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Navigating Your IT Security Certification, Part 1

OpenSesame

Even this past election cycle isn’t immune to accusations of stolen emails and hacked servers. Their Security+ covers all the core concepts in IT security from Wi-Fi passwords and firewalls to employee best practices. Don’t believe me? After you have Security+ finished, start considering some specialty certifications.

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Firewalls and Security in Software as a Service

Tony Karrer

For us to be successful doing this, we first need to make sure that the system will work with whatever firewall restrictions exist. Elluminate did not work through several firewalls, so we had to switch to WebEx. It's still better than having to install software behind the firewall. That's its job. Look at security.

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The 9-Point Checklist for Monthly WordPress Maintenance

The Be-all and End-all Guide to Creating a Supreme LearnDash LMS

Sometimes, it could be a problem related to your hosting company’s server. Expert Advice: When you take a backup of all your content, you have the option to save it on the same server or on a remote server (such as your Drive or Dropbox). Or worse, you could lose your website to hackers or some other security breaches.

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Cloud: the good, the bad and the better

eFront

After all, it has been the most popular IT trend in the last five years, with every major player, from Microsoft and Google, to VMWare and Amazon, offering their own cloud based solutions to businesses and even to third party developers. The Cloud is great because it frees you from having to deploy and manage your own application servers.

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70:20:10 and user generated learning: no way!

Challenge to Learn

I’m afraid nothing in this world is a 100% secure but I truly do believe that our SaaS solution is more secure than most ‘behind the firewall’ solutions. Many of them running on operating systems that are not even supported anymore by Microsoft and the list with security issues is listed on the web. Email is the most dangerous thing.

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Web 2.0 Applications in Learning

Tony Karrer

Firewalls - You can certainly install tools behind the firewall. You have to decide about inside the firewall vs. SaaS, but this shouldn't hold you back. Barriers I then asked everyone to call out what they saw as their biggest barriers to getting adoption. No problems getting things here. See the lists of tools below.

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The potential pitfalls of a custom LMS solution

LearnUpon

You need total control over your data and/or the solution must be hosted on your own servers which can often be the case with some government departments. The vast majority of these situations require a behind the firewall/locally installed LMS. Pitfalls of a custom LMS solution. of days, etc. Constant maintenance.