June 22, 2006 -- Wireless IDS/IPS
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Feature: Wireless IDS/IPS By Frank Bulk Wireless IDS/IPS overlays can insulate your WLAN from a host of problems while providing compliance reporting, site planning, location and access control. But can you justify the expense? We investigate.

Review: Wireless IDS/IPS Systems By Frank Bulk Wireless IDS/IPS systems provide unparalleled protection for your WLAN. We tested four offerings; see which took our Editor's Choice.

Feature: Service Delivery Modeling Strategies By Bruce Boardman It's essential to align IT with your organization's business goals, but the number and approaches can be overwhelming. We asked 11 service-management vendors nine critical questions to sort through the crazy quilt of offerings. Here's how to get the biggest bang for your buck.

Review: E-Mail Outsourcing Services By Michael J. DeMaria Outsourcing your e-mail can streamline IT operations and cut costs. We sent an RFI to hosted e-mail providers on behalf of our fictional engineering services firm. The highest marks went to the provider with the most features and 99.99 percent uptime.

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Centerfold: WGI Engineers Application Integration Strategy with SOA By Kelly Jackson Higgins A service-oriented architecture that lets Washington Group International unite common practices across its wide range of businesses is the perfect fit for this global engineering, construction and management services firm. Find out what WGI has learned from its integration project.

Crash Course: Open-Source Security Tools a Double-Edged Sword By Jeff Ballard Open-source tools are an economical way to test the security of your network, but they're readily available to both users and attackers alike. Our guide will help ensure you don't get burnt when would-be intruders try turning them on you.

Layer 7 Technologies' SecureSpan Gateway 3.5 By Lori MacVittie Updates to SecureSpan Gateway include Tarari's RAX-J acceleration hardware and strict adherence to SOA security standards.

Avaya's 9600 Series One-X IP Phones By Sean Doherty Avaya's new wide-band audio IP phones offer an enhanced user experience with improved quality and simple, context-sensitive menus.

Determina's VPS 4.0 By Sean Doherty Determina's Vulnerability Protection Suite 4.0 protects your network without having to download patches or virus updates.

Last Mile: Outsource This! By Andrew Conry-Murray and Tom LaSusa This edition ponders the Top 11 worst excuses given for outsourcing IT. Plus, when your home phones you, and filling up your laptop's 'tank.'

Don't Get Squashed by Mashups By Lori MacVittie A new Web phenomenon, Enterprise Mashup Services (EMS) pull data from enterprise search engines, Web services and other storehouses, mix 'n' match it and serve up the results to users. It sounds cool, but haven't we heard of this before?

The Standards Balancing Act By Greg Shipley Too often, tight protocol standards are not considered significant in information security. But a recent bug in a popular open-source intrusion-detection system highlights the importance of adherence to industry standards.

A SMARTS Decision By Bruce Boardman EMC's recent purchase of nLayers is a good fit for its SMARTS enterprise-management system. And EMC isn't the only one buying its way into application mapping.

Google Spreadsheet: Good for Fun, Bad for Work By David Greenfield Web apps like Google's online spreadsheet are fine as auxiliary tools for tasks that aren't critical to our jobs.

BuzzBites: Inside Sales; Genetic Start-ups By Andrew Conry-Murray Ever 'borrowed' a box of paperclips or pens from the company? Who hasn't. But would you steal those office supplies and then use your office network to build a store to sell them?

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