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Enterprise software

• Protecting wireless networks: Step 2

  Security testing expert Kevin Beaver covers the tools and techniques you'll need to find and exploit insecure wireless networks.  Continue Reading

• Identity and Access Management Security School

  This Security School explores critical topics related to helping security practitioners establish and maintain an effective identity and access management plan.  Continue Reading

• Security blog log: Fear and loathing in MS06-040's wake

  This week, security bloggers wonder if some of the MS06-040 warnings have gone too far. Meanwhile, Symantec uses its blog to warn about the timed release of exploits.  Continue Reading

• Inside MSRC: Time to rethink security workarounds

  Christopher Budd of the Microsoft Security Response Center recommends implementing one of several security workarounds to ensure a secure infrastructure until this month's most important Windows update can be installed.  Continue Reading

• Thwarting IM management challenges

  Product review: Information Security magazine's Sandra Kay Miller says Symantec's IM Manager 8.0 has limited public network features, but offers excellent reporting  Continue Reading

• Akonix A-Series offers complex, best-of-breed IM security

  Product review: Information Security magazine's Sandra Kay Miller says The Akonix A-Series instant messaging security appliances works well but needs better documentation.  Continue Reading

• Security event management, no strings attached

  Product review: Information Security magazine's Joel Snyder says Check Point's vendor-agnostic Eventia Analyzer 2.0/Eventia Reporter is worth consideration despite limited BI options.  Continue Reading

• Web services represent security's next battlefront

  The evolution and mainstream use of Web services has placed the nascent technology in the crosshairs of attackers, and one firm in particular says it can mitigate the threats.  Continue Reading

• PING with Heidi Kujawa

  Heidi Kujawa, director of enterprise architecture services for Sony Pictures Entertainment, explains how combatting piracy takes more than just keeping bootleggers out of the theatres  Continue Reading

• Automated provisioning quiz answers

  the key questions answered  Continue Reading

• Inside MSRC: Debunking Excel exploits

  Microsoft's Christopher Budd puts the magnifying glass to Microsoft's July bulletinsand says one alleged Excel exploit isn't what it seems.  Continue Reading

• XML Security Learning Guide

  Securing XML is an essential element in keeping Web services secure. This SearchSecurity.com Learning Guide is a compilation of resources that review different types of XML security standards and approaches for keeping your XML Web services secure.  Continue Reading

• Case study: A valuable solution

  A new telephony and call centre solution from Inter-Tel has transformed the way that e.surv Chartered Surveyors is able to work.  Continue Reading

• Storage Word Search: Summer IT fun

  How about some summer storage fun? Try out SearchStorage.com's Word Search game. See if you can find the 15 terms listed.  Continue Reading

• SMB finds the perfect host

  When All3Media, a medium-sized TV programming producer, inherited an inflexible communications system, it turned to a more appealing, hosted alternative.  Continue Reading

• Industry chiefs to declare war on for-profit cyber criminals

  IT industry leaders reaffirm the importance of security to a digital economy beset by money-driven cyber criminals.  Continue Reading

• Be careful you don't get more than you pay for with VoIP

  Implementing VoIP is attractive for all companies in particular SMBs. However, there are issues to address that may cost you more than what you save  Continue Reading

• Voicing concerns on Skype

  Skype has blazed a trail in the Voice over IP arena; its popularity hasn’t gone unnoticed by the hacker community however  Continue Reading

• Lost at sea: securing the channel

  As attacks seem to proliferate almost unabated, it’s worrying to think that of the three interested parties in the security technology market — the technology makers, the technology sellers and the technology users—not everyone shares a common view ...  Continue Reading

• Riding the wave of change

  CIOs can thrive as pace of change quickens, argues Des Lee  Continue Reading

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• B&Q boosts efficiency and cuts costs by replacing e-mail with workflow software

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• Storage 911: How to troubleshoot your storage

  Our emergency guide takes you through the steps you can take to prevent disaster, and then, more importantly, offers an organized list of usual suspects, from the complex to the deceptively simple.  Continue Reading

• Controlling IT waste and redundancy through recentralization

  A typical decentralized organization has many different departments such as accounting, HR, and manufacturing—all are defining and building IT infrastructures to support applications. In a decentralized environment, there is a structure in ...  Continue Reading

