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Privileged IT staffers literally holds the keys to the castle. Access to those keys that open the doors to critical operating system and application resources must be carefully managed and legally audited. Enter the class of products referred to as privilege account management wares.

Can the government force you to reveal a password to unlock encrypted files on your computer that are known to contain child pornography? Or would doing so constitute a violate your Fifth Amendment right against self incrimination?

When the animated film "Bee Movie" opens Nov. 2, those who stick around for the credits will see HP's name scroll past following star Jerry Seinfeld's.

HP Tuesday revealed improvements to its telepresence technology that make high-quality videoconferencing more accessible to business customers.

Kenexa, a global provider of talent-hiring and-retention services and software, had a serious customer-satisfaction problem.

Hoping to capture more seats in the enterprise, Salesforce.com will introduce Salesforce Sandbox as part of its Winter 2006 release. Sandbox is a full parallel copy of a company's production environment to be used for testing, development, and end-user training.

Faced with potential catastrophe caused by anything from the weather to a malicious attack, companies need to make sure their disaster recovery plans match best practices.

Midtier SAN solutions fall into arguably the most competitive and diversified segment of the storage market, suitable for companies that find million-dollar, top-tier solutions too expensive and yet cannot live with the limited performance of sub-US$100,000, entry-level SANs.

Internet Broadcasting Systems, which operates Web sites for television news stations around the US, has used Akamai Technologies' content delivery network for years to speed the delivery of static and dynamic content and to reduce the load on its origin servers. It also has pushed out streaming video and video on demand to the CDN.

Phonetrade.com, a business-to-business trading exchange and catalog site for mobile phones and accessories, was looking to expand its online presence. The company, owned by Global Business Link AB in Gothenburg, Sweden, wanted to outsource its e-commerce efforts, everything from software downloads and security to transaction processing and hosting.

This week I was sidetracked from my projects yet again by the need to investigate two security incidents. Both involved deleted files on servers that apparently had been compromised.