30 Jan 2012 | James Michael Stewart
15 Tips for Security on a Budget

Security is expensive. Many organizations struggle to deploy sufficient security defenses on a shoestring budget. No security defense is perfect, and you often get what you pay for. However, just because something is expensive does not mean it is great; likewise, just because something is cheap or free does not mean it is worthless. With these suggestions, you may be able to improve your security without breaking the IT budget.

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26 Jan 2012 | Dawn Hopper | CCNP Security, Certification, Cisco, Technology, VPN
CCNP Security Question of the Week

In which of the following methods can a VPN user be automatically associated with a connection profile?

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25 Jan 2012 | Joe Rinehart | CCNA, Cisco, Technology, Training Trends
How to Configure Your CCNA Lab

Now for the fun part of the project: configuring it for actual operation. The “real” configuration tasks will be reserved for lab exercises, but some initial setup helps things run more smoothly. The tasks involved are as follows:

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24 Jan 2012 | Guest Authors | Certification, ITIL, Professional Development
ITIL Question of the Week

Which of the following is an example of the Application Management function?

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20 Jan 2012 | Michael Scarborough | ITIL, Professional Development, Professional Skills
ITIL 2011, How Many Processes (Part 2), or Thank You ITIL 2011 Authors!

Recently we made a blog post that gave a count of the processes described by ITIL 2011. We expected that post to potentially be controversial. We weren’t disappointed.

A comment was made via Twitter. It said, “@GKonITIL: ITIL 2011: How Many Processes? http://​ow​.ly/​8​qxXF #itil 26 + 2 — 2 = 26 but FM has 3 subprocesses, and COM has 4. I’m lost…”

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Cisco’s Vision: Five Future Technology Trends

Cisco CEO John Chambers and CTO Padmasree Warrior say the role of the network is transforming to a point that enables the connections of people, devices, and information. Some of the top trends that they see in the coming years are:

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19 Jan 2012 | Jill Liles | CCNA, Certification, Cisco, Technology
CCNA Question of the Week

Which type of hardware will help eliminate collisions?

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