• Learning Guide: Low-cost storage

  Resources on low-cost networking, iSCSI, SATA and IP storage  Continue Reading

• Managed services: Looking to the long term

  IT directors looking for an easy way to manage increasing volumes of data by buying more hardware could be storing up problems...  Continue Reading

• Financing the future

  Don't get a headache working out the best ways to pay for hardware and software. Danny Bradbury offers a user-friendly guide to...  Continue Reading

• Grid gobbledygook hits storage

  Fearful as always of missing the boat, storage vendors are jumping on the grid bandwagon, unveiling visions that are about as useful today as a chocolate teapot.  Continue Reading

• The gift of CRM

  For Red Letter Days, a provider of gift experiences for corporates and consumers, a CRM system was essential to give it market...  Continue Reading

• Achieving the goal of CIO

  What exactly does a chief information officer do?Paul Burfitt, global CIO at AstraZeneca, analysed the various aspects of his job...  Continue Reading

• Thought for the day: Flights of fancy

  The Windows versus Linux debacle continues to escalate into a heady mix of emotion, mud-slinging and complexity  Continue Reading

• Thought for the day: Flights of fancy

  Launch a Java-based office suite? Simon Moores questions the sanity of any company that would consider doing so, even if it is...  Continue Reading

• Insurance lacks pulling power

  Insurance companies need to give their e-initiatives a radical makeover as their present inward focus is driving customers away  Continue Reading

• CBI warns on cybercrime

  A new survey warns that UK e-commerce is being stifled by rising crime and consumer caution about buying goods on the Internet  Continue Reading

• Taxing times for global issues

  International traders have always had to overcome a complex array of tariffs and local tax laws. But with the advent of...  Continue Reading

• Government picks pathfinder councils

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• Government makes grants to council IT schemes

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• Growing pains of dotcom start ups

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• When all is safely gathered in

  Portals are a great way to gather all of your company's services into one easily accessible place. Danny Bradbury takes a look at...  Continue Reading

• Growing pains

  Five e-commerce companies tell E-Business Review how they overcame initial teething problems  Continue Reading

• Leaked MoD notice reveals new Chinook system hazard

  The MoD has claimed that the problems with the Chinook's Fadec software were minor faults. Yet a leaked MoD notice warns of a...  Continue Reading

• Grpup-buying sites prove unpopular

  Group buying sites seemed like a good idea, but failed to attract much attention. Sun and Microsoft's sites, on the other hand,...  Continue Reading

• Spring has sprung for Spring

  Spring Group has moved its business environment on-line with the development of a fully integrated web operating system.  Continue Reading

• The 3 flavours of 2001

  Before the end of the year, three new technologies will emerge triumphant. Sanjay Manandhar reports.  Continue Reading

• Towards an inclusive future

  Leeds City Council is fighting social exclusion using customer service centres. Paul Donovan reports  Continue Reading

• A big blueprint for e-business

  Companies have been making mistakes with their e-business strategies since the whole brouhaha over online commerce started. But...  Continue Reading

• Not-very-mobile-commerce

  Mobile commerce is a dream coming true, say the telcos. Well they would, wouldn't they? Simon Quicke reports  Continue Reading

• Chinook report slams flawed MoD procurement methods

  Public Accounts Committee report into fatal crash of a Chinook Mk2 helicopter focused on a report by independent contractor EDS-Scicon, which was hired to assess the Chinook’s Fadec engine control system  Continue Reading

• Pathway and the Post Office: the lessons learned

  The infamous 1996-1999 Pathway project aimed to computerise the nation’s post offices and tackle benefit fraud. But 18 months...  Continue Reading

• Customers could be winners as Abbey risks opening up to rivals

  Abbey National's online mortgage service will break new ground, but it is not without risks. Nick Huber reports  Continue Reading

• The Chinook accident in 1989 - the facts

  Problem with fault logic of FADEC software identified at key meeting  Continue Reading

• Planning for e-commerce: balance your workload

  Capacity planning isn't easy, but it's not rocket science either, says Danny Bradbury. And that makes the recent failure of some...  Continue Reading

• January-February

  Tesco target of 300 online shops within one year  Continue Reading

• Case Study: ProLiant servers by Compaq

  Building a gas pipeline connecting Britain and the continent proved to be an enormous task, but it’s proved to be a project built...  Continue Reading

• White Paper: Software solutions for effective network power management

  Uncertain power conditions can wreak havoc on small businesses, however, there are ways to limit the risk of computer data loss  Continue Reading