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CIOs Deal With Password Lockout Challenges

The Accidental Successful CIO

If you put yourself in the shoes of a system administrator, you need to think about how it would look if you increased the number of permitted tries, and then the system then gets compromised. In most organizations, the system administrator would be held accountable.

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CTOvision Named One Of The Top 50 Must-Read IT Blogs In The US

CTOvision

With the help of our readers during the nominations round and through some good old fashioned sleuthing on the Internet, we believe we've pulled together an all-star list of blogs. Some of the blogs on our list are perfect for system administrators while others will appeal to IT managers, such as CIOs and chief technology officers.

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Microsoft's monthlong delay of patches may pose risks

Network World

They are aware of vulnerabilities in their products and have developed fixes; those should always be made available to customers in a timely fashion." The company did not initially specify for how long the patches will be postponed, which likely threw a wrench in some systems administrators' patch deployment plans.

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The Challenges in Building Digital Trust

SecureWorld News

System administrators didn't bother locking down their systems, because the possibility of bad actors using them didn't really cross their minds. So what have we been able to accomplish before in a public health fashion on a culture-wide basis? An example is construction site safety.

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Matching the UI to the User

Sean Daniel

Recently, I was the product manager working on Notarize.com , a new product to enable American's to get documents Notarized in a digital fashion, without the beige carpeted walls of an antique Notary office (at least that's how the one looked like that I went to when I was desperate one day!).

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Forget the FUD: VMware NSX and Cisco ACI SDN solutions

Virtualized Greek

VMware wants to stop nothing short of disrupting the network industry in the same fashion in which they have the 86x server industry. The approach does give organizations the option to outsource the physical network in a similar fashion to how MPLS is done today. Cisco’s claim is that their ACI approach is one system.

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Understanding VMware vCloud vs. Openstack

Virtualized Greek

I’m not a fashion guy but I know if I buy a pair of Nike Air Jordans and a Air Jordan Jump Suit then I have a pretty good idea that I will have a matching outfit without much thought. If the end customer are other administrators then it’s easy to design a consumption model based on provisioning virtual machines or vApps.

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