Network World articles from November 2005

Network World archives from November 2005

Hackers target data centers for extortion; * Cyber-extortion.
November 1, 2005... Byline: Andreas M. Antonopoulos Many companies have faced a scary situation: cyber-extortion, in which hackers will try to extort a fee while holding a company's data hostage. In some of the first cases of cyber-extortion, hackers...

WAFS attempts to soothe the problems of running popular apps over WANs; * Wide-area file services.
November 1, 2005... Byline: Steve Taylor, Jim Metzler Server consolidation is a hot topic. Companies of all sizes are looking at the advantages of consolidating servers out of branch offices and placing them into centralized data centers. The advantages...

Juniper teams up with Lucent on enterprise VPN; * Lucent to sell Juniper enterprise VPN and security gear to service providers.(Juniper Networks Inc., Lucent Technologies Inc.)(Brief article)
November 1, 2005... Byline: Tim Greene Juniper's enterprise VPN and other security gear that the company has been amassing over the past several years are now being promoted to service providers through a relationship with Lucent. The arrangement...

What's in Exchange 12? * New features in the upcoming release of Exchange?(Microsoft Exchange Server 2007)
November 1, 2005... Byline: Michael Osterman The new version of Microsoft Exchange, Exchange 12, has a number of interesting and useful features planned. Here are a few of the highlights Microsoft is planning for the next major release of its flagship...

Cisco, F5 battle for application acceleration dollars; * Gartner reports its view of the application acceleration equipment market.(Cisco Systems, F5 Networks)(Brief article)
November 1, 2005... Byline: Denise Dubie The application acceleration market it set to grow, and according to Gartner, companies such as Cisco and F5 Networks will lead the way. A recent report released by Gartner shows that revenue for application...

Peering into the crystal ball; * What will the workplace of the future look like?(Brief article)
November 1, 2005... Byline: Amy Schurr What will the workplace of the future look like? The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) has some ideas and identifies four possible scenarios for the year 2015 in a recent report. "It's largely...

A decade of LANs; * LAN technology and industry developments over the past 10 years.
November 1, 2005... Byline: Jeff Caruso With Network World celebrating 10 years on the Web, today I'm taking the opportunity to take a look back at how far LANs have come in that time. NetworkWorld.com (which spent the majority of its 10 years as...

An end and a beginning... * Good-bye Wireless Computing Devices newsletter, hello Cool Tools Alert newsletter.
November 1, 2005... Byline: Keith Shaw In July 2000, we started the Mobile Computing e-mail newsletter with a simple goal - to give readers some news, mini-reviews and opinions on where the market was headed. Back then, the focus was on palmtop devices...

VMware launches virtual machine player; * VMware Player lets users deploy VMware on any Windows or Linux PC.(Brief article)
November 1, 2005... Byline: Deni Connor Virtualization is again at the top of the charts. VMware, an EMC company, last week made it easy for users to deploy its software on any Windows or Linux PC. XENsource, the open-source virtualization company, is...

Synchronizing computers, Part 1: Laplink; * How Laplink can help synchronize files on your computers.(Laplink software's launches remote access software 'LapLink Gold 12.0')
November 1, 2005... Byline: M. E. Kabay Anyone who has more than one computer may have to synchronize their files to make them the same on both or all computers. For example, I have a tower system in my home office, a tower in my university office and a...

Wasabi Systems is hot for NetWare's iSCSI initiator; * Wasabi Storage Builder for IP-SAN supports NetWare.(Storage Networking World)(Wasabi Systems Inc. launches Storage Builder 1.6)
November 1, 2005... Byline: Dave Kearns Last week another third-party vendor demonstrated that it was still supporting NetWare - that's always good news! At last week's Storage Networking World meeting in Orlando, Wasabi Systems launched Version 1.6 of...

What occurred on and off the show floor at Storage Networking World; * Mike reports from Storage Networking World.
November 1, 2005... Byline: Mike Karp I spent most of last week at Storage Networking World in Orlando. Mickey didn't bother us, Hurricane Wilma did (but only minimally, and without help from Barney and Fred), and very little that was exciting or even...

Citrix pushes VoIP apps with new software.(Citrix Systems Inc., Citrix Application Gateway 6.0)(Brief article)
November 1, 2005... Byline: Phil Hochmuth Citrix Systems this week introduced software that allows end users to make phone calls on an IP phone from an interface on a PC. The software, Citrix Application Gateway 6.0, now includes a Smart Agent client...

