper examines the use of analytics and reporting, and offers best practices for integrating solutions for improved business decision-making. Learn More Tips from IT professionals on how to handle virtual desktops, wireless, network performance issues Schools are for learning, and the information technology and security professionals who support networks and applications in the nation's K-12 and university systems are discovering new tactics in what can be challenging IT environments. Here we talk to four professionals in the education realm to get a sense for their top IT issues and what they do to handle them. Read More Consumerization creates IT management blind spots, increases business risk: survey As end users bring their own devices to work, download apps and sign up for cloud services, it's getting harder for IT to maintain application visibility and control performance. Trends such as consumerization, mobility and cloud computing are also increasing business risk, CIOs say. Read More WHITE PAPER: NetIQ Streamlining IT Operations with Business Service Management This IDC Technology Spotlight examines the benefits of a business service management practice and tools in response to IT environments becoming more dynamic and complex due to the increased use of virtualization, cloud, SOA, and n-tier application architectures. Learn More IT pros lament: Low pay, no perks Non-competitive pay is the main reason for high turnover rates among IT pros in their 20s and early 30s. Read More Bandwidth bottlenecks loom large in the cloud InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) CIO Tom Conophy has no reservations when it comes to the cloud. Read More Mobility, cloud, analytics to reshape IT in 2012 Gartner says global IT spending growth will be essentially flat in 2012. IDC is more bullish, estimating 6.9% growth, driven by investments in smartphones, media tablets, mobile networks, social networking, and big data analytics. Read More
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