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Review these typical interview questions and think about how you would answer them. Read
the questions listed; you will also find some strategy suggestions with it.
1. Tell me about yourself:
The most often asked question in interviews. You need to have a short statement prepared
in your mind. Be careful that it does not sound rehearsed. Limit it to work-related items
unless instructed otherwise. Talk about things you have done and jobs you have held that
relate to the position you are interviewing for. Start with the item farthest back and work up
to the present.
2. Why did you leave your last job?
Stay positive regardless of the circumstances. Never refer to a major problem with
management and never speak ill of...
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Norman debuts endpoint protection system for securing enterprise and SMB networks against malware attacks
Norman Endpoint Protection delivers cost effective, easy-to-administer threat protection for small and medium businesses (SMBs) and scales, using a new multilevel architecture, to serve even the largest, most complex enterprise networks. Security policies may be set and managed centrally across multiple sites ensuring rapid security updates and effective local control.
Norman offers proactive content security solutions and forensics malware tools. Its anti-malware solutions, including malware analysis tools, network security and endpoint protection, are powered by patented Norman SandBox technology and used by security solutions providers around the world. Norman's unified core anti-malware protection for clients, servers and network security are delivered as products and services designed...
SecureForce launches enterprise security intelligence managed service
In order to battle the volatility of networks and constant barrage and evolution of attacks, SecureForce LLC announced Wednesday its Enterprise Security Intelligence (ESI) solution operating in the cloud. SecureForce's ESI service examines configurations of firewalls, routers, VPNs, and load balancers across an organization's network to discover, classify, and prioritize openings in the network infrastructure. In addition, the service enables security policy validation, identifies and prioritizes vulnerabilities for remediation, and reveals regulatory compliance to auditors.
"A commitment to security means ensuring networks are constantly being checked to validate their integrity. The challenge is doing this frequently enough to identify and resolve any vulnerability while having the confidence...
VASCO Data Security and OneLogin jointly protect users accessing the cloud
VASCO Data Security International Inc., a software security company offering authentication products, and OneLogin, a cloud-based Identity and Access Management (IAM) provider, have announced the integration of DIGIPASS as a Service with OneLogin's single sign-on (SSO) portal. Customers can now securely access their OneLogin account with VASCO's strong authentication in an easy to use, convenient manner that is managed entirely in the cloud.
OneLogin provides IAM in the cloud with an on-demand solution consisting of single sign-on, password management, multi-factor authentication, directory integration, user provisioning and an application catalogue with over 1,800 pre-integrated applications, including AtTask, Box.net, Cornerstone OnDemand, DocuSign, Google Apps, LotusLive, Netsuite, SugarCRM,...
Sourcefire's Immunet anti-malware offering completes 2 million endpoints
Sourcefire Inc., provider of cybersecurity solutions, announced Monday that Immunet, its advanced anti-malware solution, has surpassed 2 million installed endpoints. Immunet achieved this milestone due to its "big data" approach to endpoint security, which allows it to provide an additional layer of protection not afforded by traditional anti-malware technologi...
Is Cloud Security Mere Vapor? Part Two
This article is the second in a two-part series exploring the best ways CIOs can ensure security in the cloud. This part reveals the final five of ten cloud related challenges CIOs face. Click here to read the first article in this series.
6. User Experience. Despite cost, user experience has to be as good or better.For example, if you can’t surf a YouTube video from your virtual desktop, then you’re probably not going to think it’s terrific. Find strong security mechanisms that work well at the desktop but are nearly undetectable to the users. Security that is obvious is easily mapped for workarounds by hackers and is a source of endless complaints from those we try to protect.
7. Mobility. If you can’t get to your virtual desktop from your Windows or Mac OS, iPad, iPhone, Android, Linux,...
The Sky’s the Limit: A Look at Dell’s Cloud
Dell has been a major player in the cloud space but from a HW infrastructure perspective, providing the driving force behind many private and public cloud offerings around the world. The major difference for Dell is that we are entering into the cloud arena with the ability to deliver hardware and services in a consumable fashion that meets our customers’ needs. Why now? Network speeds have increased dramatically, linking the world together in a way that just was not possible before; the types and quality of cloud service providers have risen consistently and an increase in comfort level for businesses to place their crown jewels – their data...
Legal Issues in the Cloud: Exploring Business Continuity, Liability and SLA-related Issues
Many companies are familiar with ‘e-discovery’ and have data retention, storage and destruction policies in place that apply in the event of litigation. If a cloud customer is sued, or there is the threat of litigation, the customer may have to initiate a ‘litigation hold’ to preserve documents, including electronic documents and any metadata in the documents. This could present a challenge in the cloud if the customer’s data is commingled with that of other clients or if the customer’s data is stored on parallel servers. Cloud customers should determine the vendor’s ability to prevent the destruction, alteration or mutilation of customer data...
