Companies’ communications strategies must be agile in a rapidly evolving market
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The back-and-forth between crackers and good guys played out during March through the ominous-sounding "SEO poisoning" exploit. Independent security consultant Dancho Danchev has been tracking what... More >
One of the under-discussed subplots of the last decade is how the emergence of the Internet has shifted the balance between medium-sized business and enterprises. Once upon a time, each existe... More >
Comcast's decision to cooperate with peer-to-peer (P2P) platform provider BitTorrent is a surprise that has the potential to shift the political debate and alter the technical landscape. Earl... More >
Somebody should talk to Verizon's public relations department. The company just issued a press release on a survey conducted on its behalf by KRC Research that says 83 percent of consumers "i... More >
I blogged a little earlier in the day about bad news from WhiteHat Security about threats opened up by new Web 2.0 technologies. WhiteHat is not alone. The press release describing We... More >
The news from WhiteHat Security is in -- and it isn't very good. The firm released a study this week that says nine out of 10 websites have at least one vulnerability, and the average site has... More >
Moves, rumored moves and intriguing technical announcements made for an interesting week as the wireless sector gets ready for the CTIA show next week in Las Vegas. Since nothing has actually ... More >
Unified communications is a mess. Not the technology itself, of course. That's in fine shape. Armies of very smart people are working on platforms that get any message to any device wherever t... More >
I'd love to take credit for it, but can't: The CRN review linked to below started with the line that IM security is no LOL matter. The two trends have been barreling into each other for a co... More >
Seems as if you just can't auction off -- or try to auction off -- a massive amount of spectrum without unleashing a lot of interesting market forces . PCWorld.com offers a good commentary o... More >
Microsoft's acquisition of Komoku both gives it new tools against rootkits and another entry point into the government market. Komoku, according to this eWeek story on the acquisition , deal... More >
The U.S. has an excellent interstate highway system, but that doesn't matter to a driver stuck behind somebody topping out at 45 miles per hour. That's an imperfect analogy to the state of the... More >
Tall fences make good neighbors. That goes for life in suburbia and, apparently, on the inside of computers. The profile of virtualization is growing and, with it, the importance of virtualize... More >
Now comes the hard part. Or, at least, the unwieldy, contentious, cumbersome and frustrating part. In November, Verizon Wireless said that it will open its network to devices other than those ... More >
There is little definitive to say at this point about the massive theft of credit and debit card information reported Monday by Hannaford Brothers, a grocery retailer based in Maine. The firm reveale... More >
Thumb drives are cheap, high capacity and everywhere. That's great for getting work done, but crummy for the nervous systems of security personnel. Computerworld says Washington state's Divisi... More >
Unified communications (UC) is an empty slogan -- or at least, a sector that is a shadow of what it can be -- until it has a strong mobile element. The two endeavors overlap and share the goal of mak... More >
In many cases, a threat of any type doesn't coalesce in the minds of folks until concrete examples are given. It's one thing to say that global warming will raise the temperature a couple of degrees ... More >
In some ways, this is a fairly normal story detailing the general evolution of a company's product. What's interesting is the number of new and "newish" elements that Sage Software is including in ... More >
Corporations spend billions of dollars each year repeating the same message over and over. It's called advertising and it works. A similar approach, according to this Processor story , stands the be... More >
AV-Test.org and Sunbelt Software are painting a troubling picture of antivirus software. It also is apparent that the bad folks are increasingly working together. First, AV-Test tested what Da... More >
There is no heavy technology in this New York Times story on growth of Internet congestion. That's for the best, since two of the worthwhile points the piece makes would be obscured if readers were ... More >
In one bit of cognitive dissonance that doesn't involve Eliot Spitzer, ABI Research has released a report saying that the model for municipal Wi-Fi has failed -- and forecast a 60-fold increase in ... More >
Biometrics will succeed as one building block of two-factor authorization if it is done in a passive and non-intrusive way. Steady progress on several fronts is being made. Late last week, IT... More >
For years, people were told not to drink. Then it became okay -- even good -- to have a glass of wine every night. While it may not be as good news as the go-ahead to down some Chianti, the sa... More >
The issue of security and the Internet cloud came into sharp focus during the past few days as news broke that Gmail's G-Archiver apparently was sending users' names and passwords to the service's c... More >
The questions of precisely what a company wants to get out of VoIP and other IP-based services and the preexisting condition of their underlying infrastructure are deeply tied. CIOs and the de... More >
The number of security technologies is proliferating on an exponential basis, and each, when seen in a vacuum, makes sense. Companies don't get launch products and startups don't get initial or ongoi... More >
The path of the iPhone changed this week when Apple said that it will eliminate many of the issues that have kept it from becoming a mainstream enterprise tool . The changes were announced at... More >
Earlier this week, eWeek reported that Webroot is moving further into the software-as-a-service (SaaS) sector . The report says that during the next couple of months, the firm will expand its SaaS e... More >
Though the premise of Parks Associates ' report on broadband penetration is a little far afield, it does provide food for thought. The report's main conclusion is that by 2012, 33 million hom... More >
The 451 Group has released an intriguing study about the impact mashups will have in the enterprise. In the past, the study says, employees were wholly dependent on IT for the applications wi... More >
In the wake of laptop theft and loss that lead to embarrassment, legal liability and extra costs, smart organizations began to mandate encryption, at least to the devices given to folks who carry sen... More >
Bandwidth is getting less expensive all the time. Networks are delivering more data in a given amount of time. Bandwidth is not infinite, however. Applications fight over bandwidth, and if the... More >
This Redmond Magazine piece doesn't give the date -- it was August 2004 -- that Microsoft released Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2). At that point the company committed what, according to the ... More >
On a conceptual level, virtually no executive would argue against the need for well thought-out security policies and procedures. Thinking security through clearly, writing down the steps to be taken... More >
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