Vulnerable security algorithms raise concerns.(National Institute of Standards and Technology's Cryptographic Hash Workshop )(Discussion)
November 1, 2005... Byline: Cara Garretson GAITHERSBURG, MD -- Industry experts agree that the future of two widely used security algorithms is fated, but with no clear alternatives in sight products that rely on them may have to remain "good enough" for...

ADIC, Sun roll out tape automation.(Advanced Digital Information Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc.)(Brief article)
November 1, 2005... Byline: Deni Connor ADIC and Sun both announced separate tape automation products Tuesday. ADIC launched the Scalar i500, a mid-range tape library that scales to 18 Limited-Tape Open drives and 404 tapes for a total capacity of...

Start-up brings Opteron to the midrange market.(Fabric7 Systems Inc. plans to launch server)
November 1, 2005... Byline: Jennifer Mears Start-up Fabric7 says it plans to help business customers cut costs and simplify their infrastructure in the midrange server market by introducing a new breed of server built on AMD's Opteron processor. The...

ClickForensics tackles click fraud; * Fighting click fraud.(with Rating Engine )
November 2, 2005... Byline: Mark Gibbs It is estimated that online search in 2005 will generate more than $4 billion through the big search engines such as Google and Yahoo. Great economic news - but hold hard - it is also estimated that as much as 35% of...

Mailbag: Readers vent their offshore outsourcing frustrations; * Offshore outsourcing: Well trained vs. poorly trained.
November 2, 2005... Byline: Dan Twing I received many comments following the column "Could frustrated consumers reverse the offshore call center trend?" In fact, I received more e-mail on this topic than any other. I always appreciate the feedback....

How much does your company value your education? * What do CXOs think of your on-going education?(Chief Executive Officers)
November 2, 2005... Byline: Linda Leung You know how valuable learning is to your personal growth, but how much does your employer benefit from your on-going education? According to a recent study of senior execs' perception of learning, bosses agree that...

Cisco in space; * Router in orbit puts more wide into WAN.(Cisco Systems Inc. introduced Low Earth Orbit router)
November 2, 2005... Byline: Phil Hochmuth If you are a router company with as much as 80% market share and a $3.2 billion R&D budget to play with, why not bolt a router to a rocket and shoot it into orbit? This is what a group of engineers at Cisco...

Qwest posts 3Q loss.(Qwest Communications International Inc.)(Brief article)
November 2, 2005... Byline: Jim Duffy Qwest this week posted a third quarter loss of $144 million on revenue of $3.5 billion. The loss narrowed from a year ago deficit of $569 million. Revenue was up slightly from $3.45 billion in the third quarter ...

Users eye Vo-Fi, WLAN switches; * Vo-Fi usage, centralized WLAN management to grow.
November 2, 2005... Byline: Joanie Wexler We seldom see much publicly available end-user research on deployment and application trends these days. Infonetics Research, however, recently conducted a survey about enterprise plans for using wireless LANs...

New Boundary adds security policy management to Prism patch management suite; * New Boundary releases Policy Commander.
November 2, 2005... Byline: Dave Kearns A year or so ago I told you about New Boundary Technologies, its Prism patch management product and the patch management book that it sponsored (see "A patch management guide"). Prism has grown considerably over the...

Which is the real identity, Clark Kent or Superman? * What is identity and what constitutes an identity?
November 2, 2005... Byline: Dave Kearns In the introduction to the television show in the 1950s, the line "disguised as Clark Kent, mild mannered reporter" is used to describe Superman. But isn't it Clark Kent who has all the attributes of identity, all...

The application delivery market gets a boost; * Altiris and Citrix enter the application delivery game.(Altiris Inc. introduced Software Virtualization Solution)(Citrix Systems Inc. introduced Project Tarpon)
November 2, 2005... Byline: Scott Crawford, Julie Craig How would you react if you discovered that "DLL Hell" had become a thing of the past? It's not just a theoretical question, because the desktop application virtualization market, first devised by...

Open source start-ups make their pitch - in public.
November 2, 2005... Three open source start-up executives Tuesday showed their daring by making pitches to potential customers. What made them daring is that they did it in front of dozens of attendees at the Open Source Business Conference in Newton, Mass....

