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Hinder the Hacker: 5 Password Protection Tips

November 26, 2012 Kathy Miller Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Everyone creates a password with one thing in mind: keeping data secure. But creating a password and keeping up with it is never easy. Many people average ten or more passwords for various home or office accounts, social media sites, and e-mail. Passwords are the first defense against intrusion and are created for safekeeping of personal information.

Use these tips to improve password management and make passwords stronger and easier to remember.

Security+ Exam Prep Question of the Week

November 23, 2012 James Michael Stewart Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

VLANs represent what? Virtualized honey pots IP subnetting hardware imposed network segmentation wireless accessible service network The correct answer is 3. A VLAN is a network segmentation created by a switch. Thus, it is a hardware imposed network segmentation. Related Courses Security+ Certification Boot Camp (SYO-301) Security+ Prep Course (SYO-301) CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP) […]

Common Network Routing Protocols and Threat Consequences

November 21, 2012 Michael Scarborough Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

RFC 4593 was released in 2006 and is titled Generic Threats to Routing Protocols. In this RFC, several threats to routing protocols are identified. This RFC focused on commonly used network protocols, including OSPF, IS-IS, RIP, and BGP.

To fully understand the threat consequences to routing protocols, it’s useful to consider what routing protocols do.

The 411 from the 2012 Hadoop World and Cloudera

November 19, 2012 Ron Wen Cloudera, Technology, Training in Business

With the completion of Hadoop World 2012 in New York City, it was no surprise that there would be a flurry of announcements from Cloudera and of course, exciting news for Apache Hadoop practitioners!

Beyond the move to a new logo and tagline (which is quite nice) and a brand new Cloudera website design (very nice!), Cloudera’s biggest announcement focused on what had traditionally been a weakness for open source Apache Hadoop: its focus on batch-processing queries. Enter Impala, a real-time query engine that allows users to directly query data in HDFS and HBase through Hive SQL. And the beauty of it all is that Impala is 100% open-source code and currently available as a beta release. Expect the production release to hit in early 2013.

Team Leadership training will enable you become a more effective leader

October 23, 2012 progressivetrainingcourses.co.uk business training, Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, leadership training courses, management courses, management training, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, team leadership courses, team leadership skills, team leadership training, Technology, Training in Business

The saying leaders are born and not made is not entirely accurate, as those who said so are probably unaware of team leadership training. Fact of the matter is, companies have spent a significant amount of money every year to coach their managers to become better and effective leaders. And the most important thing is; […]