* Welcome to the afternoon edition of Network World Daily News.
REVIEW
New 802.11n Draft 2 products targeted at the small-office/home-office market show a dramatic improvement in interoperability and a slight improvement in throughput over the Draft 1 products we tested last summer.
NETWORKING ENCYCLOPEDIA 2.0, BETA VERSION
We’re completely gutting and rebuilding our Networking Encyclopedia – with your help. This time around, rather than us simply writing definitions, we’ve created a community system that lets any NetworkWorld.com visitor write and expand definitions. After all, who knows enterprise networking better than you? When you connect, you’ll see a (currently rather barebones) table of contents. Users who register (it’s free) can post new definitions – and revise existing ones. Anybody, regardless of account, can post comments on definitions. Eventually, we’ll add other bells and whistles (a way to rate the quality of definitions, for example), but first, we want to get a good base of definitions in place. Let us know what you think.
IN COMMUNITY
New blogger: Kerrie Meyler, the lead author for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Unleashed, will be discussing Microsoft issues.
Brad Reese wonders if there’s now a worldwide shortage of people with critical Cisco skills and considers the new Rent a Cert (Channelguy discusses Rent a Cert as well). Jeff Doyle explains IPv6 transition and operational reality. Wendell Odom explains how VTP clients can update servers. Huawei’s impending co-purchase of 3Com: Good or bad?
Paul McNamara seems kind of disappointed that nothing blew up or caught on fire when Verizon installed FiOS in a relative’s house – but then, the relative made a point of showing the tech where to drill. Ron Colonna discusses what’s not so good about technical training. Craig Mathias asks if anybody has experience with the Fujitsu U810 tablet PC.
James Gaskin looks at Microsoft’s decision to let vendors keep selling XP and concludes it’s a good time for SMB buyers to look at Linux. Mark Gibbs ponders it as well, and decries endless upgrade mania.
John Obeto smells fear at Google and urges Microsoft to simplify its EULA. Tyson Kopczynski hates Microsoft’s Genuine Office Validation. Chris Dalby is wowed by a video device called Round Table. Susan Hanley writes that software deployments take a village – with multiple points of failure.
Users debate whether IT folks get paid enough, whether security vendors should hire virus writers and whether booth babes are history at trade shows.
IN DEPTH
SECURE WEB GATEWAYS: SLAMMING THE DOOR ON MALWARE
The Web has become the new security battle front, surpassing even e-mail as the leading source of malware infections. In a recent study, Google found that one in 10 Web sites that it crawled contained a malicious payload. And Gartner Group estimates that 75% of enterprises will be infected this year with targeted malware that evades their traditional defenses. Why? While more than 80% of enterprises have some form of URL filtering in place, less than 15% have any form of deep inspection on Web payloads, resulting in a Web security gap.
MORE NEWS
TOP 14 VoIP VULNERABILITIES
How are VoIP networks weak and vulnerable to attack and catastrophic failure? Securing VoIP Networks, the new book by Peter Thermos and Ari Takanen, looks at VoIP infrastructure and analyzes its vulnerabilities much as the Open Web Application Security Project did for Web-related vulnerabilities and Mitre did with its Common Weakness Enumeration dictionary for software. And it’s about human failings, too, not just technology problems.
MORGAN STANLEY ABUSED CAREERBUILDER.COM PERSONAL INFORMATION TO MAKE SALES CALLS, STATE SAYS
Massachusetts is charging financial advisors from Morgan Stanley in Boston with improperly accessing CareerBuilder.com to download resumes and collect personal information of job seekers in an effort to solicit business on behalf of Morgan Stanley.
COMPLIANCE PUSHING IDENTITY MANAGEMENT IN NEW DIRECTIONS
Shifting sands moving corporate priorities when it comes to finding the value in identity management projects.
ELEVATOR MAKER GETS A LIFT OUT OF VoIP
Elevator maker ThyssenKrupp is adopting ShoreTel VoIP gear to centralize telecom management, reduce maintenance costs and improve the capabilities of its call centers.
UNAUTHORIZED IPHONE APPS MARKET FLOURISHES
Despite Apple’s position that iPhone applications be limited to ones that run through the Safari Web browser, Ajax developers say there are glitches in writing Safari-based apps and some are writing apps to be installed directly on the iPhone, contrary to Apple policy.
HP UNLEASHES WIRELESS NETWORK TRAFFIC MONITORING
HP claims to be the first to implement a technology designed to improve traffic monitoring in wireless networks.
