Tim Greene

Senior Editor

Tim Greene is a senior editor at Network World, covering network access control, virtual private networking gear, remote access, WAN acceleration and aspects of VoIP technology. You can reach him at tgreene@nww.com.

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Recent articles by Greene

Ex-Bay Networks CEO: Nortel's enterprise group could do well on its own
07/02/09
Former Bay Networks CEO Dave House says he likes the idea of Nortel's enterprise data division -- built around Bay technology -- breaking free and picking up its old name.

Red Hat creates program for cloud providers
07/01/09
Red Hat wants to make sure it addresses all the cloud security issues that it can, so it’s started a program to certify that its software runs safely in the cloud.

Nortel enterprise data chief wants to bring back Bay Networks
06/30/09
Businesses might not want to buy enterprise network gear from bankrupt Nortel, but how about from Bay Networks?

Nortel: Why Avaya?
06/25/09
If Avaya buys up Nortel’s enterprise properties, the new entity will have product overlap issues but they’ll be overshadowed by something more important: customers.

FAQ: What's going on with Nortel?
06/24/09
With Nokia Siemens bidding on Nortel's wireless business and Avaya rumored to be grabbing up its enterprise gear, it is all but inevitable that the rest of company will be broken up and sold off in pieces, which raises questions. Here are some of them and the answers.

SAS 70 is the measure of cloud security
06/23/09
Asked to flash its cloud security credentials at an industry forum, Google pointed to its SAS 70 certification, giving more support to that set of standards as a measure of how well cloud providers lock down customer data.

Defense stalwarts see cash in cybersecurity
06/22/09
As the U.S. government goes on a cyberdefense spending spree, major government contractors are beefing up their network security expertise so they can get in on the action.

Cloud security concerns don't register with many businesses
06/17/09
Only about half of businesses looking to use cloud services have their eye on some of the key potential security issues.

Google urged to beef up Gmail security
06/16/09
Google is weighing whether to encrypt its Web-based Gmail service by default, as suggested by a group of prominent Internet security and legal experts.

Survey finds lack of concern for cloud security
06/15/09
 Half the companies that use or plan to use cloud computing services don't know how they will square that use with the need to insure that data integrity and compliance with standards and policies.

Avaya, IBM work out joint program for unified communications
06/12/09
Avaya and IBM have overcome difficulties presenting joint unified communications proposals to customers and have launched a coordinated sales and marketing program and agreed to conduct technical development together.

Cisco and Duke Energy work to build smart grid
06/10/09
Cisco has been enlisted by a Fortune 500 electric power company to monitor and control power consumption by creating a smart grid.

For security's sake, the cloud may have to be your own
06/10/09
Internal clouds – those owned by individual businesses for their own use – might be the only way around the security concerns some businesses may have with cloud services.

Palo Alto adds VPN gateway, traffic shaping to firewalls
06/09/09
Palo Alto Networks is adding an SSL VPN gateway and traffic shaping to its firewalls, offering businesses another opportunity to reduce the number of devices they buy and maintain.

Verisign urges careful check of cloud security
06/08/09
SAS 70 - the auditing standard used by CPAs to evaluate the processing of transactions - is emerging as one of the key ways to evaluate cloud service provider security.

Colleges give themselves C+ for network security
06/03/09
Colleges give themselves modest marks in network security and fear malware the most among a long list of potential threats, according to a survey of university technology executives.

Microsoft reveals some of its cloud security measures
06/03/09
Microsoft has published security policies it applies to its cloud services, and sheds some light on what might ultimately develop as industry standards for securing these services.

Can cloud services become credit-card botnets?
06/01/09
Attackers have used public cloud computing infrastructure to lay the groundwork for attacks, a security researcher has found based on consulting with his business customers.

Lanco adopts cloud-based URL and security service
06/01/09
In order to keep employees from accessing inappropriate Web sites, Lanco International used to enter the URLs of some banned sites into its Internet Security and Acceleration server filters, but that was a cumbersome process that didn’t nearly cover the vast number of inappropriate sites.

Avaya buys Agile to control contact center software
05/27/09
Avaya has bought Agile Software, bringing in-house the team that created and develops the call center software Avaya sells to midsize businesses.

InfoExpress latest NAC vendor to push services
05/27/09
InfoExpress is introducing a managed network access control service designed to reduce the ongoing costs of network access protection and provide better technical support than many businesses could afford in-house.

Cloud Security Alliance, Jericho Forum sign pact
05/27/09
The Jericho Forum and the Cloud Security Alliance have made a formal commitment to jointly develop and promote best security practices in cloud computing.

Insurers keep an eye on cloud security threats
05/22/09
Data loss is possible anywhere, including in the networks of cloud computing providers, but the unique challenges there are significant enough that they are getting a special look from insurers.

Credit card council looks into cloud security
05/20/09
Cloud security is enough of a potential problem that it’s being investigated by the group that sets standards for protecting credit card data.

Expect more from WAN optimization than just optimization
05/20/09
WAN optimization is becoming just an element of larger application-delivery schemes that vendors are approaching quite differently, Interop attendees were told this week