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IT trainer offers master's degree for hackers In an effort to produce the next generation of chief security officers and IT systems defense experts, an online training company is offering a new master's degree program in security science. Fifteen backup programs to safeguard your data There's no way around it: Malware happens, drive failure happens, natural disaster happens. If your data isn't backed up, it's gone -- or it will require an extremely expensive, not-certain-to-succeed recovery operation. September 25, 9:30 a.m. PDT Security outsourcing on the rise As one of the world's largest outsourcing providers, Wipro Technologies is ramping up its security services business in a big way.  September 20, 2:30 p.m. PDT FBI: Enterprises need counterintelligence The Chinese government has denied involvement in a series of hacks carried out against IT systems at the Pentagon in June this week, but the threat of technology-driven espionage has forced the FBI to push businesses and academic institutions to better prepare for such attacks. September 4, 3:45 p.m. PDT Apps security to dominate Black Hat Black Hat kicks off this week in Las Vegas with a big shift in focus from Internet viruses to application security. July 31, 3:00 a.m. PDT IBM's India lab develops disaster management tool IBM’s India Research Laboratory has developed the Resiliency Maturity Index (RMI), a framework that quantitatively assesses the ability of an organization to recover from a variety of disasters such as floods, power outages, software glitches, epidemics, and terrorist attacks. July 20, 4:49 a.m. PDT Suit up your storage network with business sense No longer capable of remaining on the sidelines as a separate administrative domain, today's networked storage must be managed with a deeper awareness of business objectives. June 18, 3:00 a.m. PDT HP FORUM - Virtual computing can be a real hassle For a technology that's supposed to make computing easier, virtualization is becoming quite complicated. June 16, 12:19 p.m. PDT EMC strikes first partnership with Indian outsourcer EMC Corp. will train more than 1,000 Wipro Ltd. staff in the use of its storage technologies as part of an alliance announced by the companies on Wednesday. June 13, 4:09 a.m. PDT Former Hitachi Data Systems chief to head up HP storage In its quest to re-energize its storage business, Hewlett-Packard has recruited the former president and CEO of storage rival Hitachi Data Systems (HDS). May 25, 2:22 p.m. PDT IBM pitches risk management strategy IBM unveiled a new IT governance and risk management strategy on May 15 that it will market to enterprise customers as a means to weave together security and compliance projects to ease planning and help drive down related expenses. May 15, 12:42 p.m. PDT Infrastructure security powers up He may not have known it at the time, but Lonnie Charles Denison helped prove the need for tighter security at many infrastructure businesses when he launched a multifaceted attack against California Independent System Operator, a quasi-governmental agency responsible for management of the state's power grid. May 9, 4:17 a.m. PDT Making sense of Websense's SurfControl buyout Websense's $400 million buyout offer for rival network filtering specialist SurfControl should help position the two companies for short-term growth and possible acquisition in the future, according to market watchers. May 1, 11:27 a.m. PDT Symantec takes initial step into SaaS Symantec took its initial step into the software-as-a-service market on April 17, introducing its maiden set of hosted applications for small and medium-sized businesses. April 17, 4:00 a.m. PDT IBM, Cisco release crisis response service IBM and Cisco Systems on Tuesday announced a new one-stop service designed to help businesses and government agencies respond to and recover from disasters, the companies said. March 20, 4:14 a.m. PST Improve availability of enterprise data Ask an expert about data availability and how to ensure it, and the conversation quickly turns to the subject of human error. Not that IT mistakes are the leading cause of unplanned downtime; the research firm Gartner identifies software failures as the chief culprit, and “operator error” as the second most common cause, ahead of hardware outages; building or site disasters; and metro disasters, such as storms or floods, in that order. But of all of these major causes, human error is the one that IT can really do something about. March 12, 3:00 a.m. PST Crisis management 101 I recently participated in some war-game-style what-if exercises with a small group of IT execs. The goal was to stimulate thinking about how corporations can best prepare for, and respond to, significant business disruptions, whether from terrorism, weather, biological threats, or other unexpected shocks. March 8, 3:00 a.m. PST Crypto Expert: Moore's Law fuels app obesity epidemic Cryptography is no mean field. After all, the science was invented by humans for the purpose of concealing information from other humans. That means that the best cryptographers have to be blindingly smart, with a mastery of mathematics but also a firm grasp