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Cheat Sheet: Cloud computing
Cheat Sheet The email data is held on servers by the service provider but users can securely access them through a standard web browser. There's also been talk of this idea being adopted in the business world to... [01 Aug 2008]
Cheat Sheet: QR codes
Cheat Sheet However it's not the particular data stored in QR codes that makes them special per se, it's the notion of being able to gain fast on-the-fly access to that data. The reader software... [28 May 2008]
Cheat Sheet: CRM
Cheat Sheet Using CRM, call centre staff can quickly access contact history to deal with queries as efficiently as possible and provide a better quality of service. CRM can be employed on an ecommerce website to track where... [08 Jan 2008]
Cheat Sheet: Data Protection Act 1998
Cheat Sheet Individuals can request a copy of all data relating to them, how it is used, where it came from and who has access to it (for a fee). This means it has to be relevant to all the uses registered,... [28 Aug 2007]
Cheat Sheet: The Computer Misuse Act
Cheat Sheet While a DoS attack is undoubtedly disruptive, it does not involve data modification - so this type of cyber attack fell between the wording of the old CMA, which only criminalised those who intentionally gained... [29 Nov 2006]
Cheat Sheet: Software as a service
Cheat Sheet Internet access is pretty ubiquitous now but it can't be taken for granted. A system is only as good as its weakest link, so a company bedevilled by downtime on its internet access, or one that has been... [31 Oct 2006]
Cheat Sheet: Net neutrality
Cheat Sheet Half a dozen companies will control access to all websites in the world and can extort content producers and retailers for delivering their pages to customers. Republicans argue there should be no governmental... [16 Jun 2006]
Cheat Sheet: Wireless mesh networking
Cheat Sheet A mesh network is essentially a series of nodes - wireless access points typically mesh routers but also laptops, PDAs and the like - which route data to each other. However, ABI Research paints a... [24 Feb 2006]
Cheat Sheet: Federated identity
Cheat Sheet Permissions are then tailored to the identity, so the customer may be able to access the system to review their account while a partner company may be able to get in and make amendments to orders, yet the authentication... [20 Sep 2005]
Cheat Sheet: Freedom of Information Act 2000
Cheat Sheet While people are entitled to access public data, requests for information that could damage national security and top secret files are still off limits, the government has said. The Freedom of... [12 Sep 2005]
Cheat Sheet: Grid computing
Cheat Sheet It is usually used in research environments that require large amounts of computer processing power or access to large amounts of data. Some grid enthusiasts talk about the second version of the internet... [11 Apr 2002]
Cheat sheet: Mobile and wireless security
Cheat Sheet Plus all handhelds should have a minimum of password protection for access control. Most WLANs can secure data using the Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) protocol. Why should I care? I mean there's very... [14 Feb 2002]
Cheat Sheet: Web services
Cheat Sheet The most important aspect of web services is the basic protocols: XML (eXtensible Mark-up Language), SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol), UDDI (Universal Description Discovery and Integration) and WSDL (Web Services... [31 Jan 2002]
Cheat Sheet: Microsoft Passport
Cheat Sheet These are architectures whereby you only have to validate yourself once, to get access to a whole range of services. Critics say this is unnecessarily risky, giving a huge target for hackers who can gain... [09 Nov 2001]
Cheat Sheet: GPRS
Cheat Sheet The best of them will probably be messaging, and wireless internet access, but it should in theory be able to handle music downloading and possibly even video. So you can download data at any time,... [25 Apr 2001]
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