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BENEFITS OF OUTSOURCING

Does this sound like your business? You require absolute control over your IT function, but have a shortage of capital. You spend a lot of time performing mundane data collection and reporting tasks. You find it difficult to keep your staff's skills up-to-date and they leave as fast as you can train them. If this sounds like your business then you're probably a good candidate for outsourcing some, or all, of your IT function.

Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) is increasingly being adopted as a strategic business solution by leading companies. They are placing ground breaking contracts in functional areas ranging from accounting and finance to human resources and in industry specific processes such as customer service and processing of claims and applications. Many CEOs say that their companies intend to outsource more business processes to meet both strategic and cost reduction challenges.

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OPERATING SYSTEM SUPPORT, ROUTER FILTERING AND ISP ROLES IN BLOCKING DISTRIBUTED DENIAL OF SERVICE (DDOS) ATTACKS

In today's highly connected world, more and more people are getting onto the Internet. Most of these people are home computer users who have little or no knowledge about the internal working of a computer. They jump onto the Internet bandwagon because they want to remain connected with family and friends. However, malicious Internet users (crackers) are misusing the proliferation of the Internet to carry out massive crippling attacks on the very infrastructure of the Internet using these innocent and unsuspecting users as launch pads for their attacks. There are three core issues, which need to be addressed to mitigate the effects of DDoS attacks and to make the Internet a safer place to conduct business:

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