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Flash drives, smartphones, email, social media and the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) epidemic make losing or stealing company information extremely easy, but you can counter those threats with a simple risk assessment and some proper training for your staff. Read more.

Misperceptions and business model challenges have foiled years of attempts to merge service offerings between telecom and IT industries, and continue to prevent them for forming a mutual, valued and trustworthy relationship. CompTIA Telecom Advisory Council is working to change that.

There are security risks that fall outside of the normal IT security parameters, but still open the door to data breaches. It’s in those gray areas — call it shadow IT — where IT security providers can identify both risk and financial reward.

Innovation in the cloud space is especially crucial for solution providers and vendors who want to ensure long-term viability, and finding a trusted cloud vendor can save solution providers valuable time in the vetting process.

The learning curve was steep in 2008 when Joy Dark first entered the IT industry and landed smack dab in the healthcare environment. But today there’s a cert for that.

CompTIA’s Future Leaders Community covered a lot of ground during its first formal face-to-face meeting on Tuesday, defining its mission, coming up with initiatives for the coming year and talking about ways to grow in the coming year.

Legislation has been introduced in both the House and Senate to prevent discriminatory and duplicative taxes on digital goods and services, including online downloads of music, literature, movies, mobile apps, and cloud computing services. Modeled after legislation pending in the last Congress, “The Digital Goods and Services Tax Fairness Act” would bring some certainty to

CompTIA Partner Advisory Council hit a milestone at AMM, launching the CompTIA Business Model Benchmark, a long-term initiative used to measures the success of a solution provider business.

Verizon’s chief marketing executive Janet Schijns offered candid and compelling views on women in IT to an engaged audience of men and women at Tuesday morning’s Advancing Women in IT Community meeting. Her perspective was a healthy dose of reality, refreshing and relevant to both sexes.

Managed services has undergone many changes over the years, and sales techniques must evolve to keep up, according to CharTec CEO Alex Rogers, who spoke to the CompTIA Managed Services Community during AMM Tuesday.

The U.S. segment looks promising in 2015, but economic issues in other regions are negatively affecting growth forecasts, according to discussions brought up in CompTIA’s Vendor Advisory Council meeting, held Tuesday at AMM.

CompTIA’s offering three unique educational pieces at this week’s Annual Member Meeting in Florida — tools that focus on the soft skills and financial savviness that make for a successful solution provider.

Two industry innovators are being inducted into the IT Hall of Fame, a roll call of industry movers and shakers.

Last Thursday, Reps. Michael Burgess (R-TX), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), and Peter Welch (D-VT) circulated a draft of a long-anticipated bipartisan data security and data breach notification bill, and it was certainly worth the wait. This bill has been in the works for months, but several of its original co-sponsors retired or lost re-election last year

Yesterday, the Senate Judiciary committee held a hearing entitled, “Immigration Reforms Needed to Protect Skilled American Workers.” As the name suggests, the goal of this hearing was to undercut the claims being made by an entire industry— that they cannot find the skilled workers they need in America and thus need to hire foreign workers - See more at: http://www.techamerica.org/senate-judiciary-hearing-targets-high-skilled-immigration/#sthash.rzlId1af.dpuf