Rothman: IBM legitimizes managed security, 09/11/06
$1.3 billion is a lot of money. If traveling is your thing, you could buy 38 Gulfstream V jets to fly in style and even have a little left over for gas money, or 7,900 Bentley Continental GTs to make sure you (and all your friends) are comfortable at …
Backspin: The rules of IT, 09/11/06
Wherever you go and whatever you do, it is a given that some set of rules will be in force. Rules matter because they define how we get on with other people and what is considered normal.
Editorial: Security is SOP for business, 09/11/06
At this week’s Security Standard conference in Boston – which was hosted by Network World and other IDG publications – speakers talked as much about the business of security as the technical options and details.
Blum: Accountability is best recipe for compliance, 09/11/06
Compare the confusion of implementing regulations, such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, with the clear results of breach disclosure accountability legislation, such as California Senate Bill 13. AOL, with its recent search data debacle, is the latest …
Nolle: Can FMC unite the diverse carrier drivers? 09/11/06
The RBOCs’ profit reports for the last quarter show some common trends in their revenues: legacy services and public switched telephone network lines are down, while mobile wireless and consumer broadband are up. Having two market areas up and only …
Johnson: Don’t Throw the Telcos Into the Briar Patch! 09/11/06
The great thing about tracking the telcos is that if you wait long enough, they’re guaranteed to pull some really dumb stunts. This week’s cases in point: Verizon and BellSouth.
Cool Tools: Palm launches Treo with Sprint, 09/11/06
Last week’s holiday and early deadlines from our taskmasters prevent me from doing some testing this week – so instead, let’s look at some new gadgets coming down the pike:
Gearhead: Differencing with HTML Match, 09/11/06
An interesting question came up on a list we subscribe to: How can you compare two versions of a Web page to see what changes have been made?
Dr. Internet: Resetting passwords on Mac OS X system, 09/11/06
How to resent a forgotten admin password on a Macintosh OS X system.
Bradner: Selling books by giving them away, 09/11/06
Ross Anderson is one of the more interesting security folks writing these days. He is a professor of security engineering at University of Cambridge (the other Cambridge) Computer Laboratory and seems to come up with new and useful perspectives on a …
Nutter’s Help Desk: Protecting data on laptops, 09/11/06
With reading the news reports of stolen laptops from the Veterans Administration and the Red Cross, to mention just two, I am getting more concerned about the users my company has traveling that have laptops with sensitive company information on them …
