July 31, 2007
UTMs Make Sense for SMBs and, Increasingly, for Enterprises
This PC Magazine piece looks at four products that are aimed at protecting small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The fact that three of them are members of the unified threat management (UTM) ... More >
July 30, 2007
Nothing Is More Important than Protecting DNS Servers
This story at eChannel Line reports on attitudes about domain name system (DNS) server security that were revealed in a study done by Mazerov Research and Consulting for Secure64 Software. The resu... More >
Great Leaps Still Possible in Wireless
When raising a teenager or researching telecommunication equipment, it is a good idea to have an open mind -- but to disbelieve claims until they are proven. In some cases, the promises indeed a... More >
Keep an Eye on Subcontractors
Tim Wilson, the site editor for Dark Reading , points out that there has been a spate of high-profile incidents in which companies compromised partners' data. IndyStar.com reports that na... More >
July 27, 2007
P2P Incidents -- and Congressional Scrutiny -- Grow
A Government Reform Committee meeting earlier this week focusing on the security implications of peer-to-peer (P2P) networking apparently led to fireworks. CNET reports that lawmakers from bo... More >
IEEE Opts For Fast and Faster Lanes for Gigabit Ethernet
The ability to deliver converged services depends on how robust and broad the underlying platform is. New flavors of an old local-area network (LAN) standby -- Ethernet -- have risen to the challenge... More >
WiMax and the Changing Face of Data Distribution
The second of a two-part story at Telephony Online focuses on a study, The WiMax Explosion! -- written by Alfred Boschulte and Victor Schnee. The writers, a former CEO of Nynex Mobile and the fo... More >
July 25, 2007
IP PBXes and the Future of Unified Communications
The study hyped by this press release from TheInfoPro shows what might be an important transition in the world of IP PBXes. First, the release primes the pump by reporting an increased overal... More >
July 24, 2007
Pfizer, Kingston Breaches Show Notification Shortcomings
Legal requirements mandating notifications of employees or customers if their data is exposed is an understandably unpleasant corporate task. No matter why the data disappeared, the organization's im... More >
The Beat Goes on for Intel, AMD
This is a long and fairly complex article at InformationWeek comparing quad processors. In the final analysis, however, the piece has a fairly simple theme: Competition is heating up in the sector... More >
July 23, 2007
Accepting Complexity a Key Step to a Secure Environment
This is an exceedingly useful article from IT Security . For the past couple of decades, security professionals and those trying to push various forms of malware have played a high stakes game of c... More >
VPNs: Two Contenders Make for a Very Strong Market
This Processor update on the state of virtual private networks (VPNs) clearly leans in favor of the younger approach, which is known as secure socket layer (SSL). The idea is that the graybeard, Int... More >
July 20, 2007
Cable Industry Succeeding in Non-Video Residential, Business Plays
Cable executives will be thrilled to read a report released last week by ABI Research , "Cable Television Infrastructure: Headend, Plant, Spectrum, Backhaul, STB, and Revenue Analysis." The report, ... More >
NAC: Still Hazy After All These Years
Network access control (NAC) is a framework into which various tools aimed at protecting an organization's perimeter can be dropped. In a perfect world, NAC stops intruders and makes sure that the de... More >
July 19, 2007
Identity Management: UM and UC Search for Their True Selves
Few things are more promising on paper than unified messaging and unified communications (UM and UC) -- using rapidly expanding wireless and IP networks to deliver messages to any device regardless o... More >
July 18, 2007
Convergence Options for End Users Almost Too Many to Count
The emerging era of fixed mobile convergence (FMC) and potent new applications is dawning in big and small ways. There are dramatic new devices -- such as the BlackBerry 8820, which was introduced th... More >
July 17, 2007
SMBs Face Key Decisions About WLANs, 802.11n
A News.com commentary by Selina Lo, the CEO of Ruckus Wireless, touches on the intricacies of corporate Wi-Fi deployments. The base question is why small and medium-sized business (SMB) use of the t... More >
Over Here or Over There, Server Protection Is Key
This distressing story from Government Computer News focuses on government servers, but there seems to be no reason to assume what is happening isn't a danger to corporate servers as well. ... More >
July 16, 2007
Mobile Backup Services Available, but Are They Used?
