Top 20 Windows 8 features

As with any technological overhaul, Windows 8 has been met with passionate and mixed response among those who have had a chance to download and test run the Consumer Preview of Microsoft's flagship OS. The company's bold new direction for Windows, with its dual interface and emphasis on tablet functionality, certainly means changes ahead for IT departments when Windows officially ships. But for users there is a lot to like about the forthcoming OS. Here is a look at the 20 features that Windows 8 users will appreciate the most.

1. Metro Start
Metro Start is Windows 8's new location for launching applications. It includes updating live tiles that you can regroup as you desire, increasing the flexibility of your Windows 8 experience.

2. Traditional desktop
For those who prefer the traditional desktop experience, this still exists in Windows 8, which offers a traditional desktop view akin to that of Windows 7. Applications that run in Windows 7 will also run on Windows 8's traditional desktop.

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3. Metro apps
Part of the new Metro UI, Metro apps are full screen and easy to install, offering an immersive new way to work with Windows.

4. Windows Store
Integrated into Windows 8, the Windows Store offers Metro apps for download and purchase and soon will also offer desktop apps. A tile located on the Metro UI start screen offers one-click access to the Windows Store.

5. Tablet ready
Unlike previous versions of Windows, which were not built for tablets, Windows 8 has been built from the ground up as both a tablet and desktop operating system, providing a hybrid approach to computing on both PCs and mobile devices.

6. Internet Explorer 10 for Metro
Windows 8 ships with two versions of Internet Explorer 10, the classic desktop version and a new full-screen immersive browser that is lightweight and easy to use.

7. Touch interface
Windows 8's touch interface allows you to use a variety of touch commands to navigate the operating system.

8. SkyDrive connectivity
SkyDrive is not a new feature, but its tight integration into Windows 8 is. In Windows 8, the data you store in the cloud is easily accessible on all your Windows 8 devices, and the files you store in the cloud are easily viewable on your tablet, smartphone, or other Windows 8 device. SkyDrive soon will support large file sizes, meaning you will be able to transfer files that are up to 2GB in size.

9. Charms bar
The Charms bar is a replacement for the Start button, offering quick access to search, sharing features, devices, and settings.

10. Search bar
Search is by no means a new feature for Windows, but the search bar in Windows 8 is a powerful improvement on previous generations.

11. Windows 8 snap-to feature
Windows 8's snap-to feature allows you to multitask Metro apps, so you won't be stuck with just one Metro app at a time. With the snap-to feature, you can snap together multiple Metro apps onto the screen, or you can snap Metro apps to your classic desktop applications, giving you the best of both UIs.

12. Recover your PC
A new feature in the control panel, called Recovery, allows you to refresh or reset your PC. These are two new options offered in addition to the existing system restore and other recovery options available in previous versions of Windows.

13. Simplified settings
The Control Panel still exists in Windows 8, but now it is accompanied by a new PC settings section available through the Metro UI. The PC settings section offers access to the several of the same commands but in a simplified format so you don't have to dig deep into Control Panel to find popular options.

15. File History
File History offers a new, easier way to back up and restore files.

16. Ribbon and quick access toolbar
The unified menu system in Windows 8 now includes the ribbon and the quick access toolbar that were introduced in Office 2007. These are now standard features of the Windows operating system.

17. Windows Reader
Windows Reader is a native PDF reader included in Windows 8, freeing you from requiring an additional application to read or mark up PDF files.

18. Metro Video app
Microsoft has enhanced its video capabilities in Windows 8 with Video, a simple-to-use Metro video app. Both Windows Media Player and Media Center are still part of Windows 8, but Windows 8's Metro Video gives a lightweight alternative for video viewing.

19. Integrated social networking
Microsoft has made considerable effort to integrate social networking throughout Windows 8. Applications like Socialite and Tweet@rama allow you to post directly to Facebook or Twitter, and you'll find these among the tiles in the Metro UI.

20. Reduced hardware requirements
Perhaps one of the most important features for many users is actually having the ability to run the operating system. Machines that run Windows 7 and Windows Vista already meet the hardware requirements for Windows 8, and many systems running Windows XP will also be eligible to run the latest OS.

