NetFlash: Spammers using sender authentication too

Those of you who receive our free Network/Systems Management Newsletter are probably familiar with the IT Infrastructure Library, or ITIL. This set of best practices for managing networks and systems is getting picked up by enterprise companies across America. This week we look at what ITIL is and what makes it so popular. American ITIL: Best practices win converts http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/083004itil.html?net Net/Systems Management Newsletter http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/nsm/index.html?net

What good are emerging authentication technologies like Sender ID if spammers are using them as much as people you actually want to hear from? You might be tempted to ask that question, given the results of a recent study showing that’s what’s happening today. But as one expert points out, spammers are playing right into our hands.

Spammers using sender authentication too, study says

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0831spammusing.html?net

SCO caps legal costs as losses mount

The SCO Group has famously based so much of its business model on legal action that the company is finding that all its money is going to legal fees. To stem the tide, SCO hammered out an agreement with its law firm to set a limit on up-front legal fees – but with a tradeoff.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0831scocaps.html?net

Veritas acquires e-mail archiver KVS

Veritas Tuesday acquired Kvault Software Limited, better known as KVS, for an all cash transaction valued at $225 million.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0831veritaskvs.html?net

Swan dives into WAN compression

Swan Labs thinks that making WAN links more responsive is such a hot idea that it bought up the WAN-acceleration product line of ITWorx.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0831swan.html?net

Network World Fusion Radio: Satisfaction

Customer satisfaction is our focus this week. The American Customer Satisfaction Index has released its results for the second quarter of 2004, and joining us to discuss them is Professor Claes Fornell, the head of the Index at the University of Michigan. Listen in now:

https://www.nwfusion.com/research/2004/0901radio.html?net

Today on Layer 8, where all our minds are open, but not all our ports:

Make a rocket on a budget; how technology can ease your next hotel check-in; talking potholders – welcome to the kitchen of the future; and the controversy over homegrown satellite radio; the all this today and more at your home for not-just-networking news.

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