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- Should you hire foreign workers to fill positions during a labor crunch?
- If your firm can't meet clients' demands for advice and services, perhaps you should consider hiring H-1B visa workers. But it's complicated—get the facts before tapping into this talent pool.The Computing Technology Industry Association estimates that nearly 269,000 IT jobs go unfilled every year, costing U.S. businesses $4.5 billion in...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Pam Gersh, paperwork, H-1B, worker, foreign worker, H-1B visa, hiring
- Technical articles 2001-03-08
- How to keep your retirement plan on track
- As a consultant, you probably field job offers often. But even if a new position sounds promising, is changing companies worth risking your retirement dollars? We'll tell you how to protect your 401k when you move to a new firm.Consultants are a mobile group. A quick look at iBig5.com—a Web...
- Tags: 401(k), Retirement plans, Investment, Taxes, Pam Gersh, 401(k) plan, Individual Retirement Account
- Technical articles 2001-02-15
- Mission statement or vision statement?
- What's the definition of a mission statement? In response to a recent article, some members questioned the difference between a company's mission and its vision. Read on to see if you agree with their definitions.When sailing the unpredictable waters of today’s consulting market, it’s important to have a reliable sextant...
- Tags: Strategy, Beth Blakely, mission statement, vision, vision statement, Gillelan
- Technical articles 2001-02-01
- Need money for your consulting start-up? Check out these online resources
- If you're planning to start your own consulting shop, you'll need funding to get it off the ground. Here are some tips and helpful sites that will help you find money and investors.“Angel investors,” venture capitalists, buyers, funding, lender financing, strategic alliances, technology transfer, merger/acquisition, start-up, turnaround assistance…all of these...
- Tags: Financial accounting, Entrepreneurship, Investment, consulting, Pam Gersh, investor, venture capital
- Technical articles 2001-01-12
- Do your homework before playing the name game
- What's in a name? A lot, if you're choosing one for a consulting firm and trying to set up and build brand identity. Find out what's involved in choosing a name and making it your own.In the Internet world, the wrong domain name can be downright fatal. Your chosen name...
- Tags: Branding, Domain names, Pam Gersh, game, brand
- Technical articles 2000-12-05
- Readers say consultants' average rates are on the money
- When it comes to rates and salaries, IT consultants are ready to talk. A number of TechRepublic members participated in a recent discussion to sound off on the money issue. Find out what your peers are earning.Nothing generates comments like consultants’ rates, a reader told us recently. An Oct. 31,...
- Tags: Benefits, Jennifer Recktenwald, Nothing, Ed Gooding, Pam Gersh
- Technical articles 2000-12-04
- Turn your vision into a mission statement
- You know who you are and what you do, but do your clients? Follow these tips to create a clear, concise mission statement that will communicate your vision to the world.Mission statements are a lot like press releases. If the critical information isn’t expressed well in the first few lines,...
- Tags: Strategy, Pam Gersh, mission statement, vision
- Technical articles 2000-11-14
- Going solo? Get top dollar for your services
- If you're planning to leave a consulting firm to work independently, you'll want to set a price that's fair to you and to your clients. Read about how to determine a profitable rate based on your market and skill set.Betty Grable’s legs were insured for $1 million dollars back in...
- Tags: Benefits, Strategy, HEALTHCARE, Pam Gersh
- Technical articles 2000-10-31
- Call on your peers to build a winning team
- When you've got a full workload, you may want to team up with other consultants who can complement what you do and help you complete projects. But choose partners wisely, and make sure they understand your expectations.As we’ve all heard, the “new economy” is spurring phenomenal growth, which has provided...
- Tags: Team management, Pam Gersh, team, partnership
- Technical articles 2000-10-03
- Avoid the loneliness of working in isolation
- Working solo can be rewarding but also lonely. But there's a lot you can do to combat that loneliness and perhaps win some new business in the process.Isolation—even the word sounds lonely. It’s one of the major obstacles for consultants and independent contractors who work from a home office. Of...
- Tags: Corporate governance, Pam Gersh, isolation, board
- Technical articles 2000-09-14
- Career benchmarking: Know what you want and you just might get it
- Benchmarking is common practice in the corporate world for measuring companies' goals. As a consultant, you can apply similar tactics to keep your career on track.“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal. Not to people or things.”—Albert EinsteinCan you take a little constructive self-criticism...