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Windows 8 Beta: Microsoft Giveth And Taketh Away

With the release Wednesday of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) has fixed many of the shortcomings of the developer preview it released last September. That's the good news.

The bad news is that the Consumer Preview (build 8250) has removed some useful things and introduced a few new flaws, not least of which is failing to install at least once on a machine with more than enough resources. Though it appears stable on the whole, Microsoft's first public Windows 8 beta will do little to endear itself to IT departments and others who'll be tasked with installing and supporting it.

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When the CRN Test Center reported last September the 12 things IT will hate about Windows 8, we offered mostly praise for finger-friendly Metro interface. This version improves mouse-friendliness a bit, and animations and movements are smoother.

As in the developer preview, Metro is the first screen to appear when starting Windows 8, and it still displays the active user's ID in the upper-right corner and the word "Start" in the upper-left. What's new is that this Start screen replaces the Start Menu, which is now completely removed. The Metro screen now automatically scrolls when the pointer reaches the edge of the screen, making mouse navigation much easier. Good-bye and good riddance to the bottom scroll bar, but the mouse still can't swoop the screen.

When arranging an individual Metro tile with finger or mouse, other tiles move out of the way and rearrange themselves (as opposed to just nodding). Now you can see how tiles will look when dropped into place. Right-clicking on a tile still presents options for resizing the tile, uninstalling the app or "unpinning" it from "Start."

The Desktop is still present in Windows 8 CP, sans Start Menu. When mousing to the lower left-hand corner, a thumbnail of the "Start" screen appears, but soon disappears when the pointer is moved onto it (as one might do with a menu). Clicking the left button when Start is showing switches back to Metro.

The Alt-Tab still switches between running apps, which appear in turn in the background as well as in a foreground thumbnail view. All except Metro, that is. To activate Metro from another app, users can press the Windows button (on keyboards that have one), quit the current app or ALT-TAB to the desktop and click the lower-left corner. By the way, ALT-F4 is now operational for quitting apps.

While the keyboard quit sequence is a welcome addition, Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) has removed the task bar from the Desktop, and with it the last semblance of menu navigation. Because hidden away in the Taskbar of the developer preview was a Toolbar that allowed mouse or keyboard navigation a la Windows Menu Bar. What's more, there's now one less way to see all the running applications at a glance.

Check back with CRN often to keep current with Windows 8. Next from the CRN Test Center will be a report on migration to Windows 8 from various prior versions. Stay tuned.

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QUESTION 1
Why could OpenVMS Mail be considered a security risk?

A. OpenVMS Mail allows unprivileged unauthenticated (but potentially traceable) remote users to
test for valid usernames.
B. OpenVMS Mail allows unprivileged unauthenticated remote users to see who is actively logged on.
C. DCL command procedures embedded in a mail message will be automatically executed during
user login unless the system manager defines the system logical name MAIL$DCL_DISABLE to TRUE.
D. Buffer overflows caused by out of specification message attachments may allow arbitrary code
to be executed without prompting the recipient.

Answer: A

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QUESTION 2
Which two object classes can have audit events applied to them? Select two.

A. logical name tables
B. logical names
C. global sections
D. event flags
E. locks

Answer: A,C

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QUESTION 3
On a system with user file activity across several volumes, which command or utility can a system
manager use to determine what files a process currently has open across all disk volumes?

A. SHOW DEVICE/FILES/NOSYSTEM *
B. ANALYZE /PROCESS
C. MONITOR FILE_SYSTEM_CACHE/ALL
D. ANALYZE /SYSTEM

Answer: D

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QUESTION 4
What two items should be included in an organization's Configuration Management records?
Select two.

A. software assets
B. staff contact details
C. details of support contracts
D. physical assets
E. organizational chart

Answer: A,D

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QUESTION 5
Which two are the correct descriptions for L and P when discussing a device protection mask
(RWLP)? Select two.