of human psychology and, these days, fields such as computer science. February 19, 3:00 a.m. PST SAN and NAS virtualization After some years of false starts and false hopes, storage virtualization, also known as block virtualization, is finally proving its worth. All the major vendors have embraced it, most notably IBM, EMC, and HDS (Hitachi Data Systems); the solutions themselves have improved; and customers, typically large shops managing large SANs with intense data availability requirements, understand how to deploy it and where to get good ROI. No longer a technology in search of a problem, storage virtualization offers a way to address a wide range of storage management woes. February 12, 3:00 a.m. PST IT should prepare for a crisis The former Soviet Republic of Georgia revealed last week it had foiled an effort by a Russian man to sell 3.5 ounces of weapons-grade uranium on the black market. While not enough material to build a bomb, the incident was a strong reminder that we’ve been living in a relatively stable period, crisis-wise, since hurricane Katrina -- and that we shouldn’t get lulled us into false complacency. Yes, the stock market has been doing well. Oil prices have fallen. And Jennifer Aniston did recover nicely from her breakup with Brad … But nonetheless, we need to be on guard against potentially disruptive events. February 1, 3:00 a.m. PST Seagate buys backup services company Hard drive maker Seagate Technology LLC will buy EVault Inc. for US$185 million in an acquisition designed to bolster Seagate's managed services business, the company said on Thursday. December 21, 4:09 a.m. PST 2006 Year in Reviews: Storage In EMC’s march on the enterprise NAS market, two big feet fell this year in the form of the company’s Rainfinity (global file system) and Infoscape (file classification) releases, which we took for early spins in EMC’s labs. The year also brought a smooth rev of Windows Storage Server, a swell mid-range SAN from Compellent, and a slick tape library from Spectra Logic. December 18, 3:00 a.m. PST Good ideas take time Two years ago, I publicly floated the concept that IT should start thinking more like entrepreneurs. What a disaster! I was speaking at a meeting of CTOs, and I mentioned that I’d heard of a few IT departments that were focusing, at least in part, on creating saleable new products and services for their companies. I asked the group what they thought of the idea. December 4, 3:00 a.m. PST Microsoft and Novell pull a SCO When I have to declare, as I do this week, that everything I write in my column and blogs is my personal opinion, you know I’m on the warpath. November 22, 3:00 a.m. PST SMEs, say farewell to DAS Not long ago I had an interesting conversation with a group of folks from a major storage vendor. They had requested a briefing to discuss how to improve their infrastructure to better support product reviews. October 18, 3:00 a.m. PDT EMC-HP storage race heats up Number two storage systems maker Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) has closed the gap between it and number one EMC Corp. to what research company IDC calls "a statistical tie." September 1, 4:55 a.m. PDT In case of emergency, activate business continuity plan Gemstar-TV Guide International hired Ed Sullivan to direct Business Continuity Services in 2003, soon after an audit found that TV Guide’s infrastructure was essentially unrecoverable in the event of a sustained crisis. There was a time when Sullivan’s first stop for addressing the issue would have been IT and the datacenter. But times have changed -- Sullivan first conducted several weeks of meetings with senior executives and various business unit executives to talk about the company’s business processes. “The fact that I work for the CIO is almost irrelevant,” Sullivan says. “I’m there to provide recovery for the business units.” August 4, 3:00 a.m. PDT CA gains new CFO Troubled software vendor CA Inc. announced the appointment of a new chief financial officer (CFO) Friday, while declining to comment on rumors of potential layoffs. July 28, 10:42 a.m. PDT Small businesses get big storage attention How is summer treating you? I'll assume well, unless of course you are in one of those areas affected by power outages caused by heat waves, hurricanes, or other calamities like Dennis Kennedy, blogger emeritus and one of the few lawyers I like. Kennedy has been without power for days in St. Louis but finally found a way to update his blog over the weekend. Hang in there, Dennis! July 27, 3:00 a.m. PDT Datacenters respond to record power demand The heat wave that this week pushed energy demand to record-setting levels and caused brownouts and scattered outages in some regions also put datacenter managers on guard for problems and re-emphasized the need for strategies to deal with datacenter heat issues. July 21, 8:34 a.m. PDT Hack Tales: E-mail archiving the home-brew way Compliance is a painful reality for many IT administrators. Among the growing list of tasks, e-mail archiving is becoming a major requirement. Not only are various government audits interested in e-mail archiving data, but legal actions have begun to call on this information with increasing