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Arizona's SIREN Speeds Information Flow, Helps to Avert Potential Epidemics

whitepaper Whether the disease is SARS, the Bird Flu, or the West Nile Virus, the key to addressing a medical emergency - as well as to quell a dangerous public panic - is to identify a potential outbreak early, marshal medical resources rapidly, and contain...

Tags: application servers

[19 May 2008]

Laying the foundations for evolving eGovernment: Why next generation Ethernet technology holds the key

whitepaper The UK Government has committed to transform the public sector by making truly e-enabled delivery of public services a reality.This whitepaper demonstrates with real-life examples of successful projects how next generation Ethernet technology is...

Tags: ethernet, robust, transform, ethernet

[16 May 2008]

The McCue Interview: Claire Hamon, CIO, Rok Group

The McCue Interview: Claire Hamon, CIO, Rok Group

Comment Behind the success, Hamon says, was a strong and "morally motivated" team of around 100 people, combined with clear organisational boundaries and strong leadership by the director of public prosecutions.

Tags: rok, claire hamon

[13 May 2008]

Recruiting Specialists: Tips for Successfully Marketing Your Open Positions

whitepaper The job posting needs to sell to potential employees one's group, one's mission, and the key function that the job plays in the company's success. The company's public image also benefits when its advertised positions seem to be exciting and...

Tags: it hr - staffing - training

[12 May 2008]

Green dream fuels shift in Whitehall

News Government CIO John Suffolk also held up the Department for Work and Pensions as an exemplar of Green IT in the public sector, saying it had reduced its number of servers by 2,500, slashing its CO2 output by thousands of tonnes.

Tags: energy, climate change, green

[09 May 2008]

UK blueprint on how tech can beat climate change

News Suffolk stressed the importance of the role IT has to play in helping reduce the UK's CO2 emissions, saying IT plays a role in 5.5 million public services and government spends approximately £14bn on technology each year.

Tags: climate change, energy, green it

[08 May 2008]

Childnet helps parents get web savvy

Case Study Childnet CEO Steven Carrick-Davies said: "The purpose of the project was to promote the positive aspect of the internet and provide some balance to other messages out in the public perception. Therefore another key component of the resource is that...

Tags: parents, children, education

[08 May 2008]

Business Intelligence and Enterprise Performance Management

whitepaper Executive influence plays a significant role in selecting software, and ease-of-use and pricing are key evaluation criteria. However, the survey makes clear that these requirements evolve as companies grow from single locations to multiple...

Tags: erp, enterprises, survey, criteria

[08 May 2008]

Yahoo! - Microsoft walks away

News shares, which dropped $4.3 to end at $24.37 on Monday, could have fallen 30 per cent to closer to $19.18, its price before Microsoft made its bid public on 1 February. Now that a deal has fallen apart, Google has emerged as the key beneficiary.

Tags: bid, yahoo, microsoft

[06 May 2008]

PKI: Ten Years Later

whitepaper This paper examines the history and evolution of so-called Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). It compares the original definition of PKI with a broader and more flexible definition that better reflects the variety of implementation philosophies...

Tags: pki

[04 May 2008]

PKI Interoperability by an Independent, Trusted Validation Authority

whitepaper Interoperability between PKIs (Public Key Infrastructure) is a major issue in several electronic commerce scenarios. This paper suggests an approach based on a trust model where an independent Validation Authority (VA) replaces Certification...

Tags: pki

[03 May 2008]

PorKI: Making User PKI Safe on Machines of Heterogeneous Trustworthiness

whitepaper Public key cryptography can reduce this risk of attack, because authentication using PKI is designed to not give away sensitive data. This paper presents the design and prototype of PorKI, a software application for mobile devices that offers an...

Tags: pki

[02 May 2008]

Editor's Blog: Time to take the politicians out of technology?

Comment And rather than the usual upbeat assessment of the state of public sector IT, I was surprised to hear them echoing many of these criticisms. The pitfalls of mixing IT and the public sector are well known.

Tags: public sector, government

[30 Apr 2008]

Exchange Server 2007: What To Expect

whitepaper Microsoft recently released a public preview of Exchange Server 2007 Beta 2 (previously called Exchange 12) in June 2006 and is shooting for a general availability date of late 2006 or early 2007. This paper will identify 10 key new or improved...

Tags: file and network servers, exchange, exchange server, date

[30 Apr 2008]

Legal Eye: Could you end up footing your e-crime bill?

Comment Phishing in particular, where members of the public are tricked into providing bank details or passwords by bogus emails, remains the method of choice for e-criminals. Key issues Defining reasonable care and allowing for genuine technical failures...

Tags: online banking, fraud, e-crime

[15 Apr 2008]

TNET Webcast: How Microsoft IT Does Security Enhancements for Remote Access (Level 300)

whitepaper The attendee of this webcast will learn how Microsoft IT has dealt with remote access security with the latest generation of Microsoft products - Windows XP Professional, Windows Server 2003, Internet Authentication Service, Internet Security...

Tags: network security

[12 Apr 2008]

AutoPKI: A PKI Resources Discovery System?

whitepaper The central goal of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is to enable trust judgments between distributed users. Although certificates play a central role in making such judgments, a PKI's users need more than just knowledge of certificates.

Tags: pki

[11 Apr 2008]

A New Paradigm in PKI Architecture: OTPK Technology for Online Digital Signature

whitepaper All that remains is the digital signature and the public key certificate from the Certification Authority (CA) that is used to verify the digital signature. Whenever a digital signature is required, the private key is generated, certified, used to...

Tags: pki

[11 Apr 2008]

Public Key Infrastructure and HIPAA - Only Part of the Solution

whitepaper This White Paper discusses key areas to be examined when engineering a HIPAA-compliant solution for the Internet.

Tags: pki, engineering, paper discusses, compliant

[10 Apr 2008]

Wireless Application Protocol: Public Key Infrastructure Definition

whitepaper The Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) is a result of continuous work to define an industry-wide specification for developing applications that operate over wireless communication networks. The scope for the WAP Forum is to define a set of...

Tags: pki, forum, wap, wap forum

[10 Apr 2008]

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