- Tags: Professional development, Benefits, Pam Gersh, corporate world, benchmarking, career
- Technical articles 2000-08-31
- Working from home successfully requires extra planning, organization, and discipline
- The home office has become the work environment of choice for many of today's IT consultants. But what does it take to stay on track with all those distractions in your path?More than one-third of all working Americans (that’s roughly 40 million people) presently work from their homes. These individuals...
- Tags: Notebooks, Pam Gersh, Planning, home office, Office Notebook, notebook, daily plan, Microsoft Office
- Technical articles 2000-08-07
Additional Resources
- Enforce strong passwords with pam_passwdqc
- how using passwdqc in graphic mode?hi,i try to aware the "root password" program of passwdqc, but it dosen't work despite it's correspond programs like "sys-config-rootpassword" was pam-aware.please help me.thanks in advancedYou don't use passwdqc in graphics modeI think you must misunderstand what pam_passwdqc is. It's a pam module. ...
- Tags: mstahaei@..., password
- Discussion threads 2006-09-05
- RSA ACE/Agent 5.0 for PAM
- The RSA ACE/Agent for PAM enables organizations to establish trusted user access to applications running on their Unix and Linux environments. The Pluggable Authentication Module PAM allows administrators to extend various authentication technologies, such as tokens, smart cards and passwords, without the need to modify existing applications. The RSA ACE/Agent...
- Tags: RSA Security Inc., Authentication, Pluggable Authentication Module, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Security, Open Source, Software
- Software downloads
- exchange@PAM: Email Archiving and Lifecycle Management for Microsoft Exchange
- This white paper builds a strong argument for archiving enterprise e-mail using exchange@PAM from H&S Software. Among the most important reasons to archive your corporate e-mail are: Mailbox management Compliance and regulatory requirements e-Discovery Download this informative paper to learn more...
- Tags: Lifecycle Management, Microsoft Exchange Server, E-mail Archiving, Microsoft Corp., Instant InfoSystems, E-mail, Online Communications
- White papers
- PAM-Personal Asset Manager (exe)
- PAM-Personal Asset Manager is used to document info about assets and property you worked so hard to acquire. You will be able to record all asset information including values, serial numbers, asset images, and purchase receipt images. By documenting this information in one place you will be able to rapidly...
- Tags: Asset, PAM-Personal Asset Manager, Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations
- Software downloads 2006-11-02
- Consider including Linux-PAM in projects that require authentication
- Keep your development environment safe with tips from expert John McCormick in Builder.com's weekly Development Security Spotlight e-newsletter. Automatically subscribe to the e-newsletter now!Linux-PAM Pluggable Authentication Modules for Linux is supported by Solaris, FreeBSD 3.2+, Red Hat, Caldera, Debian, Turbo Linux, and more. For any project that requires authentication on...
- Tags: SECURITY, Kernal.org, John McCormick, Linux Journal, O'Reilly, PAM, authentication, PAM module, Linux-PAM, Additional PAM, password
- Technical articles 2004-03-29
- Linux in a Windows World: Using NT Domains for Linux Authentication
- If the existing network uses an NT domain or an Active Directory domain, the user may want to tap into the existing domain controller for Linux authentication. For instance, he or she might want a Linux POP server to use the existing Windows domain accounts. Doing so presents certain challenges,...
- Tags: Domain Controller, Microsoft Windows NT Domain, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Software
- Book chapters 2005-01-28
- Restrict users' access on Linux systems
- This looks really useful!Wow, Thanks for posting this great info! I just logged into my machine and read /etc/security.time.conf file. The format seemed really weird. The concept is very similar to crontab entries. I'm really excited about having just learned about this but since their just me on local system;...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, adambrown29@..., service name, Linux system, Linux
- Discussion threads 2007-10-11
- Using Pluggable Authentication Modules with Linux
- PAM is used to protect Linux and UNIX systems from compromise through authentication, logging, and session management. Learn more about PAM, its configuration, and some of the modules available for it in this Daily Feature.Pluggable Authentication Modules PAM is used to protect Linux and UNIX systems from compromise through the...
- Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, SECURITY, Jim McIntyre, Linux Filesystem Security, Linux, PAM, Pluggable Authentication Modules, configuration file
- Technical articles 2000-10-10
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