frequency. The demand for e-mail archive retrieval has become so great, in fact, that corporate e-mail hosting services -- Microsoft’s new Exchange Hosted Services, for example -- have begun adding high-availability archiving to their service menus. May 29, 3:00 a.m. PDT IT heroes -- and villains -- of 9/11 In 2001, I worked for the Pittsburgh office of a large financial-services firm. I was engaged in a straight-through processing project, attempting to pass financial information to all parties involved in a transaction without manual handling or redundant processing -- all in real time. I ended up joining forces with a guy named Joe Rankin. Joe, who had been with the company for more than 10 years, worked at the New York office, in a building connected to the World Trade Center by a walkway over Albany Street. Joe managed a group that processed customer account requests. May 16, 3:00 a.m. PDT Symantec sorting out Veritas mega-merger Nearly a year after Symantec’s $13.5 billion merger with Veritas Software, customers of both companies got a view of the new face of Symantec at the company’s Vision 2006 user conference last week in San Francisco. May 15, 3:00 a.m. PDT Storge sales drive EMC revenue up EMC Corp. said Thursday that strong sales of its Symmetrix storage and content management and virtualization software boosted first-quarter revenue by 14 percent from the same period in 2005, but that profits were hit by stock-option expenses. April 20, 10:17 a.m. PDT MIT simulation suggests avian flu outbreak can shred supply chain At first, the reports from your supplier in China seem innocent enough: an assembly line worker has become very ill and is hospitalized with flu-like symptoms. Before you know it, workers are dying, the government has quarantined your factory and its contents, your supply chain is in ruins, and reporters are camped out at your company headquarters with a fleet of satellite news trucks. April 14, 2:00 p.m. PDT Top six steps toward disaster-recovery I recently got to write a fun piece for InfoWorld called "Stupid user tricks" about protecting your network from human error. Researching the article revealed to me how many variables folks tend to miss when running a network, as well as when planning to protect and recover that network. (By the way, if you were one of the folks who submitted anecdotes for this article, check out the SMB IT blog to see whether you’re on the list for a free InfoWorld backpack.) April 13, 3:00 a.m. PDT EMC adds services to manage storage flow EMC Corp. said Wednesday that it is extending its professional services arm with on-site support in managing the flow, usage and storage of data in the enterprise. April 12, 9:23 a.m. PDT Effective long-distance data protection Protecting data properly is challenging in any circumstances but can be even more difficult to do at a remote office. It’s easy to understand why: Most data-protection tasks require both human labor and the computing power necessary to move large amounts of data, digging into two resources that are typically in short supply at a remote office. April 6, 3:00 a.m. PDT Product previews Sonic Software revs enterprise service bus Sonic Software today announced Sonic ESB 7.0, an upgrade to the company’s SOA platform. It brings the Sonic Workbench to the Eclipse IDE; incorporates support for advanced Web services standards WS-Reliable Messaging, WS-Security, WS-Addressing, and WS-Policy; and introduces a lighter-weight approach to high availability through a new mode in the Continuous Availability Architecture, which the company says provides highly reliable and available brokered communications without the latency of persistent messaging. Sonic ESB 7.0 will be available in April. Sonic ESB 7.0, Sonic Software March 27, 3:00 a.m. PST Kashya extends its data-recovery parachute You may remember data-recovery solutions vendor Kashya from some of my previous columns. Its KBX5000 Data Protection Platform combines CDP (continuous data protection) and snapshots with a smart set of host agents that intercept critical transaction data on the fly. March 23, 3:00 a.m. PST Dealing with the unimaginable Painful lessons learned from crises in 2005 include the importance of communications and picturing the very worst scenarios that might occur. These issues were the hot topics of a panel discussion held Tuesday at IBM's PartnerWorld conference here. March 15, 4:28 a.m. PST Product Previews Near-Time serves up blogs, wikis on demand Near-Time later this month plans to launch a hosted collaboration service for creating workspaces that leverage blogs, wikis, and group calendar functions. The service, also called Near-Time, allows workers to instantly launch collaborative communities via any Web browser. Members can choose to collaborate privately and make some or all of the content publicly available. The service is designed to combine the nonlinear, ad-hoc nature of wikis with the time-sensitive, broadcast essence of blogs. Near-Time is based on standards such as RSS, XML, Atom, and Ajax and allows content to be reused. The service is currently available in a free beta version. The commercial launch will include a free, entry-level service and fee-based