From acquisitions to outsourcing, it was a very busy year
Problem identification is no longer sufficient—what's needed is the ability to diagnose and repair problems quickly before they seriously impact your customers or end users.
Sarbanes-Oxley compliance started chaotically. By its second year, however, many organizations were investigating how automated controls could help them see SOX not as an annual cost but as a way to reduce business risk. What’s in store for year three?
If you don't have something nice to say, say nothing at all, right? Storage columnist Jon Toigo ignores that advice as he looks at the three worst events and trends in the storage industry this year.
Does grey knight CA—“the industry’s safety net”—have a new set of priorities?
"Trust but verify" is no longer enough; today you must trust, verify, and triangulate in order to acquire organizational knowledge that you can rely on.
Spyware poses a huge threat—yet a recent survey shows that by their own admission, many enterprises have yet to protect their information with suitable anti-spyware software.
UltraSPARC T1 is a marvelous achievement, to be sure—but will its cutting edginess translate into market success?
A new appliance acts as a meta-broker to the wild profusion of competing network access control schemes
The 2005 SANS Top 20 list of the worst vulnerabilities finds attackers deserting operating system vulnerabilities, for flaws in applications and network devices.
To succeed, a chief information security officer needs project management skills, business process expertise, a budget, and authority—and an aptitude for diplomacy.
Just think of it: routers and switches no longer need separate firewalls, IDS/IPS appliances, or other security technologies to shield themselves from attacks. Fewer boxes to maintain, fewer management systems to support—what’s not to like? As it turns out, plenty.
Our storage guru Jon Toigo has always been suspicious of industry awards. Rather than looking at slick literature, Jon evaluates dozens of products each year to find what's worthy of your consideration. Here are the Toigos for 2005.
If you think you’ve got a lot more on your plate these days, you’re probably right
How can IT—which takes 4.5 of a company's revenue—show itself to be a positive force on the company's bottom line?
Giving mobile users access to enterprise applications and internal portals via an SSL VPN can be tricky. Midwest Wireless' implementation was exceptionally smooth. What's their secret?
IT has experienced relatively healthy job growth in the U.S. during a period when job growth as a whole remained stagnant
Does IBM’s new master data management pitch take SAP, Oracle, and other enterprise applications vendors out of the loop?
Companies favor security technology, overlook adequate user training
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