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If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the sea.
─ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A Tactical Force With Strategic Impact
Stalwart is characterized by bold innovation, constant improvement, hard-driving persis...
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Performance Manager
Locations: - Greenville, SC, Charlotte, NC
Stalwart designs, builds and manages secure IT architectures that help accelerate business breakthroughs and deliver outstanding cost efficiency. Our dedication to principles of simplicity, innovation, and customer success has made us one of the most respected service provide...
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Principal Engineer
Locations: - Greenville, SC, Charlotte, NC
Stalwart designs, builds and manages secure IT architectures that help accelerate business breakthroughs and deliver outstanding cost efficiency. Our dedication to principles of simplicity, innovation, and customer success has made us one of the most respected solution provid...
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Bios
Derek Newton
Derek Newton is a seasoned IT security professional with advanced infrastructure and security experience in a wide range of organizational settings (small organizations through Fortune 500). Mr. Newton’s diverse technical skills and experience allows him to bring a unique perspective to projects and to assist Stalwart’s cl...
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Brent Brackin
Brent Brackin came to Stalwart with over 15 years industry experience in the areas of Sales and Relationship Management. Prior to joining Stalwart, Brent was employed by Tech Data Corporation as a Cisco Field Account Manager. As Senior Director of Stalwart’s Performance Management Group, Mr. Brackin’s responsibilities are...
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Cheryl Hart
Cheryl Hart has over 13 years of experience in finance and business administration. She has worked with several small companies in a variety of industries including landscaping, textiles (fabric and chemicals), and healthcare. In addition, she successfully ran her own chiropractic practice for over 17 years prior to joinin...
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Leadership Team
Brent Brackin
Brent Brackin came to Stalwart with over 15 years industry experience in the areas of Sales and Relationship Management. Prior to joining Stalwart, Brent was employed by Tech Data Corporation as a Cisco Field Account Manager. As Senior Director of Stalwart’s Performance Management Group, Mr. Brackin’s responsibilities are...
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Andrew Nelson
Andrew Nelson has over 6 years of professional experience in information technology, financial services technology, business development, marketing, and finance. His employment experiences have been mostly with start-up to mid-sized companies with Fortune 1000 clients.
Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, but raised in Charlot...
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Glenn Johnson
Glenn Johnson is a Principal Engineer with over 18 years of relevant industry experience specializing in secure infrastructure design, audit, implementation andmanagement. Due to his extensive background in security, networking, and systems administration, Mr. Johnson supplies critical insights into the design process as w...
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Stalwart Professionals
Derek Newton
Derek Newton is a seasoned IT security professional with advanced infrastructure and security experience in a wide range of organizational settings (small organizations through Fortune 500). Mr. Newton’s diverse technical skills and experience allows him to bring a unique perspective to projects and to assist Stalwart’s cl...
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Walter Smith
Walter Smith is a twenty-four year Information Technology professional working in the area of planning, developing, deploying and the support of automation systems. Mr. Smith has served as a chief technology provider to business and industry in the Southeast. Prior to joining Stalwart, he utilized his extensive experience ...
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Cheryl Hart
Cheryl Hart has over 13 years of experience in finance and business administration. She has worked with several small companies in a variety of industries including landscaping, textiles (fabric and chemicals), and healthcare. In addition, she successfully ran her own chiropractic practice for over 17 years prior to joinin...
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Why Stalwart
Founders Federal Credit Union
Stalwart Press
Founders Federal Credit Union selects Stalwart, Cisco and TW Telecom to improve customer service, support expansion and reduce support costs
Financial; Lancaster, SC; 170,000 Members
Business Challenge
Current communication infrastructure made it difficult to expand quickly and still maintain customer s...
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Camstar
Camstar utilizes Cisco Unified Communications to reduce over 75% of communication expenses.
Enterprise Software Solutions; Charlotte, NC
Business Challenge
Leverage software for operational efficiencies
Manage software development projects across mobile and diverse teams
Critical nee...
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Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein
Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein selects Stalwart and Cisco for advanced communications solution.