A. P = protected (allows access to protected devices)
B. L = logical (allows access to logical blocks)
C. P =passall (allows unlimited access to specified devices)
D. P = physical (allows access to physical blocks)
E. L = local (allows access from the local system only)
F. L = limited (allows limited access to specified devices)

Answer: B,D

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Microsoft's upgrade avalanche a challenge for IT pros

In addition to the version for x86 PCs that use chips from Intel and AMD, Windows 8 will also come in a version for devices that use ARM chips. This version, now called Windows RT, will be built on the Windows 8 code base and will probably run mainly on tablets built on chips from ARM licensees Nvidia, Qualcomm and Texas Instruments.

Like Windows 8 PCs for x86/64, Windows RT devices will be able to run Metro-style applications from the Windows Store created using WinRT APIs. WinRT stands for Windows Runtime and contains the API (application programming interface) library for building Metro-style applications.

However, Windows RT hardware will not run, emulate or port existing x86/64 desktop applications. Windows RT will include desktop versions of the upcoming Office 15 applications, like Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, that have been designed for touch-based interfaces and for minimal power consumption.

Despite the broad availability of the beta version since late February, it is still too early for enterprises to be even considering adopting Windows 8, IDC's Gillen said.

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"Windows 8 isn't even in Release Candidate code yet, so it's premature for most organizations to make any business decision about replacing Windows 7 with Windows 8. We need to see the finished product first," Gillen said.

Gartner's Silver believes that Windows 8 will largely be bypassed altogether, except in specific cases, such as in organizations that want to deploy Windows-based tablets to their users. It has become popular for users to come to work with their personal smartphones and tablets (mostly Android and Apple iOS devices), a trend known as "bring your own device," or BYOD. Microsoft wants to enter that party, but Windows is currently a small player in tablets and smartphones.

At hotel titan Hyatt, the work to upgrade desktops from Windows XP to Windows 7 began in 2009 and continues today. The company expects to complete the upgrade of all 34,000 desktops in North America by the end of this year.

Hyatt's CIO, Mike Blake, is very impressed with Windows 7, calling it "a great product." While not closed to Windows 8, Blake said there are still many unanswered questions about the new OS.

"I've wavered from one end of the Microsoft spectrum to the other. I was a hater and now I'm more of a proponent, and a lot of it has to do with Windows 7," he said.

Forrester also has found in its surveys that CIOs are moving their enterprises at a very quick and steady pace to Windows 7 and to Office 2010, according to Schadler. Almost 200 million copies of Office 2010 have been sold to date, according to Microsoft.

In fact, an argument can be made that Microsoft may be pushing out Windows 8 and Office 15 too close to their predecessors, and may find it is competing against itself, Osterman said.

"Unless there's something really compelling in Windows 8, I don't see the upgrade push," Osterman said. "And with Office 15, Microsoft is going to be hard-pressed to make the case for it, only because Office 2010 is so good. Microsoft has a very nice set of products on the desktop right now."
The next Office suite

Office 15 is in limited-access, early testing. A broader beta period is slated for the summer. Very little is known about technical details and improvements in the Office 15 applications at this point. What Microsoft is saying unequivocally is that Office 15 will be "the most ambitious undertaking yet for the Office Division." The revamped applications, which will also include Project and Visio, will all get new "touch-friendly" UIs on tablets and similar devices.

For now, the Office product that Hyatt's Blake is most focused on is the cloud-hosted email and collaboration suite Office 365 and its predecessor, BPOS (Business Productivity Online Suite). Hyatt is deploying BPOS and plans to later upgrade to Office 365, which was released in mid-2011 and includes online versions of Exchange, SharePoint, Office and Lync. Office 365 will be upgraded again once Office 15 is released in final form.

Coming from IBM Lotus Notes, Hyatt has experienced a significant improvement in email reliability and in employee collaboration from using BPOS.

Prior to rolling out BPOS, Hyatt's email system was down 81 times over three years, with each of those outages being 10 minutes long or more. In the 13 months since it has been using Exchange Online, Hyatt has had only three hours of downtime, he said.

Meanwhile, SharePoint Online has taken employees' ability to collaborate with each other and with customers and partners to another level, he said.

