An IT contractor by design, is a person who can enter a client's site and very quickly become the expert within that entity, It is a requirement that we become the most knowledgeable person within that particular infrastructure or our clients would benifit more by training up an FTE.
In the words of Albert Einstien:
When asked for his telephone number, he walked over to a telephone directory, and looked it up saying to a rather surprised onlooker " An intelligent man is not a man who can store information, but a man who knows how to find it".
With experience we IT Contractors understand better than anyone how technology and heterogeneous environments communicate, and knowing how to find information makes us experts in our chosen fields.
This allows us to be the greatest benifit to our clients. I hope you enjoy this site.
As unified communication technologies mature, the focus is shifting from making a business case for UC to concrete and tangible deployment issues. To succeed, it is critical that business leaders, IT managers and planners understand where UC solutions offer value and how they improve competitiveness.
UC is designed to eliminate the barriers that have traditionally separated voice calls, email, instant messaging and conferencing in all forms. Once these communication media are carried over a common IP network, it is possible to manage them from a single point and use them with common devices, enabling companies to transform key business processes with improved communication flows.
Security is an ever moving target that must be continually managed and refined to ensure appropriate confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the services and systems that are critical to your business, as well as the valuable information that is often at the heart of the organisations we defend.
The stream of news stories highlighting loss of customer information and proprietary data (among other drivers) are prompting many of us to take a step back and re-evaluate the infrastructure at large, and our security tools within that infrastructure.
I was getting caught up today on my backlog of security blog reading, and noted that Ivan Ristic had a good post on his prediction that 2008 will be the year that the web application firewall 'takes off' in the mainstream market as opposed to simply being viewed as a security geek's toy.
Ivan considers how pervasive network firewalls have become (no IT manager in his/her right mind would even consider running a network without one) but the same consciousness doesn't yet exist regarding application firewalls. The same managers that believe in network firewalls are rolling the dice every day hoping that the web applications they've deployed publicly don't get compromised - even though they know the network firewalls do nothing to protect their web apps. Reminds me of some research that Gunnar Peterson did that shows the silliness of this comparative ignorance.
