Fresh from the Test Center: Think you have to allow everyone admin rights in order to keep those pesky installation requests from bogging down your inbox? Not a good idea, especially considering the security risks of extending installation rights to all employees. BeyondTrust Privilege Manager will lend a hand, overseeing group policy, rights and privileges, and security - and according to Roger Grimes' review, it's a good tool for "a Windows shop that insists on the insecure practice of granting users Administrator privileges so they can install software and make configuration changes."
Tablus Content Sentinel in action: You've read the review, now see the movie! Mike Heck follows up his review of Tablus Content Sentinel 3's data-protection prowess with a screencast demonstration of how all the pieces come together. Watch and learn.
What, me worry?: Oliver Rist is sick of the iPhone hype. Why the worry over its impact on the enterprise?, he wonders. After all, "the little white pill may be the biggest thing for summer beach-going entertainment since Danielle Steele, but for those of us managing a network, June 30 isn't going to be a heckuva lot different from the day before. 'Cause it's just a phone, see?" With that in mind, Oliver offers up five things that are more worry-worthy than Apple's latest foray in this week's Enterprise Windows column.
Posted by Stephanie McLoughlin on June 29, 2007 10:12 AM