Blake, however, isn't too happy with the licensing scheme for BPOS and Office 365, which he finds too complicated, especially considering that they are subscription-based suites.

He wishes the Microsoft suites would be licensed and billed in the "all inclusive" model of rival Google Apps. The Google suite costs $50 per user, per year, or, alternatively, $5 per user, per month. Hyatt almost picked Google Apps over BPOS, ultimately deciding against it in large part due to users' historical familiarity with the Outlook email client. "It was almost a coin toss between the two," Blake said.

Instead, Office 365 has multiple versions at different prices with different mixes of components, and as Hyatt looks ahead at transferring to it from BPOS, Blake finds the licensing scenario annoyingly complex, calling the many versions of Office 365 "crazy" and "foolish."

"With Google Apps, it doesn't matter how many trips to the buffet you make, you're good to go. Microsoft on the other hand segments the salad bar, the starches, the meat, and you have to say, 'did I remember the meat? The starch?' And if you forgot the salad, then you need to pay another license fee for that," Blake said.
Explorer and Windows Phone

In development along with Windows 8 is the next version of the browser, IE 10, which, according to Microsoft, is designed to be "edge-to-edge fast" with "less browser and more Web." It will offer two different interface experiences -- Metro-style and traditional Windows desktop. IE10 is being designed to take advantage of hardware acceleration features; supports HTML5, CSS3 and other Web standards broadly; and will be more secure than its predecessors, Microsoft has said.

Also relevant for enterprise IT executives is the next major version of the Windows Phone OS, which hasn't been officially announced but is said to be code-named Apollo. Some speculate it will be called Windows Phone 8 and that it will provide more code and application consistency with the desktop and server OSes than has existed up to now.

Whatever enhancements are present in Windows Phone 8, Microsoft finds itself -- much as in the tablet market -- as an underdog. At the end of last year's third quarter, Android held 52.5% of the worldwide mobile operating system market, while Microsoft ended in sixth place with 1.5%, according to Gartner. In the U.S., as of the end of February of this year, Android had 50.1% of the smartphone OS market, while Microsoft had almost 4%, according to comScore.

When Microsoft does talk in detail about the next major version of Windows Phone, there are two major areas CIOs should focus on, according to Avi Greengart, an analyst with Current Analysis.

The first area is the phone IT security and management controls that will be available to IT departments via Windows server products.

While Windows Phone 7 and 7.5 are in general more advanced than their predecessor, Windows Mobile 6.5, the latter gave IT staffers more administration controls over phones, Greengart said.

"If I was a CIO, I'd be asking for a more detailed road map on what is and isn't supported before I'd commit to deploy Windows Phone," Greengart said.

The other major issue is the level of application compatibility. "There will be some compatibility. The question is how much," Greengart said.

Microsoft recently said in a blog post that "today's Windows Phone applications and games will run on the next major version of Windows Phone."

The company also said that "all" of Windows Phone developers' programming skills "are transferable to building applications for Windows 8, and in many cases, much of your code will be transferable as well."

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Chrome trumps IE as world's top browser

StatCounter says Google's browser edged Microsoft's for the week's No. 1 spot; Chrome on pace to take May, too
By Gregg Keizer

Computerworld - Google's Chrome edged past Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) last week to become the world's most widely used browser, according to data from an Irish metric firm.

Chrome's average usage share for the week of May 14-20 was 32.8%, said StatCounter, an analytics company that tracks browser and operating system trends. For the same week, IE's share was 31.9%.

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Although Chrome has beaten IE in StatCounter's tally before -- a day here, another there, this was the first time that Google's browser took the top spot for an entire week.

Mozilla's Firefox placed third with a share of 25.5%, while Apple's Safari and Opera Software's Opera brought up the rear with 7.1% and 1.7%, respectively.

Chrome and IE are locked in a dead heat so far this month, separated by only five-hundredths of a percentage point through Sunday. The trend, however, is in Chrome's favor: It came within a whisker of beating IE the week of May 7-13, and early Monday it led Microsoft's browser 31.9% to 31.5%.

As recently as April, IE trounced Chrome by several percentage points. StatCounter pegged IE last month at 34.1%, Chrome at 31.2%.

