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Best of the Fall Trade Shows

From panel discussions to workshops (where you can ask your own tough questions), this fall's trade shows offer a wealth of information and perspective from vendors big and small.

CERT: Best Practices for Beating Worms

CERT’s Coordination Center outlines the top steps businesses, vendors, and the government can take to arrest the onerous cycle of constant patching.

Best Practices: Staying Ahead of International Regulations

From carrots to sticks, a variety of recent regulations has presented a challenge to security managers. We ask a security expert where U.S. and European regulations are headed.

Alert: Vulnerability in SSH

Versions of OpenSSH prior to 3.7.1 are vulnerable to denial of service attacks via a buffer management problem. We explain the problem and what you can do about it.

IBM Touts zSeries to Simplify IT Infrastructure

Big Blue discusses the idea of reducing network and application tiers, and offers a model that combines zSeries technology with Intel-based server blades.

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Unlikely Partnership for Next-Generation Web Services

IBM and Microsoft are fierce competitors, but they've united to deliver protocols that will deliver a reliable and secure messaging and transactional infrastructure for heterogeneous environments.



Microsoft "Humbled" by Recent Security Problems

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer acknowledged last week that his company has been "humbled" by the effects of the Blaster and Sobig.F worms, and outlined his company's "comprehensive approach for better se

EMC on the Brain

Vendors must learn that juxtaposing one’s own products with EMC’s as a means for advancing one’s own value proposition is silly.

Accelerating Security Certification

Can information security professionals really get certified in half the ordinary time?

Finding Security Holes in Your Web Applications

The dot-com boom’s legacy: buggy code. How do you find those bugs? Instead of trying to do code reviews with tools that were meant for developers, it's time to do them with tools meant for security

Authentication: Three Critical Steps for Every Organization

Yankee Group predicts large growth in the authentication market. Here are three things every organization needs to do to ensure users are who they say they are.

Mainframe Technology Trickles Down to iSeries

A new iSeries offering provides mainframe-like features—advanced backup, replication, and high-availability clustering—across IBM's eServer product line.

Enterprise Surprises: Where To Find Those Elusive Profits

The secret: an integrated business design

Python Offers Intelligent, Provocative Approach to Tape Automation

Spectra Logic proves it offers products and pragmatism; Python will raise the bar for other vendors.

Best Practices: Handheld Security

Handheld security expert suggests best practices for organizations that support the devices

Alert: “Critical” Flaw in Office, Other Microsoft Applications

Vulnerability in Microsoft applications occurs thanks to Visual Basic for Applications

Dirty Dozen Viruses: August was a Banner Month

Central Command shows a single virus accounted for over three-quarters of all activity last month.

Oracle Touts RDB to Show Its Heart

To allay PeopleSoft users' fears, company tries to show it can do right by an acquisition.

Case Study: The Demise of Dueling Desktops

Web-based solution simplifies connecting users to legacy applications for insurer