News from VOICES FROM IT ROADMAP; AWPG E-CRIMES SUMMIT; AND MORE

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Oct 10, 20073 mins

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* VOICES FROM IT ROADMAP NEWS:

How American Heart Association manages its Cisco network, 10/08/07: The motto of the American Heart Association is simple: Learn and live. In other words, the more we know about heart disease, the more likely we can work to prevent the more than 1 million heart attacks in the country each year.

American Heart Association keeps tabs on WAN performance, 10/08/07: In addition to focusing on application performance across its internal network, the American Heart Association is leveraging its network management tools to keep its WAN vendors on their toes.

Podcast: At American Heart Association good network management is good security: The key to better security for the American Heart Association is to keep an efficient network with monitoring throughout. Josh Hinkle, Manager, network management & security, at the American Heart Association explains how knowing what’s going on in your network is important to thwarting attacks and anomalies. (7:51)

* NEWS FROM ANTI-PHISHING WORK GROUP (APWG) E-CRIMES SUMMIT:

Microsoft plays ‘Detective’ to determine phishing frequency, 10/05/07: Microsoft’s research arm has been quietly collecting data through an add-on service to its Windows Live Toolbar to determine how often Web users actually fall prey to phishing attacks.

* NEWS FROM CEATEC:

Japanese phone features outshine the iPhone, 10/05/07: Apple’s iPhone may still have the world’s heart aflutter, despite a sharp price cut that stiffed early adopters and the recent release of a software update that turned some unlocked iPhones into electronic bricks. But there’s more to the world of cell phones than Apple, and users outside Japan are missing out on some of the nicest-looking and most sophisticated phones ever made.

* NEWS FROM CUTTING EDGE CONFERENCE:

Symantec seeking product management umbrella, 10/04/07: Orlando — Symantec is looking to bring its storage, backup, security protection, configuration and patch-management tools under a common management umbrella that will lead to better IT policy and compliance reporting, a company executive said Wednesday.

* NEWS FROM DIGITAL ID WORLD:

Identity discussions at Digital ID World, Part 1, 10/08/07: This week I want to finish up my coverage of the recent Digital ID World (DIDW). I did speak to a lot of people – vendors, customers, analysts and other journalists. What follows, in no particular order, are the high points of some of those discussions.

Identity discussions at Digital ID World, Part 2, 10/10/07: This is my last review of the people and things I saw at the recent Digital ID World (DIDW) conference, so let’s jump right in.

* 2007 TRADE SHOWS:

Interop

New York, Oct. 22-26

Berlin, Germany, Nov. 6-8

itSMF USA – Fusion 07 Conference and Exposition

Charlotte, NC, Conference/Exposition: Sept. 16-19

Charlotte, NC, Post Conference Training: Sept. 20-22

ChicagoCon 2007: White Hats Come Together in Defense of the Digital Frontier

Sept. 17-23

VISION 2007 Embedded Linux Conference

Santa Clara, Calif.: October 8-10

Fall 2007 VON

Boston, Oct. 29 – Nov. 1

* INTERNATIONAL TRADE SHOWS 2007

CeBIT Hannover

Germany, March 15 – 21

ITU Telecom World

Geneva, Switzerland, Oct. 5 – 9, 2009

* FREE NETWORK WORLD SEMINARS 2007:

IT Roadmap: Conference & Expo

Washington: November 2007

DEMOfall ’07

San Diego: September 2007