Likewise unveils software to give companies better control of unstructured data
Likewise announced Thursday new software to better access, secure, manage and audit unstructured data across multiple platforms – financial files, medical records, office documents, media and big data files, which account for nearly half of all stored information.
Companies have been limited in their ability to control unstructured data across multiple platforms. Likewise Data Analytics and Governance, the new application available now as a public software beta, gives organizations greater visibility into their unstructured data for improved security, auditing and compliance.
The Likewise Storage Services platform, used by such OEM storage vendors as HP and EMC Isilon, offers a consistent security model for file-based access and cross-platform, unified storage across physical, virtual and...
OCZ Technology debuts Talos 2 enterprise SAS 6G SSD line
OCZ Technology Group Inc., provider of high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs) for computing devices and systems, announced this week the Talos 2 Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) SSD Series, the follow-up to the high performance, high capacity Talos Series previously available only in a 3.5 inch form factor.
With capacities up to 1TB now available in a compact 2.5-inch form factor, Talos 2 offers increased I/O performance and scalability in enterprise storage environments. Talos 2 leverages OCZ Virtualized Controller Architecture 2.0 technology which implements a complex command queuing structure with unique queue balancing algorithms to provide exceptional performance. Talos 2 SSDs deliver superior random transactional performance at up to 70,000 4K IOPS and features improved mixed workload...
Winchester debuts FlashServer HA-4000 line of high availability servers
Winchester Systems Inc., a data storage solutions provider, announced this week a new line of high availability servers. The new FlashServer HA-4000 Series offers two servers in one unit that automatically failover and provide 99.999 percent system uptime without the need for complex clustering software in Windows, Linux and VMware environments.
FlashServer HA Redundant Failover Servers addresses planned and unplanned downtime for critical applications. FlashServer HA delivers continuous uptime through its fully redundant modular hardware featuring Intel Xeon processors with up to six cores and up to 96 GB memory each. These servers provide continuous availability through hardware redundancy in all components: CPU, memory, motherboards, I/O, hard disk drives, power supplies and cooling fans.
Two...
AppNeta improves performance management capabilities with expanded NetFlow and packet capture service
AppNeta offers network performance management solutions required to drive exceptional application performance across all data center, cloud, remote office and mobile environments. AppNeta’s award-winning PathView Cloud solutions leverage a zero administration, cloud-based service to meet the performance demands of distributed network infrastructure and mainstream network-dependent applications including unified communications, cloud services and virtual service delivery. With more than 1,000 customers worldwide, AppNeta provides end-to-end performance insight to network engineers and IT outsourcers, enabling predictable and efficient delivery of business-critical application services from wherever they originate to wherever they are consumed.
AppNeta’s PathView Cloud solutions leverage a...
Eclipse Shortcut
1) Ctrl + T for finding class even from jar
2) Ctrl + R for finding any resource (file) including config xml files
3) Ctrl + 1 for quick fix
4) Ctrl + Shift + o for organize imports
5) Ctrl + / for commenting , uncommenting lines and blocks
6) Ctrl + Shift + / for commenting ,uncommenting lines with block comment
7) Ctrl + o for quick outline going quickly to method
8) Selecting class and pressing F4 to see its Type hierarchy
9) Alt + right and Alt + left for going back and forth while editing.
10) Ctrl + F4 or Ctrl + w for closing current file
11) Ctrl+Shirt+W for closing all files.
12) Alt + Shift + W for show in package explorer
13) Ctrl + Shift + Up and down for navigating from member to member (variables and methods)
14) Ctrl + l go to line
15) Ctrl + k and Ctrl + Shift +K for find next/previous
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Ethical Hacking Distance Learning Programme with CISE Certification!
While the Singularity is not to be confused with the astronomical description of an infinitesimal object of infinite density, it can be seen as a technological event horizon at which present models of the future may break down in the not-too-distant future when the accelerating rate of scientific discovery and technological innovation approaches a real-time asymptote. Beyond lies a future (be it utopian or dystopian) in which a key question emerges: Evolving at dramatically slower biological time scales, must Homo sapiens become Homo syntheticus in order to retain our position as the self-acclaimed crown of creation – or will that title be usurped...
The future cometh: Science, technology and humanity at Singularity Summit 2011
In its essence, technology can be seen as our perpetually evolving attempt to extend our sensorimotor cortex into physical reality: From the earliest spears and boomerangs augmenting our arms, horses and carts our legs, and fire our environment, we’re now investigating and manipulating the fabric of that reality – including the very components of life itself. Moreover, this progression has not been linear, but instead follows an iterative curve of inflection points demarcating disruptive changes in dominant societal paradigms. Suggested by mathematician Vernor Vinge in his acclaimed science fiction novel True Names (1981) and introduced explicitly in his essay The Coming Technological Singularity (1993), the term was popularized by inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil in The Singularity is Near...
