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- Insufficient funding for security
- Lack of commitment by senior executive management
- Lack of leadership in the security arena by the CIO
- Belief that the organization will not be targeted
- Lack of internal resources who are "security" experts
- Lack of an effective IT security strategy
- Lack of an action plan on how to implement a solution before an event
- Infrastructure for IT that does not easily lend itself to security implementation including complex and disjointed applications and data
- No central focus with the enterprise that focuses on security
- Lack of a good termination policy for employees and contractors
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IT hiring stalls as AI hype, layoffs, tariffs, and economic uncertainty collide
AI, layoffs, tariffs, and economic uncertainty collide to stall hiring of IT Pros. The hint of optimism found in February's tech jobs numbers has been dashed. According to multiple analyses of the latest data out from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics for March.
February's stats from Janco Associates and CompTIA's reports may have sent mixed messages, but March is looking clearer, which isn't to say encouraging. And this is all before the ongoing fallout from President Trump's staggering global tariff war.
According to Janco's latest report, terminations have outpaced hiring for IT professionals in each of the past three quarters. At the same time, IT unemployment in the US peaked at 5.7 percent in January and remains elevated at 5.0 percent in March, higher than the national average of 4.1 percent, though that's more about people leaving the industry than landing new jobs.
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- Janco quoted in "The Register"
2025 Edition IT Job Descriptions
331 IT Job Descriptions - Available for download
focus on AI and LLM
Janco has just release it 2025 Edition of it IT Job Descriptions. The firm continues to update its inventory of job descriptions considering new techologies, compliance requirements, career planing, setting pay grades and accomplishing this in was that mets the needs of todays high-tech environment.
The 331 positions include all of the functions within the IT group. The Job Descriptions have been updated to be compliant with PCI-DSS, GDPR, Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, CobiT, and the ITIL standards. The job descriptions are all structured to focus on "Best Practices" as defined by the IT Productivity Center to meet the requirements of World Class Enterprises. They are ready to use and easily modified to meet your enterprise's unique requirements.
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- 2025 Edition IT Job Descriptions
IT Governance Infrastructure Defined
IT Governance checklist and employee termination electronic forms
Information Technology is undergoing a rapid evolution as the importance of social media and the digital resources are changing the ways that enterprises operate, employees and enterprise associates interact on a day-to-day basis, and customers and suppliers access enterprise assets remotely.
The WFH options available for service centers and help desk support are driving change and IT infrastructure needs to adapt.
The CIO Infrastructure Management Tool Kit versions each contain some of essential tools that your enterprise needs as it creates budgets and sets priorities. The bundles include the IT Infrastructure, Strategy and Charter Template, Janco's latest IT salary data, the Business Impact and Application Questionnaire, Service Level Policy Template with sample metrics, Functional Specification Template, and the Practical Guide for IT Outsourcing.
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Top 10 Causes of Security Shortfalls
Security Manual Template Defines Best Practices
one out of ten CIOs and CFOs feel they do not have an adequate security strategy in place and are reactive when an incident does occur. The top 10 reasons for security shortfalls are:
Janco reviewed of over 200 incidents found the frequency of these types of breach losses:
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- Top 10 Causes of Security Shortfalls
49 million customers face Dell data Breach
Security Policies and Procedures - First Step in Data Breach Protection
Data breaches will happen. Security and data breach protection are a never-ending process and that no CIO or CSO can claim that their data is completely secure.
The sheer number of data breaches reported this year alone has led to security experts dubbing this year as the "Year of the Hack. " What's an organization to do when the major technology companies are admitting they have been breached? With sophisticated malware, advanced attacks and sneaky insiders, security seems like an unattainable goal. Security is everyone's responsibility, from the board of directors, c-level executives such as the CEO, CIO, CFO, down to the front-line employees who actually work daily with sensitive information.
Dell Breach
The stolen data consists of about 7 million individual/personal purchase data, with 11 line items of consumer segment company data.
The impacted database contained entries from enterprise clients, partners, educational, institutions, and other entries. A hacker has posted the data is up for sale to a single buyer for an undisclosed amount.
There were implications in the post that the data might also consist of some sensitive information. "I don't have email/phone for this 49 million but I do have email & phone number of some several thousand other customers. All recent", the hacker posted.
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- 49 million customers face Dell data Breach
