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	Best practices to close the door to spear-phishing attacks Security firm Trend Micro has identified spear-phishing emails as a top vector for allowing advanced persistent threats (APTs) onto company networks. Attackers use personal information to gain a victim's confidence and then zap him or her with malware that can scout for and exfiltrate confidential data. Share these best practices with your colleagues to "avoid the spear." Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Ipswitch Wired & Wireless Networks? WhatsUp Gold can help! As an IT manager, you're busy taking care of the availability, performance & security of your company's IT infrastructure. But things like BYOD, rogue devices, AP over-subscription & bandwidth policy abuse can make that complex. WhatsUp Gold provides ONE dashboard to visualize, isolate & resolve wireless problems before they impact your organization. Stop being the last to know about your wireless issues- Try WhatsUp Gold free for 30 days! In this Issue The Top 10 Priorities for CIOs in 2013 9 Ways to Sell Your IT Outsourcing Plan to the CFO CIO succession: Promote from within vs. hire an outsider Tim Cook: Steve Jobs told me never to ask 'what would Steve have done?' WHITE PAPER: Coyote Point MS Exchange Deployment Guide This Deployment Guide provides detailed instruction for running Exchange 2010 with Coyote Point's Equalizer®, a qualified hardware vendor for load balancing Exchange Server 2010 View Now The Top 10 Priorities for CIOs in 2013 As we head into the new year, IDG Enterprise CEO Michael Friedenberg pairs his list of favorite quotes with questions to spark your thinking Read More WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Xeon® processors Advances in Deduplication Help Tame Big Data A converged storage strategy can help companies more easily deal with the various storage challenges they face, including the increasing amounts of unstructured data they must manage. Also known as big data, unstructured data includes any data that is not in a structured database format. Read Now! 9 Ways to Sell Your IT Outsourcing Plan to the CFO CFOs are becoming increasingly involved in corporate IT outsourcing decisions. However, the CIO team doesn't always speak the same language as the CFO team. Here are nine steps you can take to more successfully bring your outsourcing case to finance. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed CIO's Guide to Advanced Consolidation Consolidating IT infrastructures is a continuing trend, particularly in an uncertain economy with organizations looking to reduce costs. Learn more. CIO succession: Promote from within vs. hire an outsider Tapping an outsider can bring fresh perspective and experience to the CIO's office, but it also can have a negative effect on companies' efforts to develop IT management talent internally Read More Tim Cook: Steve Jobs told me never to ask 'what would Steve have done?' Apple CEO Tim Cook has revealed that the company's late co-founder Steve Jobs advised him never to ask 'what would Steve have done?' Read More
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