advanced services, including encryption, domain mapping, and file sharing. Service pricing will start at $4.95 per month. Near-Time, Near-Time March 6, 3:00 a.m. PST It takes an extraprise to secure your business Back in May, I wrote a column about our country's lack of an overall plan to protect critical infrastructure in case of attack -- telecommunications and fiber in particular. Consider this Part 2. February 21, 3:00 a.m. PST U.S. DHS completes large-scale cyber exercise The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has completed the first full-scale government-led cyber attack simulation, and officials there called the exercise a "significant milestone." February 10, 1:05 p.m. PST Microsoft injects more smarts into Windows Storage Server 2003 Intelligent storage. It's golden if you've got it when you need it. But it's a pain if you're simply setting it up for that proverbial rainy day -- or on it. Like my rainy Friday, during which a static charge due to all this dry Northeastern weather took out not only my beloved ThinkPad T42p's power supply but also its USB ports and its fingerprint scanner. Yeah, the same scanner I'd been using in lieu of the ultrastrong Windows password that IBM's fingerprint utility made me add. The same password that apparently isn't the same ... at least not how I remember it. February 2, 3:00 a.m. PST AOL patches serious Winamp bug Users of America Online Inc.'s Winamp 5.12 media player are being told to upgrade their software following the release of malicious code that could be used to take over a Winamp user's system. January 30, 3:07 p.m. PST Communications panel studies lessons of Katrina An independent panel to study the effects of Hurricane Katrina on communications networks, convened by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), met for the first time Monday. January 30, 2:10 p.m. PST When IT disasters really strike A failed project may feel like a disaster, but it’s nothing compared to what a hurricane, earthquake, fire, or man-made calamity can do to your business. As an IT pro, you’ll be expected both to protect your organization’s technology assets and help it recover from the event as soon as possible. Here’s how to prepare and prioritize: January 30, 3:00 a.m. PST Four infamous IT meltdowns When it comes to IT projects, nobody bungles things better than Uncle Sam. January 30, 3:00 a.m. PST State CIOs need more IT security support from DHS The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) must improve its support for U.S. state and local governments so they can better protect their IT infrastructures from attackers, two organizations of top IT officials said Wednesday. January 25, 2:57 p.m. PST Lasso Logic offers real easy real-time backups Backing up user workstations is a problem that has plagued IT organizations since computers landed on the desktop. Installing and operating desktop backup solutions has always been somewhat complicated and quirky. Even when desktop backup works well, it doesn’t provide full protection. You’re covered against major disasters, such as losing the computer to theft or crash, but not against minor disasters, such as accidentally deleting files or saving unwanted changes, which can erase several days of work. January 23, 3:00 a.m. PST What isn't storage virtualization? Vendors often use the term "virtualization" to describe myriad products, including global name spaces, virtual storage area networks (VSANs), pooled NAS (network-attached storage), thin-provisioning software, virtual file systems, virtual tape libraries, RAID arrays and disk clusters, and virtualized application and file servers (such as EMC's VMWare). But although these technologies all use some sort of virtualization, they don't actually qualify as storage virtualization. January 12, 3:00 a.m. PST Virtualized storage, real rewards As senior director of enterprise technology operations at Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), a prison management firm that handles more than 60 facilities, Brad Wood faces several challenges. His group manages approximately 100TB of data -- including inmate medical records, operational records, e-mail, and so forth -- across four Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) storage arrays in two datacenters. Because of federal and state rules, much of the company’s data is mirrored three or four times to keep it accessible in case of failure. Adding to the complexity, Wood buys his hardware based on current price and performance, so he has a mix of suppliers. January 12, 3:00 a.m. PST Tech reviews for the holidays Even IT takes a holiday now and then. Same goes for the InfoWorld staff, which chills out by taking a one-week break following the publication of this, our 51st and final issue of the year. December 19, 3:00 a.m. PST IT provider recovers from devastating oil depot blast After massive explosions at a fuel storage site destroyed much of its infrastructure on Sunday, a major U.K. IT provider is restoring data and setting up new hardware at other facilities throughout England. December 15, 4:14 a.m. PST Storage software market up again in Q3, IDC says Demand for storage software products continues to