These days, just as threatening as hackers breaking into your network is information leaking out. Unfortunately, every user with an e-mail account has the potential to send sensitive data outside the organization – and with new privacy laws coming into effect, such information leakage can have legal repercussions. Fortunately, there are lots of vendors emerging with software that can watch this sort of thing. Security tools target inside jobs http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0405insideout.html?netThese days, just as threatening as hackers breaking into your network is information leaking out. Unfortunately, every user with an e-mail account has the potential to send sensitive data outside the organization – and with new privacy laws coming into effect, such information leakage can have legal repercussions. Fortunately, there are lots of vendors emerging with software that can watch this sort of thing.Security tools target inside jobshttps://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0405insideout.html?net Who’s responsible for cybersecurity?Can you legislate good software? Secure software? That issue is coming to a head as users are clearly fed up with security vulnerabilities and now looking to the federal government for some kind of regulation that would make systems more secure. https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0405cybersecurity.html?netNortel under SEC microscopeNortel this week said the SEC has opened up a formal investigation of the company following restatements of financial results.https://www.nwfusion.com/edge/news/2004/0405nortsec.html?netMicrosoft goes open source with WiX toolAnyone who thought Microsoft’s settlement on Friday with long-time nemesis Sun seemed surreal were in for another shocker Monday, when the software giant made some of its source code freely available on the Internet. https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0406microgoes.html?netNo compromise on WAPI as Intel’s Barrett heads to ChinaIntel stands by its decision to not support the security protocol that is at the heart of a trade dispute over China’s WLAN standard even as the company hopes for an end to the impasse, Intel CEO Craig Barrett said Monday.https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0405nocompr.html?net Today on Layer 8, Pulitzer finalist for editorial cartooning:IBM’s s/360 turns 40; the dawn of the software vending machine; cell phones interfere with emergency services; and the start of our Weekly Caption Contest; all this and more today at your home for not-just-networking news.https://www.nwfusion.com/weblogs/layer8/?net Related content news Dell provides $150M to develop an AI compute cluster for Imbue Helping the startup build an independent system to create foundation models may help solidify Dell’s spot alongside cloud computing giants in the race to power AI. By Elizabeth Montalbano Nov 29, 2023 4 mins Generative AI news DRAM prices slide as the semiconductor industry starts to decline TSMC is reported to be cutting production runs on its mature process nodes as a glut of older chips in the market is putting downward pricing pressure on DDR4. By Sam Reynolds Nov 29, 2023 3 mins Flash Storage Flash Storage Technology Industry news analysis Cisco, AWS strengthen ties between cloud-management products Combining insights from Cisco ThousandEyes and AWS into a single view can dramatically reduce problem identification and resolution time, the vendors say. By Michael Cooney Nov 28, 2023 4 mins Network Management Software Cloud Computing opinion Is anything useful happening in network management? Enterprises see the potential for AI to benefit network management, but progress so far is limited by AI’s ability to work with company-specific network data and the range of devices that AI can see. By Tom Nolle Nov 28, 2023 7 mins Generative AI Network Management Software Podcasts Videos Resources Events NEWSLETTERS Newsletter Promo Module Test Description for newsletter promo module. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe