The smallest organizations are the most vulnerable to occupational fraud, according to a new study from the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE).The 2012 Report to the Nations on Occupational Fraud and Abuse
Your personal data can never be too secure, especially when it's on a device that's with you everywhere you go.DataVault Password Manager is a$10 app for both the iPhone and iPad that stores
Published on: January 19th, 2012 Kyle Baxter @itbusinessca
Jordan Banks wants to bring Facebook to your fridge and your car.Really. The new managing director of Canadian operations Facebook sees a future where the social graph isn't connected to your phone or
Maintaining a positive relationship with your manager is key to a productive, satisfying job. And the actions you take -- completing your work on time, putting in extra effort when necessary, volunteering to
CIO Asif Ahmad believes good managers aren't the ones who can do it all.Rather, the most effective managers are the ones know how to pick which tasks to do themselves and which to
Published on: May 21st, 2010 Mary K. Pratt @itbusinessca
Albert Einstein defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.Sadly, that behaviour is exhibited by many corporate leaders today. And it's damaging them, their teams, and
Published on: February 19th, 2010 Joaquim P. Menezes @itbusinessca
Theresa Wilson knows a thing or two about staying power. During the course of her 33 year career with Wachovia (now part of Wells-Fargo), Wilson has steadily climbed the corporate ladder while surviving
Many companies are moving away from in-house IT development and toward application service providers, leaving the development to outsourcers that often off-shore work to countries like India and Brazil. But in order to
Published on: August 6th, 2008 Vawn Himmelsbach @itbusinessca
One in three IT administrators say that they or one of their colleagues have used top-level admin passwords to pry into confidential or sensitive information at their workplaces, according to a survey by
Published on: June 24th, 2008 Gregg Keizer @itbusinessca
Caution: Watch for backstabbers, career breakers and emerging megatrends.That warning should come with each IT job, but it doesn't. As a result, most IT professionals have stories about the ones they never saw
Published on: March 24th, 2008 Mary K. Pratt @itbusinessca
What is it, one might reasonably ask, that separates a SIM (security information manager) from a basic log-file aggregator? Both will, of course, aggregate log files, but a SIM must go further, gathering
Published on: January 8th, 2008 Curtis Franklin Jr. @itbusinessca