But while Chrome may be on the verge of overtaking the long-time leader in StatCounter's eyes, other measurement companies still have IE far ahead of Google's 2008 upstart.

U.S.-based Net Applications, for example, tagged IE with a 54.1% share for April, compared to Chrome's 18.9% and Firefox's 20.2%. (By StatCounter's numbers, Chrome slipped past Firefox to take second place six months ago.)

The two metrics vendors use different counting techniques, which results in their widely-divergent results.

Net Applications weights its data by country to account for the relative paucity of information from nations such as China, and adjusts for Chrome's "pre-rendered" pages that users never actually see.

StatCounter does not weight its data by country, and only started to exclude Chrome's pre-rendered pages May 1.

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"It's certainly not flying to unprecedented levels," said Zeus Kerravala, an analyst with ZK Research. "This underscores the thesis that many investors are taking a wait-and-see approach."

He added that while many people may be surprised Facebook's stock price hasn't taken off yet, they really shouldn't be.
"I think it's surprising a lot of people, but I think it should have been expected," said Kerravala. "There are a lot of questions about Facebook.... How are they going to monetize mobile? Can [CEO Mark] Zuckerberg run a public company?"

Twenty-eight year-old Zuckerberg started the day by ringing the Nasdaq opening bell from company headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif.

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Trading was supposed to start at 11 a.m. ET, but the Nasdaq delayed it by about half an hour in order to handle the flood of buy and sell orders that were coming through for Facebook's stock.

Once trading actually began, the stock started out strong, trading at $42 per share, $4 above the official offering price of $38 the company set Thursday.

However, instead of rising from there, Facebook's share price began to fizzle, and dropped to below $39 just 20 minutes after trading began. Once the price hit $38, about 10 to 15 minutes later, the company's underwriters stepped in to bolster it and hold the price floor at $38, reported the Wall Street Journal.

TV commentators and online headlines began using words like "underperform" and "disappointing."

Ezra Gottheil, an analyst with Technology Business Research, said people may be jumping the gun. He contends that Facebook's stock price is hovering around where it started this morning because it was priced appropriately.

"I can say that if your IPO doesn't go up or down very much, then you priced it right," he added. "At this point, it's all about perception and expectation. The stock price is just a noise meter."

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Zynga, though, might have fared the worst. The online gaming company's share price toppled a full 13%, landing at $7.17, according to MarketWatch . Trading on that stock was halted, later reinstated, then halted for a second time.

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When Microsoft launches Windows 8 Release Preview next month the operating system will have improved navigation features for users who like more than one monitor to display all their applications.

The upgrade - the last major tune-up expected before the final version launches sometime this fall - addresses task bars, desktop backgrounds and that no man's land, the common edge shared by adjacent screens, according to the Building Windows 8 blog.

The current problem with that common edge is that when users mouse over to them - for example to hit the minimize button - they sometimes overshoot and wind up on the next screen instead of the screen they started off on. They either have to slow down or adjust the window size so there's a buffer between the edge of the window and the edge of the screen.

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These corners have new uses with Windows 8 that they didn't have with Windows 7. Corners contain access to applications, charm bars and the Start screen.

The active corners have also been revised so they only work for the monitor the cursor is active on. So when the cursor moves from one screen to another, the corners won't initially work on the second screen until the user establishes that that is the screen being worked on. So if users do overshoot the active screen, they won't accidentally click on an active corner on the other screen.

To improve the ability to organize the location of active applications, the Release Preview will add a new keyboard shortcut just for moving Metro applications from screen to screen - Windows key+page up/page down. The shortcut for moving traditional desktop apps remains Windows key+shift+arrow. All apps can be moved from screen to screen via drag and drop as well.

In the upcoming version Microsoft gives more options for the functionality of taskbars on each screen, giving users new options.

The default setting is to make the taskbar fully functional on all screens. Rather than having to manipulate the cursor back to the primary screen and perhaps turn their heads, users can access all taskbar icons from every screen.

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The Start button, charms bar and calling up recently used application will be accessible from all monitors. In the Consumer Preview they were available only on one screen.

