Carolyn Duffy Marsan

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Famous last words about spam
Oct. 06, 2008

Spammers in the slammer
Oct. 06, 2008

Feds tighten security on .gov
Sep. 22, 2008
When you file your taxes online, you want to be sure that the Web site you visit -- www.irs.gov -- is operated by the Internal Revenue Service and not a scam artist. By the end of next year, you can be confident that ...

How the feds are locking down their networks
Aug. 11, 2008
The federal government is locking down its networks through an ambitious and fast-paced effort to eliminate connections to the Internet that are vulnerable to attack.

Much-maligned feature being added to IPv6
Jul. 21, 2008
In a high-tech twist of irony, the Internet engineering community is adding a feature to IPv6 that the upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol was supposed to eliminate.

How China is migrating to next-gen Internet
Jul. 21, 2008
Two years ago, the Chinese government adopted a controversial approach known as network address translation to bridge the gap between IPv4, the Internet's main communications protocol, and an emerging Internet standard ...

Comcast pitches IPv6 strategy to standards body
Jul. 21, 2008
Comcast has developed an innovative approach for gradually migrating its customers to the next-generation Internet, and the ISP is promoting this approach to the Internet's leading standards body.

NATs necessary for IPv6, says IETF chair
Jul. 21, 2008
We posed a few questions to Russ Housley, chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force, about why the standards body is developing network address translations for IPv6 when IPv6 was supposed to eliminate the need for ...

Under pressure: 10 sources pushing CIOs to go green
Jul. 07, 2008
Now with a stagnating U.S. economy, CIOs need to squeeze every penny out of their IT operations and that means choosing the most efficient servers and desktops as well as data center power supplies and air conditioning ...

Feds: We are ready for IPv6 D-Day
Jun. 26, 2008
On Monday, U.S. federal government officials expect to declare an early victory on the IPv6 front. But they admit that meeting their much-heralded June 30 deadline for IPv6 compatibility is just the opening salvo of a ...

Carriers snag Networx deals
Jun. 26, 2008
Carriers in the massive federal Networx deal are beginning to report a steady stream of contract awards.

Extreme weather and business continuity
Jun. 24, 2008
Does climate change have any relevance for information assurance and business continuity? My friend and colleague John Orlando, program director of the Master of Science in Business Continuity Management (MSBC) program ...

UltraDNS adds load balancing service
Jun. 18, 2008
NeuStar, through its UltraDNS Services suite of managed DNS services, is offering a load balancing service aimed at e-retailers and other enterprises looking to improve the performance and reliability of their DNS ...

How much financial CEOs got paid to ruin their companies
Sep. 18, 2008

Verizon FiOS tech heading to enterprises
May. 30, 2008
Verizon Business has quietly developed an enterprise version of its popular residential FiOS high-speed Internet service.

Feds encrypt 800,000 laptops; 1.2 million to go
May. 22, 2008
U.S. government agencies are scrambling to plug one of their biggest security holes.

New open source DNS server released
May. 20, 2008
A group of experts has released an open source alternative to the BIND DNS server software that boasts higher performance and better security.

Popular open source spam filter gets boost
May. 19, 2008
SpamAssassin, popular open source spam-filtering software, will have deadlier aim thanks to an add-on tool that is being offered free of charge to small businesses and individuals by MailChannels. Popular open source ...

UPDATE -- Verizon snares $678 million federal network deal
May. 14, 2008
Verizon Business has captured one of the largest federal network deals of 2008: a 10-year contract to provide managed network and security services to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that is valued at $678.5 ...

Clock is ticking on .me domain names
May. 13, 2008
Trademark-holders have until May 20 to register their company and product names under the new .me domain, which is being marketed as a generic top-level domain by the country of Montenegro. Clock is ticking on .me ...

Chinese Internet censorship: An inside look
May. 12, 2008
James Fallows, national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, has experienced "The Great Firewall of China" firsthand, an experience people from around the world will share this summer when the Olympics comes to that ...

AT&T demos disaster preparedness
May. 08, 2008
AT&T was in Chicago recently, demonstrating to hundreds of its corporate customers how it responds to natural disasters.

No slowdown for U.S. tech industry
Apr. 25, 2008
Can the U.S. tech industry continue to defy the overall economic downturn?

Data center mushrooming? Why not get rid of it?
Apr. 23, 2008
If your data center processing load doubled this year, could you handle the growth? Booming businesses such as Bazaarvoice are turning to Web hosting companies, including Rackspace, Savvis, AT&T, Terramark and IBM, to ...

How the iPhone is killing the 'Net
Apr. 09, 2008
Is the iPhone killing the 'Net? That's the question posed by Oxford University Professor Jonathan Zittrain in his new book, The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It.