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Google enhances enterprise search appliance

Google has upgraded its Search Appliance system for large firms with easier connectivity to third-party databases and other features.

Information Commissioner's Office issues new guide on data sharing

  • News
  • Author: Ian Grant
  • Date: 11 October 2007
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has published a new guide that sets out a framework for organisations that need to share people's personal information.

Hardware-based encryption product specifications

  • In Depth
  • Date: 11 October 2007
The product snapshots in this chapter highlight key specifications for a cross section of dedicated encryption appliances.

Checklist for purchasing hardware-based encryption

  • In Depth
  • Date: 11 October 2007
Encryption appliances sit inline on a network and use specially designed electronics to encrypt data at line speeds, essentially eliminating the performance penalty imposed by encryption software running on a general server. While software-based encryption is typically handled as a specific event or process (e.g., encrypting data during a backup process), appliance-based encryption normally can handle any quantity of data in flight.

Criminals using Skype to communicate

  • News
  • Author: Ian Grant
  • Date: 10 October 2007
Criminals are taking advantage of Skype's 256-bit encryption and the internet's unpredictable routing scheme to set up drug deals and other crimes, say Swiss law enforcement officials.

Government gives up on electronic junior doctor recruitment system

The government has given up on a national IT system for the recruitment of junior doctors.

Liverpool NHS Trust adopts single sign-on

Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust is set to save £20,000 a year and about 30 minutes a day for each staff member by implementing a single sign-on system.

PC users' passwords habits leave them vulnerable

Nearly one in five PC users in the UK is making themselves vulnerable to online fraud or identity theft because of poor password habits, according to research by Ciao Surveys.

Messier-Dowty adopts XML-based messaging service

Aircraft landing gear systems manufacturer Messier-Dowtyhas adopted an XML-based messaging service for the air transport industry to reduce the cost of doing business with more than 2,000 aircraft operators.

802-11n to overtake wired Ethernet

Burton Group has released a report comparing 802.11n with Gigabit Ethernet and predicts 802.11n wireless technology will start eroding the wired Ethernet market within the next 24 to 36 months.
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