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AT&T Becomes the Latest Company Affected by Data Breach

CTOvision

The urgency of improving information security cannot be understated. Since the widely publicized attack on Target Corporation, data breaches have become increasingly common – sensitive information stored with both eBay and the California Department of Motor Vehicles has been compromised in the last six months alone.

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Network jobs watch: Hiring, skills and certification trends

Network World

In the past 12 months, telecommunications lost 26,400 jobs, content providers lost 9,300 jobs, and other information services lost 10,300 jobs,” said M. ISC2 Certification Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP): This certification consistently delivers an average annual salary of $156,699, according to Skillsoft.

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Mastercard preps for the post-quantum cybersecurity threat

CIO Business Intelligence

The goal was to conduct an inventory of the types of networking capabilities within Mastercard’s network, which has thousands of endpoints connected with a few different telecommunications capabilities. “We CIO 100, Data and Information Security, Quantum Computing

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What is the OSI model? How to explain and remember its 7 layers

Network World

The Open Systems Interconnect (OSI) model is a conceptual framework that describes networking or telecommunications systems as seven layers, each with its own function. Knowing where the majority of your company’s data is held, whether on-premises or in cloud services, will help define your information security policy,” writes Bilotia.

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What makes a CIO truly great?

CIO Business Intelligence

Achieving that requires a wide range of knowledge, but for CIOs, the basic building blocks of tech know-how can’t be overlooked: data management, infrastructure and operations, telecommunications and networks, and information security and privacy. Twenty years ago, CIOs had to be knowledgeable about enterprise systems.

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6 legal ‘gotchas’ that could sink your CIO career

CIO Business Intelligence

Employee issues must be documented In my first IT manager’s job, I walked into a situation where my telecommunications supervisor was abusive to her staff and didn’t know the job herself. CIOs should be personally engaged in this process, because ignorance when you are ultimately in charge is not a defense in a security breach suit.

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Blockchain partner settlement: combining open source, AI and blockchain to grow the 5G ecosystem

TM Forum

The access party provides organization and host information, binds the key and certificate to the new node, then the new organization joins the genesis block and executes the transaction. The settlement chain is based on smart contracts, which encrypts settlement data, public parameters, and rules on the chain. Meta description.