Leanne Mitton
How To Write SMART Goals: The SMART Guide
You’ve heard of SMART goals, but how do you write them? Learn how in this in-depth article, useful for both workplace and personal goalsetting.
Top 11 Cloud Certifications: A Buyer's Guide
Cloud certifications are now essential for software professionals to stay updated with the latest technologies and showcase their expertise.
Snort Rules 101: Examples & Use Cases for Snort Network Defense
Learn how Snort rules enhance network defense by identifying and blocking potential threats, providing customizable protection against evolving cyberattacks.
Redundancy vs. Resiliency in IT: What’s The Difference?
In IT systems, redundancy and resiliency are often talked about together and you can’t have one without the other. Get the full story here.
CRUD Operations Explained
CRUD Operations refers to four essential functions — Create, Read, Update, and Delete — that manage data in databases or other storage systems.
Nominal vs. Ordinal Data: What’s The Difference?
Two common types are nominal data and ordinal data, which group information into categories based on qualitative attributes. Learn more here.
What Are Cron Jobs?
Cron jobs are unattended programs that schedule tasks automatically on computer servers, ensuring that important, routine digital chores get done.
SWOT vs. PESTEL Analysis: What’s The Difference?
Learn about SWOT and PESTEL frameworks for business analysis. Both can support strategic planning, but there are differences to understand. Read on for more.
Build vs. Buy: How To Decide on Software
When your business needs software, you have a very important decision to make: will you build the solution yourself, or will you buy a software solution?
Open Source vs. Closed Source Software
Understand the two models for software today: open source and closed source. Deciding which works for you comes down to need and preference.
CPUs vs GPUs: Comparing Compute Power
CPUs and GPUs power all of our technology. Are they the same? When do you need one or the other? Let’s sort through the differences in this article.
What Is Risk Scoring? How To Score Risk
Risk scoring is one important way to proactively identify and evaluate new threats. Get the full story on how to score your organizational risk.
What is Goodhart's Law?
Numbers can guide decision-making, as long as those numbers help deliver value. And that’s precisely what Goodhart’s Law is all about. Get the full story here.
CVSS: The Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) is a framework designed to provide a consistent and objective way to assess the severity of security vulnerabilities in IT systems. Learn more in this blog post.
Data Breach Defined & Ways To Prevent One in 2025
Data breaches can happen in many ways — ransomware, phishing, accidental exposure — but one thing is clear: our data is being breached all the time.
SSL/TLS Web Security Certificates & Protocols
SSL has evolved into the highly advanced TLS protocol that protects all kinds of information transmitted over the web. Read the full story here.
What is PGP (Pretty Good Privacy)?
Discover the basics of PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) in our beginner's guide, exploring its key features for secure email and file encryption.
SysAdmins: System Administrator Role, Responsibilities & Salary
System administrators (aka sysadmins) maintain the networks, servers and technology that support your entire business. Read on to understand this vital role.