Computer animation
Computer animation is the art of creating moving images via the use of computers.
It is a subfield of computer graphics and animation.
Increasingly it is created by means of 3D computer graphics, though 2D computer graphics are still widely used for low bandwidth and faster real-time rendering needs.
Sometimes the target of the animation is the computer itself, but it sometimes the target is another medium, such as film.
It is also referred to as CGI (Computer-generated imagery or computer-generated imaging), especially when used in films. To create the illusion of movement, an image is displayed on the computer screen then quickly replaced by a new image that is similar to the previous image, but shifted slightly.
This technique is identical to how the illusion of movement is achieved with...
3D computer graphics
Such images may be for later display or for real-time viewing.
Despite these differences, 3D computer graphics rely on many of the same algorithms as 2D computer vector graphics in the wire frame model and 2D computer raster graphics in the final rendered display.
In computer graphics software, the distinction between 2D and 3D is occasionally blurred; 2D applications may use 3D techniques to achieve effects such as lighting, and primarily 3D may use 2D rendering techniques.
3D computer graphics are often referred to as 3D models.
Apart from the rendered graphic, the model is contained within the graphical data file.
However, there are differences.
A 3D model is the mathematical representation of any three-dimensional object (either inanimate or living).
A model is not technically a graphic...
Engineer Develops Method To Combat Congenital Heart Disease In Children
Marsden’s work focuses on designing and using simulation tools to provide a way of testing new surgery designs on the computer before trying them on patients, much like, for example, engineers use computer codes to test new designs for airplanes or automobiles. Certain severe forms of congenital heart defects leave a patient with only one functional heart pumping chamber. These “single ventricle” defects are uniformly fatal if left untreated, and require a patient to undergo multiple heart surgeries, ending with a Fontan procedure.
In the Fontan surgery the veins returning blood to the heart from the body are directly connected to the arteries...
'4D MRI' Technology Helps Predict Outcome Of Pediatric Heart Surgery
The technology, known as image-based surgical planning and developed with the help of pediatric cardiologists and pediatric surgeons at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and Emory University, creates a three-dimensional model of the child’s heart with data from the child’s MRI scans at different times in the cardiac cycle, also called a 4D MRI. The models allow surgeons to visualize the direction of blood flow and determine any energy loss in the heart. So if a surgeon were planning a certain correction to an area of a child’s heart, a model created by the system would show the surgeon how well blood would flow through the newly...
Predicting Successful Surgeries
Bioengineers Combine Mathematical Equations, Data to Simulate Surgeries
STANFORD, Calif.--People are as different on the inside as they are on the outside, making it difficult to predict which heart surgery will help which patient. Now, a new, high-tech approach may predict which patients will and will not have successful surgeries.
Heart attack survivor, David Lesesky says, "When I started having problems, I just didn't want to take the chance." He didn't take a chance. Lesesky made it through the heart attack and survived surgery and is doing just fine. The outcome, however, is not always the same: Each patient and each surgery brings its own risks
"The question we have for this patient is that would she benefit from a procedure -- bypass procedure -- to improve blood flow down to the legs?"...
Cell Phone Viruses
Software Engineers Allow PCs to Scan Mobile Devices for Viruses
PITTSBURGH--It takes constant vigilance to combat the viruses that persistently lurk in cyber space. While we all know our PCs are vulnerable to data loss, you might be surprised to find out so is your cell phone! A new technology could be the key to ferreting out electronic viruses forever.
That fancy cell phone you use to surf the Web and check e-mail could be infected with a computer virus.
"Our cell phones are becoming more and more sophisticated to look more and more like regular computers, and so they can also acquire viruses," says Adrian Perrig, an assistant professor of engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
While most of us take steps to safeguard our PCs, cell phone viruses are so new you might not...
Security at Your Fingertips
Electrical Engineers Develop Pocket-Size Fingerprint Recognition
A new pocket device reads fingerprints and validates them by wireless access to a computer. With this biometrics system, users can avoid using passwords, and get simpler and more secure access to bank balances, credit cards, and even buildings.
Dominic DeSantis dares anyone to try and hack into his personal PC files. "I have different files on my desktop that you can't open without passwords," he says.
Tough password tactics may slow down a cyber thief, but it's not foolproof. Now, electrical engineers have developed this new security device that uses a one-of-a-kind access code -- your fingerprint.
"It becomes a personal identification device that you carry with you, and the device only works for you," says Barry Johnson, an...
Computer security
Computer security is a field of computer science concerned with the control of risks related to computer use. The means traditionally taken to realize this objective is to attempt to create a trusted and secure computing platform, designed so that agents (users or programs) can only perform actions that have been allowed.
This involves specifying and implementing a security policy.
The actions in question can be reduced to operations of access, modification and deletion.
