Technology

What If Facebook Were Required at Work?

December 17, 2014 Mike Lewis Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Facebook’s recent venture toward enterprise offerings elicits some level of reaction from everyone reading the stories. Some will smile and hope for the day Facebook is a part of their daily “production” tool set, while others will frown and hope it never happens. In for-profit organizations tools are created, deployed or allowed in order to increase profits. If Facebook can increase profits, many enterprises will welcome it with open arms and tell the IT, security and legal teams to figure it out. So let’s assume Facebook is not only in, but that it is a work requirement.

Learnings Missing Piece The Importance of On the Job Training

December 17, 2014 Training Industry Articles Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Employees are often trained away from where they work, whether it’s down the hall or on the other side of the country. This traditional approach puts a wall between what employees learn and what they do. On-the-job training can break down this wall.

A+ Question of the Week: Fire Extinguishers

December 17, 2014 Toby Skandier Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Which class of fire extinguisher should be kept on hand for possible electrical fires that might be caused by a short in the power supply?

The Art of Deception: Stories of How We All Get Phished

December 16, 2014 David Willson Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Are you like most people who associate cyber, cyber security, data breaches and other similar terms with computers and technology? When you hear about a data breach in the news, do you immediately wonder which technical vulnerability was exploited? This is probably the reason why so many companies believe that a breach won’t happen to their company. They believe hackers only exploit technical vulnerabilities and somehow their tools and techniques for securing data are better than everyone else’s. Regardless of the reason, most are ignoring the one weak link in the chain that is more easily exploited than most technical vulnerabilities but much more difficult to mitigate — the end-user. The employee with access to the network is by far a much greater threat than just about any technical vulnerability. One click and your network is compromised.

Common Project Manager Mistakes: #4 Murphy vs. Parkinson

December 16, 2014 Samuel Brown Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

We all know Murphy’s Law: Anything that can go wrong will go wrong. It’s thanks to our deep and abiding faith in Murphy’s Law that many of us, and most of the folks on our teams, always add a bit of “padding” to our estimates. We’ve got to allow for Murphy’s impact. Though we joke a lot about Murphy’s Law, we have learned through consistent and often difficult experiences that something will not go as planned so we had better build in some safety to give us a chance to deal with the problems.