As a professional involved in enterprise information security, your value to an employer is diminished if your focus is limited to security technology alone. You also need to build up your ability to integrate security into enterprise solutions, and have awareness of industry specific regulations.

Relative to security technology itself, enterprises seem to distinguish candidates according to their particular technology background, particularly (Wikipedia definitions):

Network security: consists of the provisions and policies adopted by the network administrator to prevent and monitor unauthorized access, misuse, modification, or denial of … Continue Reading

I don’t know about you, but I have been so immersed in helping clients, that I have been ignoring yet another trend and popular term that do not seem to be going away.

I can no longer continue to acknowledge having an awareness of  the term with no real clue what it is all about.

“Big Data” seems to be real.  Bummer.  I have to concentrate and really think about something new.

You should too. This ComputerWorld article makes it easy to learn and digest.  Voilà,  you are now a “Big Data” guru!