NetFlash: RSA show highlights new security approaches

The RSA Conference 2004 is up and running in San Francisco this week, and at the show can be seen several fresh approaches to security problems. Most exciting is Application Vulnerability Description Language, which over the last year has emerged as a standard way for security companies to define vulnerabilities and share information about them. It gets everyone on the same page about security holes, and this show is its time to shine. RSA show highlights new security approaches http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0223rsashow.html?net For daily RSA Conference news: http://www.nwfusion.com/news/netflash.html?net

The RSA Conference 2004 is up and running in San Francisco this week, and at the show can be seen several fresh approaches to security problems. Most exciting is Application Vulnerability Description Language, which over the last year has emerged as a standard way for security companies to define vulnerabilities and share information about them. It gets everyone on the same page about security holes, and this show is its time to shine.

RSA show highlights new security approaches

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0223rsashow.html?net

For daily RSA Conference news:

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/netflash.html?net

AT&T and MCI kiss and make up

Plenty of nasty comments have passed between AT&T and bankrupt MCI since last summer – charges of fraud, racketeering and contempt of court. But in a proof that good things are possible, the two bitter rivals have laid down their arms.

https://www.nwfusion.com/edge/news/2004/0223mci.html?net

Coalition forms to steer VoIP policy

A group of companies, including AT&T, MCI, Intel and Texas Instruments, banded together this week in an effort to influence VoIP regulation and policy making.

https://www.nwfusion.com/edge/news/2004/0223voip.html

HP planning Opteron announcement Tuesday

HP plans to announce Tuesday that it will come out with products based on AMD’s Opteron processor, said sources familiar with the company’s plans. The announcement will come one week after Intel announced plans to release a similar chip.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0223hpplann.html?net

Today at “Layer 8”

Is outsourcing just another form of trade? That’s what an Arizona economist writes in an interesting defense of the movement. If, like many of us, you have a hard time understanding how exporting jobs is a good thing, you’ll want to check out this short opinion piece, which states the resisting outsourcing will stifle the competitiveness of American companies and lower our standard of living. On a lighter note, check out why Microsoft’s Japan unit is raising eyebrows with its latest giveaway; browse a list of ugly LPs you don’t want on your premises; enter our latest caption contest for fabulous prizes; and more today at Layer 8.

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