Here is this week's Editors' Choice; look for Readers' Choice later this week.
EDITORS’ CHOICE
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— Adam Gaffin, executive editor, online,
From the front page
Sarbanes-Oxley: Too much for too little?
Faced with a tidal wave of complaints about high costs and implementation difficulties, federal regulators say they will consider modifying rules and auditing standards related to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
Google calls search its key to enterprise
Google has its eye on the enterprise. The company doesn’t plan to come busting through the front door, however, but is banking on its search technology and user adoption of its productivity tools to get onto corporate desktops.
And it even has books
Not only is the tech quotient higher than in traditional libraries, but also the atmosphere is more relaxed at the new Minneapolis public library. A patron can borrow a laptop, grab a cup of coffee from the Dunn Bros. coffee shop on the ground floor, and find a spot to work near one of the library’s four fireplaces. Yes, coffee and soda are allowed in the library, as long as they’re in a covered container. This is not your parents’ library.
In depth
How to protect your VoIP network
VoIP has finally arrived as a mainstream application, so security is important when you’re replacing the world’s oldest, largest and most resilient and available communications network.
Security analyzers target vulnerabilities
Protocol abuse targets vulnerabilities in many types of devices and applications, from firewalls, VoIP controllers and VPN gateways to intrusion-prevention systems and other perimeter defense.
With a 24/7 e-commerce storefront and more than three dozen stores spread across the mid-Atlantic region, Boscov’s doesn’t have time to close for a data center move. So, when technical support manager Joe Poole heard about an impending migration, he knew the project would be daunting. Careful planning was the key.
From the blogs and forums
Is Winn Schartau’s bank abetting phishing? Discuss. Mark Gibbs wonders if anti-spam efforts are actually helping spammers become even better at what they do. Remember Ashton-Tate? Linda Musthaler does. Paul McNamara tries to sort out all the claims involving a lawsuit over Yahoo’s text ads, which, of course, are spilling into blogland.
ITVideo
Securing SIP
As SIP is starting to make inroads into the enterprise, new SIP security threats are rearing their ugly heads. How do you fight them? Covergence CEO Bob O’Neil explains in this week’s Hot Seat.
How to
Upgrading Cisco switchesEmerging wireless attacks
A user gets a new job and one of his first tasks is to upgrade the firmware on the switches. Ron Nutter helps him out.
Andrew Lockhart discusses what to look out for.
Best Practics: SMB network security
James Gaskin compiles links to the resources and documents you need to secure your network.
More news
Microsoft taking storage to next level
The company hopes that its iSCSI products — the Microsoft iSCSI initiator, the Microsoft/IBM iSCSI Software-enabled Remote Boot and its WinTarget software — will lead it into enterprise storage markets that want to blend Fibre Channel and iSCSI SANs.
Start-up targets Exchange customers
Messaging vendor PostPath emerged from stealth mode last week, saying it plans to ship a Linux-based replacement for Exchange that supports Linux network protocols and is designed to look just like Exchange on the network.
Symantec bids to be data center ‘standard’
Symantec executives used their Vision 2006 customer conference last week to tout the breadth of the company’s data center management offerings made possible by last year’s acquisition of Veritas – but some customers and industry analysts said they still see gaps in the lineup.
Verizon wants to manage your bills
Verizon Business this week will launch a comprehensive telecom expense-management service, the first such offering from a major carrier.
Juniper reveals plans for WAN gear
Juniper has laid out an 18-month road map that includes improving the capabilities, capacity and management support of its WAN acceleration gear while offering custom acceleration for more individual applications.
JavaOne to showcase easier-to-use development tools
JavaOne: Corporate applications take center stage.
Open source management arrives
Six open source companies and project sponsors last week founded an industry organization to elevate the status of open source management tools in enterprise IT shops.
Our This Week page will also link you to these stories: Q&A: Sun’s Radia Perlman speaks out on being stuck with IP, new life for spanning tree and her answer to data security: the ephemerizer; Q&A: NeuStar CEO touts DNS, VoIP plans; WAN-optimization market continues to shrink; EMC, Opsware tackle application maps; Workshare appliance aims to expose leaks; AT&T to fill in broadband gaps with WiMAX, satellite; Oracle platform targets security.