grow, with revenue up 10 percent in the third quarter, marking eight consecutive quarters of double-digit year-over-year growth, according to data published Monday by IDC in its Worldwide Quarterly Storage Tracker. December 12, 4:09 a.m. PST InMage adds new features to disaster recovery software InMage Systems is adding business event-based recovery and automated information tiering features to its DR-Scout suite of disaster recovery (DR) software, according to an executive of the company. November 29, 4:20 a.m. PST Are CIOs headed for extinction? Is the CIO a dinosaur? Will it be an extinct position in a few short years? Merial, a large animal health care enterprise co-owned by Merck and sanofi-aventis, believes so; in fact, it's already buried the title. I spoke with Steve Lerner, IS director at Merial, about what led to its decision to eliminate the CIO position. The answer, in short, is Sarbanes-Oxley. October 18, 3:00 a.m. PDT Reliable communications: A survival essential I am writing this column from a hotel near the Houston International Airport, brought here not by business or leisure but by the power loss caused by Hurricane Rita. October 6, 3:00 a.m. PDT A call to action: It's time for EMR A few months ago while waiting at my doctor's office, I noticed a group of young people shuffling an enormous amount of documents on the other side of the glass partition. After watching a little longer I noticed a certain order to their apparently chaotic activity. The team was fishing manila folders out of a large box in the middle of the floor and, after a quick reading, reaching out for a binder in which to store them. September 22, 4:00 a.m. PDT Symantec India to identify products for global market Symantec's product development center in Pune, India, has been assigned to identify new products for the company's markets worldwide, according to an executive of the company. September 21, 4:50 a.m. PDT Analysts to CISOs: Learn about business Chief information security officers (CISOs) need to learn more about the business side of the companies they work for to effectively communicate the importance of computer security, analysts said Wednesday at the Gartner IT Security Summit 2005 in London. September 14, 9:06 a.m. PDT WANSyncHA protects databases and servers Real-time data protection is quickly becoming one of the most important aspects of IT. To help keep datacenters and disaster recovery sites in synch, some companies are turning to high-availability products designed to kick in with synchronized replicas should a database or application server go down. September 12, 4:00 a.m. PDT Katrina’s total system disruption I recently attended a CIO/CFO roundtable that, among other things, focused on the difficulty of demonstrating the business value of IT. Exasperated, one CIO said half-jokingly: “Want to see if IT matters? I’ll just go unplug all the servers and we’ll see how long the business runs.” He added that of course IT could never make that threat anymore, because it would be too disruptive -- unacceptable downtime is measured in seconds these days, not hours or weeks. September 9, 4:00 a.m. PDT Q&A: EMC's Joe Tucci NEW YORK - EMC's head honcho says that customers are clamoring for the company to do more on the security front and is trying to address those concerns with a mixture of current in-house technologies, partnerships and acquisitions. He doesn't believe the market is ready for storage virtualization yet. August 4, 12:19 p.m. PDT Zetera: Storage at the speed of light Once you’ve been on the teams that invented the drive controller standards used by billions of machines, it’s a tough achievement to top. So when Bill Babbitt, Bill Frank, and Tom Ludwig of Zetera created a new network storage paradigm, they simply got rid of controllers altogether. August 1, 5:00 a.m. PDT Police request images after second wave of U.K. blasts U.K. police called on Londoners to submit mobile phone images and other photographs to help them investigate a second, apparently less serious wave of explosions that shook the capital city on Thursday. July 21, 8:58 a.m. PDT Update: Explosions rock London's transport system A series of four explosions rocked London's public transport system Thursday morning, killing at least 33 people and injuring many others. July 7, 8:36 a.m. PDT Lessons learned from the MasterCard/Visa heist How could MasterCard and Visa allow 40 million customer credit card numbers to be sucked out of their systems and into the hands of criminals? Last week I called them both to find out. June 28, 5:00 a.m. PDT SNIA works toward ILM standards Implementing an ILM strategy is neither simple nor straightforward for any organization. For one thing, although the point solutions offered by storage vendors today address parts of the problem, true ILM must encompass the whole datacenter. June 6, 5:00 a.m. PDT Taking charge of the enterprise information lifecycle There’s a stage in the life of a new technology in which half the world thinks it’s a whole new paradigm and the other half thinks it’s all hype. Half says it will never happen whereas the other half says, “We’re doing it now.” And even the most improbable vendor claims to have strategies