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The Naked CIO: Is open source dead?

Comment Of course, open source has found its niche and will continue to be of practical value in the realm of web and network security. Despite grandiose claims for open source software, the truth about it has been evident for some time.

Tags: applications, open source

[06 May 2008]

Quocirca's Straight Talking: Tighten content security

Comment Then came a rapid evolution of products that kept spam at arm's length - either appliances at the network edge or in-the-cloud services that ensured an almost clean incoming email stream. With the problem of spam in check rather than cured, focus...

Tags: filtering, spam, content

[02 May 2008]

Tech Futures: The talkification of the web

Comment Another company, Jaduka, has developed a web API that allows developers and designers to readily integrate voice communication into their applications that access the public-switched telephone network worldwide.

Tags: internet, comms, voice

[01 May 2008]

Are we losing the security war?

Comment The broadband society, botnets and the Russian Business Network were, as yet, largely unimagined dangers. Now security experts admit traditional approaches can't keep pace with the growth in malware. What can be done to turn the tide, asks Simon...

Tags: security, e-crime, cyber crime

[29 Apr 2008]

Quocirca's Straight Talking: Just how distributed is your business?

Comment But there is, of course, a downside if it all goes wrong when the network fails for some reason. A business's dependence on its network is linked to how distributed its working practices have become. And for those with the highest DBI, network...

Tags: distributed working, networks

[24 Apr 2008]

Quocirca's Straight Talking: Print issues in black and white

Comment Managed print services control all or some of the print environment and optimise a mixture of printing and imaging equipment, efficient network controls and improved workflows. Responsibility is often scattered - so control and costs go out the...

Tags: managed services, outsourcing, printers

[22 Apr 2008]

Dear silicon.com... File-sharers, women in tech and the price of 'experts'

Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Photos: Australian broadband goes for a deep-sea dive ¦ FBI cyber crime chief on botnets, web terror and the social network threat ¦ Peter...

Tags: file-sharers, home office, women

[17 Apr 2008]

FBI cyber crime chief on botnets, web terror and the social network threat

Comment There's the loss of dollars where an account has money stolen from it and then there's cost to a business where it has to fix damage to a network and damage to reputation in some circumstances. The cyber division is one of the faster growing...

Tags: security, malware, cyber crime

[15 Apr 2008]

People are mugs over identity theft

Comment Identity theft is rife. Perhaps it's time individuals took a leaf out of business's book and adopted a personal information policy that will make life harder for criminals, says Simon Moores. I understand beards are back.

Tags: social networks, fraud, identity theft, security

[08 Apr 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 28.03.08

Round-Up Travellers on UK airlines who simply can't go a couple of hours without calling the office or loved ones, or possibly loved ones in the office, will be able to take advantage of the aircraft's network services and be routed via satellite to ground...

Tags: ofcom, wi-fi, train, plane

[28 Mar 2008]

You won't get promoted looking like that

Comment Take a good look at the way you interact with others, how well you network and also your wardrobe. Your ability to interact and network with others. A simplistic look at most medium to large companies yields two distinct groups.

Tags: image, skills, careers, personal brand

[20 Mar 2008]

Dear silicon.com... NHS 'savings', e-crime coppers, skills crisis?...

Comment I was doing desktop and comms network support for SMEs and the tight so-and-so so's seemed to think that £70 per hour was far too expensive. Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech news and views on the...

Tags: vista, skills, nhs, e-crime

[20 Mar 2008]

How to detect data leaks

Comment DLP tools incorporate a wide range of modules to protect sensitive data across the corporate infrastructure, including monitoring and protecting network gateways, email, end points and storage. But it's not just laptops that need protecting...

Tags: security, data protection, data leaks, comply

[19 Mar 2008]

ID tech tightens up compliance

Comment There is also one further step organisations can take to make sure their security controls are watertight - they can tie physical access controls in with logical access to the corporate network. By converging physical and logical access controls...

Tags: identity management, data protection, compliance, printers

[18 Mar 2008]

Editor's Blog: An everyday tale of e-crime

Comment And it was for a phone number that wasn't his, on a network he had never used. For example, of the possibly apocryphal case of a company being targeted by phishing scammers who were trying to trick their way into the network.

Tags: crime, police, identity fraud, hacking

[13 Mar 2008]

Malice, misuse, mistake - security dangers pile up

Comment Thieves hacked into the company's wi-fi network regularly between 2005 and 2007, stealing 45 million credit card details, many of which were UK customers. And network security company eSoft reports that the number of sites seeking to install...

Tags: threat, data theft, social engineering, security

[10 Mar 2008]

ID cards are dead

Comment N is for Network security If you wondered what the loud screeching of brakes was in Whitehall this week it was the sound of the government attempting to halt the ID cards juggernaut and execute an almighty handbrake u-turn as the wheels started to...

Tags: id cards, physical, cards, register

[07 Mar 2008]

Editor's Blog: Ever tried to sack a CIO?

Comment Everybody's on LinkedIn these days - so find out what the social network for grown-ups is planning next in our exclusive interview with the LinkedIn CEO Dan Nye. Over lunch the other day the chief executive of a large technology company advanced an...

Tags: cio, recruitment, sack, ceo

[06 Mar 2008]

LinkedIn CEO on 'grown up' social networking

Comment Online business network, LinkedIn has almost 20 million members worldwide and recently opened its European office in London. Another thing we have is an advice network, it's called LinkedIn Answers. So we have an advice network.

Tags: linkedin, network, online, facebook

[28 Feb 2008]

Why no united front on cyber crime?

Comment This month in the US one hacker pleaded guilty to creating a network of more than 400,000 computers, which included those belonging to the country's Defense Information Systems Agency. So how big does the problem have to become before governments...

Tags: cyber crime, internet, botnets, crime

[27 Feb 2008]

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