March 2005

• March 29, 2005 29 Mar'05

  E-mail Security School Lesson 1: E-mail Security Essentials

  In lesson one of E-mail Security School, Joel Snyder teaches you standards-based ways to increase the security of SMTP-based e-mail, as well as the architecture for identifying and defining e-mail security threats from the IP layer through SMTP, ...  Continue Reading

• March 29, 2005 29 Mar'05

  Quiz: Do you have a firm e-mail security foundation?

  This Security School quiz is the first in a series of three on e-mail security essentials.  Continue Reading

• March 29, 2005 29 Mar'05

  Filling SMTP gaps -- The secrets to using e-mail standards, part 2

  Learn how to add security to your e-mail by using S/MIME.  Continue Reading

• March 29, 2005 29 Mar'05

  Health bosses tell trusts to refuse freedom of information requests about NPfIT deals

  Freedom of Information Act enquiries about supplier contracts could be blocked  Continue Reading

• March 29, 2005 29 Mar'05

  Survey finds IT leaders spend too much time restoring connections

  Senior IT executives are spending one or more days each week managing aspects of their wide area network they would traditionally...  Continue Reading

• March 29, 2005 29 Mar'05

  How universities' intelligent web project unlocks the information that really counts

  Imagine clicking on a low point on an oil production graph to launch a web search that threw up only strictly relevant...  Continue Reading

• March 29, 2005 29 Mar'05

  Parties urged to set out IT manifestos

  IT lobby group Eurim, a coalition of IT directors, politicians and lawyers, has called on the political parties to put IT at the...  Continue Reading

• March 29, 2005 29 Mar'05

  Oil traders forced to use e-system

  The International Petroleum Exchange will next month achieve its goal of conducting all trades electronically - but only after...  Continue Reading

• March 29, 2005 29 Mar'05

  Cost doubt for MS developer tools

  Microsoft’s first high-end development platform, the Team System edition of the Visual Studio .net product family, will be...  Continue Reading

• March 29, 2005 29 Mar'05

  City firms plan disaster simulation

  Banks and financial services companies are planning an exercise in November to test how they would respond to a major security...  Continue Reading

• March 29, 2005 29 Mar'05

  BMC completes IAM suite with OpenNetwork purchase

  The acquisition of OpenNetwork, a provider of web access management, web single sign-on, and federated identity management...  Continue Reading

• March 29, 2005 29 Mar'05

  Bridgestone offshores its SAP

  Bridgestone Europe has outsourced its SAP operation to India to cut costs and alleviate pressure on its IT department.  Continue Reading

• March 29, 2005 29 Mar'05

  Informatica boosts transactional data access

  Informatica is giving a boost to its enterprise data integration product by reselling Composite’s Information Server alongside...  Continue Reading

• March 29, 2005 29 Mar'05

  Oracle lifts Oblix

  Oracle has acquired identity management company Oblix to bolster its own web identity product suite.  Continue Reading

• March 29, 2005 29 Mar'05

  Plumtree launches portal analysis tool

  Plumtree Software has released Plumtree Analytics Server to increase portal return on investment by delivering real-time reports...  Continue Reading

• March 29, 2005 29 Mar'05

  Demand for instant messaging security skills rises as use doubles

  Analysts predict mainstream acceptance of IM from 2006  Continue Reading

• March 29, 2005 29 Mar'05

  Problems with biometric IT could double ID card costs, warns study

  The cost of the government's £5.5bn ID card programme could double because of problems with biometric technology, a report by the...  Continue Reading

• March 29, 2005 29 Mar'05

  Online database is bad idea, says LSE

  The London School of Economics Identity Project Interim Report challenged the wisdom of the government's plans to create a...  Continue Reading

• March 29, 2005 29 Mar'05

  Your shout: Have your say on ageism contributing to the skills shortage

  In response to Next Move (Computer Weekly, 15 March) where the question was whether 37 is too old to be a network engineer  Continue Reading

• March 29, 2005 29 Mar'05

  SunGard surrenders to mega buy-out

  Financial software and business continuity specialist SunGard Data Systems has agreed to a takeover by a group of private equity...  Continue Reading