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Depression Stigma in IT?
I’ve been struggling with writing this for a couple of weeks now, but ever since I saw the article over on TechCrunch entitled We Need To Talk About Depression it has been on my mind. The article talks...
View ArticleLinked – Top 7 Tips: How Any Employee Can Help Guard Against Cyber-Attacks
As pledged last week, in my piece on cryptolockers, today I am running a code of best practice to guard against email-related cyber-attacks. The bulk of cyber-defence, in terms of software and server...
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Linked – 37% of IT pros to look for new jobs in 2017
“If your IT department isn’t already worried about staff retention, some new stats might change that. A new poll finds 37% of IT pros plan to begin searching for a new employer in 2017, and 26% plan to...
View ArticleWhat I’m Sharing (weekly)
How prepared is your IT department for the next legal hold Human error to blame for 9 in 10 UK data breaches last yea Smart Cities seem inevitable – but how smart is the cybersecurity protecting them?...
View ArticleIT People Fix Things
We can’t help it. It’s in our nature to fix things that are broken. That’s what attracted us to working with technology in the first place. More than likely we started out troubleshooting, seeing how...
View ArticleCognitive Dissonance and Frequency
As I was sitting in the airport yesterday, I started to notice the number of people complaining about various things about air travel, and thinking to myself that yes, there are plenty of things to...
View ArticleDepression Stigma in IT?
So yeah, we need to talk about this. Not just in IT, in every industry and workplace. 1 in 10 Americans reports suffering from depression. If you have more than 10 people working in your company, there...
View ArticleLinked – Top 7 Tips: How Any Employee Can Help Guard Against Cyber-Attacks
As pledged last week, in my piece on cryptolockers, today I am running a code of best practice to guard against email-related cyber-attacks. The bulk of cyber-defence, in terms of software and server...
View ArticleLinked – 37% of IT pros to look for new jobs in 2017
“If your IT department isn’t already worried about staff retention, some new stats might change that. A new poll finds 37% of IT pros plan to begin searching for a new employer in 2017, and 26% plan to...
View ArticleLinked: Offboarding tips will prevent employee data theft when people leave...
Now, I've left a few jobs over the years, including some that were remote, which I think is a new challenge for a lot of places right now. Most of the time, the departing employee is not exactly top of...
View ArticleLinked – In-office work is the real threat to cybersecurity
There is something to this. How many times has someone fallen victim to phishing or drive-by downloads and wondered why the IT department didn't build better protection? (I've seen it!) The post Linked...
View ArticleLinked – Wait, is cloud bad?
Maybe the big thing is that most companies are not tech companies. They use tech, and they have an IT department, but it's not their core function. If it's not your core function do you want to be in...
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