ISACA introduces Cybersecurity Nexus program to help fill the infosec skills gap

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	ISACA introduces Cybersecurity Nexus program to help fill the infosec skills gap You may know ISACA as an organization for information governance, control, security and audit professionals. The membership organization is well known for its COBIT business framework for the governance and management of enterprise IT. This week ISACA is launching a new program, Cybersecurity Nexus, to provide comprehensive expert-level cybersecurity resources tailored to each stage in a cybersecurity professional's career. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: SAP The Keys To Boosting PSO Success Professional services organizations (PSOs) strive to help their clients' businesses run more smoothly. But what are they doing to make their own businesses run more efficiently? One method for success with proven results: deploying technology, from vendors such as SAP, that delivers both internal efficiency and external results. Learn how to deliver a higher percentage of on-time, on-budget project completions, boost revenue and customer retention, and ultimately improve profit margins. In this Issue CIOs Face BYOD Hard Reality: Employees Don't Care 4 things to do now to get ready for the Internet of Things Cloud computing confronts critical crossroads Enterprises Need Outside-In Continuous Monitoring for Risk Management Career alert: A Master of analytics degree is the ticket -- if you can get into class How the Collaborative Economy Will Change the Way You Do Business Salesforce.com takes a cue from Amazon's Mayday with 'SOS' for service US tech spending to see 'solid, steady growth' this year and next, Forrester says Public cloud market ready for 'hyergrowth' period Is There Any Digital Marketing Value in New Breed of Social Apps? Review: Affordable videoconferencing for real conference rooms WHITE PAPER: Dell Software Protect your organization while supporting mobility and BYOD Check out this new white paper to learn how Dell Mobility Solutions for security can help protect your organization's information, systems and networks while simplifying administration and supporting employees with forward-thinking mobility initiatives for a range of devices and operating systems. Learn more CIOs Face BYOD Hard Reality: Employees Don't Care Firing a worker for not reporting a lost or stolen tablet or smartphone may seem extreme, but at some companies things have come to that. How can CIOs get workers to take BYOD policies seriously? Read More 4 things to do now to get ready for the Internet of Things As CIO at Boeing, Ted Colbert is no stranger to the Internet of Things. For more than a decade, the aerospace giant has deployed thousands of communications-enabled smart devices to sense, control and exchange data across the factory floor, on the battlefield, and within the company's 787 Dreamliner aircraft. Read More Cloud computing confronts critical crossroads It's been an amazingly busy period for the cloud computing industry. A multitude of powerful forces – both positive and negative – are simultaneously buffeting the industry, and their combined effects could dramatically affect the landscape for both consumer and enterprise users of cloud computing services. Read More : RES Software Intuit Turns to Self-Service IT Intuit empowered its users to resolve their own IT issues with a consumer-like experience to free IT to focus on more strategic initiatives. See how Intuit got here Learn more Enterprises Need Outside-In Continuous Monitoring for Risk Management Ask any CISO what their job entails and they are likely to respond with a common mantra: Assess IT risk, communicate IT risk to business executives, and then create and execute a mutually agreed upon plan to address risk. In the past, CISOs concentrated this effort on internal IT but this internal focus is becoming increasingly myopic because: 1. Outsiders have network access. Enterprises... Read More Career alert: A Master of analytics degree is the ticket -- if you can get into class The toughest part about earning a Master of Science in Analytics at North Carolina State University may be deciding which job to accept. Read More How the Collaborative Economy Will Change the Way You Do Business The Internet puts the goods, services and expertise you need at your fingertips. Some call it a 'collaborative economy' focused less on transactions and more on trades. Others see a throwback to the early days of economic exchange. Either way, it's quickly changing the way we do business. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® IDC Analyst Connection - Converged Systems: Key Requirements The following questions were posed by HP to Jed Scaramella, research director for IDC's Enterprise Platforms and Datacenter Trends practice, on behalf of HP's customers. Learn More>> Salesforce.com takes a cue from Amazon's Mayday with 'SOS' for service Salesforce.com was so impressed by the Mayday customer support feature that Amazon.com rolled out for its Kindle Fire HDX tablets that it's now working to create its own version. Read More US tech spending to see 'solid, steady growth' this year and next, Forrester says Combined U.S. business and consumer spending on technology will rise 5.3 percent this year to US$1.315 trillion and 6.0 percent to $1.4 trillion in 2015, thanks to an improving economy and an acceleration in purchases by businesses and government agencies, according to Forrester Research. Read More Public cloud market ready for 'hyergrowth' period The public cloud market is set for what one analyst firm calls 'hypergrowth.' Read More Is There Any Digital Marketing Value in New Breed of Social Apps? The road to revenue for ephemeral and anonymous apps like Snapchat, Secret and Whisper is uncharted. How these social apps will ever achieve a level of revenue that would justify their sky-high valuations is foggy at best. 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