Create Value with an IT Business Credential

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The Better Business Bureau is the most recognized accreditation in North America. When an informed consumer sees the BBB logo on a front door, it typically gives them a sense of security, knowing the company has made a commitment to uphold certain standards. Meeting specific accreditation criteria should be achievable for most well-managed organizations and gaining the endorsement of a respected industry association can be invaluable to your business.

Regin: Top-Tier Espionage Tool Enables Stealthy Surveillance

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A back door-type Trojan, Regin is a complex piece of malware whose structure displays a degree of technical competence rarely seen. Customizable with an extensive range of capabilities depending on the target, it provides its controllers with a powerful framework for mass surveillance and has been used in spying operations against government organizations, infrastructure operators, businesses, researchers, and private individuals.

Channel the power of partnering

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With customers moving to the cloud, the challenges facing their channel providers are growing. In fact, over 40 percent of channel providers say the cloud is driving them in new directions, according to a recent survey by CompTIA, a nonprofit trade group. In the same survey, nearly as many channel providers also said their customers are demanding new services and IT delivery models.

Feeling Thankful for Human Interaction

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Humans have become adept at automating everything, and we’re rapidly replacing human effort with mechanization and/or computerization. We have found a way to automate more and more tasks in our factories, schools, medicine, even communication! While this is often a good thing, we’re also coming to terms with the fact that we can’t (and shouldn’t) […]

Difficult Negotiation Going Nowhere? Consider an Apology

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If you’ve ever offended a fellow negotiator with words or actions, you know how hard it can be to make amends. In past issues of Negotiation Briefings (February 2009, June 2010), we have described how effective a simple apology can be in bringing parties back together and restoring trust.

TED: Pico Iyer: The art of stillness - Pico Iyer (2014)

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The place that travel writer Pico Iyer would most like to go? Nowhere. In a counterintuitive and lyrical meditation, Iyer takes a look at the incredible insight that comes with taking time for stillness. In our world of constant movement and distraction, he teases out strategies we all can use to take back a few minutes out of every day, or a few days out of every season. It’s the talk for anyone who feels overwhelmed by the demands for our world.

Robert DeNiro Leaves Conflict Management to the Courts

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To many of his neighbors in rural Gardiner, New York, actor Robert DeNiro’s decision to challenge the property assessment on his 98-acre property in 2010 seemed perfectly reasonable. DeNiro bought the property through the Riverside Trust, a legal entity, for $1.5 million in 1997. At the time, the riverfront property in Ulster County was 78 acres and included a renovated 18th-century farmhouse, writes Matt A.V. Chaban in an article in the New York Times.

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