Carolyn Duffy Marsan

Senior Editor, Enterprise Applications

 

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Recent articles by Duffy Marsan

ICANN: New domains coming in 2010
06/24/09
Internet policymakers are forging ahead with a controversial plan to introduce hundreds of generic top-level domains -- such as .nyc, .sport and .food -- next year.

New Internet2 CTO pushes multicast, IPv6
06/23/09
Next week, Randy Frank will take over as the new CTO of Internet2, an Ann Arbor, Mich.-based consortium of 200 U.S. universities conducting advanced networking research.

Comcast lengthens IPv6 lead
06/22/09
Comcast continues to outpace rival U.S. cable companies in the development of next-generation Internet connectivity and content.

Feds: IPv6 is a priority
06/17/09
For the last year, it's been all quiet on the IPv6 front in the United States. But now the U.S. government is making noise about this next-generation Internet technology, as it forges ahead with plans to deploy secure, IPv6-enabled network services.

NeuStar offers temporary fix for Kaminsky bug
06/16/09
NeuStar will market its proprietary system for thwarting Web traffic hijacking attacks until standard DNS Security (DNSSEC) mechanisms are deployed widely.

Upgraded BlueCat IP address management appliance could ease IPv6 adoption
06/11/09
BlueCat Networks will announce on Thursday a new version of its IP address management appliance with enhancements designed to reduce the time it takes to manage IP address space. That's an issue growing in importance as network operators adopt IPv6, an upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol.

Pentagon: Sooner is better for cybersecurity testing
06/11/09
The director of one of the world’s largest software testing operations shares advice about improving the security of IT systems.

10 things you didn't know about cyberwarfare
06/08/09
Imagine a situation where a powerful country wants to annex its small neighbor, so it launches a week-long campaign of cyberattacks aimed at disrupting the financial, energy, telecom and media systems of its neighbor's biggest ally. A week later, the aggressor launches a full-scale cyberwar on its neighbor that includes air and naval defenses. With its ally's defenses weakened, the neighbor agrees to become a province of the aggressor in less than a week.

Hidden threat on corporate nets: misconfigured gear
06/08/09
An invisible security weakness is lurking in most corporate networks in the form of millions of lines of code that represent the configuration scripts for all the devices on the network.

Internet Cleanroom: New weapon against drive-by download attacks emerges
06/08/09
As more employees visit social networking sites while at work, network managers are seeing a rise in accidental malware infections known as drive-by download attacks.

CIOs: Your networks have already been compromised
06/05/09
NEW YORK CITY – CIOs should stop focusing on intrusion detection and prevention systems and start dealing with the computers on their networks that have already been compromised by cybercriminals. That's the advice of a computer science professor from New York University, who is pitching a novel approach to ferreting out infected computers on enterprise networks.

New DOS attacks threaten wireless data networks
06/05/09
NEW YORK CITY -- Forget spam, viruses, worms, malware and phishing. These threats are apparently old school when compared to a new class of denial-of-service (DOS) attacks that threaten wireless data networks.

Security tightened for .org
06/02/09
The Public Interest Registry will announce today that it has begun cryptographically signing the .org top-level domain using DNS security extensions known as DNSSEC.

Tiny .biz domain names to be auctioned off to highest bidders
06/01/09
How much is x.biz or .ge.biz worth? That's the question NeuStar is asking the Internet e-commerce community as it adds one- and two-character names to the .biz domain and makes them available to the highest bidders.

Want to friend the feds?
05/26/09
The U.S. Government Channel on YouTube -- which was viewed 82,000 times in its first week -- is the latest effort by the feds to embrace social media.

Malware knocks out U.S. Marshals Service network
05/21/09
Malware Wednesday crippled Windows-based computer systems at the U.S. Marshals Service, which hunts federal fugitives and operates the country's witness protection program, knocking the agency’s network offline.

New DNS bug and fix announced
05/19/09
Domain name registries are scrambling to patch a newly discovered bug in popular open source DNS software that could be exploited for denial-of-service attacks.

Web-hosting firms defy recession
05/14/09
After the dot-com bubble burst in 2001, mothballed data centers operated by bankrupt companies such as Exodus and PSINet were the most visible signs of the IT-driven downturn. Today, despite the worst recession in 50 years, Web hosting is one of the few thriving segments of the IT industry.

Federal CISOs decry excessive paperwork
04/30/09
Unnecessary paperwork and too much focus on compliance reporting are two of the biggest distractions for federal Chief Information Security Officers trying to shore up government networks from external attacks, a new survey says.

10 tips for swine flu planning
04/29/09
As the swine flu outbreak spreads, CIOs and other IT executives are dusting off their pandemic plans and preparing for the possibility of high levels of employee absenteeism and extended telework scenarios. 

Military enlists open source community
04/27/09
The Defense Department is trying to take advantage of Web-based communities to speed up software development and reduce its costs.

Controversial Einstein systems to inspect U.S. government's Internet traffic
04/22/09
The largest U.S. carriers -- including AT&T, Qwest and Sprint -- are deploying special-purpose, intrusion-detection systems dubbed Einstein boxes in their networks as part of an 18-month-old effort to tighten security on federal networks.

Carriers to feds: Show me the money on massive telecom deal
04/17/09
Two years ago, the U.S. General Services Administration awarded a 10-year, $20 billion program called Networx that was touted as the world's largest-ever telecom deal.

Feds join Twitter revolution
04/09/09
Twitter is taking flight in unlikely skies: the U.S. federal government.

10 Twitter tips from early federal adopters
04/09/09
Having trouble convincing your boss that Twitter isn't a waste of time? Then you might find it interesting to learn that social media evangelists across the U.S. federal government are blasting out Tweets several times a day to their constituents. Here are their suggestions for how to integrate new media tools such as Twitter, Facebook and Flickr into a large, old-fashioned bureaucracy: