Enterprise Wide Licenses

You can order an enterprise wide license for Janco's templates, white papers, policies, and procedures. The license allows you to to place the product on your enterprise's INTRANET (not INTERNET) and they can be shared by groups/ divisions/data centers within a single Country / DUNS number. If you need to share it with more groups please contact us at 435 940-9300.

The products that you can purchase enterprise licenses for include:

Disaster Recovery Template
Security Manual Template
IT Salary Survey
IT Salary Survey 10 year comparative study
Functional Specification Template
Safety Program Template
IT Infrastructure, Strategy & Charter Template
IT Service Management Template
Practical Guide IT Outsourcing
Client Server Management HandiGuide
Internet & IT Position Descriptions HandiGuide
Metrics for the Internet & IT HandiGuide
Internet & PC Workstation Polices & Procedures
Business & IT Impact Questionnaire
Threat & Vulnerability Assessment Tool

IT Management News

Mobile devices are the bane of many CIOs concerns

January 27th, 2012
As more companies embrace the broad usage of individually-owned mobile devices for access to corporate applications and data, CIO are asked for guidance on the establishment of an associated device usage policy.

Every organization needs to identify and develop mobile security policies to be deployed which will provide adequate protection. The level of protection has to be aligned with the level of risk that your organization is willing to accept. These policies should ensure that the many regulatory or compliance concerns that might be applicable are addressed.

Only by a partnership of information technology (IT), human resource (HR), finance, and legal teams - working closely with your executive team and business unit managers - can determine the exact corporate liable and/or individual liable policy that best fits your company, meets its financial goals and objectives, and takes into account security, legal, regulatory, tax, or other requirements and considerations that may uniquely apply to your company and its operations.
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Will IT spending increase in 2012

January 14th, 2012
IT spending is expected to increase in 2012. After years of budgets crimped by the economy, there is significant pent-up demand at companies around the globe to drop some extra cash for the products and services theyve been waiting for to drive business forward. But weve heard this song before. One research fiorm that was bullish on IT spending last year, said that it could rise somewhat significantly in 2012, yet in its latest report the research firm acknowledges that its estimates might have been too optimistic. Global spending on IT spending will still be up, the company says, but dont expect it to rise too quickly.

Janco has found that consultants and contractors are starting to be hired again.

The salary survey is updated twice a year; once in January and then again in July. You can get a free copy of the full survey if you provide 10 valid data points and use a corporate email address. Free email accounts like gmail or yahoo do not qualify as we have no way to verify the accuracy of the data provided.

The report is updated twice a year, once in January and second time in July. The unemployment data on this page is updated at least once a month and is based on the Bureau of Labor Statistics data.

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New Facts of Life For the CIO and IT Management

January 8th, 2012
The world has changed and the CIO and IT managers need to face the new realities. They include:

iPhone and Tablet are here to stay

CIO and IT department no longer are in control of how technology is used by you enterprise

There will always be some downtime

Systems will not be 100% compliant all of the time

The cloud will not be the solution for all problems and will case new ones

There will never be enough capital and staff to get what needs to be completed done

The network has already been compromised

Social networking use risks all of your company's secrets

Users will always need your support even for technology that you have not implemented

IT will continue to be viewed as a service organization
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Compliance Best Practices

January 4th, 2012
Security compliance best practices include:

Combine written content, usage, and retention policies with a Hosted Managed Email Archiving Service to ensure an organization's ability to preserve, locate, and produce legally valid email evidence. Unmanaged email and other record management solutiond can trigger financial, productivity, and legal issues for your organization when it a finds itself in a workplace lawsuit. The cost and time required to produce subpoenaed email, retain legal counsel, secure expert witnesses, mount a legal battle, and cover jury awards and settlements is ver costly. Best practices call for a proactive approach to email and business records management.
Utilize a proven archiving technology to ensure forensic compliance. For example, by encrypting and archiving a copy of every business record and internal and external email sent or received and across the organization, a Hosted Managed Email Archiving Service solution guarantees that your email is secure and tamperproof. Nothing in your archive can be deleted or altered. Everything in your archive is legally compliant.
Ensure that financial data and related documents are effectively protected from malware, viruses, and other malicious intruders - and are preserved in a legally compliant manner in order to maximize SOX, GLBA, SEC, FINRA, and PCI DSS compliance. This includes having solutions in place to manage messaging threats and compling with regulatory requirements including Email Anti-Virus, Email Archiving, Email Continuity, and Email Content Control.
Meet HIPAA requirements by using formal policies, employee training, and technology including email
Archiving, Anti-Virus, Continuity, and Content Control Services to ensure compliant use of email to transmit and store HIPAA-regulated patient information.
Safeguard personal or sensitive data whose transmission falls under state encryption laws or other privacy acts by deploying proven solutions that are designed to effectively identify personal information in any electronic transmission and, if necessary, block or encrypt the transmission.
Reduce business and security risks associated with electronic communication by implementing a formal electronic communication policy that combines a written policy with employee training.
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Where not to hide your password and user ids

December 23rd, 2011
With dozens of logins and passwords spread out across an equal number of sites and apps, it's no wonder the average user tends to forget them. Even with a tried and true system for generating memorable but complex passwords, the formula could easily fall apart if you just can't remember it.

So rather than continually clicking the "Forget Your Password?" help link, folks are readily hiding login information around their computer station.

And given that there's little variety in those secret locations, "hiding" might be a stretch. The most common locations where folks hide their login info are:

Under the keyboard

Under the phone

Under the mouse pad

On the monitor

In the top drawer

Under the desk
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