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School District Adopts New File Backup System, Expects to Save $100,000

whitepaper The San Francisco Unified School District needed a reliable method for backing up important files. The district had used tape backups, which relied on schools to manually change tapes and check data. But even when files were recorded properly...

Tags: monitoring systems

[11 May 2008]

Food Company Improves IT Security System View and Management Using New Solution

whitepaper Del Monte Foods, based in San Francisco, California, sells popular, premium-quality branded food and pet products throughout the United States. The organization's employees rely heavily on Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and Microsoft Office...

Tags: security tools

[11 May 2008]

Sun unveils JavaFX for rich web apps

News Sun officially started its JavaOne developer conference in San Francisco this week with a series of keynote presentations designed to showcase JavaFX, the company's new rich internet-application (RIA) technology, due to be launched to developers...

Tags: ria, java, sun

[08 May 2008]

Developers claim Vista UAC 'bypass'

News These comments echoed earlier statements by Microsoft product unit manager David Cross, who said in a speech at the RSA Conference in San Francisco earlier this month that UAC was deliberately designed to "annoy users", in order to put pressure on...

Tags: hack, uac, vista

[29 Apr 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 18.04.08

Round-Up Speaking at the RSA Conference in San Francisco recently, Cross said: "The reason we put UAC into the [Vista] platform was to annoy users - I'm serious. This week - a chance to help write your own gags for the Round-Up.

Tags: microsoft, windows, google, broadband

[18 Apr 2008]

Beware the insider security threat

Beware the insider security threat

News Security experts at the RSA security conference in San Francisco last week warned of all manner of threats ranging from botnets to metasploit attacks. Employees and insiders are bigger threats to corporate security than external threats such as...

Tags: insider, security

[17 Apr 2008]

Olympic tech getting fit for Beijing 2008

Case Study Speaking at the RSA security conference in San Francisco, Yan Noblot, principal consultant at Atos Origin, said: "It's interesting to see how information security has developed since 2002 and the winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and the one in...

Tags: security, servers, infrastructure, olympics

[16 Apr 2008]

Virtualisation: IT managers warned of security challenges

News Speaking at the RSA Conference in San Francisco last week, Simon Crosby, chief technology officer for XenSource, said security policies could be broken by misconfiguration. Security from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more.

Tags: security, challenge, virtualisation

[16 Apr 2008]

Microsoft: Vista security feature designed 'to annoy users'

News Cross, speaking at the RSA Conference in San Francisco last week, said: "The reason we put UAC into the [Vista] platform was to annoy users - I'm serious. David Cross, a product unit manager at Microsoft, was the group program manager in charge of...

Tags: vista, uac, microsoft

[14 Apr 2008]

Experian embraces open source

News Speaking at the RSA security conference in San Francisco, Barbara Fennell, business information security officer at Experian, said: "We began to see a bit of a culture clash forming. Experian is embracing open source software as a major part of its...

Tags: implementation, security, culture, open source

[11 Apr 2008]

PayPal wages war on phishing

News Speaking at the RSA security conference in San Francisco this week, Michael Barrett, PayPal's chief information security officer, outlined the company's strategy for dealing with the phishing problem.

Tags: certification, education, isps, paypal

[11 Apr 2008]

Video: Microsoft's plan for web security

Video At the RSA 2008 conference in San Francisco, Microsoft Research and Strategy officer, Craig Mundie, describes a new plan for internet security that includes the creation of a "trusted stack". Each element can be authenticated, from the operating...

Tags: rsa, security, microsoft

[11 Apr 2008]

How Google keeps its tech security tip top

News Google director of product management Scott Petry - founder of Postini, which is now owned by the search giant - gave the low-down on the web giant's approach to security at the RSA security conference in San Francisco this week.

Tags: rsa, search, security, google

[10 Apr 2008]

Botnets: 'We're screwed', warn security experts

News Botnets are the biggest global threat facing the internet today, according to security experts at the RSA security conference in San Francisco this week. President of the Internet Security Advisors Group, Ira Winkler, said: "The statistics are...

Tags: isps, law, fbi, security

[10 Apr 2008]

Transit Police Go Wireless for Next Wave of Safety

whitepaper The Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) train system connects San Francisco to surrounding Bay Area communities with 39 stations and nearly 100 miles of track. BART police wanted to use the newest wireless technology to fulfill its mission of ensuring...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, video, police, department

[10 Apr 2008]

Spyware Infiltrates the Enterprise

whitepaper Desktops littered with pop-up ads, computers grinding to a halt under the weight of snoopy software, private data snatched off networks and sent to a server somewhere in Siberia or San Francisco. All these unfortunate occurrences can be attributed...

Tags: security management, spyware, san, marketing

[10 Apr 2008]

McGuire Real Estate Consolidates Applications to Gain Competitive Edge Through Real-Time Business Intelligence

whitepaper San Francisco, California - based McGuire Real Estate (McGuire), established in 1919, specializes in the sale of luxury real estate throughout the Bay Area. Since its inception, generations of families have relied upon McGuire to handle the sale or...

Tags: directory services, sale, united states, estate

[10 Apr 2008]

WANSyncHA Chosen to Provide Continuous Microsoft Exchange and SQL-Based iManage Application Availability

whitepaper Pillsbury Winthrop has initiated installation of application-specific WANSyncHA Exchange and WANSyncHA SQL on Microsoft Exchange and SQL servers at its Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York and Washington DC offices.

Tags: database management, microsoft exchange, exchange, sql

[10 Apr 2008]

Security 'perfect storm' is a-brewing

News Speaking at the RSA security conference in San Francisco this week, Arthur Coviello, president of RSA, said: "A perfect storm has formed around us. More law enforcement and police resources are needed to tackle the security "perfect storm" facing...

Tags: criminals, government, us, cyber crime

[09 Apr 2008]

Security threats revealed: Beware the metasploit

News The most dangerous new security threats were revealed by experts at the RSA security conference in San Francisco this week. 'Pass the hash' and metasploit are two of a new breed of emerging security threats facing corporate IT departments.

Tags: browser, rsa, phishing, botnet

[09 Apr 2008]

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