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| June 23, 2005 -- Market Analysis: WLAN Security | |
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Market Analysis: WLAN Security By Dave Molta Polls continue to show that the biggest impediment to enterprise WLAN adoption is security concerns. Face it, you can't make your WLAN bulletproof but you can build a strong defense strategy with the right tools. We examine the state of wireless security--what's new, what's changed and what problems must be addressed. |
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Review: Distributed Wireless Security Monitors By Frank Bulk We performed an exhaustive review of these specialized overlay systems that provide wire-side and wireless rogue-device detection, RF interference and intrusion-detection capabilities as well as user and performance monitoring in the 2.4-GHz and 5-GHz ranges. |
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Centerfold: Nancy's Specialty Foods Cooks Up Dual SAN Implementation By Kelly Jackson Higgins We go inside the iSCSI SAN project to see why the gourmet frozen food maker chose IP over Fibre Channel for its storage area network. |
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Workshop: Get Ready for the RFID Wave By George A. Spohrer Jr., PE Think you're ready for RFID? It's a lot more than slapping tags on your products and pallets. To get the most out of RFID in-house as well as for your suppliers, perform a detailed assessment of your business processes and supply chain. |
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Sneak Preview: Concord Communications' Spectrum Service Manager 7.1
By Bruce Boardman Putting "service" back in network-monitoring service, Spectrum leverages monitored devices, servers and applications to save IT time. |
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Sneak Preview: Juniper Networks' ISG-2000 with IDP By Mike Jones and Greg Shipley Neohapsis Labs puts the ISG through the ringer and finds that although it is well-designed and accurate, some minor problems still need to be worked out. |
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Sneak Preview: Eset Software's NOD32 v. 2.5 By Curtis Franklin Jr. Anti-malware uses heuristics rather than signature updates to protect the network, but does this work as well? We investigate. |
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Sneak Preview: Cendura's Cohesion 3.5 By Sean Doherty See how included and configurable blueprints let you manage configuration for network devices while still remaining in favor with the Feds. |
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Last Mile: Can You Hear Me Now? Not Good! Edited By Tim Wilson and Tom LaSusa This edition looks at the Top 11 worst times or places to have cell phone access, transferring your brain into computers and a 'real' R2-D2! |
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Quick Takes: Performance Management By Patricia Thomas In this edition we look at Hitachi Global Storage Technologies' Ultrastar 15K147, NetScout Systems' nGenius Performance Manager 3.0, FullArmor's IntelliPolicy for Clients 1.5 and Sandstorm Enterprises' LANWatch 7.0. |
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Letters: Colorful Cables By NWC Readers Brian Phillips contends, "The lines between application firewalls, traditional firewalls and other network access control offerings have become so blurred most people cannot distinguish one from the next." |
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Down to Business: IT Professionals: Embrace Change or Perish By Rob Preston Just because engineers and developers in other countries are 'stealing' tech jobs doesn't mean we should give up. But we do have to adjust. |
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Air Time: IT Matters: Today and Tomorrow By Dave Molta Enrollment in computer science programs has plummeted because we live in a culture that views an IT degree as a ticket to nowhere. |
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BuzzCut: StorageTek Products Still Have Solid Future By Don MacVittie Lots of doom-and-gloom predictions about the future of StorageTek have followed its acquisition by Sun Microsystems. Don't believe the hype. |
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BuzzCut: British "Superhacker" to be Extradited By Sean Doherty The U.S. government has accused a U.K. resident of perpetrating the "biggest military computer hack of all time," but it doesn't look so brilliant to us. |
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BuzzCut: Apple Switches to Intel Processors; But PowerPC Boxes Safe for Now By Michael J. DeMaria Apple is finally giving up the PowerPC chip and moving to Intel processors, but there's still plenty of life left in the current hardware. |
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BuzzCut: Impact of WiMAX Standard Adoption May Be Long Ways Away By Dave Molta Several vendors have launched WiMAX products recently, but the real affects won't be felt until products based on IEEE 802.16e begin to become available, probably after 2007. |
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FUDBuster: AT&T Chairman: IP Will Outgrow Long Distance
By Tim Wilson AT&T's David Dorman concedes that IP services are a better growth proposition than conventional analog long distance services. Next he'll be telling us that CDs will someday outsell cassettes! |
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