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Steve – IT Unwrapped for Sunday June 12, 2011
This week we are talking about vendor experiences, the state of the IT job market, more RSA security fallout and some of our favorite community posts
Interesting things through the week
- Steve: A vendor shipped us a PC with an expired password and the account was prevented from changing the password. Had to set BIOS date back in order to reset.
Topics
- IT worker demand remains robust despite slow economy InfoWorld
- Tech unemployment is roughly half of the national average for other occupations
- Especial growth in Mobile, virtualization, and cloud skills
- The data breaches in the news means that now is a good time for infosec workers
- RSA offering SecurID replacements following Lockheed Martin attack Link
- “However, many RSA channel partners contend that the security company’s efforts came too little too late, following more than two months after the breach was first detected, and only after a high-profile company disclosed that they were the victim of a cyber attack”
- Art Coviello executive chairman of RSA open letter
- International Monetary Fund says it’s been a victim of a sophisticated cyberattack
- http://www.itnews.com/data-breach/33438/imf-victim-sophisticated-cyberattack-says-report
- “potentially puts sensitive, confidential data about national economies at risk of exposure”
- IMF oversees the global financial system
Community Post
- Sonicwall WAPS (Spiceworks)
- users trash their computers to get upgrades http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/135827-users-trash-computers-for-upgrades
- (if there’s time)
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