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Review: Instant Messaging Software By Michael J. DeMaria We tested seven IM products that are installed locally to keep users' passwords safe on your network. They also provide chat rooms, conferencing, screen sharing, video, broadcasting and other collaboration capabilities. |
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Feature: Vulnerability Management By Greg Shipley The heart of any security effort is to become less vulnerable. As with many information-security challenges, the solution lies partly with technology, partly with tactics and partly with strategy. |
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Review: Vulnerability-Assessment Tools By Kevin Novak Network-based vulnerability-assessment scanners play a critical role in the risk identification process by enabling their operators to spot security deficiencies before the bad guys do. |
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Workshop: Long-Term Data Storage By Steven J. Schuchart Jr We've bid a not-so-fond farewell to microfiche, but storing data today presents a new set of challenges. Here are our tips on how to write and enforce a long-term storage policy with legal and company goals in mind. |
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Centerfold: Authentication Gets into Stanford University By Kelly Jackson Higgins Stanford University won't stand for security holes in its network, so it recently added an extra authentication layer to its wireless LAN. |
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Interactive Buyer's Guide: Tape Autoloaders As enterprise data increases, storage requirements increase. Fortunately, tape autoloaders are available to meet virtually any demand. We'll help you select the best solution with our cross-feature comparative database. |
| Sneak Previews |
| Network Associates' McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 3.0 By Christopher T. Beers Here's music to the ears of network admins: ePolicy Orchestrator 3.0 manages security products from multiple vendors, enforces security policies and produces detailed reports from a central console. |
| Fluke's OptiView WAN Analyzer By Lee Badman To round out the picture of real-time network diagnostics, Fluke Networks is offering customer-friendly WAN analysis in the form of its new OptiView WAN Analyzer product line. |
| Redline Networks' T|X 2650 Web Acceleration Device By Lori MacVittie The T|X 2650 Web I/O Accelerator provides compression, load-balancing and reverse-proxy functionality to breathe new life into legacy hardware, saving you the cost of purchasing newer, expensive machines. |
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| Quick Takes We look at eHelp Corp.'s RoboHelp X4; Eset Software's NOD32 2.0; Netsec's Specter 7.0; and Eiffel Software's EnVision 1.1. |
| Career Coach Edited By Lorna Garey This Edition: Do online college degrees carry the same weight as traditional ones? Also, getting management to agree on hiring an IT trainer. |
| Letters "No customer should trust any 'utility' with anything beyond the most trivial in-house tasks." --Ronald H. Tatum |
| Last Mile Edited by Bradley F. Shimmin and David Joachim This edition: Top 11 Signs your Summer Intern is insane; The BOFH; Our Favorite 404 Page. |
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| Down to Business: Showers Still Likely By Robert Preston Don't count on any single economic indicator, vendor prognostication, trend or stat to point the way to dry land. |
| Legal Eagle: Patent Impending By Sean Doherty How do the standards bodies get rid of the thorn known as hiding relevant patent information during the standardization process? |
| BuzzCut: Smart WLAN Cells By Dave Molta Propagate, a start-up based in Acton, MA, has developed software that allows for the implementation of what is called self-organizing wireless LANs. |
| BuzzCut: FUDBusters By Lori MacVittie We speculate on the impact of Microsoft's unofficial announcement that it will terminate Internet Explorer as a standalone application. |
| BuzzCut: Microsoft Sweetens Sour Licensing Scheme By Sean Doherty Engineers may still believe that technology sells products, but businessmen and lawyers will tell you otherwise. You need to put the technology in a product, license it and couple it with a service. |
| BuzzCut: Desktop Images Gain Stability By Bruce Boardman Intel is making it easier to maintain and deploy desktop images. |
| BuzzCut: Warning: Linux Desktops Ahead By Don MacVittie With Ximian's introduction of Ximian Desktop 2 (XD2), get ready for the heterogeneous network--again. |
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