Are Boot Camps Necessary?

Last week while running a Project Management Professional (PMP) preparation boot camp for Global Knowledge, I looked around the room as students completed practice questions, and I had all kinds of ideas. These hard-working professionals pay a lot of money to attend a grueling week of preparation. Maybe I shouldn’t ask a question that so clearly affects my livelihood, but I had to ask myself if taking a boot camp is really worth it.

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Protecting SAP HANA from Decrypting Eyes

Cyber-attacks are a painful reality in today’s ultra-connected world of gadgets, global positioning and gigabytes of everything. It’s very likely that if you’re reading this, you’ve been a victim of some form of cybercrime in the last 12 months. Whether from an attack on your health insurance provider, a mass credit card hack, or intrusion of your favorite big box retailer — malicious invasions come in many different forms and we’re all susceptible. This is especially true for high-profile organizations and mainstream corporations. Who can forget the near constant coverage of the Sony Pictures hack in 2014 that resulted in thousands of confidential articles and emails exposed to the world?

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