Systems administrators, network security specialists and help-desk technicians are still in demand, says Mr. Zion.
DoS systems administrators are forced to limit Internet access until the investigation is completed.
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Looked at this way, Napster has, in effect, 40m servers and systems administrators, keeping the network's management and infrastructure costs to a minimum.
The other volunteers on the team include representatives of Veridian, the Internet Operators Group (IOPS.org), Sematech and the SANS Institute, which represents 62, 000 systems administrators and security professionals.
The center will be able to tap into the resources and expertise of these companies as the date changes time zone to time zone, Gagnon says, adding that the SANS Institute and the Information Technology Association of America will be responsible for keeping in touch with the systems administrators.
"The initiative addresses a looming crisis in the business world identified by IBM researchers--in five years, given the rapid proliferation of technology and growing shortage of trained systems administrators, the majority of corporations will not be able to manage their systems using current computing technologies, " said William Zeitler, an IBM senior vice president, in a memo to company employees.
"The complexity of IT systems is growing at a tremendous rate, to a point where it's becoming very difficult for administrators to manage their systems, " says Jeff Kephart , autonomic computing manager at IBM Research.
To guard against more sophisticated hackers, administrators should make sure systems are configured to maximize security.
If schools are going to monitor public streams, they might be wise to use word-based alert systems to flag particular posts rather than having administrators looking at ever single public tweet.
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Gateway-based systems are difficult to use, require trained administrators to set them up and are limited in coverage, says John Powell, chair of the interoperability committee for the National Public Safety Telecommunications Council.
New evaluation systems for principals (PEVAL) and central office administrators (CEVAL) were likewise created by committees of teachers and administrators working in tandem.
Network administrators can write patches that get the two systems to work together.
These systems were created over the course of an entire school year with committees of both teachers and administrators working side by side.
Ensuring that their systems are set to operate as simple users rather than a having the powerful administrative rights of system administrators, can keep the attackers from running malicious software on their computers and stop the attacks.
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He expects IT departments and back office administrators will use regulatory demand to persuade senior executives that it is finally time to invest in new accounting systems, something many people in operations have wanted for years.
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