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Disaster Recovery Template
A disaster recovery is a response to a declared disaster or a regional disaster. It is the restoration or recovery of an entire Agent computer. A disaster recovery plan describes how an organization is to deal with potential disasters.

The DRP template includes everything needed to customize the Disaster Recovery Plan to fit your specific requirement. More...
Security Manual Template
Most companies have initiated the necessary steps to safeguard their company assets. Information security has moved from a business cost to a business enabler. However, new threats and technologies are constantly and rapidly changing the network landscape. System administrators must scan the network continually for known security weaknesses, keep their skills current and, most important, reexamine corporate security policies periodically.

The IT Security Manual Template provides all the essential sections of a complete security manual and walks you through the creation of each step.. More...
Job Descriptions
The Internet and IT Position Descriptions HandiGuide® was completed in 2011 and is over 660 pages; which includes sample organization charts, a job progression matrix, and 243 Internet and IT job descriptions.  The book also addresses Fair Labor Standards, the ADA, and is in a new easier to read format. More...

 

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IT Salary Survey

Join in our January 2010 IT Salary Survey. If you provide us with one data point we will send you the summary as soon as the survey is release. If you provide us with ten (10) or more data points we will send you a full copy of the survey.

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Security Policies & Procedures
Most enterprises face data security breaches because of lost or stolen laptops, PDAs, SmartPhones, and USB storage devices.  Industry experts have found that:  

  • Laptop and mobile device theft is experienced by 50% of security professionals
  • Every 50 seconds a laptop goes missing - and that is just at U.S. airports
  • 85% of privacy and security professionals had at least one reportable breach in the past 12 months
  • The cost of recovering from a single data breach now averages $6.3 million
  • 66% of data breaches involved data the victim did not know was on the system. 


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IT Salaries Fall -- Hiring at All Time Low

As the economy continues to languish, IT salary trends offer little hope to both working and unemployed IT professionals, as companies cut wages and fewer high-tech positions become available due to attrition.

Janco Associates has released data from its 2009 Mid Year IT Salary Survey that proves compensation for high-tech workers isn't improving, but declining as more companies prepare themselves for a long economic recovery.  Preliminary data that Janco has reviewed for the third quarter of 2009 and budgets for 2010 show the same disturbing trend.

IT Salaries Fall

"The current economic climate with its cost-cutting mind-sets, business closures and extensive outsourcing has put such a great pressure on the IT job market that overall pay has been impacted," said Victor Janulaitis, CEO of Janco, in a statement. "Added to that, many baby-boomers who had planned on retiring in the next few years are not leaving the job market and you have more potential employees than positions available." 

Enterprises that participate will be sent a summary of the January 2010 IT Salary Survey when it is released.

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Free Fall in Job Market -- Is It Over Yet?

succession planSince November of 2008, IT employment has declined by nearly 250,000 jobs, or 6 percent, after peaking that month at 4.058 million jobs. However, only 1,100 jobs were lost in August, or a .03 percent decline.
The U.S. Commerce Department has reported that the U.S. economy grew by a 3.5 percent annual rate in the last quarter.

In the past few weeks more layoffs continue to be announced.  Just this month alone Adobe announced 680, Sprint another 2,500, and Electrinic Arts 1,500 to note a few. 

IT employment is in a trough and so is the pay, according to Janco Associates a Park City UT based research group that studies IT compensation. (see IT Salary Survey). Janco said "... in 2009 compensation for IT professionals has been cut by the largest amount in nearly two decades.  For example, the  government index of real average weekly earnings down 1.9 percent since its high point last December. And the average workweek - now down to 33 hours - is the shortest on modern record."

 Job Recession

Jobs board Dice.com reported 53,400 jobs posted curretntly as compared with 75,600 in November of 2008. IT jobs continue to move overseas.  Janco predicts that recovery will not happen in IT until eary in 2011.

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