Articles by Mark A.
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What are the most important things to do in your first year of IT management?
1) Understand the business requirements and develop fit for purpose / fit for use solutions by talking frequently with all key stakeholders 2) Project plan your approach - first 30/60/90 days and quarter by quarter out for the entire year 3) Challenge your team to be Agile and deliver value frequently including stretch goals whenever possible
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How can you make your vulnerability assessment process more adaptable?
Practice the fundamentals- solid asset management, scan-patch-verify repeat, focus on highest risk items. Have an end of life refresh policy. Limit the number of one offs in the environment and systems that need a risk exception. It's that simple.
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How can you build relationships with introverted IT professionals?
IT introverts can be some of the biggest contributors, solving some of the biggest problems. Introverts frequently carve out time and energy to deliver on important ideas. Meet them on their path, take time understand what they are really passionate about and what problems they want to solve. This can be enlightening for a leader in such a way as to enable that leader to be a multiplier of the efforts rather than an an obstacle. Developing a clear understanding and mutual respect for one another is key.
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How do you ensure your IT systems are performing and available?
To guarantee warranty (fit for use) operators must establish solid availability management. This requires cybersecurity and operations joint cooperation. Attack Surface Reduction begins with having proper vulnerability, configuration, and patch management programs in place.
Activity
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Experience
Licenses & Certifications
Volunteer Experience
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Board Member
NCADD Westchester
- 10 years 1 month
Social Services
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Author, educator and change agent for K-12 computer science education.
Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA)
- Present 9 years 9 months
Education
CSTA is to truly become an effective educational change agent for K-12 computer science education, we need good volunteers to help us carry our work and achieve our mission.
Publications
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Windows 2000 Infrastructure - Implementing and Administering
Prentice Hall
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Cornerstones - A general history of computing machinery & explanation of the information age
work in progress
Gottfried von Leibniz is famous for the quote "It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could safely be relegated to anyone else if machines were used." The baron’s vision is now something in the information age that ‘excellent’ men & women often take for granted.
Projects
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Global Security Configuration Mgmt. (SecCM) Control
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Lead the development and successful rollout of a global Security Configuration Management (SecCM control for monitoring 70,000 distributed servers across Europe, North America, and the Asia Pacific region. The effort was one of the largest commercial projects of its kind in world. The project included developing and deploying both the monitoring infrastructure as well as the service catalog of controls for managing compliance across all business sectors of the bank.
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Organizations
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Association for Computing Machinery
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