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• Security fail: When trusted IT people go bad

  It's a CIO's worst nightmare: You get a call from the Business Software Alliance (BSA), saying that some of the Microsoft software your company uses might be pirated.

• Why ERP is still so hard

  Steve Berg knows what intense pain feels like: The man has been Tasered, in fact-not because he ran afoul of the law, but as VP of IT at Taser International he's partaken in a corporate rite of passage. "It's the worst five seconds of your life," he says. "You cannot move."

• Moving to a start-up? Fasten your seatbelt

  Remember the late '90s, when tech managers left corporate IT in droves join Internet start-ups? Some people got rich, and others got burned, but everyone agreed -- working for a start-up is a unique experience.

• Economy puts IT into penny-pinching mode

  With the economy struggling and financial markets in a state of chaos, this is becoming a hard time to be an IT manager.

• Wall Street's collapse may be computer science's gain

  The collapse of Wall Street may help make computer science and IT careers attractive to students who abandoned these fields in droves after the pop of the last big bubble, the dot-com bust of 2001.