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IBM cybersecurity expert in Des Moines: Firewalls aren’t enough anymore

Michael Montecillo, an IBM cybersecurity expert, said in an interview Tuesday that companies facing today’s ever-worsening threats should first identify their critical systems.

Then they should realize this: Firewalls aren’t enough anymore, he added. An…
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NOTEBOOK: Skywalk or long jump from Dwell to Hubbell Tower?

Hubbell Realty Co.’s Dwell apartment building is under construction at Ninth and Mulberry streets, right across the street from the Des Moines Social Club and virtually in the shadow of Hubbell Tower Apartments, the company’s …

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NOTEBOOK: The next bubble? We’re blind

I asked a bubble related question to the panel at the CFA Society Iowa dinner, which was moderated by Jim McCaughan, CEO of Principal Global Investors.

After much of the night had been spent talking …

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NOTEBOOK: Iowa provides culture shock for these Southern transplants

The new director for the city of Des Moines Civil and Human Rights Department and his bride have had some culture shock since their move here in October.

Joshua Barr’s wife, Lorena, is from Colombia, …

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NOTEBOOK: Workforce development, Pella style

The Pella Chamber of Commerce has its own way of both luring workers to town and keeping them there. “Our major employers want to reduce turnover,” said Karen Eischen, the chamber’s executive director.

Positively Pella …

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On the Move: Week of May 2

Brenda Mataya Landmark Companies Inc. Hired as operations administrator bmataya@lmcompanies-inc.com


Blake Campbell Best Buddies Iowa Hired as state director blakecampbell@bestbuddies.org


Jim Holter Merchants Bonding Co. Appointed to executive committee as vice president of commercial surety…
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Hubbell offers an apartment project as a means to boost efforts to fund YMCA pool

View downtown project map Hubbell Realty Co. is planning an apartment project that will put the YMCA of Greater Des Moines $1 million closer to its goal of funding a multimillion-dollar swimming pool at the…
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The Elbert Files: Mary Andringa chose wisely

The resignation of Vermeer Corp.’s Mary Andringa from the Iowa Board of Regents probably has less to do with an imagined conflict of interest than it does with dysfunction at the University of Iowa.

Andringa …

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McLellan: Silence kills

I had to call United’s 800-number the other day to change an existing ticket. At each step of modifying my ticket, the customer service rep would have to key in some data and then there …

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A Closer Look: Molly Hanson

Molly Hanson has spent the past four years as a naturalist in Madison County, helping people learn about Iowa’s environment. At the same time, she was on the board of Iowa Rivers Revival, a nonprofit …