Tales from the front: Migrating from frame relay to IP; * One company shares its experience, advice.
November 2, 2005... Byline: Carolyn Duffy Marsan Editor's Note: On Nov. 9, the ISP News Report newsletter will change its name to Service Provider News Report. In the newsletter each week, Carolyn Duffy Marsan will continue to bring you news, views and...

Database vendor bolsters open source-based offering.(EnterpriseDB developing PostgreSQL R2)
November 2, 2005... Less than three months after making the initial version of its open source-based database software generally available, EnterpriseDB has introduced Release 2. The software, which is built on the PostgreSQL open source database, boasts...

Linux on cell phones moves up the stack; * Watch out for LiPS.(Linux Phone Standardization Forum )(Brief article)
November 2, 2005... Byline: Phil Hochmuth Those who follow the development of Linux as an operating system for running mobile phones, voice-enabled PDAs and other communications gadgets should keep an eye on LiPS. The Linux Phone Standardization Forum...

Mailbag: Fixed, mobile systems live together in harmony; * Readers reply to fixed vs. mobile debate.(Letter to the editor)
November 2, 2005... Byline: Steve Taylor, Larry Hettick Last week, we published a mock debate on the virtues of fixed vs. mobile solutions. Today, we'd like to share a few reader replies to our discussion. First, we'll hear from David J. Green,...

Cisco warns holes in IOS, WLAN and IPS gear.(wireless local area networks)(intrusion prevention software)
November 3, 2005... Byline: Phil Hochmuth Cisco this week issued three separate security advisories, warning customers of potential vulnerabilities in IOS-based products and WLAN gear. The most critical IOS hole, tied to exploits revealed during a...

I know what you did last week; * Who was watching you at Storage Networking World?
November 3, 2005... Byline: Mike Karp Last week, Storage Networking World (SNW). Tomorrow the world? There are some questions that ought never be asked, either because the answer should be intuitively obvious to all, or because in some other way...

Tips for creating a solid e-mail retention and deletion strategy; * Policies are increasingly critical as best practice for messaging management.
November 3, 2005... Byline: Michael Osterman A survey we conducted on messaging archiving earlier this year found that a significant percentage of organizations have neither an e-mail nor an instant messaging retention policy in place. However, such a...

Prosoft updates NetWare support for Macs; * Prosoft client for NetWare supports Mac OSX 10.2, Panther and Tiger.(NetWare Client for Mac OS X IP Edition)
November 3, 2005... Byline: Dave Kearns Got Macs? Apple Macintosh computers often seem to be the forgotten stepchildren in an enterprise network. Sometimes they're forgotten because they just aren't attached to the network, running stand-alone with their...

Branch offices drive acceleration investments; * Organizations willing to spend to improve app performance to branch offices.(Silver Peak Systems survey of IT professionals )
November 3, 2005... Byline: Denise Dubie A recent survey of about 350 IT professionals sponsored by Silver Peak Systems shows that enterprise companies are willing to invest money in technology to improve and ensure application performance to branch...

Disgruntled users and the centralized data center; * Why CIFS can make some end users unhappy.(Common Internet File System)
November 3, 2005... Byline: Steve Taylor, Jim Metzler Last time, we discussed why so many companies either already have, or are currently looking at, the idea of consolidating servers out of branch offices and into centralized data centers. We also...

Emulex converges server, storage with HBA; * Emulex announces its LightPulse Virtual HBA Technology.(host bus adapter)
November 3, 2005... Byline: Deni Connor So when do server and storage technologies converge - when EMC acquired server virtualization vendor VMware or last week when Emulex announced a new host bus adapter technology that allows adapters placed in...

Cisco releases three updates; * Patches from Cisco, Gentoo, Debian, others * Beware Mitglieder.FK, a new Trojan that seems to spreading quickly around Spain and the U.S.* Vulnerable security algorithms raise concerns.(Apple Computer Inc. fixing flaws in Mac OS X)
November 3, 2005... Byline: Jason Meserve Today's bug patches and security alerts: Cisco releases three updates: IOS heap-based overflow vulnerability in system timers According to the Cisco advisory, "The Cisco Internetwork Operating System...

LAN vendors improve their positions; * The LAN business is improving.(Enterasys Networks Inc., Extreme Networks Inc. and Foundry Networks Inc.'s sales)(local area networks)(Brief article)
November 3, 2005... Byline: Jeff Caruso From time to time I like to check in on how LAN switch companies are doing financially, and it just so happens that Enterasys Networks, Extreme Networks and Foundry Networks have all recently released earnings. ...