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More transparency would help boost the confidence of small businesses in cloud services

Small and midsize businesses that actually use cloud services see them as a way to boost security and save money, according to a survey sponsored by Microsoft.

The same survey finds similar-size businesses not using cloud services worry they might not be secure enough and that the costs of transitioning to them might be a hurdle.

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The upside for security is that cloud services on average cuts 18 hours per week from security management time, the survey says, because much of it is handled by the provider, Rains says. "It doesn't eliminate the need for patch management on-premise, but there's less of it to manage," he says.

That saves money, but also increases security because providers are likely to patch and upgrade in a timely manner as a competitive edge.

The survey says that over the past three years, businesses using cloud services enjoyed decreases in security spending that are more than five times the savings reaped by businesses that didn't use cloud services. Of those using cloud services, 20% say they reduced their security management costs, but the number was just 4% for those that didn't use cloud services.

Still, 40% of those respondents not using cloud services say security is the reason they don't, but 67% of them say they would be more confident about using cloud services if there were industry security standards. Visibility into how cloud providers operate their networks so customers can map that to standards and best practices would make 38% of respondents more confident about buying cloud services.

A third of those not using cloud services say they see the cost of transitioning to cloud services as a barrier.

The survey questioned 94 small and midsize businesses using cloud services and 93 that did not. Microsoft says cloud users were defined as companies that used a cloud service via a subscription model, and did not differentiate among SaaS, IaaS and PaaS offerings, or what types of data or functions were entrusted to those services.

The survey was conducted by research firm comScore, which did not reveal to respondents that the survey was sponsored by Microsoft. Respondents were not qualified based on which cloud vendor they used.

A small to midsize business was defined as one with between 100 and 250 PCs in its network

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Hottest IT skill? Cybersecurity

Under a barrage of cyberattacks, U.S. companies are hiring more security engineers, analysts than ever before

Embattled by hactivists, cybercriminals and foreign rivals seeking to steal proprietary information, U.S. corporations are ramping up their hiring of cybersecurity experts, with open jobs reaching an all-time high in April.

The need for cybersecurity experts spans all industries, from financial services, manufacturing and utilities to healthcare and retail. Among the major U.S. companies trying to fill cybersecurity-related positions are Boeing, Baylor Health Care System, Verisign and Office Depot.

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Cybersecurity jobs also are plentiful in the U.S. federal government market. For example, the Energy Department's Idaho National Lab is seeking a senior cybersecurity researcher to support its lead nuclear research and development facility.

The number of cybersecurity-related job openings listed on the Dice.com Web site for IT professionals rose significantly in April 2012 compared to a year ago. The biggest increase was for cybersecurity specialists, which rose 74% with 920 open job listings. U.S. companies also are hiring thousands of network security, information security and application security experts.

"Every year, threats go up, so every year companies increase investment in security,'' says Tom Silver, senior vice president of North America for Dice. "On Dice, information security jobs reached an all-time high last month ... Companies want security professionals to counter breaches and also anticipate gaps, suggesting measures to fill them. Protection is key.''

Several trends are driving the demand for cybersecurity experts. Companies have increasingly complex networks, more transactions to process, and more data than ever. They're using cloud applications such as Salesforce and Taleo, which extends their need for information security outside the perimeter of their networks. Additionally, they're dealing with a flood of user-owned mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.

The cybersecurity skills needed three years ago compared to now "is a whole different ballgame," says Sudhir Verma, vice president of consulting services and project management at Force 3, a Crofton, Md., government contractor that is hiring several senior engineers, solutions architects and analysts for its security team.

"Three years ago, the iPad was not in play. Now we're hiring experts in our practice who understand the bring-your-own-device and consumerization trends,'' Verma says. ``Everything is in flux with the move to the cloud and mobile devices. It's no longer about managing firewalls for IT security. It's beyond that. It's about how to protect information in the enterprise in an environment that includes cloud applications and tablets.''

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All of these trends are prompting CIOs and CISOs to hire experienced security professionals to safeguard their sensitive information. They are particularly concerned about protecting intellectual property from theft by government-sponsored hackers from countries such as China.

