Latest security news.
Readers weigh in: Is the iPod a threat or a scapegoat?, 04/18/07
The recent articles regarding iPod as a corporate security threat and where responsibility for securing the device lies have stimulated much debate on Network World’s Web pages.
Microsoft: DNS patch to come by May 8, maybe, 04/18/07
Microsoft hopes to fix by May 8 a critical flaw in Windows DNS servers that is being exploited by online criminals, the company said late Tuesday.
Review: What can NAC do for you now?, 04/19/07
With a virtual lock on the Ethernet switching market, any enterprise IT manager has to consider Cisco’s product line as at least one NAC options.
CVS latest retailer cited for identity theft violation, 04/18/07
The Texas Attorney General has taken legal action against CVS Pharmacy for exposing customers to identity theft the old-fashioned way.
Gordano unveils e-mail security server, 04/17/07
Messaging vendor Gordano Tuesday released stand-alone security software designed to help IT managers fight spam and viruses on e-mail platforms including Exchange and Notes.
U.S. gov’t to probe network intrusions by foreign hackers, 04/17/07
A House subcommittee this week is scheduled to hear testimony from government and industry representatives about the extent to which federal networks and critical infrastructure have been compromised by foreign hackers.
E-mail alerts may not be best bet in an emergency, 04/17/07
In an emergency, is an e-mail message enough to notify people of what’s happening so they can take shelter, evacuate or take other evasive action?
Editor’s Note: Is your IT organizational structure holding your company back?
We’re assembling a package of stories to be published in Network World looking at the IT organizational structure of the future and we need your help:News Editor Bob Brown
* If your company has recently reorganized in light of new business and technology challenges and opportunities, can you send along “before” and “after” org charts? (Feel free to strip out the names, we’re really just looking for titles. But give us a sense of the size of your IT organization/business.) Can you tell us how the reorganization has worked out?
* If your company is in need of an IT org makeover, what areas are currently most dysfunctional?
* Any advice on what your peers can do to improve their IT organizations right now?
We’re looking to tap into our readership through a technique some call “crowdsourcing.” Knowing we don’t have all the answers, but that our audience probably has a lot of them, we’re hoping to help you help each other.
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