and products to support it. So it is with ILM (information life cycle management). June 6, 5:00 a.m. PDT XOsoft connects the dots You probably won't be surprised to hear that vendors often use news or statistics as a leverage point to pitch their products. It's especially true with products such as backup and data-recovery solutions that do not target specific business processes but rather make recovery possible when something stops or threatens those processes. May 19, 5:00 a.m. PDT Security’s weakest links Not a month has gone by in 2005 without a far-reaching computer security breach making the nightly news hour. Headliners compelled to walk the plank of shame include Bank of America — the nation’s second-largest bank — Ameritrade, Polo Ralph Lauren, and LexisNexis. May 16, 5:00 a.m. PDT Investigators link Cisco hack to other activities A theft of computer source code from Cisco Systems, reported a year ago, has led to a wide-ranging investigation of potential criminal activity involving multiple server break-ins in several countries, according to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). May 10, 9:44 a.m. PDT Business continuity in the face of terrorism Before Richard Clarke published his book, Against All Enemies: Inside America’s War on Terror, and became associated with election year politics, he was a senior security advisor to the White House with expertise in counterterrorism and homeland security. Following Sept. 11, 2001, Clarke met twice with a CIO organization that called itself the Chicago Research Planning Group (CRPG) but has since renamed itself the Security Board. May 10, 5:00 a.m. PDT DPM aims to keep off the data weight They call it managing my weight. I call it bouncing up and down the fat-boy meter due to variables such as season, adult ADD, work stress, and emotional fruit loopiness. Sometimes I grab real control for a few months and the weight drops like a rock. Then one or more of the variables decides to get kooky and I'm back on my way to looking like Oliver Platt. It's quite similar to data bloat in a Windows network, actually. April 14, 5:00 a.m. PDT Veritas goes for the gold, Web casino breaks mold Maybe because it’s tax season or maybe it’s spring fever, but my inbox is bursting with letters from Cringesters driven to madness by buggy software and bad service (including a mob of angry Intuit customers). If I had a dollar for every oath muttered on support lines this week, I’d have enough to, well, pay my taxes. April 8, 5:00 a.m. PDT Update 2: HP taps NCR's Hurd as new CEO After reviving NCR, Mark Hurd now has another reclamation project on his hands. March 29, 9:57 a.m. PST The consultant's view Steve Manzuik is an independent IT security consultant. March 28, 6:00 a.m. PST The CTO's perspective Kevin Bernstein is CTO of platinum capital group. March 28, 6:00 a.m. PST How to hire an IT security consultant Outsourcing IT security is all the rage these days. It’s cheaper and more efficient, the prevailing theory goes, to farm out functions not directly related to your organization’s core competencies. If you make nickel-plated widgets, for example, your staff must be expert in manufacturing, nickel-plating, and selling widgets, not in keeping 14-year-olds out of your network. March 28, 6:00 a.m. PST Ignorance of the law During the past few weeks, I’ve traveled the country, speaking at a sponsored event about how regulatory compliance and legal issues affect IT. In Washington I had the pleasure of offering a tongue-in-cheek thanks to a group of mostly government employees for helping to create the laws and regulations I was there to discuss. March 11, 3:00 p.m. PST Secure architectures Thanks to complex perimeters, sophisticated application-level threats, and regulations that hold CEOs and CIOs accountable for company data, security must now be regarded as more than a bunch of technologies tacked onto the network. “Companies are realizing they must approach security at the enterprise level,” says Rich Caralli, senior member of the technical staff at the CERT Coordination Center’s survivable enterprise management group. “Rather than chasing the latest threat, they’re working on identifying and securing directly the core business processes and information assets essential to the company mission.” March 11, 3:00 p.m. PST Security moving closer to OS, networks Last week's RSA Conference 2005 demonstrated that security components are moving rapidly to the OS and the network as enterprises reinforce their IT systems against a growing security threat. February 21, 6:00 a.m. PST 9-11 commissioner calls for end to ISACs SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. government’s policy of relying on voluntary, industry-led information sharing and analysis centers, or ISACs, is not working and should be discontinued or reformed, according to Jamie Gorelick, a member of the 9-11 Commission. February 18, 4:11 p.m. PST Backing into disaster “What is the best way to fire half my IT staff with minimal disruption?” It’s not often that I receive calls asking me questions as pointed and desperate as this one, but I got just such a call from a friend of a friend who recently had been given the responsibility