Law Firm; Charlotte, NC; 500 Employees
Business Challenge
Antiquated communications infrastructure
Handcuffed productivity and reduced efficiency
PBX occupied a lot of data center space
N...
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Differentiators
Advantages
Stalwart, not only a hearer of what is important to its clients, but a doer, as the following attests:
98.6% of all projects over the last 3 years were completed within budget.
97.8% of all projects over the last 3 years were completed on time.
90% of o...
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Stalwart Purpose
"Make a good shoe and sell it for a fair price." - Martin Luther
Dear Reader,
I'm really glad you were interested enough to check out this section of our website. I struggled with whether to include this page... not for fear of being ridiculed or persecuted, but for fear of giving the appearance of marketing so...
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Stalwart Promise
100% Unconditional Guarantee
Integrity. Value. Service. At Stalwart, we have staked our reputation on these three simple words. In doing so, it seems we have offered the industry's only 100% Unconditional Guarantee. Because your satisfaction is our bottom line, we are serious about the quality of our work and we are...
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Testimonials
Client Experiences
“Stalwart has set the bar so high for the competition that I doubt any can clear it.”
– Ken Sparks, Charlotte Pipe & Foundry
“Stalwart is the Navy Seal team of its industry!”
– Randy Balot, Forbo Siegling
“Lives, not just dollars, are relying on our network. THAT is why we use Stalwart.”
– Susan...
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Clients
Founders Federal Credit Union
Stalwart Press
Founders Federal Credit Union selects Stalwart, Cisco and TW Telecom to improve customer service, support expansion and reduce support costs
Financial; Lancaster, SC; 170,000 Members
Business Challenge
Current communication infrastructure made it difficult to expand quickly and still maintain customer s...
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Camstar
Camstar utilizes Cisco Unified Communications to reduce over 75% of communication expenses.
Enterprise Software Solutions; Charlotte, NC
Business Challenge
Leverage software for operational efficiencies
Manage software development projects across mobile and diverse teams
Critical nee...
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Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein
Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein selects Stalwart and Cisco for advanced communications solution.
Law Firm; Charlotte, NC; 500 Employees
Business Challenge
Antiquated communications infrastructure
Handcuffed productivity and reduced efficiency
PBX occupied a lot of data center space
N...
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Solutions
Why Stalwart for DR/BC?
What does Stalwart bring to the table when we talk about Business Continuity?
"Data Security First" approach
Well-defined and very tactical BIA process
S ound project management methodology
Depth of experience in large infrastructure projects in geographically dispersed areas
...
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Implementation & Management
Stalwart offers services around planning, validation and migration to the business continuity environment – for both cloud and traditional architectures. Stalwart will provide the documentation, project management and technical resources to make your business continuity plan a reality.
Our unique approach to consulting ...
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Business Impact Analysis
A Business Impact Analysis (BIA) is foundational to determining which business processes are most critical to continuing business in the event of a disruption. By working with a select group of key clients, Stalwart has pioneered a methodology and toolset for a very tactical BIA offering that answers the essential question...
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Security
Overview
Just because you're not paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you!
Good Enough Always Beats Perfect
Good enough security is good enough and consists of a level of security appropriate to the asset it is protecting. Perfect security is unattainable in the real world. Albert Einstein once said, "Everything s...
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Data Security
Data Loss Prevention
Stalwart's comprehensive approach to data loss prevention spans from network to endpoint to help prevent leakage of sensitive data outside the enterprise and unauthorized movement of sensitive data within the enterprise. Data-breach-related costs from lost or inappropriately distributed corporate ...
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Physical Security
Ethical Social Engineering
Intruders or hackers use a vast array of exploit methods when trying to gain illicit access to computer systems. While most organizations spend a lot of time and money trying to protect their networks, their investment is often bypassed by social engineering. Because people are the weakest l...
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Communications
Network Integration
Campus and Local Area Networks
When it's time to upgrade or expand your campus and local area networks, Stalwart can help you maximize the effectiveness of the networking infrastructure that connects your employees to the applications and data they need to do their work. Its network integration services help you:
...
