6 hot new IT roles for 2015

Read my lips: Authentication through visual speech patterns could improve security Home Depot confirms breach of its payment systems ITworld Today September 09, 2014 6 hot new IT roles for 2015 It's time to change the way you think about attracting and hiring skilled workers. Here are six new IT roles for 2015 and advice on how to find talent to fill them. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. Read my lips: Authentication through visual speech patterns could improve security 2. Home Depot confirms breach of its payment systems 3. Too late: Amazon slashes Fire Phone price by $200 4. Apple now emailing users when iCloud accessed via Web 5. Google looks for public input on right to be forgotten 6. SAP to release AR apps on Android Wear for smart glasses in the workplace 7. OpenSSL warns vendors against using vulnerability info for marketing 8. Chef muscles up with Microsoft, Amazon 9. BOOK GIVEAWAY: Understanding Big Data Scalability (eBook) Resource compliments of: Cradlepoint Networking Technologies to Maximize Your Peak-Selling Season Black Friday kicks off the year's peak-selling season, which now lasts from Thanksgiving Day to Christmas Eve. The National Retail Federation predicts this year's peak-selling season will bring in $602.1 billion in retail sales. So how do you maximize your peak-selling season? Join our webinar, "4 Networking Technologies to Maximize Your Peak-Selling Season" on Thursday, September 11, 2014 at 8:30am PDT//11:30am EDT Read my lips: Authentication through visual speech patterns could improve security A new study shows that lip reading could be the basis for a more secure method of verifying our identites online. READ MORE Home Depot confirms breach of its payment systems Home Depot said Monday that its payment systems had been breached, potentially affecting any customers who shopped at its stores in the U.S. and Canada since April. READ MORE Too late: Amazon slashes Fire Phone price by $200 Amazon on Monday slashed the price of its three-month-old Fire Phone to 99 cents, an obvious bid to boost slow sales. READ MORE Apple now emailing users when iCloud accessed via Web In the wake of last week's theft of celebrity photos, Apple has started beefing up security for its iCloud service. READ MORE White Paper: Polycom The Role of the User Experience in Video Conferencing While video conferencing can offer significant, measurable benefits to companies and their employees, all video conferencing solutions are not alike. To ensure adoption, a successful deployment and implementation--and to maximize (ROI)--managers must choose their video conferencing tools wisely, matching the right technology to the right use cases. Learn more >> Google looks for public input on right to be forgotten Google is planning a series of seven public meetings across Europe to discuss people's right to be forgotten with the public's right to information. READ MORE SAP to release AR apps on Android Wear for smart glasses in the workplace SAP this week will begin selling two workplace-related augmented reality apps for use with Android Wear smart glasses. READ MORE OpenSSL warns vendors against using vulnerability info for marketing Security advisories for OpenSSL should not be used for competitive advantage, according to the development project behind the widely used cryptography component. READ MORE Chef muscles up with Microsoft, Amazon Chef, a popular open source software program for managing the configuration settings of servers, software and other IT components, now can reach deeper into the data center with the help of some intertwined services from Microsoft, VMware and Amazon Web Services (AWS). READ MORE BOOK GIVEAWAY: Understanding Big Data Scalability (eBook) Five will win. Enter the drawing today! READ MORE White Paper: Polycom Remote Collaboration Challenges and Strategies to Overcome Download this survey to learn what 5,000 business professionals around the world say are their biggest collaboration challenges--and discover the strategies they deploy to overcome them. Learn more >> DON'T MISS... Why many programmers don't bother joining the ACM Top 25 free tools for every Windows desktop 10 amazing (and bizarre) drone discoveries Just their type: 10 keyboards beloved by programmers 11 colorful characters seen at Comic-Con International 2014 Follow ITworld You are currently subscribed to itworld_today as garn14.tech@blogger.com. Unsubscribe from this newsletter | Manage your subscriptions | Subscribe | Privacy Policy Learn about INSIDER When accessing content promoted in this email, you are providing consent for your information to be shared with the sponsors of the content. Please see our Privacy Policy for more information. If you are interested in advertising in this newsletter, please contact: sean_weglage@itworld.com Copyright (C) 2014 ITworld, 492 Old Connecticut Path, Framingham, MA 01701 ** Please do not reply to this message. To contact someone directly, send an e-mail to online@itworld.com. **