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Cover Story
Compliance Policy Development By Jonathan Feldman The best way to stay out of the regulatory hot seat and keep the compliance police at bay is to develop a comprehensive set of well-written policies. We examine your options and offer policy workbooks in several core technology areas.
Special Report: 10 Steps to
Mobilization By Frank Bulk
A mobility project can transform your enterprise--if you avoid the complexity and cost pitfalls. We offer a road map to a successful mobile application deployment.
NWC Interview: Mark Russinovich, Microsoft By Andrew Conry-Murray
With his company--Winternals Software--recently acquired by Microsoft, Mark Russinovich has joined the MS Platforms and Services division. He discusses his goals within his new company and what he
hopes to achieve.
Reviews
Data Leak Prevention Tools By Marisa Mack
Data-leak prevention products protect your intellectual property from internal mishandling. We tested three tools with varying approaches. SmoothWall's Corporate Guardian 5 By David Decoster
Corporate Guardian blocks employees from surfing the Internet for personal use, but lets administrators loosen the reins during breaks, lunch and after business hours. RedSeal's SRM By Jeremy Baumgartner
SRM 3000 not only shows threats to your systems, it also tells you how those threats can traverse your network and how much havoc they're likely to wreak. ShoreTel's E911 and Salesforce.com By David Greenfield
A reasonable start for an up-and-comer, but a lack of Web services and smaller size put ShoreTel's telephony apps in a slightly different league than veterans such as Avaya and Siemens.
Tech Tracker
Switched
PCIe: Better Bandwidth? By Steven Hill
NextIO's PCIe-based technology removes switching from the blade to improve processing efficiency, increase bandwidth and offer greater flexibility. An End to Web Services Confusion on the Horizon By Bruce Boardman
Four industry heavyweights are joining forces to develop a standard that merges a number of confusing and overlapping Web services management standards.
Columns
Strategy Session: Bottom-Up
Compliance By Art Wittmann
Although compliance with specific regulations certainly requires a good bit more than simple common sense, keeping data safe usually demands exactly that. Reality IT: Wired or
Wireless? You Decide By Hunter Metatek
My company is setting up a new satellite office in a nearby city. One major decision is whether or not to go fully wireless at this remote location, and you can help us make the right choice.
BuzzCuts
After Hard Lessons,
the VA Encrypts It All By Patrick Mueller
Badly burned in recent months by two of the most extensive personal data breaches in history, the Department of Veterans Affairs aims to protect veteran data by securing a total of 300,000 hosts. Skype Users Most Active During Office Hours, Says Study By Andrew Conry-Murray
The peak time for Skype usage in the United States is around noon CST. Unfortunately, there's no way to tell the difference between business usage and chit-chat. IEEE: No Comments,
Please! By Dave Molta
The IEEE 802.11n task group isn't likely to have a final wireless standard until 2008, in part because the group is obligated to respond to comments on the draft standard--all 10,000 of them. Is There Money to
Be Made in Wikis? By Robert Hertzberg
No longer strictly off-the-cuff Web sites, wikis are being used in thousands of corporations. Now one start-up hopes to turn them into lucrative collaborative tools. BuzzBites:
Hypno-Spam; Rebuilding the Bombe By Andrew Conry-Murray
A new form of spam uses a subliminal message to boost responses. Plus, why are amateur engineers rebuilding a computing machine that hadn't been run in six decades?
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