IDG News Service - In order to keep hackers at bay there must be changes in security budgets and privacy regulations, RSA Executive Chairman Art Coviello said on Tuesday. Coviello opened the RSA Conference Europe 2012 with a keynote that ...
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The government-backed Silicon Roundabout high-tech incubator has been criticised by the think tank Centre for London in a report published today. The report points to a shortage of mentoring facilities, rising rents, inadequate broadband ...
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Despite the fact that technology plays an increasingly important role in the economy, IT wages remain persistently flat. This may be tech's inconvenient truth. The still sluggish U.S. economy gets most of the blame for this wage ...
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Public private partnerships are key to the UK’s cyber security strategy, says Cabinet Office minister for political and constitutional reform, Chloe Smith. “We are all in this together. The government recognizes that and ...
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With cybercrime revealed to cost Scottish businesses an estimated 5bn academics are urging firms to ensure IT staff have the right skills to overcome new and emerging threats. To enable them to do that, Edinburgh Napier University is ...
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Despite the fact that technology is playing an increasingly important role in the U.S. economy, IT wages remain persistently flat. "IT salaries have not really kept pace with inflation," said Victor Janulaitis, CEO of Janco Associates, ...
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A “critical” advanced analytics skills shortage is impeding big data programmes. This is one finding of a research report from IBM and the Sad Business School at the University of Oxford. Analytics: the real-world use of big ...
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When the recession hit in 2008, Congress put the idea of a "skills shortage" and a need for more H-1B visas in a closet. That didn't mean, however, that interest in raising the H-1B cap went away for everyone. New York City Mayor ...
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IBM is opening its first research center in Africa, capping several years of international marketing by the Kenyan government and visits by IBM officials. The center will be at Catholic University of Eastern Africa in Nairobi and will be ...
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There are about 2.2 million people working as information security professionals today, says Hord Tipton, executive officer for security education and credentialing organization (ISC)2 and former CIO of the U.S. Department of the Interior. ...
Many global organisations have failed to implement a data management strategy but will have to as IT leaders need to support big data volumes, velocity and variety, according to a new Gartner report. In its Predicts 2013: Big Data and ...
Software and electronic professionals feel the only way to progress in their career is to move jobs, according to a survey. The poll of over 400 engineers, conducted by employment agency JAM recruitment, found 79% were considering a move ...
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In a Q&A with press at the RSA European conference today,RSA executive chairman Art Coviello revealed how criminals and nation states are working together to launch cyber attacks. Further reading RSA:No successful attacks on customers ...
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RSA chief Art Coviello kicked off RSA Conference Europe 2012 by highlighting the need for enterprises to adopt new ways to ensure cyber security. He said IT leaders should adopt an intelligence-based approach to security that makes use of ...
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RSA,the security arm of storage corporation EMC,today claimed that not one of its customers has been the victim of a successful cyber attack in the past 19 months. Speaking at RSA Conference Europe 2012,RSA president Tom Heiser said that ...