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The Training You Need Vs. The Training You Receive

POSTED BY Robert Klotz AT 11:06 AM 0 COMMENTS
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Monday, February 23, 2009

Being certified on a technology may be a nice to have, but if your are certified on a technology but cant support it in the unique setting which is your specific IT infrastructure, then the certification does not really amount to much.

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Improving Vulnerability and Patch Management

POSTED BY Evan Wheeler AT 10:31 AM 2 COMMENTS
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Thursday, October 15, 2009

If you are a resource administrator, then you probably spend too much time responding to new vulnerability reports and patching systems. For the security folks, you probably spend too much of your time tracking down the status on remediation and trying to qualify new vulnerability notifications. So how can we manage this better?

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The author, Evan Wheeler, is a risk and security expert at Omgeo and an Akibia customer.

The Death of Information Security

POSTED BY Evan Wheeler AT 3:21 PM 0 COMMENTS
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Monday, August 16, 2010

It may be hard for you to imagine a day without an Information Security group, but the truth is that the role of the security team is changing rapidly as priorities shift and other functions become more security savvy. Certainly the responsibilities of the current security team won't ever disappear, but I see more and more organizations adopting a decentralized model of managing information security. We now have robust privacy and compliance functions within many organizations with responsibilities that greatly overlap with the traditional security team. The most significant trend that I see is the move towards a deeper focus on risk management principles.

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Mr. Wheeler is a security expert and an Akibia customer at Omgeo.