This site contains the tools that the Chief Information Officer -
CIO, Chief Technology Officer -CTO, Chief Security Officer - CSO, and
Chief Financial Officer -CFO can use for Sarbanes Oxley, Disaster
Recovery, Security, Job Descriptions, IT Service Management, Change
Control, Help Desk, Service Requests, SLAs - Service Level Agreements,
and Metrics.
NEWS
-- Internet & IT Job Descriptions HandiGuide 2008 has just been releasedOver 210 Job Descriptions in a new easy to read and modify format.
Available in PDF, WORD 2003, and WORD 2007 formats. Styles sheets
used to maximize the ease of use. The CIO, CTO, CSO job
descriptions have been updated to comply fully with Sarbanes-Oxley and
the new ISO Security Standards. New job descriptions include Chief
Compliance Officer (CCO) and Director of Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance.
Read on.....
Disaster Recovery Templates are Sarbanes Oxley compliant and the
Disaster Recovery Template is included in the Sarbanes Oxley Compliance
Kit.
Janco provides Information Technology and Business Management
infrastructure tools to better manage technology and become world class
enterprise. These tools are proven and easily applied to any size
enterprise.
Janco's
clients are from around the world in over 70 countries and
cover every industry. Janco's clients include many premier
corporations, including over 300 of the Fortune 500.
07/02/2008 -
PDF Now an ISO Standard Along With Office Ipen XML
The Portable Document Format (PDF) is now an ISO International
Standard - ISO 32000-1. This move follows a decision by Adobe Systems
Incorporated, original developer and copyright owner of the format, to
relinquish control to ISO, who is now in charge of publishing the specifications
for the current version (1.7) and for updating and developing future
versions.
Adobe said that it is committed to open architecture and by
passing the copyright to ISO they now have a product that competes with
MicrosoftÂ’s Office Open XML, a proprietary XML-based document format it built
for its Office 2007 productivity suite, to the ISO. The ISO approved OOXML on
April 1 in a controversial vote that is still being contested by some of the
standards bodies that took part in it.
Muslim hackers yesterday defaced the Internet Assigned
Numbers Authority (IANA) site. IANA is the organization responsible for managing
the DNS root zone and assigning the DNS operators for the Internet's top-level
domains, such as .com and .org. DNS, which translates the domains and URLs -
such as e-janco.com - into IP addresses.
A group calling itself "NetDevilz" claimed responsibility for the hack, which
Thursday morning temporarily redirected visitors to the sites for IANA and ICANN
(Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers).
Users who tried to reach iana.com, iana-servers.com, icann.com and icann.net
were shunted to an illegitimate site. According to a screen capture of the
defacement snapped by zone-h.org, the bogus site simply displayed a taunting
message claiming ownerhship of the assignment processes.
Based on a study published in the New York Times, a typical
worker in information based job wastes 28% of their day with unimportant and
personal e-mails, text messages, voice mails. According to the
ITProductivity.org – an Information Technology think tank – most organizations
would be able to help their bottom line by doing the following:
Install a robust firewall and SPAM filter at the front end of
the corporate mail server
Improve SPAM filters on both desktops and smart
phones
Provide company owned laptops and smart phones that have
robust SPAM filtering software and
Limit the accessibility to POP and non-company mail
servers
06/13/2008 -
35% of Businesses Do Not Open Doors After a Disaster
It is impossible to deny how important disaster recovery and
business continuity are in today's digital economy. In a survey conducted
by FEMA fully 35% of all businesses that are impacted by a disaster never
re-open their doors.
Without systems in place to keep applications and data flowing
after a natural disaster or other interruption, a business risks losses that
extend far beyond a manufacturing plant or data center. Many businesses incur
ongoing financial loses, damage to a businesses' reputation, and possible
regulatory and legal sanctions. In a worst-case scenario like 35% of the
companies that FEMA estimated, a company can find its existence
threatened.
How can an organization tackle disaster recovery and business
continuity issues effectively? How can it develop a strategy that reduces risk
and increases the likelihood of success? And how can it devise a roadmap for
coping with constant change? There are no easy answers, but the Disaster
Recovery Planning Template with the Security Manual Template are a step in
the right direction.
Hiring and spending has slowed down in IT as businesses try
to control costs in tough economic times
Park City, UT - The prospect for
IT professionals is not good. Janco has found that IT compensation growth
remains flat, hiring is limited to key replacements, and discretionary spending
has been cut back and in many cases eliminated. The CEO of Janco said, "As we
collected compensation data for our mid-year 2008 IT Salary Survey we found that
at the end of the first quarter businesses turned off the faucet for IT
spending. Many businesses, in response to economic projections, slowed down and
halted discretionary spending for software and hardware as well as placed hiring
requisitions on a slow track."
The summary findings in Janco 2008 Mid-Year IT Salary
Survey are:
Hiring demand is now the lowest it has been since 2004. Many
enterprises have stopped hiring except for key replacements and those
positions are being replaced at lower salary levels.
Enterprises have slowed down and in many cases eliminated
discretionary spending by IT. This has resulted in fewer projects being
initiated, consultants use being reduced (if not eliminated), and a slow-down
of initiatives that had already been approved.
In the last twelve (12) months the increases in compensation
for most IT Professionals were lower than increases in the cost of
living.
The mean increase in compensation for CIO's was less that
1.5%. The mean compensation for CIOs in large enterprises now is $179,823 and
$171,755 for CIOs in mid-sized enterprises. (Large enterprises have over
$500 million in revenue and mid-sized have are $100 to $499 million in
revenue).
The mean compensation (which includes bonuses) for all
Executive IT positions surveyed now is $144,645 in large enterprises and
$131,763 in mid-sized enterprises.
Positions that were in high demand in the 4th quarter of 2007
such as CSOs and others to develop new Web 2.0 applications are now back to
normal hiring patterns.
Administrative positions in some IT functions are now being
looked at as those that are expendable
