Part 4 of 16 Degrees? To hell with them. “Only those with a BS or MS need apply.” Talk about an arbitrary discriminator of zero value. By that standard, I am worthlessly unemployable. By that standard, a majority of my […]
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Part 3 of 16 Fast forward. What type of discrimination do we see today? I am focusing on IT and information security. Piercing, tattoos and other body adornments? In my day, long hair and jeans with sneakers were the visual
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Part 2 of 16 Back in the day (1969-70), I desperately wanted to get a tremendous education. I lived in Manhattan and I wanted to go to work at the best company there was at the time and become a
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Part 1 of 16 I was the victim of discrimination. As a white male, at the tender young age of 18, in New York City. But I digress. My ideas on Hiring the Unhireable began at the RSA 2012 conference
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If you’ve ever owned a safety deposit box at a bank—or seen one on TV or in a movie—then you know that it requires two keys to open it. If you recall the beginning of the movie War Games it
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Convincing an unsuspecting treasurer or controller to wire money into the wrong hands seems like a difficult task, however, thieves are proving it’s possible. Whaling attacks, which are specifically directed at senior executives and other high profile targets within businesses
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Hadoop is an open source framework for storing and processing Big Data on large clusters of commodity hardware for massive data storage and faster processing. This would seem to make it a natural hub for all of an enterprise’s data.
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‘Pay up or we’ll take your Website down’, so goes the adage that usually accompanies ransom-based cyber-attacks. Top of the news agenda in recent weeks, well-known names such as Evernote and Feedly have all fallen victim to extortion attacks, but
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Hacktivism has been around since the Cult of the Dead Cow in the 80s; only the names have changed. Where we once heard about Chaos Computer Club and the Legion of Doom, we now have high-profile examples like Anonymous, Anti-Sec,
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According to a survey by the Ponemon Institute 90 percent of the respondents in the survey admitted experiencing leaks of confidential documents over the 12 months prior to the survey. Also, 59 percent of the respondents acknowledged their controls are
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