Industrial espionage, Part 7: More cases; * More cases of industrial espionage.
November 3, 2005... Byline: M. E. Kabay In the previous article of this series, which is based on the annual reports of the National Counterintelligence Center (later called the Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive), I began a review of...

F5 mixes SSL VPN with load balancing; * F5 integrates its SSL VPN gear with its load balancing, traffic mgmt. hardware.(F5 Networks Inc., secure socket layer virtual private networks)(Brief article)
November 3, 2005... Byline: Tim Greene F5 is integrating its SSL VPN gear with its load-balancing, traffic management hardware to turn the SSL device into a central policy and access enforcement point. With a new release of software for the equipment,...

Barracuda targets anti-spam appliance at big enterprises.(introduced Spam Firewall 900)(Brief article)
November 3, 2005... Byline: Cara Garretson Barracuda earlier this week released a version of its Spam Firewall e-mail security appliance for very large enterprises. Dubbed the Spam Firewall 900, this souped-up version of the company's gateway appliance...

Los Angeles division of FBI makes botnet-related arrest.(Federal Bureau of Investigation, Jeanson James Ancheta)(Brief article)
November 4, 2005... Byline: Ellen Messmer The Los Angeles division of the FBI Thursday arrested a 20-year-old man on charges that he illegally made thousands of dollars by setting up a botnet of compromised computers to sell them for hacking and spam...

Wyse sets fresh course for thin clients.(Wyse Technology Inc.)
November 7, 2005... Byline: John Cox Wyse Technology last week announced new versions of its thin-client operating system and device-management software, plus an application that the company says can stream software components to any thin client on...

Insurance comes to open source; Three organizations join to unveil first policy to protect sellers and users of open source-based products.
November 7, 2005... Three organizations are teaming up to offer what they say is the first insurance policy for open source compliance to provide coverage for companies worldwide that sell products incorporating open source software or use it on their...

Keeping the Exchange server running.
November 7, 2005... Byline: Ron Nutter I recently took over running the Exchange server for my company. I have had experience running Exchange 5.5 but this is 2000 and things are a little different from what I am used to. What can you suggest about...

Security plagues retailers.
November 7, 2005... Byline: Ann Bednarz CHICAGO - Within 24 hours of telling the public about a data leak earlier this year, ChoicePoint lost Wall Street's confidence and gained unwanted attention from would-be hackers and thieves. ChoicePoint's...

In brief: ADIC, Sun announce tape automation products.(Advanced Digital Information Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc)(Brief article)
November 7, 2005... ADIC and Sun last week separately announced tape automation products. ADIC launched the Scalar i500, a midrange tape library that scales to 18 limited-tape open drives and 404 tapes for a total capacity of more than 323T bytes. The i500 has...

New satellite era: portable broadband.(Brief article)
November 7, 2005... One of the topics creating a buzz at the recent SatCon satellite conference in New York was the imminent launch of an Inmarsat satellite that will deliver broadband connections to magazine-sized portable transceivers. The 6-ton...

NetIQ best at moving Microsoft group policy along.
November 7, 2005... For better or worse, Microsoft's Active Directory frequently serves as a central repository for security policy information for organizations that widely deploy Windows 2000 and 2003 as a core server operating system. Yet Microsoft's...

Who will win the convergence game? * Reader response to fixed vs. mobile networks debate.
November 7, 2005... Byline: Steve Taylor, Larry Hettick Last month, we wrote a newsletter about a not-so-hypothetical debate on the virtues of fixed vs. mobile networks and enterprise solutions. We received quite a bit of mail in response to that...

Vendors target vertical markets; Firms cater to customers through wares tailored for specific audiences.
November 7, 2005... Byline: Phil Hochmuth While most IT vendors do not tailor-make servers, switches, security and storage gear for specific businesses, some purveyors of high-tech wares are starting to focus more closely on specific vertical customer...

Novell to lay off 10% in restructuring.(Brief article)
November 7, 2005... Byline: Stephen Lawson and IDG News Service Novell will eliminate about 600 jobs, or more than 10% of its workforce, as part of a restructuring in which the company will refocus on Linux and open source opportunities and the identity...

