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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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Is an integrated ERP suite or a composable ERP strategy right for you?

CIO Business Intelligence

The end-product is an ERP portfolio built in a modular fashion, which welcomes the use of different technologies and platforms in order to best serve the business. Composable ERP systems often require system administrators and engineers who are accustomed to relying on the outputs of a single vendor, to partake in a paradigm shift.

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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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10 Unbelievable Ways the CIA Is Failing at Cybersecurity

SecureWorld News

Shared passwords and a failure to control access: "Most of our sensitive cyber weapons were not compartmented, users shared systems administrator-level passwords.". Because no one had that ability, no one was accountable—and the mission system in question, like others, lacked appropriate security.".

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Looking beyond linpack: new supercomputing benchmark in the works

Data Center Knowledge

The Linpack will not be laid to rest though – HPCG will serve as a companion ranking of the Top500 list, in a similar fashion to how the Green 500 re-ranks the Top500 according to energy efficiency. He has served many roles in the data center, including support, system administration, web development and facility management.