In this special section, we examine the importance of specialized classes and certifications versus work experience, and for the fourth year, we ask some of the universities designated by the NSA and DHS as Centers of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance about their programs. The market's top industry experts also share their sage advice on what you need to do to ensure you continue finding the professional challenges you want and the positions you crave.

Given how far this space has evolved and likely will continue to progress, undoubtedly there's a great deal of commitment to go around - even as minutes speed by, giving way to intellectually stimulating epochs like this one.

In this special Spotlight edition, we're taking on the mobile security challenge. It is one problem that most of our readers bring up to us time and again. To safeguard mobile devices used by business executives, the data stored on them and the connectivity to corporate networks they enable is a constant trial - one that is infrequently satisfactorily remedied. This is leaving many security pros comparing themselves to Sisyphus rolling a giant boulder up a steep hill over and over. The difference: mobile security troubles only grow heavier. Not only are smartphones, tablets and other devices now ubiquitous, they're often brought from home.

So, just how are companies supposed to secure these things - some private, some corporate-issued? How can such a heterogeneous environment be centrally managed and safeguarded? What about all those applications end-users keep downloading? What about the data they want to download on them? Any legal ramifications? How does the company stay compliant?  The questions never end, so we thought it'd be helpful to slow down for a moment to thoroughly examine these more confounding mobile security concerns in this "Spotlight" edition. After you flip through its pages, let us know if you found what you needed. Text us or something...

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The third "Spotlight" edition of SC Magazine provides an in-depth analysis on securing data in the cloud and the effect this is having on enterprise security. There's no doubt that cloud services offer reduced cost, scalability, flexibility, mobility and more. However, the lower total cost of ownership the cloud offers is quickly negated when critical business data is exposed or stolen because data there proved easy pickings to persistent cybercriminals.

This "Spotlight" edition offers a look at cloud concerns faced in the enterprise today - gathering intelligence from experts in the field, the latest reports and thorough investigation.

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