Train the Trainer – Techniques that Constantly Inspire Successful Trainers

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called “truth.” – Dan Rather Teachers as primary Role Models do experience stress Teachers and mentors are the special few who pursue their careers in showing us […]

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Business Training Enhances Your Management Development

Getting yourself and your business tuned for Management Development is a very crucial aspect and so are the various categories of available business training methods. Remember that an organisation’s development needs would include numerous strategically planned and executed policies, extending from micro management to the macro management system. Successful management warrants the recognition of crucial […]

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PMP Certification Tips and Tricks

Scared of the work experience section of the PMP application? After reading several blog posts it sounds like a lot of people are. Documenting 4,500 hours of Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling, and Closing is cumbersome, but I have developed a couple of tricks that helped me get started and I hope will help you.

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What are Zero Day Exploits?

For several years many articles about computer, network, or Internet compromise mention the phrase “zero day exploit” or “zero day attack,” but rarely do these articles define what this is. A zero day exploit is any attack that was previously unknown to the target or security experts in general. Many believe that the term refers to attacks that were just released into the wild or developed by hackers in the current calendar day.

This is generally not the case. The “zero day” component of the term refers to the lack of prior knowledge about the attack. The main feature of a zero day attack is that since it’s an unknown attack, there are no specific defenses or filters for it. Thus, a wide number of targets are vulnerable to the exploit.

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QoS: Keeping it Simple

Quality of Service (QoS) is a topic that causes a lot of debate and confusion in the networking community. Over the years, I’ve seen many implementations that were not effective for various reasons, mostly because they were either over-engineered or they fell short and did not protect the critical flows adequately. As a result, I found an approach that is very effective and quite simple and provides a QoS policy that is “just right” and can grow if required. The goal of this series of posts is not to teach you the ins and outs of implementation but to educate you enough about QoS so that you can build a QoS policy that is just right for your network.

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