"There's certainly a great need in the market, with cybersecurity breaches costing U.S. companies upwards of $400 billion annually in intellectual property theft alone," says Don Hanson, senior vice president with Yoh, an IT staffing agency.

Hanson sees demand for developers who can build secure applications, network engineers with security certifications, and architects who understand how to secure systems and processes. He says there is also a need for IT professionals to be involved with security monitoring, information assurance and regulatory compliance.

"The biggest need is for folks that are working in security with cutting-edge technologies,'' Hanson says. "There are so many mobile devices out there, it's important to add the layer of mobile device management and to understand how that additional layer works."

Hanson says companies are looking to hire IT professionals with experience in security information event management, intrusion detection, data loss prevention and logging systems, as well as those with certifications related to ethical hacking and digital forensics. However, they prefer to hire IT professionals with a big-picture perspective on security issues rather than expertise in only one type of security device.

"It's not so much about any one technology or any one point product," Hanson says. "It's more about a holistic approach to security that companies are taking that includes their policies and assets across their entire information architecture."

The titles for open cybersecurity jobs vary, with the most popular being security engineers, security analysts and security architects. Other organizations favor the terms cybersecurity analysts and information assurance analyst.

"We're looking now for cybersecurity intelligence analysts and information assurance analysts who understand how to look at information not only from a technical and logical security standpoint, but who can relate that back to risk management and business process risk," says Jacob Braun, president and COO of Waka Digital Media Corp., a Boston-based IT security consulting firm. "We're looking for people who can look at attacks in progress and can find occurrences that are symptomatic of attacks and...can help mitigate potential for future attacks."

Most of these high-paying cybersecurity jobs are not for recent computer science graduates; instead companies are looking to hire IT professionals with five to 15 years of experience with security systems and processes as well as related certifications. [See sidebar with tips for landing a cybersecurity job.]

"A cybersecurity analyst is someone who has nine to 15 years of professional experience, preferably has a master's degree and possesses a variety of information security certifications," Braun says. "Salary depends on geography and industry. It can range anywhere from $80,000 to $150,000. If an individual has a unique set of experience, it can be significantly higher, especially for consultants."

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Last year, Unisys hired an IT security director and expanded its IT security staff. Now the company is looking for knowledge of security principals in all of its ongoing IT hires, including application developers and network engineers, says Unisys CISO Dave Frymier.

"The reason that senior application architects and senior network engineers have got to have security knowledge is because we want to bake security into the early parts of the development process," Frymier says. "I've interviewed several application architects who had sterling-looking resumes and when I asked them to describe an SQL injection attack, they couldn't do it. Needless to say, we didn't hire them."

Unisys has 15 cybersecurity professionals on staff out of an overall group of 150 IT professionals. Frymier said Unisys needs cybersecurity expertise in its IT architecture and IT operations.

"The breaches that are occurring are problems on the operational side," he explained. "Somebody who runs a security information and event management system has to have a lot of experience...so they can deal with the false positives. Those systems throw out literally gigabytes worth of data. You have to be able to filter through that and find the stuff that really shouldn't be there."

Demand for cybersecurity experts is expected to remain strong.

For example, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told a Senate committee in April that cyberattacks are her No.1 concern. She said there is a shortage of cybersecurity experts to help federal agencies thwart cyberattacks, which exceeded 106,000 last year.

Cybersecurity jobs will likely continue increasing as organizations continue to expand their online businesses.

"There's a huge non-profit in New York City, a $700 million organization, that wants to double in size -- all through marketing on the Internet," Hanson says. "They need cybersecurity expertise on the architectural level and the programming level. They're going to certainly encounter new threats as they open up their network to a whole new function."

Additionally, companies are unlikely to outsource or offshore cybersecurity jobs, Frymier says.

"There has to be a braintrust inside the company who understands what information is important for the company to safeguard and who operates in the best interest of the company," Frymier says. "What you can't get from a consulting firm is an ongoing risk management perspective of: What information do I need to protect, who is trying to steal it from me, and what is the risk of a breach."

Read more about security in Network World's Security section.

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