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Mobility and Wireless
Wireless LAN Strategy, Design and Deployment
Stalwart offers a full range of services, from the development of your mobility strategy to the design and implementation of your wireless infrastructure. With the increased mobility of today's workforce and the trend towards working more remotely, organizations are realizi...
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Converged Communications Services
Unified Communications
IP telephony services from Stalwart can help you design, deploy and manage an infrastructure to support today's advanced IP telephones, help you reduce the costs of managing and maintaining separate voice and data networks, and increase the productivity of your employees.
Stalwart provides the...
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Managed Services
Vulnerability Assessment and Management
Half-life of Static Security Assessments
Security is a dynamic, ongoing process. Point-in-time security assessments and singular reviews are static. While static audits may provide short-term confidence that data is secure, in reality the half-life of these assessments is very short due to constantly changing technolo...
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Configuration and Change Management
Managing security configurations in a dynamic environment is a daunting challenge for today's security teams. The rapid pace of change, combined with device complexity and resource constraints, often causes defenses to become misaligned with security policies. Stalwart's Configuration & Change Management service complement...
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Unified Communications Management
Stalwart's comprehensive Unified Communications (UC) Management service provides real-time 24x7 support for Cisco's IP Telephony monitoring.
Key Features
Voice and data network discovery and topology
Basic up/down (ICMP) and SNMP-based monitoring
Threshold-based monitoring and alerting
D...
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Data Center
Unified Computing
Stalwart delivers scalable and flexible architecture for current and future data center needs while helping to reduce the total cost of ownership. Our long history supporting advanced core networking technologies helps us better understand how to make unified computing an extension of the network to ensure the confidenti...
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Cloud Readiness Assessment
Stalwart has a long track record of providing various insightful network and security assessments. It now has a cloud readiness assessment of equal caliber with which to help clients sort through the hype around cloud computing and understand their readiness to move their IT organization in a host of different direction...
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Back-up & Recovery
Stalwart's Backup & Recovery solutions enable you to strengthen your data protection, streamline backup and recovery, and meet a wide range of service levels, even for the largest data volumes. Stalwart can help you reduce the amount of data to be backed up while optimizing your environment with a full range of platfo...
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Business Continuity
Why Stalwart for DR/BC?
What does Stalwart bring to the table when we talk about Business Continuity?
"Data Security First" approach
Well-defined and very tactical BIA process
S ound project management methodology
Depth of experience in large infrastructure projects in geographically dispersed areas
...
Read More |
Implementation & Management
Stalwart offers services around planning, validation and migration to the business continuity environment – for both cloud and traditional architectures. Stalwart will provide the documentation, project management and technical resources to make your business continuity plan a reality.
Our unique approach to consulting ...
Read More |
Business Impact Analysis
A Business Impact Analysis (BIA) is foundational to determining which business processes are most critical to continuing business in the event of a disruption. By working with a select group of key clients, Stalwart has pioneered a methodology and toolset for a very tactical BIA offering that answers the essential question...
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News
Stalwart and Miri Systems Partner to Arrest ID Theft
Stalwart Press
January 31, 2012 – Charlotte, North Carolina – Stalwart announced today that it has signed a partnership agreement with MIRI Systems ( http://www.mirisystems.com ), the providers of next generation fraud and identity protection software. According to Stalwart’s CTO, Glenn Johnson, “Miri may become known as...
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Stalwart Receives Archer Certification
Stalwart Press
September 2, 2011 – Charlotte, North Carolina – Stalwart announced today that it has completed the partner certification for RSA’s enterprise governance, risk and compliance solution (eGRC), becoming the first RSA partner in the Southeast to earn this designation . RSA’s strategic acquisition of the Archer solution allow...
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Stalwart Announces New Hire, Derek Newton
Stalwart Press
July 14, 2011 – Charlotte, North Carolina – Stalwart announced today that it has hired Sr. Engineer, Derek Newton. With a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Calgary, Mr. Newton is a proven IT Security professional with advanced Incident Handling/Response and Technical Security Opera...
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Blog
Deploying DLP in an Enterprise
Glenn Johnson
I’m managing an enterprise deployment of RSA’s DLP product.
