networks and application in comment and analysis
Is SOA testing tough enough?
Comment These tools are useful in automating traditional code reviews and uncovering possible security issues so that they can be dealt with before the application or service is allowed into the main run-time environment. [20 May 2008]
Legal Eye: Scrabble-Facebook row spells trouble
Comment Facebook's Scrabulous application has sparked a row between the social networking site and the owners of the Scrabble brand. As well as highlighting the code-crunchers themselves, Hasbro and Mattel's move also calls into question the complicity of... [29 Jan 2008]
How closely are you monitoring?
Comment Management and control sessions can be easily analysed to look for after-hours access that doesn't match normal usage patterns," Potter says, adding administrators might be surprised to find out how much peer-to-peer and instant messaging traffic... [10 Dec 2007]
Web 2.0 threat looms
Comment The analyst firm warns web 2.0 applications could herald widespread identity theft and transaction fraud, give malware a new infection super highway, erode social networks and eventually create a total consumer loss of confidence in the web platform. [26 Nov 2007]
Getting more out of the net
Comment There are three main reasons why businesses of all sizes are set to become increasingly reliant on the internet: greater automation of cross-organisational business processes; flexible locations for data centres; and the rapid growth of the... [02 Nov 2007]
Tech Visions: TV extends its reach
Comment Now we have television networks, like KPIX here in California, that are actually using Slingboxes and maybe a wireless modem that they can put in a lot of places they never could before like ferries on the [San Francisco] Bay. [24 Oct 2007]
Social networking goes mainstream
AS Analysis The power of social networks to forge links and foster collaboration between people while cutting across traditional boundaries of geography and politics was another factor the panel picked up on. But if Facebook comes up it kind of looks like a... [12 Oct 2007]
Stephen Brannan
CIO Profile As director of group technology at RBS, Stephen Brannan leads a team of around 6,000 IT professionals managing one of the largest telecoms networks in Europe, one of the largest payment systems in the UK and more than 100,000 desktops. [06 Jun 2007]
Leader: In or out of house?
Leader It used to be that we couldn't trust networks to be up enough to allow meaningful use of applications such as CRM. Today a press release from one company peddling an on-premise email solution carried the line: "Most IT organisations would not... [19 Apr 2007]
Network horror stories expose need for understanding
Comment As a number of horror stories reveal, corporate networks aren't the safe and tightly controlled entities they should be. Then there are the thousands of employees who leave their PCs streaming internet radio over the weekend - and those who have... [12 Apr 2007]
The dos and don'ts of VoIP security
Comment Learn about the most dangerous threats, dos and don'ts and special advice for how SMEs can protect their VoIP networks. Additional tools that will help networks in case of any attack are intrusion detection and prevention systems, which scan for... [04 Apr 2007]
VoIP threats to watch out for
Comment The beauty of converged networks is that voice over IP is 'just' another application running on the data network. Once they had determined the prefix they were able to send calls through those service providers' networks, and sell these minutes on... [09 Mar 2007]
The killer app for M2M
Comment What M2M really needs is a killer application to raise awareness and incite acceptance. Zigbee mesh networks monitor and control the lighting system to shut off lights when a room is empty. M2M is used to harness the power of networks in simple... [22 Feb 2007]
Leader: No respite from security headaches
Leader VoIP phones, for example, made the top 20 list, even though the warnings over VoIP and advice on how to secure the IP networks have been around for years. But it does little to help a business feel confident its systems and networks are secure... [15 Nov 2006]
Leader: Why mobile TV is important
Leader We're not talking about mobile TV as a stream over 3G networks, something that many of the mobile operators you know are doing already, and which is known not to scale. Well you may ask - this publication does, almost every week, as it doesn't on... [05 Jun 2006]
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