Training in Business

Training in Business Resources and Trends

How To Protect Yourself from Malware By Using a Non-Privileged Account

Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Standard security practice for the U.S. federal government and most medium and large enterprises calls for users to run as “Normal User” on the computer at their desk. Also called “Standard User” mode, this prevents employees from becoming an administrator on their work PC. While this helps prevent misconfiguring work computers (and the subsequent helpdesk requests,) this is mainly to prevent malicious software, or malware, from installing on the system and compromising the business’ network or sensitive information.

Read more

National Cyber Security Awareness Month: A Shared Responsibility

Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

October has been designated as National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) by the Department of Homeland Security in cooperation with the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), which was created as a government and industry-driven effort to ensure resources are available to all for staying safe and secure online. NCSAM is celebrating 11 years of reaching consumers, small and medium-size businesses, corporations, educational institutes and young people through cybersecurity education.

Read more

From Angry Birds to Coke: Top 5 Sessions at IBM Enterprise 2014

Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Since Global Knowledge became an IBM Global Training Provider and launched their IBM training practice last year, I’ve been to a total of 10 IBM shows (both hardware and software). It sounds like a huge number in such a short time, but it gets even crazier when you add in the fact that Enterprise 2014 will be the first show I’m attending as a full on alumna. Last year’s show was high energy and for the Global Knowledge team it was like returning to our hometown. We had a big presence and we even ran into some former VMware and Red Hat students, which is always awesome.

Read more