It would make sense if more people paid attention to the loss or theft of their cell phones. After all, according to In-Stat numbers quoted in this Computerworld story , 8 million phones are lost ea... More >
Image Isn't Everything as PDF Spam Grows
The rather tiresome back and forth between spammers and the security industry has taken another turn. The good news is that image spam -- the embedding of spammer's messages in GIF and JPEG files tha... More >
July 13, 2007
Great in Its Own Right, IPTV Is Also an Agent of Network Transformation
Virtually every prediction we've run across suggests that Internet Protocol Television will be a resounding success. The latest is this iSuppli prognostication, reported on at TMCNet.com , that says... More >
CSI Computer
This very interesting story at CSOonline.com traces the growing trend of antiforensics. Hitting a computer's delete button doesn't remove a file from the machine. It simply hides it by remo... More >
July 12, 2007
Mixed News on Municipal Wi-Fi
AT&T isn't the same corporate entity that it was a decade ago. But it remains one of the big players, in both name and reality. That's why it's worthy to note the launch of its first metropolitan... More >
July 11, 2007
Is Apple Tempted by the iPhone's Potential in the Enterprise?
The common wisdom is that the iPhone is a consumer play and Apple doesn't particularly care about business users. This may be true, but a study from RDA Global -- the salient points of which are prov... More >
XACML Pushes Web-based Access Control Capabilities
It's not often that security personnel -- or technology folks of any sort, for that matter -- gush. That's the case, though, in this RiskBloggers' post by Securent advisory board member Jim Reavis ... More >
July 10, 2007
Say Goodbye to Standalone VoIP Providers
Business stories happen at two levels: the particulars of why a specific company does well or poorly, and the factors that are relevant to the overall category. The latter, naturally, are more intere... More >
July 9, 2007
Security Consolidation Working at Corporate, Technology Layers
Today, Google announced that it is acquiring Postini, an on-demand security provider. This very good piece of instant analysis by Internet News suggests that the deal signals that Google wants to m... More >
VoIP: Great Efficiencies, Great Savings, Great Dangers
One of the key advantages of VoIP, which melds a company's voice and data networks, is that it saves a tremendous amount in infrastructure and manpower costs. One of the key challenges stems from tha... More >
July 6, 2007
Contactless Payments Could Drive Mobile Device Market
Carriers and device manufacturers search longingly for killer apps, and it seems that one is just about upon us. One of the next big things may be contactless payments, the ability to use a cell phon... More >
Red (and Blue and Green) Alert: Printer Security Often Overlooked
This InfoWorld column explores an oft-overlooked security vulnerability: networked printers. The devices -- which in essence are sophisticated computers able to reach beyond the enterprise from behi... More >
July 4, 2007
Minnesota Paves the Way to Making Retailers Pay More For Data Losses
Several states are on the road to joining Minnesota in taking a particularly hard stance against retailers who lose customer data. Late last month, the California Senate Judiciary Committee ... More >
July 3, 2007
The Mobile Internet: We've Only Just Begun
The introduction of the iPhone is a milestone in the acceptance of the mobile Internet. It is by no means the beginning of the road, however. The clear conclusion of a survey conducted by Coleman Par... More >
July 2, 2007
Are Executives Willing to Guard Their Own Data?
It's certainly easy to dismiss with a chuckle the topic of this Internet News story, that high-level executives increasingly are targets of malicious e-mail. The writer admits it sounds like a Dilb... More >
Bright, Bumpy Future Ahead for NAC Security Platforms
This IDC release, posted at Tekrati , describes a study that predicts the network access control (NAC) market will jump from $526 million in 2005 to $3.2 billion in 2010. We are just about halfway th... More >
