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Photos: How Dubai's driverless trains get their wi-fi
Photo The Dubai Municipality is in the process of constructing the Middle East's first fully automated, driverless metro system. Once completed the Metro will have 47 stations served by 87 trains, and is eventually projected to carry some 355... [17 Nov 2009]
Law Firm Cuts IT Costs by 90 Percent, Dismisses Server Worries with Online Services
White Paper James C. Nolan Law Office specializes in immigration law. Owner James Nolan uses technology to deliver excellent customer service and achieve paperless efficiencies, but his technology costs were too high, and it was too... [16 Nov 2009]
Section 508: Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (found at 29 U.S.C. 794d)
White Paper Fortinet network security appliances, which include the FortiGate, FortiMail, FortiAnalyzer and FortiManager appliances provide a unified security solution for any organization. Typically, Fortinet appliances are deployed in secured... [13 Nov 2009]
Building Secure Software With Java
White Paper This white paper discusses the applicability and desirability of Java as a programming language for use in secure systems. Java is much more secure than C and C++ because the byte-code verifier prohibits unsafe type... [13 Nov 2009]
Data Security, Governance & Privacy: Protecting the Core of Your Business
White Paper Many companies are now implementing tighter controls to protect sensitive enterprise data such as customer, employee, and corporate financial information. At the same time, internal and external auditors are requiring detailed auditing... [13 Nov 2009]
Ensuring FISMA Compliance: Integrating Forensics and Incident Response as Mandated by NIST SP 800-86
White Paper The Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) of 2002 mandates that federal agencies must establish incident response capabilities (44 U.S.C. §3544 (b)(7)). FISMA requires that federal agencies implement an... [12 Nov 2009]
Benchmarking Microsoft SQL Server Using VMware ESX Server 3.5
White Paper This paper presents the results of a benchmarking study, in which Brocade used an industry-standard online Transaction Processing Benchmark (TPC-C) in an ESX Server cluster to determine if ESX Server version 3.5 could... [12 Nov 2009]
Reinventing Data Loss Prevention
White Paper Data losses of thousands, even millions of customer records, inadvertent or accidental forwarding of sensitive email, and casual violations of corporate policies have become a daily occurrence - and are pushing data loss prevention to... [12 Nov 2009]
7 Security Standards: Implementation for the Small Provider
White Paper The security series of papers provides guidance from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on the rule titled "Security Standards for the Protection of Electronic Protected Health Information," found at 45 CFR Part 160 and... [11 Nov 2009]
Using Skybox Solutions to Achieve Efficient HIPAA Compliance
White Paper The Administrative Simplification provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA, Title II) required the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish national standards for the security... [11 Nov 2009]
'Incompetent': Watchdog's verdict on prisoner database
News Parliamentary spending watchdog the Public Accounts Committee has branded the implementation of the National Offender Management Information System (C-Nomis) a failure. Chair of the PAC, Edward Leigh, said of the... [03 Nov 2009]
Total Cost of Ownership: A Comparison of C/C++ and Java
White Paper Programming language preference is a favorite debate among developers. Because different languages offer different coding styles, as well as different resources and tools, choosing between languages like C/C++ and Java... [30 Oct 2009]
Win a luxury New Year's Eve package worth £1,000
News This competition is now closed. To celebrate Small Business Week, BT Business is offering one lucky silicon.com reader a trip to Edinburgh for the famous Hogmanay New Year's Eve celebrations. BT Business is offering two nights'... [20 Oct 2009]
Lower Total Cost of Ownership for Mission Critical Applications
White Paper Oracle Tuxedo is the industry's #1 distributed transaction processing platform. It provides mainframe-class reliability, performance, and scalability, all on open, distributed systems for applications written in C, C++,... [15 Oct 2009]
Insider Risk Management: A Framework Approach to Internal Security
White Paper Internal security risks are a complex challenge facing organizations of all industries and in all regions. Unfortunately, no single technology will solve the wide range of risks posed by "insiders. Insiders are authorized users with... [06 Oct 2009]