Computer security can be seen as a subfield of security engineering, which looks at broader security issues in addition to computer securi...
Cyber security standards
Cyber security standards are security standards which enable organizations to practice safe security techniques in order to minimize the number of successful cyber security attacks..
For more information about the topic Cyber security standards, read the full article at Wikipedia.org, or see the following related articles
Security engineering is the field of engineering dealing with the security and integrity of real-world systems. It is similar to systems engineer...
Two New Publications Provide a Cloud Computing Standards Roadmap and Reference Architecture
Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of computing resources, including servers, data storage and applications and services. NIST is responsible for accelerating the federal government's secure adoption of cloud computing by leading efforts to develop standards and guidelines in close consultation and collaboration with standards bodies, the private sector and other stakeholders, including federal agencies.
To produce the NIST Cloud Computing Standards Roadmap (NIST Special Publication 500-291), the NIST Cloud Computing Standards Working Group compiled an "Inventory of Standards...
Cloud Computing for Administration
Cloud Computing is a tempting development for IT managers: with cloud computing, companies and organizations no longer have to acquire servers and software solutions themselves and instead rent the capacities they need for data, computing power and applications from professional providers. You only pay for what you use. In Germany, primarily companies are turning to cloud computing, transferring their data, applications and networks to server farms at Amazon, Google, IBM, Microsoft or other IT service providers. In the space of just a few years, cloud computing has emerged as a market worth billions, with a high level of importance for business-location...
Blue Skies Thinking for Cloud Security?
As cloud computing moves data and services from local systems to remote centres, the question of security for organisations must be addressed. A research paper published in the International Journal of Services and Standards suggests that a cloud-free security model is the best way forward and will circumvent the fact that cloud service providers are not yet meeting regulations and legal standards.
In the early days of computing, users accessed resources using desktop terminals connected to a mainframe. The personal computer changed all that uniting the input, processing and output devices in a single machine.
Recently, however, the merits of separating the computers on our desks and in our pockets from the processing workhorses has re-emerged especially as broadband and mobile networks have...
Cloud Computing Brings Cost Of Protein Research Down To Earth
Their research appears online in Journal of Proteomic Research and is funded by the NIH Heart Lung and Blood Institute's Proteomics Innovation Center at the Medical College. Proteomics is a biomedical research term used to describe the large-scale study of all the proteins expressed by an organism. It usually involves the identification of proteins and determination of their modifications in both normal and disease states.
One of the major challenges for many laboratories setting up proteomics programs has been obtaining and maintaining the very costly computational infrastructure required for analysis of the vast flow of proteomics data generated...
Galaxy DNA-Analysis Software Is Now Available 'in the Cloud'
Galaxy -- an open-source, web-based platform for data-intensive biomedical and genetic research -- is now available as a "cloud computing" resource.
A team of researchers including Anton Nekrutenko, an associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Penn State University; Kateryna Makova, an associate professor of biology at Penn State; and James Taylor from Emory University, developed the new technology, which will help scientists and biomedical researchers to harness such tools as DNA-sequencing and analysis software, as well as storage capacity for large quantities of scientific data. Details of the development will be published...
Mask-Bot: A Robot With a Human Face
What at first looks deceptively like a real talking person is actually the prototype of a new robot face that a team at the Institute for Cognitive Systems (ICS) at TU München has developed in collaboration with a group in Japan. "Mask-bot will influence the way in which we humans communicate with robots in the future," predicts Prof. Gordon Cheng, head of the ICS team. The researchers developed several innovations in the course of creating Mask-bot.
The projection of any number of realistic 3D faces is one of these. Although other groups have also developed three-dimensional heads, these display a more cartoon-like style. Mask-bot, however,...
French Digitial Kitchen Is a Recipe for Success
From pear clafouti to croque monsieur, real-time cooking instructions for preparing each recipe are delivered in a similar way to an in-car sat nav.
Motion sensor-technology on the kitchen equipment and ingredients then help track whether each step has been completed successfully.
Developed by language experts and computer scientists at Newcastle University, the kitchen breaks new ground by taking language learning out of the classroom and combining it with an enjoyable and rewarding real-life activity.
It is supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council's Digital Economy Progra...
Human, Artificial Intelligence Join Forces to Pinpoint Fossil Locations
Using artificial neural networks (ANNs) -- computer networks that imitate the workings of the human brain -- Conroy and colleagues Robert Anemone, PhD, and Charles Emerson, PhD, developed a computer model that can pinpoint productive fossil sites in the Great Divide Basin, a 4,000-square-mile stretch of rocky desert in Wyoming.
The basin has proved to be a productive area for fossil hunters, yielding 50 million- to 70 million-year-old early mammal fossils.
The software builds on satellite imagery and maps fossil-hunters have used for years to locate the best fossil sites. It just takes the process a step further, Conroy s...
