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What Does It Take to Become a CISSP

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With cybersecurity challenges and hacking activities intensifying across the globe, the enterprises are rigorously struggling every minute to withstand the security breaches. Be it DDoS attacks, external or internal attacks, intrusions or ransomware, all have become a nightmare for not only global organizations but also government agencies, leaving them with a dire need for a competent workforce of security professionals on board.  ISC2’s CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) is the most sought-after information security certification, that can be duly earned by following an official curriculum delivered by industry experts.  The U.S job sites, flooded with thousands of cybersecurity positions and specially CISSP roles, are enough to tell the story about the soaring demand for professionals who can keep the data, information and organization’s assets intact. Who is a CISSP? A CISSP is a seasoned security professional possessing expert...

5 Debugging Tricks Every Visual Studio Developer Should Master

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Rendering a zero-error application can only be achieved with sound debugging, that forms an inevitable part of the software development life-cycle. Debugging is a time-taking and challenging task for the developers most of the times. The process of detecting errors in a program code and fixing them is called debugging . Microsoft Visual Studio is a powerful and interactive IDE (Integrated Development Environment) extensively used by developers to create feature-rich computer applications, web, and mobile apps. With outstanding debugging capabilities, Microsoft Visual Studio allows developers to perform effortless debugging by adding breakpoints, error listing, visualizing the program flow, controlling the program execution, viewing and editing the variables and other code elements. Below mentioned tricks can contribute the smooth progress at debugging stage of the development in Visual Studio: 1. Evaluate Expressions with Mouse Hover: Stepping into the program code and spott...

7 Steps to Continual Service Improvement with ITIL

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Businesses are rapidly incorporating ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) framework into their diverse processes to leverage its potential capabilities for enhanced business performance. ITIL framework outlines the best practices and envisions service improvements from the IT service management to enhance efficiency and optimize service delivery cost, provided the touch points are identified timely during the service lifecycle execution. Termed as Continual Service Improvement (CSI) in ITIL, this approach includes a module, defining the techniques and processes to help to align the service levels with continuously changing business processes. The CSI (Continual Service Improvement) process in ITIL is a seven-step process comprised of the following stages: Define Objectives: The first stage involves clearly defining the objectives to improve the business processes and patterns of service delivery. This includes identification of services and the extent...

How to Use SharePoint For Project Management

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A project can be efficiently managed with team collaboration and proper documentation. Microsoft SharePoint is a robust and feature-rich collaboration platform, that extends project management capabilities through a range of Project Site templates and project management tools. These help you to access the project details located centrally and leverage a platform permitting you to update the executed phases, manage workflows, communicate changes to the team members, create task lists and logbooks among other project management tasks. How Does SharePoint Support the Project Management? Project Management requires successful execution of various project stages including planning, organizing, implementing, controlling and monitoring. Microsoft SharePoint offers a powerful platform with exquisite project management features and tools to facilitate the project managers and the teams for successful execution of every project lifecycle stage and deliver the expected outputs with ut...

Must-Have Windows 10 Skills for System Engineers

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Revolutionary updates to the Microsoft Windows operating system have always been the performance enhancers for system engineers. Recent improvements to the Windows 10 offer enhanced user interface, smart browser, better command prompt, high-resolution graphics API and a plethora of advanced applications. System engineers can stay abreast with these updates by upskilling their advanced Windows 10 skills. Primary features of Windows 10 specifically helping System Engineers to advance their roles, include: Windows 10 Basics: Using Windows operating system offers a user-friendly interface. The basic skills are required to efficiently work on Windows 10. These include – working with files and folder and use relative functions of sorting, renaming, creating, compressing etc., connecting to the internet, using media programs like VLC, using Cortana and others. Configuration Management: Configuration management skills relate to the competency of system engineers to deploy Windows...

What Does Integrating Dynamics 365 with Office 365 Offer?

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Microsoft Office 365 is a powerful bundle of productivity suite has revolutionized the idea of digital workspaces, accessing office applications and sharing data from anywhere, anytime. Microsoft is a brand and a leading name in the technological innovations and advancement also devised Dynamics 365 having the capabilities of Dynamics CRM , NAV and AX resulting in an amazing combination of CRM and ERP solutions. The compatibility and seamless integration of Microsoft products have always been the USPs of Microsoft products leveraging infinite benefits to the businesses. Likewise, both cloud-based products together offer extensive capabilities to track appointments, emails, contracts, schedules by connecting to Outlook, Word, Excel etc. and enhanced customer relationship contributing to improved business ROI. Integrating Dynamics 365 with Office 365 Integration of Microsoft Dynamics 365 with Office 365 help businesses leverage the benefits of various O365 application...

Empower your Network Administration with SolarWinds Orion

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SolarWinds Orion is a robust network management platform that renders unified network monitoring solutions to the organizations. It offers powerful fault and bandwidth management capabilities that can measure and monitor the performance of the large networks. It is acclaimed that out of 500 fortune companies, 425 companies use this intuitive solution to monitor and analyze network, system, and application health and performance efficiently. Acquiring expertise in SolarWinds network monitoring tools and capabilities with SolarWinds Orion training courses can help businesses reap the following benefits: ·   Ensure Service Availability:  This innovative platform offers extensive visibility to the vital business services, that cannot be compromised at any point of time. It allows businesses to offer uninterrupted services as they are directly dependent on healthy network and systems. The Orion platform helps in continuous monitoring and analyzing the essential elemen...