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Frank Laurijssens

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Information security infrastructure designer, ICTIO

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Frank is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience in infrastructure and information security. He has worked for a variety of organizations in finance, healthcare, retail, government and law enforcement.
Over the last 5 years Frank has been ...

Frank is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience in infrastructure and information security. He has worked for a variety of organizations in finance, healthcare, retail, government and law enforcement.
Over the last 5 years Frank has been busy with virtualization, security and more recently High Performance Computing, and nowadays combines these three areas at a managed services provider that sells cloud-based HPC services.

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Sept. 6, 2011

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Do your Business Continuity plans take PKI issues into account?

Information Technology

April 23, 2011

Frank Laurijssens recommends this answer by Andrew Baker

What are implications of Amazon's huge outage on cloud ERP providers?

If the only implication is that we stop thinking of any singular technology as a panacea for whatever problem we are having, then that will be a great result.
Technology is complex and occasionally fails because all the possible interactions are not well understood in advance. ... more

Information Technology

Cloud Computing

Enterprise Resource Planning

April 4, 2011

Frank Laurijssens recommends this answer by Tim Rutledge

What value does an exit interview hold for a manager and organization?

You conduct an exit interview when someone has announced his/her intention to walk through your organization's exit door, and you want to know what is driving this decision. The first thing that the departing employee may cite is that they're leaving for more money. There ... more

Human Resources

Human Resource Jobs

March 30, 2011

Frank Laurijssens recommends this answer by Glen Marshall

How do you motivate your employees when there is limited upward mobility for them in the company?

Reading over the various answers, I remember the long-time CEO of a company where I worked for over 30 years. He pointed-out that he never got a promotion. But he grew as the company grew.
In the beginning of the company, employees expanded their current jobs ... more

General Management

Leadership and Management Development

March 27, 2011

Frank Laurijssens and 4 other people answered this question

What are some of the most prevalent security issues surrounding voice & unified communications?

Apart from network security, Unified Communications creates a new entry point into your systems. While it might sound cool that you can use the voice mail system to read you your most recent e-mail messages, this could turn out to be not so cool when ... more

Information Technology

Unified Communications

Feb. 17, 2011

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Feb. 15, 2011

Frank Laurijssens recommends this answer by Ken Nadreau

Should answers be automatically voted down for self promotion?

For one thing, can it still be qualified as "voting" if a moderator or a script automatically makes the choice? Admittedly, spam happens everywhere, but I think the people can make the decision whether to vote something up or down.
And whether its article writing, ... more

Human Resources

Feb. 10, 2011

Frank Laurijssens recommends this answer by Fred Stuck

Anti-virus Best Practices: What are your 3 tips for preventing virus attacks?

Michael,
I think everyone has provided you with excellent advise and I hope mine builds upon that.
1, The first item I would like to suggest is Ingress and Egress filters on Internet routers or Firewalls. Most organizations will filter ingress or inbound traffic however many ... more

General Management

Information Technology

Antivirus Software

Feb. 9, 2011

Frank Laurijssens and 5 other people answered this question

International Travel Best Practices: What are your 3 tips for using your smartphone overseas?

* Most, if not all smartphones have an option to turn off data roaming. Only connect using Wifi hotspots or use the laptop that in most cases you are carrying along with the smartphone.
* Get a local pre-pay sim card. You might want to use ... more

General Management

Information Technology

Jan. 12, 2011

Frank Laurijssens recommends this answer by Roy Atkinson

At this point, is there a clear advantage for installing an Android server over a Blackberry server?

Ryan, the answer to your question depends on a few factors:
• Is your company buying all smartphones /mobile devices, and will they be restricted to one type (i.e., all BlackBerry or all Android)?
* How will you keep personally-owned devices out, or do you need to ... more

Information Technology

Mobile Wireless

Dec. 29, 2010

Frank Laurijssens recommends this answer by Glen Marshall

Generally speaking, how worried should the average business owner be about hackers?

If you lock your doors and protect yourself from shoplifting, your should also secure your computers and networks from electronic thieves. more

Information Technology

Data Protection

Dec. 19, 2010

Frank Laurijssens and 1 other person answered this question

What exactly is 'ethical' hacking?

Ethical hacking is the process of hacking a system with the consent of the system's owner, causing as little damage as possible, and so on. Penetration testing is a form of ethical hacking. There are official courses to become an 'ethical hacker'. more

Information Technology

Data Protection

Ethical Hacking

Sept. 1, 2010

Frank Laurijssens and 8 other people answered this question

Are IT departments sabotaging cloud computing solutions?

It's not sabotage, but many people, including those with IT responsibilities, do not have a clear understanding of what "moving services to the cloud" really means. I wouldn't move any infrastructure if I wasn't sure what would happen to it either.
Cloud service providers have ... more

Cloud Computing

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