Latest standards and regulations news.
TiVo records big savings in compliance, 08/21/07: TiVo, the DVR maker and service provider, discusses its strategy for dealing with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Payment Card Industry data security standard.
FCC schedules 700MHz auction on Jan. 16, 08/17/07: The FCC will begin its long-awaited auction of 700MHz radio spectrum on Jan. 16, 2008, the agency said Friday.
FTC stops e-mail marketing of weight-loss products, 08/23/07: A U.S. district judge has ordered a company to stop sending unsolicited e-mail marketing weight-loss and anti-aging products that allegedly did not work, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced Thursday.
Enterasys package secures VoIP systems, 08/20/07: Enterasys bundles VoIP security system from switches, software.
Management vendors team on configuration spec, 08/20/07: CMDB Federation releases a draft specification to allow multiple databases and management data repositories to share information.
The security concerns of file transfer, 08/20/07: In last week’s newsletter, I wrote about using secure file transfer tools as a complement to your enterprise e-mail system to offload large file attachments from e-mail. The primary focus of that newsletter was how to relieve the bandwidth-hogging pressure of handling large files via e-mail. This week, I want to talk about the need for securing those files.
From Microsoft Subnet: Microsoft will launch a major component of its business intelligence platform on Sept. 20: PerformancePoint Server 2007. The BI product is expected to include compliance management functions. Sue Hanley begs you to ban the “R” word when defining systems needs: requirement. That one word will cost you big bucks.