By ‘enterprise’ I mean:
1. DLP ‘Datacenter’ with a footprint at three national data centers and about 10,000 knowledge workers
2. DLP ‘Network’ with two sensors at Internet perimeters, two e-mail interceptors, two controllers ...
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The Ultimate Security Solution for Corporate America -- HIPS!!
Elton Wright
That’s right, I am here to tell you that, hands down, HIPS is the most important tool for mitigating corporate security risks. Many of you may be thinking that Host Intrusion Prevention System (HIPS) is a critical component of an organization’s information security practice, but certainly not the ultimate solution. If yo...
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What is ‘practical security’? I’d call it ‘pretty good security’.
Glenn Johnson
Who would want ‘pretty good security’ when they could have ‘great security’ or ‘bullet proof security’ or ‘state-of-the-art security’? I think most companies do if they really stop to think about it.
Let me define the term - ‘pretty good security’ is the level of security strategy, awareness, technology and manpow...
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Blog Topics
Deploying DLP in an Enterprise
Glenn Johnson
I’m managing an enterprise deployment of RSA’s DLP product.
By ‘enterprise’ I mean:
1. DLP ‘Datacenter’ with a footprint at three national data centers and about 10,000 knowledge workers
2. DLP ‘Network’ with two sensors at Internet perimeters, two e-mail interceptors, two controllers ...
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What is ‘practical security’? I’d call it ‘pretty good security’.
Glenn Johnson
Who would want ‘pretty good security’ when they could have ‘great security’ or ‘bullet proof security’ or ‘state-of-the-art security’? I think most companies do if they really stop to think about it.
Let me define the term - ‘pretty good security’ is the level of security strategy, awareness, technology and manpow...
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The Industry's Dirty Little Secret
Bill Cooper
Hidden Switching Costs
It seems all service providers these days talk about "knowledge transfer." All sincerity aside (and I don't doubt their sincerity), what these service providers don't talk about (perhaps because the ones doing the talking are too removed from their service delivery process) is that the bulk of t...
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Security
Deploying DLP in an Enterprise
Glenn Johnson
I’m managing an enterprise deployment of RSA’s DLP product.
By ‘enterprise’ I mean:
1. DLP ‘Datacenter’ with a footprint at three national data centers and about 10,000 knowledge workers
2. DLP ‘Network’ with two sensors at Internet perimeters, two e-mail interceptors, two controllers ...
Read More |
The Ultimate Security Solution for Corporate America -- HIPS!!
Elton Wright
That’s right, I am here to tell you that, hands down, HIPS is the most important tool for mitigating corporate security risks. Many of you may be thinking that Host Intrusion Prevention System (HIPS) is a critical component of an organization’s information security practice, but certainly not the ultimate solution. If yo...
Read More |
What is ‘practical security’? I’d call it ‘pretty good security’.
Glenn Johnson
Who would want ‘pretty good security’ when they could have ‘great security’ or ‘bullet proof security’ or ‘state-of-the-art security’? I think most companies do if they really stop to think about it.
Let me define the term - ‘pretty good security’ is the level of security strategy, awareness, technology and manpow...
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Communications
Yoo-nuh-fide kuh-myoo-ni-kay-shuhn
Elton Wright
What exactly is yoo-nuh-fide kuh-myoo-ni-kay-shuhns (unified communications)? Or should the question, with proper grammar in mind, be asked “what are yoo- nuh -fide kuh -myoo-ni-kay-shuhns? My personal English professor (otherwise known as Microsoft Word) does not seem to be offering any advice; I guess I will have to d...
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Knowledge Transfer
The Industry's Dirty Little Secret
Bill Cooper
Hidden Switching Costs
It seems all service providers these days talk about "knowledge transfer." All sincerity aside (and I don't doubt their sincerity), what these service providers don't talk about (perhaps because the ones doing the talking are too removed from their service delivery process) is that the bulk of t...
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Blog Authors
Deploying DLP in an Enterprise
Glenn Johnson
I’m managing an enterprise deployment of RSA’s DLP product.
