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Have you ever read those inserts that your bank, your credit card companies, your insurance company, your mutual fund company, and others slip inside your statements and bills? We all get them. Those inserts in our bills and financial statements printed Read More...
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According to a Global Knowledge article which cites Forrester Research data, there are 16 hot roles that IT professionals should consider pursuing. The trend toward IT workers taking on multiple responsibilities and filling hybrid positions is in full Read More...
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Computerworld reports today (May 15, 2008) that five federal workers at an Internal Revenue Service office in California have been charged with computer fraud for illegally accessing the confidential records of taxpayers . Now this is the type of news Read More...
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We keep hearing about data being breached, stolen, and nefariously accessed - but what is the cost of such a data breach? Can we calculate, to any degree of accuracy, what it costs an organization when they lose data? Although data breaches are constantly Read More...
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What the data management industry needs is some jail time for high level executives, don't you think? Well, maybe I should back up and qualify that statement a bit. You see, I do a lot of thinking about the state of data management and the IT profession. Read More...
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Computerworld reports that executives at Hannaford Bros. Co. said they expect to spend "millions" of dollars on IT security upgrades in the wake of the recent network intrusion that resulted in the theft of up to 4.2 million credit and debit Read More...
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Data breaches continue to dominate the IT newscape, with bigger and uglier data breaches being announced on a weekly basis. Just in the past couple of days (since April 10, 2008), perhaps 50 thousand or more records were breached in four separate events. Read More...
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Just wanted to bring this article from CNET to the attention of my readers: The IT industry is divided over whether new laws are needed to make the reckless loss of personal information by public and private sector organisations a criminal offence. The Read More...
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With the onslaught of increasing governmental regulations and never-ending news stories on data breaches, securing corporate data is indeed a hot topic these days. You can also see just how hot by taking a look at the recent books published on database Read More...
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I just wanted to quickly call your attention to a nice article on database security published by DM Review this month (November 2007). The article is aptly titled: The Time Has Come for Database Security . I strongly encourage you to give it at least Read More...
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Computerworld reports today (November 28, 2007) that a senior database administrator at a subsidiary of Fidelity National Information Services Inc. (FIS) who was accused of stealing about 8.5 million customer records and selling them to data brokers is Read More...
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Data breaches are constantly in the news these days. Just check out today's latest breach as reported by Computerworld . This one is a whopper: Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling admitted that discs containing the records of up to 25 million Read More...
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Do you know what the privileged users of your database systems are up to? Privileged users are the "super" users and administrators with global, or near global, access to all of the data in your corporate databases. They may be known as SYSADM, Read More...
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This little comic was produced by XKDC ... I gotta admit, I love geek humor. Maybe you do, too? Read More...
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An article in eWeek Magazine this week, entitled The Job of Securing the Database , points out the increasing burden of database security on database administrators. The article cites the many job roles and responsibilities of the DBA and then goes on Read More...
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