of running IT at her company. Although she doesn’t come from a purely technical background, she knows enough to understand her situation is dire. Four months of company e-mail has been lost and simply can’t be recovered by the IT staff. They have tried everything, and she’s ready to pull the plug on those involved — and I really can’t blame her. Sometimes bad things happen in IT, but such a massive failure is beyond the pale. January 28, 3:00 p.m. PST In Brief: eBay buys e-commerce tools from Kurant EBay will buy the technology assets of Kurant, a company that makes e-business software for small and medium-size businesses. The online auction company was primarily interested in acquiring Kurant's software relating to online stores, the companies said in a statement Thursday. Terms of the cash deal, which is expected to close by the end of March, were not disclosed. Kurant's flagship product is StoreSense, a software package for building e-commerce Web sites that includes software for supply chain management, secure transaction processing and wireless shopping. EBay expects to hire nearly all of Kurant's employees and to support its current customers. January 14, 4:30 a.m. PST Security jobs on the rise While IT employment numbers may be lagging, there is a glimmer of hope. The number of cybersecurity professionals is projected to grow at an annual compound rate of nearly 14 percent from now until 2008, according to a study released in November. December 23, 7:05 a.m. PST The top 20 IT mistakes to avoid We all like to think we learn from mistakes, whether our own or others’. So in theory, the more serious bloopers you know about, the less likely you are to be under the bright light of interrogation, explaining how you managed to screw up big-time. That’s why we put out an all-points bulletin to IT managers and vendors everywhere: For the good of humanity, tell us about the gotchas that have gotten you, so others can avoid them. November 19, 3:00 p.m. PST Study: Information security field to grow steadily WASHINGTON - The number of cybersecurity professionals is projected to grow at an annual compound rate of nearly 14 percent from now until 2008, according to a study released this week during the Computer Security Institute (CSI) trade show in Washington, D.C. November 9, 1:26 p.m. PST EMC takes Dantz for SMB connections EMC has made its biggest push to date into the fast growing small and midsize business market with the acquisition of Dantz Development, a suppler of backup and recovery software. October 11, 9:01 p.m. PDT Symantec releases data recovery tools Security company Symantec Corp. on Tuesday announced the availability of new versions of its LiveState data recovery software. October 5, 8:55 a.m. PDT SunGard will spin off disaster recovery unit SunGard Data Systems Inc. plans to split into two companies, spinning off a disaster recovery services unit using a tax-free distribution of shares to stockholders, the software and services vendor said Monday. October 4, 8:14 a.m. PDT Update: U.S. cybersecurity chief resigns WASHINGTON - The head of cybersecurity efforts at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has resigned this week, leaving his job after reportedly giving a one-day notice. October 1, 3:10 p.m. PDT Fixing what's wrong with backup It's no secret that the old-fashioned approach to data protection – backing up copies to tape -- often can't keep pace with the disproportionate information growth faced by many companies. September 24, 3:00 p.m. PDT Outsourcing: Something lost, something gained Configuring and maintaining firewalls, IDSes, and anti-spam filters can challenge even the best security administrators. How can anyone realistically review every message in every event log? A tightly managed security framework frequently requires more time than available resources allow. August 27, 3:00 p.m. PDT The shaky state of enterprise security Faced with a seemingly endless onslaught of virulent Internet worms, spam, and e-mail scams, less than half of IT professionals report strong confidence in the security of their enterprise networks, according to the results of the 2004 InfoWorld Security Survey. July 23, 3:00 p.m. PDT Patrolling an always-on network Butch Johnstone looks back at the past year with a mixture of pride and concern when it comes to the issue of enterprise security. July 23, 3:00 p.m. PDT Security: It's time for management to get a clue It’s easy for people to say that they’re extremely or very confident that their IT department’s security is up to par, and it’s even easier for executives to become convinced of a company’s invulnerability to computer-borne attacks. Even though our respondents were no more confident than they were last year, they still seem to be convincing management they know what they’re doing. July 23, 3:00 p.m. PDT Principal chooses IBM for disaster recovery The Principal Financial Group has completed installation of a new disaster recovery system from IBM designed to restore its IT and business systems in less than 24 hours following a disaster. July 22, 6:06 a.m. PDT > Security > Storage > Backup and recovery > Storage |
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