Imagine if your Web site started moonlighting as a malware factory, or if your hosted phone system became someone else’s call center for a weekend, or if your finance staffer unwittingly turned over banking credentials to a hacker. According to Information Week’s Kevin Casey, any of those scenarios are possible without four security precautions all SMBs should take. Casey interviewed Rick Carlson, president of Panda Security, who has these suggestions. READ MORE
IT managers cite plenty of reasons for not spending money on training their developers, writes Lisa Vaas for Software Quality Connection. Excuses include: Not having a training budget, poor ROI, the necessity of having staff out generating billable hours instead of in training, and arguably the most interesting response—if properly trained, they would go get another job. In other words, writes Vaas, “You like them stupid.” In essence, that’s the message you’re sending if you’re not willing to keep IT staff up to snuff, especially in an age where “highly skilled one day is as good as yesterday’s fish the next day.” READ MORE
