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BlueRoam offers SOHO VPN service
Mar. 07, 2005
BlueRoam bills the service as being simple enough for non-technical users to set up and maintain, but because it's a managed service, support is built into the monthly cost.

In brief: KeyComputing announces secure USB flash drive
Nov. 22, 2004
Also: Qwest announces Qwest Remote Access; Linksys announces 802.11g CompactFlash Card for Pocket PCs and PDAs

Buffalo charges Citrix GoToMyPC
Nov. 08, 2004
'Remote router' offers secure access to PC desktop and network resources - without a subscription.

Enterprise WLAN security meets small offices
Sep. 13, 2004
Interlink Networks' new product, LucidLink, aims to give small offices with limited or no IT support the best of both worlds.

New access services meet SOHO needs
May. 10, 2004
Since Citrix Systems validated GoToMyPC by buying ExpertCity earlier this year, a new crop of small service providers are standing a lot taller.

Remote-office opinions

Small Business Tech
Nov. 06, 2009
In his weekly column, James E. Gaskin helps small businesses save time and money. He serves up product advice, business strategies, hands on reviews, and throws in a few laughs for free.

Transferring Files Without E-mail
May. 27, 2009
E-mail and the Mazda Miata are both great examples of successful products, but they share a similar weakness: neither can carry much baggage. If you want to carry two people in a Miata, you're good. But if each of those ...

Large branch offices require different attention
Dec. 19, 2005
How to develop a branch-office strategy

Growing like a weed
May. 10, 2004
Lawn maintenance company uses iPAQs to expand without increasing staff.

When you can't work from home, Part 4
Apr. 12, 2004
The Intelligent Office offers a fresh take on a stale model

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NIST SP800-53 Rev. 3: Key to Unified Security Across Federal Government and Private Sectors
10/26/09
Standards play a critical role in information assurance. Given the impossibility of defining a deterministic model that includes billions of users, millions of computers, and thousands of programs and protocols potentially interacting with each other unpredictably, we have to rely on human consensus about best practices if we are to progress in our field. Standards also provide a basis for demonstrating due care and diligence in fulfilling our fiduciary responsibilities to stakeholders.

Understanding and implementing information security metrics
10/21/09
One of the cornerstones of the scientific method is measurability: a focus on defining the ways of counting or measuring aspects of reality that we hope will be strongly associated with the phenomena we are trying to understand.

L.A. critics of Google cloud services need a little perspective
10/15/09
A consumer group protesting the use of Google cloud services by the City of Los Angeles says the company is speaking out of both sides of its mouth about security, but the complaint may be overblown.

Sidekick meltdown is a cloud security issue
10/13/09
Anyone considering cloud computing and data security has to take pause at the colossal mistake at Microsoft/Danger over the weekend.

CIA trusts cloud security, but only in private clouds
10/08/09
It turns out the CIA is interested in cloud computing, but not cloud services for security reasons.

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