IT Management
ZDNet, 6/7/04: IT salary spread--case for outsourcing?
By Sylvia Carr
The salaries of IT professionals vary greatly depending on where they live, according to a research report from Mercer Human Resource Consulting.
Annual pay ranges from $164,900 in Switzerland to $24,900 in the Philippines for senior-level IT positions. For lower-level jobs, the disparity is also great, with the same position earning $64,100 in Germany and $12,400 in China. This helps explain why so many companies in North America and Europe are keen to offshore IT services.
Switzerland pays the most across the board, with IT pros earning from $75,100 to $164,900, depending on their level of experience.
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Security
Computerworld, 6/7/04: Microsoft Security Exec Details Windows XP Service Pack Plans
The release, due this summer, places strong emphasis on firewall capability
Q&A by Carol Sliwa
Microsoft Corp.'s latest security efforts are focused on Service Pack 2 for Windows XP, which is due this summer. Mike Nash, vice president of Microsoft's security business and technology unit, recently discussed SP2 and the company's security strategy with Computerworld. Excerpts from the interview follow:
What guidance can you give IT pros about Windows XP Service Pack 2 breaking applications? Making sure that we're doing things to make XP SP2 compatible with key customer scenarios is a top priority for us. One of the things with the new firewall in Service Pack 2 is to make sure that it's compatible with more scenarios so that it can be turned on by default and left on by the customers.
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Computerworld, 6/7/04: CPU-based security for Windows XP, Red Hat Linux coming
The hardware security feature will get OS support later this year
News Story by Todd R. Weiss
Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 and the next version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 will support new CPU-based security protections designed to stop incoming malicious executable code from being triggered.
The improved security feature has been included in 64-bit CPUs from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. since last year, but operating system makers haven't yet built support for the technology into their code, said Jeff Lowe, desktop marketing manager at Sunnyvale, Calif.-based AMD. That will change when Windows XP SP2 is released later this year and when Red Hat's new enterprise Linux OS ships in August.
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Computerworld, 6/7/04: Cisco to use Trend Micro antivirus technologies
The integration of Trend Micro's software into Cisco gear will begin in Q3
News Story by Ben Klayman
In a bid to make corporate networks more secure, Cisco Systems Inc. today announced that it will integrate Trend Micro Inc.'s technology for blocking computer viruses and worms into its software.
Under the multiyear deal, Cisco will add Trend Micro virus- and worm-prevention technologies to the intrusion-detection system software used on its routers and switches.
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