About Writer Carl is a contributing editor to Communications Technology magazine and has held staff positions at InternetWeek, tele.com, Cable World and Cable Marketing magazines. You can read his blog, Network Sentry, at IT Business Edge.
Wireless Still Dangerous Despite The Reduced Hype Perhaps the major overall growth area in networking is wireless. Companies and consumers are putting more data on the air every day. Wireless safety still is a big issue, of course, but it doesn't seem to be getting quite as much hype as it was a year ago.Safety at public hotspots rightfully gets the most attention. This vnunet.com piece, which reports on a study from Sophos, strongly suggests...... Similar Editorial : The Hype Behind Ink by Brenda Stokes. | Source : Emerging Technologies
Challenges Of Virtual Machine Security Are Multiplying Virtualization is a boon for data centers and other scenarios in which concentrated computer resources are necessary.Significant questions about the security of the technology persist, however. Indeed, it seems that the questions are proliferating. At Black Hat DC last week, a researcher demonstrated how to hack into VMware and Xen products during the movement of the virtual machine from one...... Similar Editorial : Difficult Challenges by Miami Phillips. | Source : Firewalls Network Security
SMBs Big Opportunity For Comcast I blogged back in November about Comcast’s decision to bundle services such as e-mail and document sharing with its high-speed Internet offering in the hopes of winning more business from SMBs.Now there's an update, with Cable Digital News reporting that Comcast is planning “a major unveiling” of the new product this month. The article cites a Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Inc. report, which says...... Similar Editorial : Comcast Gives Cable TV by Julia Hall. | Source : Technology Marketing
Cable Moves Toward The Big 3-0 Though the premise of Parks Associates' report on broadband penetration is a little far afield, it does provide food for thought.The report’s main conclusion is that by 2012, 33 million homes in the United States will have broadband with speeds of 10 Mbps or higher. Just a bit more than half of that number — 5.7 million, or 9 percent of U.S. broadband homes — had such speeds at the end of last...... Similar Editorial : Cool Moves and Writing by Pamela White. | Source : Technology Marketing
Virtualization Thrives, Security Struggles To Keep Up Tall fences make good neighbors. That goes for life in suburbia and, apparently, on the inside of computers.The profile of virtualization is growing and, with it, the importance of virtualized security. It makes sense that this would be a big issue. It is impossible to get something for nothing: Virtualization squeezes multiple operating systems onto a single physical machine. That saves space and...... Source : Firewalls Network Security
Defining Virtualization's Role In Regulatory Compliance Question: How are virtualization and compliance related?Shields: Virtualization is an enabler for platforms that are required to drive the business. [In a traditional environment], what I see is all of those chassis in the racks. There is a complimentary interest in security and monitoring the action of users and administrators [for compliance]. The virtualization solutions on the market today...... Similar Editorial : Electronic Regulatory Compliance Training by Marci Lynn Crane. | Source : Technology Marketing
Despite Upgrades, Iphone Still Having Problems At The Office It's difficult to assess how seriously Apple really takes the iPhone as a business device. After all, if it thought it would unseat - or even get a seat close to - Research in Motion's BlackBerry, it would have done things a lot differently the first time around.Perhaps its apparent ambivalence is because it reached a conclusion similar to those found by Sanford Bernstein in a study...... Similar Editorial : Mobile Phone Upgrades by Duncan Elliott. | Source : Iphone Mp3 Player
United, Internet Users Stand; Divided, We End Up At Phony Sites Weinschenk How did this differ from other vulnerabilities?Kaminsky This is an extreme case of what we normally have to deal with. Usually it is constrained to a single vendor, with individual implications. [Alleviating the problem] involves contacting vendors, making sure they understand the flaw and working with a patch release. This particular vulnerability was different. I recognized the flaw....... Similar Editorial : Manchester United by Trenton Moss. | Source : Ucla Computer Science
Online Banking Grows, But Security Concerns Continue To Accrue Customers of HSBC, Bank of America and Washington Mutual may want to think twice about banking online. Quickly. The three banks are identified in a study by a UC Berkeley’s Boalt School of Law researcher as the most victimized by identity theft.CNet, which links to the study, says that researcher Chris Hoofnagle used numbers received under a Freedom of Information Act request. He ran the numbers...... Similar Editorial : Online Banking by Thomas Winn. | Source : Aol Spyware Removal
Patch Management, Now More Than Ever As the time lag between news of a new vulnerability and hackers' ability to exploit it shrinks, patch management becomes a more vital tool for enterprises.InformationWeek's look at five products begins by saying that the two main factors to consider when making a deployment decision are the number of operating systems supported and whether or not the product uses agents.The site's lab looked at...... Similar Editorial : PPC Management by Dave Brown. | Source : Virus Scan Download
WiMax: The Next Great Disappointment? Gary Forsee’s resignation as the chairman, president and CEO of Sprint Nextel could have ramifications on at least a couple of levels: It almost certainly signals a change in how aggressively the carrier executes its stated WiMax strategy. That, in turn, would have a major impact on the overall success of the next-generation platform.Many of the issues are delineated in this insightful CNET piece...... Similar Editorial : The N810 Wimax by IC. | Source : Advanced Technology Solutions Inc
Comcast Shift A Nod To Political, Competitive Realities Comcast's decision to cooperate with peer-to-peer (P2P) platform provider BitTorrent is a surprise that has the potential to shift the political debate and alter the technical landscape.Early reaction pointed to two possible reasons the cable operator did an about face. Some commentators said that the company is cutting its losses and seeking a graceful way out of a sticky situation. Others - and...... Similar Editorial : Toyota Trails Political Clout by Mike Bartley. | Source : Advanced Technology Solutions Inc