News briefs: Microsoft flags flawed IE patches.(Microsoft Internet Explorer)
November 7, 2005... * Two patches released by Microsoft earlier this year for its Internet Explorer browser may cause some Web sites to improperly load. The bulletins, MS05-038 and MS05-052, removed "unsafe functionality" and change how the browser handles...

Security vendors address spyware.
November 7, 2005... Byline: Tim Greene Check Point, Blue Coat Systems and start-up GraniteEdge Security are this week introducing products that address differing network threats ranging from spyware to zero-day attacks. Check Point Software is adding...

Security algorithms raise concerns.
November 7, 2005... Byline: Cara Garretson GAITHERSBURG, Md. - Industry experts agree that the future of two widely used security algorithms is fated, but with no clear alternatives in sight, products that rely on them may have to remain "good enough" for...

Microsoft's 'Live' plan short on business apps.
November 7, 2005... Byline: John Fontana Microsoft jumped into the software-as-a-service game last week, but conspicuously absent was a strategy to develop corporate-focused services. Microsoft's unveiling of Windows Live and Office Live, which...

Heavenly work sites.
November 7, 2005... Byline: Ann Bednarz Last week Forbes published a series of home-related lists that suggested some of the best places to live depending on readers' agenda. Looking to launch a new company? Burgeoning biotech center Ames, Iowa, might be...

Juniper enhances routers for IP TV.
November 7, 2005... Byline: Jim Duffy Juniper this week is expected to unveil enhancements to its routers designed to enable the devices to better manage bandwidth for video applications. Juniper has added a feature called dynamic bandwidth allocation...

Pooled storage cited in improved management; Early network-attached storage virtualization adopters also find disaster recovery, cost benefits.
November 7, 2005... Byline: Deni Connor For Ibis Consulting, network-attached storage had turned into too much of a good thing. With the amount of data on its NAS devices hitting 200T bytes, accessing files and managing the environment had become...

Goof fix, Outlook nicknames, more VoIP.(Microsoft Outlook installation)
November 7, 2005... Byline: Mark Gibbs Goof Department: Last week we wrote about the Linksys CIT200 wireless VoIP phone, and although we got it right in the introduction, we later wrote: "The CIT200 works only with Vonage." The device, of course, works...

Commenting on DMCA: A futile exercise?(Digital Millennium Copyright Act)
November 7, 2005... Byline: Scott Bradner It's been just over seven years since President Clinton signed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act into law. As was clear from the beginning, the DMCA is a total capitulation to those who think that copyright is...

Botnets getting nastier.(for preventing computer crimes)
November 7, 2005... Byline: Ellen Messmer Software robots - bots - that invade computers so an attacker can covertly control them have existed for at least two decades. Today, however, their proliferation, sophistication and criminal use are making them a...

It's not about free speech.
November 7, 2005... Byline: Paul McNamara Know this much about the so-called Online Freedom of Speech Act, which almost snuck through the U.S. House of Representatives last week: It has virtually nothing to do with freedom of speech. As is almost...

Stacked LAN switches: Measuring performance.
November 7, 2005... Byline: Kevin Tolly As we close in on 2006, LAN switching has been a part of enterprise networks for years. Typically, as technology matures the focus moves away from "speeds and feeds" to other areas. Although many switches boast...

Beware cybersquatters; One reader learns a hard lesson and sends a warning.
November 7, 2005... Byline: James E. Gaskin We all know about Internet fraud and how to avoid obvious scams and how to check for phishing e-mails. But do you know how to protect yourself against fraud that actually steals your Internet presence by taking...

In brief: SPI Dynamics announces vulnerability-assessment software.(Continuent enhancing clustering software)(ObjectWeb Consortium promoting business intelligence software)(Brief article)
November 7, 2005... * SPI Dynamics has announced a software addition to its vulnerability-assessment products that will let customers check Web applications and services for conformance to a variety of legal and regulatory requirements, including the...

Is Sony's CD DRM malware?
November 7, 2005... Byline: Mark Gibbs One of the biggest challenges the computer industry faces is getting Joe and Josephine Enduser interested in the security, reliability and manageability of their machines. It seems no amount of education will...

Cisco exec talks mobile.(Cisco Systems Inc., Charles Giancarlo)
November 7, 2005... Byline: Phil Hochmuth With its recent IP Interoperability Communication System launch, Cisco introduced IP integration for two-way radio, push-to-talk cellular and VoIP technologies. The bridging of first-responder communication...

