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Process Anti-Patterns: How to Avoid the Common Traps of Business Process Modeling, Part 2

whitepaper Part 1 discussed anti-patterns that occur when one needs to describe branching and iterative behavior in a business process model. This paper is the second in a series describing typical modeling errors extracted from hundreds of actual process...

Tags: knowledge and data management

[11 May 2008]

Avfs: An On-Access Anti-Virus File System

whitepaper A true on-access anti-virus file system is developed called as Avfs that incrementally scans les and prevents infected data from being committed to disk. Viruses and other malicious programs are an ever-increasing threat to current computer systems.

Tags: firewalls

[11 May 2008]

IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal - Process Anti-Patterns: How to Avoid the Common Traps of Business Process Modeling, Part 1

whitepaper These anti-patterns cover six common process modeling scenarios. The paper discusses anti-patterns that occur when one needs to describe branching and iterative behavior in a business process model. The paper introduces an example illustrating...

Tags: business management

[11 May 2008]

Process Adoption Anti-Patterns: How - Not - to Make a Process Work for You

whitepaper Patterns are part of the software professional's toolbox today. Specifically, one learns about design patterns - ways of designing the programs to make them more robust, flexible, and correct. Erich Gamma laid the foundation for software design...

Tags: software engineering

[11 May 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 09.05.08

Round-Up In a statement, anti-fraud minister James Plaskitt said: "This positive and encouraging news from the pilots shows that this technology is helping to combat benefit fraud. Benefit fraudsters beware. If you're trying to pull a swift one on the...

Tags: yahoo, microsoft, governement

[09 May 2008]

USA.NET Microsoft Exchange Hosting: The Business Case

whitepaper Typically this solution comprises Microsoft Exchange 2007, SharePoint Services 3.0, mobile messaging, anti-spam / anti-virus, and other enhanced services. Today's businesses, large or small, need the productivity gains that come with a feature rich...

Tags: microsoft exchange, mail, hosted, exchange

[08 May 2008]

The Brampton Factor: Licensed to bill

Comment Software piracy may well be a very bad thing. But does it justify inflicting misery on legitimate software buyers, asks Martin Brampton. A phrase often crops up in connection with housing - "peacefully enjoy".

Tags: licensing, piracy, software

[07 May 2008]

Lie detectors to hunt out benefit cheats

News In a statement, anti-fraud minister James Plaskitt said: "This positive and encouraging news from the pilots shows that this technology is helping to combat benefit fraud. A lie detector test that has slashed benefit fraud by more than £330,000 is...

Tags: dwp, benefits, lie detector

[07 May 2008]

PCI and Visa CISP Compliance: What These Standards Mean to the Independent Grocer and Regional Chain - And How Storenext Helps You Meet Them

whitepaper The PCI Data Security Standards ("DSS") describe how retailers must keep card data and networks (with payments data) secure, how they must maintain a clear security policy, protect cardholder data, implement anti-virus and other security systems...

Tags: security standards

[06 May 2008]

Quocirca's Straight Talking: Tighten content security

Comment The problem has been contained through the widespread deployment of anti-spam products and services in the highly competitive market of the past decade. The choice can seem mind-boggling if you take all these vendors and review them alongside other...

Tags: filtering, spam, content

[02 May 2008]

Photos: The Birth of Hi-Tech Britain

Photo The Bristol Bloodhound anti-aircraft missile was one of the world's most advanced during its use from 1958 to 1964. Historian professor Peter Hennessy said the exhibition of post-war tech embodied public opinion of technology at the time, torn...

Tags: tech, science, history

[01 May 2008]

Google: Yahoo! tie-up not anti-competitive

News Google believes such a partnership would not be anti-competitive because it would be an arrangement in which Yahoo! Google believes regulators would not bar a potential business deal with Yahoo! because it would be "non-exclusive" and falls short...

Tags: microsoft, google, yahoo

[29 Apr 2008]

The Impact of Network Topology on the Spread of Anti-Virus Countermeasures

whitepaper Are there properties of networks that affect the spread of anti-virus countermeasures? This paper investigates this problem by simulating the impact of network topology on the effectiveness of anti-virus countermeasures.

Tags: network security

[24 Apr 2008]

Imposing Order on Program Statements to Assist Anti-Virus Scanners

whitepaper Metamorphic computer viruses thwart current anti-virus technologies that use signatures - a fixed sequence of bytes from a sample of a virus - since two variants of a metamorphic virus may not share the same signature.

Tags: anti-virus

[24 Apr 2008]

Enhancing Desktop and Laptop Security Performance with Disk Defragmentation

whitepaper Using real-world scenarios, this study presents the impact of fragmentation on the performance of security scans from the most popular anti-spyware and anti-virus solutions on the market today. Security is vital, and so is the performance of that...

Tags: anti-virus, anti, diskeeper corporation, corporation

[24 Apr 2008]

Configuring Mail Flow in a Single Exchange Server 2007

whitepaper In this white paper the author explains how to configure a single Exchange Server 2007 to send and receive messages and also how to install the Anti Spam Transport Agents that allow the Exchange Administrator to add anti spam transport agents to...

Tags: application servers

[23 Apr 2008]

Noncommercial Email Lists: Collateral Damage in the Fight Against Spam

whitepaper The large number of anti-spam tools is a tremendous problem for email list owners, who must navigate everything from "block lists" to Bayesian filters" to communicate with willing recipients. The fact that unwanted email often masquerades as wanted...

Tags: cyber security, list, spam, email

[18 Apr 2008]

UK phishing attacks shoot up 200 per cent

News Although 93 per cent of people have antivirus software on their PC, almost one in three people do not have anti-spyware software on their computer. Phishing email attacks on the UK have gone up by 200 per cent this year, the UK payments association...

Tags: cyber crime, e-crime, phishing

[16 Apr 2008]

TechNet Webcast: Technical Drilldown Into ISA Server Appliances (Level 200)

whitepaper The presenter will consider appliance add-ons such as anti-virus, ISA filters, and WebUI management modules, as well as OS Hardening. The attendee of this webcast will learn the benefits an ISA-based appliance offers the IT professional, taking a...

Tags: anti-virus

[12 Apr 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 11.04.08

Round-Up An elaborate stunt dreamed up by anti-ID cards campaigners No2ID and Privacy International is offering a reward for anyone capturing the fingerprints of the Prime Minister or Home Secretary. Wanted: fingerprints of one unkempt, jowly, harassed...

Tags: windows, yahoo, gordon brown, microsoft

[11 Apr 2008]

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