By ‘enterprise’ I mean:
1. DLP ‘Datacenter’ with a footprint at three national data centers and about 10,000 knowledge workers
2. DLP ‘Network’ with two sensors at Internet perimeters, two e-mail interceptors, two controllers ...
Read More |
What is ‘practical security’? I’d call it ‘pretty good security’.
Glenn Johnson
Who would want ‘pretty good security’ when they could have ‘great security’ or ‘bullet proof security’ or ‘state-of-the-art security’? I think most companies do if they really stop to think about it.
Let me define the term - ‘pretty good security’ is the level of security strategy, awareness, technology and manpow...
Read More |
The Industry's Dirty Little Secret
Bill Cooper
Hidden Switching Costs
It seems all service providers these days talk about "knowledge transfer." All sincerity aside (and I don't doubt their sincerity), what these service providers don't talk about (perhaps because the ones doing the talking are too removed from their service delivery process) is that the bulk of t...
Read More |
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Bill Cooper
The Industry's Dirty Little Secret
Bill Cooper
Hidden Switching Costs
It seems all service providers these days talk about "knowledge transfer." All sincerity aside (and I don't doubt their sincerity), what these service providers don't talk about (perhaps because the ones doing the talking are too removed from their service delivery process) is that the bulk of t...
Read More |
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Glenn Johnson
Deploying DLP in an Enterprise
Glenn Johnson
I’m managing an enterprise deployment of RSA’s DLP product.
By ‘enterprise’ I mean:
1. DLP ‘Datacenter’ with a footprint at three national data centers and about 10,000 knowledge workers
2. DLP ‘Network’ with two sensors at Internet perimeters, two e-mail interceptors, two controllers ...
Read More |
What is ‘practical security’? I’d call it ‘pretty good security’.
Glenn Johnson
Who would want ‘pretty good security’ when they could have ‘great security’ or ‘bullet proof security’ or ‘state-of-the-art security’? I think most companies do if they really stop to think about it.
Let me define the term - ‘pretty good security’ is the level of security strategy, awareness, technology and manpow...
Read More |
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Elton Wright
The Ultimate Security Solution for Corporate America -- HIPS!!
Elton Wright
That’s right, I am here to tell you that, hands down, HIPS is the most important tool for mitigating corporate security risks. Many of you may be thinking that Host Intrusion Prevention System (HIPS) is a critical component of an organization’s information security practice, but certainly not the ultimate solution. If yo...
Read More |
Yoo-nuh-fide kuh-myoo-ni-kay-shuhn
Elton Wright
What exactly is yoo-nuh-fide kuh-myoo-ni-kay-shuhns (unified communications)? Or should the question, with proper grammar in mind, be asked “what are yoo- nuh -fide kuh -myoo-ni-kay-shuhns? My personal English professor (otherwise known as Microsoft Word) does not seem to be offering any advice; I guess I will have to d...
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Events
Thanks for making Grove Park 2011 a success!
With IT Executives from 24 different companies in attendance, this year's event was the best yet. Keynote speakers George Greenleaf (EMC), Eric Berkman (TrendMicro) and Tom Corn (RSA) offered critical insights into the Cloud. At the conclusion of the event, we held a CIO roundtable focused on mobile security and cloud se...
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Corporate Information
What's In A Name?
In ancient times, a person's name was significant because it represented him and/or his characteristics. Stalwart (pronounced 'stol-wərt') is a name that means "marked by outstanding strength and vigor of body, mind, or spirit." The name describes both the kinds of solutions we deliver, as...
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Special Certifications
Engineering Certifications
Despite all the hype, information security remains a relatively small, specialized field and professionals are not always easy to come by. Most IT professionals who claim to have security expertise have gotten only a haphazard exposure to some limited number of security products. Stalwart ha...
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Everything Hinges On Trust
In order to sell a product or service, there must exist a level of trust with clients. Given the amount of commercialism and 'hype' that most consumers are subjected to today, it is no wonder today's consumer is skeptical. With everyone proclaiming their product or service or company to be 'best of breed' or 'unique' or 'm...
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