An unseemly marriage; Porn sites and spyware go hand in hand on the Web.
November 7, 2005... Byline: Ann Bednarz Spyware used to worm its way into PCs when users tried to download a free utility, such as a screen saver, and wound up with an unexpected bonus after agreeing to the distributor's license agreement. Today most...

HP Itanium blade upstages processor.(Hewlett-Packard Co. using Itanium from Intel Corp.)
November 7, 2005... Byline: Jennifer Mears Despite a setback in Intel's processor road map that delays the introduction of its dual-core Itanium processor and rejiggers its plans for Xeon, systems vendors continue to update their Intel-based offerings....

Cisco discloses three security issues.
November 7, 2005... Byline: Phil Hochmuth Cisco last week issued three security advisories warning of potential vulnerabilities in some IOS-based products and wireless LAN gear. The most critical IOS hole, tied to exploits revealed during a...

IT asset management gets fancy; Sun, others keep inventory of physical assets using wireless tags.(Sun Microsystems Inc.)
November 7, 2005... Byline: Ann Bednarz Instead of spending $2 million each year to physically inventory the contents of its Newark, Calif., testing lab, Sun spent about $200,000 to implement a system that uses wireless-sensor technology to find gear. ...

CMDB adoption: What some numbers tell us and why; * Poll of CMDB adoption.(configuration management database)
November 7, 2005... Byline: Dennis Drogseth As most of you know, EMA has been actively working to research and develop best practices around the planning and deployment of the IT Infrastructure Library's Configuration Management Database. ITIL's CMDB has...

Wi-Fi test: How we did it.
November 7, 2005... We used AirMagnet Spectrum Analyzer on an HP ZV5000 (AMD64@2.4GHz, 1G-byte dynamic RAM) and a Toshiba Satellite M35XS-S111 (AMD's Celeron 1.8GHz with 256M bytes) both running Windows XP Professional SP2, 32-bit edition. We tested AMSA with...

Wireless firms draw investments.
November 7, 2005... Byline: Cara Garretson Private companies with wireless -related products, particularly broadband wireless, garnered significant interest from venture capitalists during the third quarter, with the two largest deals going to such...

Application cleanup.
November 7, 2005... Byline: Sandra Gittlen Have you ever taken the time to look at your PC application lineup? Trust me, you'll be amazed at what has found its way onto your machine. Last month as I was dealing with my computer's meltdown, I pulled...

Tracking Windows print jobs.(Brief article)
November 7, 2005... Byline: Steve Blass Is there a way to track and audit Windows printing jobs so we can tell who printed what document and when? Yes, if your workstations all print through server-hosted shared printers, you can turn on Windows auditing...

Special Operations inventories desktops.
November 7, 2005... Byline: John Fontana Special Operations Software this week plans to unveil an extension to Microsoft's Active Directory's management features that will let users take inventory of everything installed and configured on a desktop. ...

Server processor battles heat up.(comparing Intel Corp.'s x86 and Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s Opteron processor)
November 7, 2005... Byline: Jennifer Mears Intel continues to dominate the x86 processor market, but rival Advanced Micro Devices is making inroads as users turn to its Opteron processor for souped-up performance on low-end servers. A key reason for...

ScanSafe to launch in US; aims to block 'Net-borne threats.
November 7, 2005... Byline: Cara Garretson A U.K. company this week plans to launch its Web security service in the United States, aiming to protect companies from Internet-borne threats much the way e-mail security services block malicious messages. ...

Oracle preps free database.(Oracle Database 10g Express Edition)(Brief article)
November 7, 2005... Byline: James Niccolai Oracle plans to release a free version of its database by the end of the year in a move to compete more effectively at the low end of the market. Oracle released a beta version, called Oracle Database 10g...

The international headaches of regulatory compliance; * What you must do in the U.S. but can't do in France.
November 7, 2005... Byline: Dave Kearns If you think that you're having trouble implementing the various parts of the regulatory compliance puzzle, Burton Group Senior Vice President Dan Blum reports in his blog that at the recent RSA Security European...

Banking on two-step authentication.(Column)
November 7, 2005... Byline: Linda Musthaler I do my banking and money management with a U.S.-based global financial planning company. Like most such companies, this one is pushing its customers toward the Web for conducting transactions. Self-service, in...