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Beware the turf wars when merging comms
News And with the lack of UC standards and vendors who can provide end-to-end systems, it's the largest businesses that are also most likely to have the in-house expertise necessary to integrate disparate... [25 Nov 2009]
How the cloud is swallowing your comms
News According to a report by analysts In-Stat, tech vendors are now working closely with providers of hosted VoIP services, leading to several flavours of unified communications now emerging from the cloud. [24 Nov 2009]
Virtualisation: Real-life tales of how to get it right
Comment Although that estimate is set to grow to some 50 per cent of workloads by 2012, it still paints a picture of the reality of virtualisation being well behind the 'must-have' technology image portrayed by... [20 Nov 2009]
Unified comms: What it needs to succeed
Comment In addition, a confusing array of technologies, approaches and vendors, as well as a current lack of standards, leads many to conclude it's better to wait until the market settles down before placing... [17 Nov 2009]
IT Infrastructure Management: How to Tame the Beast
White Paper IT infrastructures are a growing collection of disparate and converging products from various vendors, each with their own management systems, upgrade cycles and so forth. Deploying, configuring and... [13 Nov 2009]
Best Practices: Guidelines to Consider in the Evaluation of Potentially Unwanted Technologies
White Paper While the main audience for this paper is anti-spyware vendors, ASC believes that it will also aid publishers of potentially unwanted technologies to make their products less harmful and more desirable... [13 Nov 2009]
Firewall Operations Management
White Paper Multiple sites and teams, different hardware and software vendors - all of these factors make it extremely difficult to ensure security in a consistent, efficient way. Managing network security for a... [13 Nov 2009]
Why NIST Certification Is Important to Your Company
White Paper The National Institute of Standards and Technology defines the standard for strong encryption, and provides a rigorous testing process for software vendors. This paper discusses why this is important to Enterprise security. [13 Nov 2009]
When Reputation Is Not Enough: Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall Predictive Sender Profiling
White Paper When image spam first began its assault on email users in early 2006, Barracuda Networks was one of the first anti-spam vendors to provide Optical Character Recognition (OCR) capabilities to defend against this threat. [13 Nov 2009]
Microsoft NAP and Network Access Control: NAC Picks Up Where NAP Leaves Off
White Paper While Microsoft NAP is often perceived to be a solution with which Network Access Control (NAC) vendors will have to do battle, that's actually not the case at all. Microsoft NAP offers more powerful features in several... [13 Nov 2009]
Improving the Efficiency and Effectiveness of an Identity and Access Management Framework
White Paper The objective of this paper is to review identity and access management challenges, the different solutions/products offered by vendors in order to address them and describe how Quest Software's solutions fit into this... [13 Nov 2009]
New Standard Lays the Foundation for Coordinated, Multi-Vendor Security
White Paper Later this year, leading vendors will begin delivering products that support a new security standard that opens the door to powerful, multi-vendor defense-in-depth solutions. From Ethernet to HTML, standardization of... [12 Nov 2009]
The Game of the Name Malware Naming, Shape Shifters and Sympathetic Magic
White Paper Even back then, virus naming wasn't very consistent between vendors, but at least virus encyclopaedias and third-party resources like vgrep made it generally straightforward to map one vendor's name for... [12 Nov 2009]
Dangerous Collaboration Practices in a Challenging Economy: 5 Roles IT Must Perform to Minimize Risk
White Paper Several vendors offer online work spaces to meet the demand for safe, efficient document sharing. The changing economy presents daunting challenges in information security. Companies are pressed to collaborate with more... [12 Nov 2009]
Security "Point" Solutions Are Not a 4 Letter Word: Why Purpose-Built Solutions for Patch and Configuration Management Continue to Be a Good Thing
White Paper Large vendors with a healthy appetite for acquisition would have buyers of security software believe that this consolidation is a good thing; that bigger is better, that built-in is tops, and that individual... [12 Nov 2009]
