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  • Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0) review: A nice price, but where's the 'wow'?

    Android devices - both smartphones and tablets - are getting increasingly affordable. With its new Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0) tablet, Samsung is obviously hoping to claim its piece of the budget-price pie.

    Written by JR Raphael • 12 April 12 09:18

  • 13 security myths you'll hear - but should you believe?

    They're "security myths", oft-repeated and generally accepted notions about IT security that arguably are simply not true - in order words, it's just a myth. We asked security experts, consultants, vendors and enterprise security managers to share their favorite "security myths" with us. Here are 13 of them.

    Written by Ellen Messmer • 15 Feb. 12 09:32

  • Seven strategies for keeping disaster recovery ON TARGET

    It was a normal Monday batch process at a well-respected global bank - until, that is, a critical back-office system failed. At first, IT administrators took it in stride. This wasn't the only time they'd had to recover lost data. But soon it became clear something more ominous was occurring: the bank's multi-terabyte database had become corrupted.

    Written by Craig Sands and Andrew Truscott • 12 May 08 08:14

  • Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime: The Rolls-Royce of Android tablets

    Watch out, Android tablets: There's a new king in town.

    Written by JR Raphael • 03 Dec. 11 10:56

  • 2011's biggest security snafus

    Perhaps it was an omen of what was to come when the city of San Francisco on New Year's Eve 2010 couldn't get a backup system running in its Emergency Operations Center because no one knew the password.

    Written by Ellen Messmer • 02 Dec. 11 06:27

  • Hackers target IPv6

    If your IPv6 strategy is to delay implementation as long as you can, you still must address IPv6 security concerns right now.

    Written by Susan Perschke • 28 Nov. 11 22:32

  • How DRM could ensure cloud security

    Yet another survey is indicating that security is a big issue for those intending to take up cloud computing.

    Written by Keir Thomas • 04 Feb. 11 05:53
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    Security fail: When trusted IT people go bad

    It's a CIO's worst nightmare: You get a call from the Business Software Alliance (BSA), saying that some of the Microsoft software your company uses might be pirated.

    Written by Tam Harbert • 19 Jan. 11 03:33

  • ClamAV promises free antivirus app for businesses

    Most of us don't like paying for antivirus (AV) software, but at least home users can rely on one of the free options, such as Microsoft Security Essentials, avast!, or AVG Free.

    Written by Keir Thomas • 19 Jan. 11 05:34

  • WikiLeaks: A case study in Web survivability

    In recent weeks WikiLeaks has been targeted by denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, had its hosting service shutdown, been bounced off of Amazon hosting, had its funding through PayPal, MasterCard and other sources shut down, and its leader arrested on sexual assault-related charges. The fact that WikiLeaks remains stubbornly and defiantly online holds some lessons for other sites when it comes to resilience and survivability.

    Written by Tony Bradley • 09 Dec. 10 07:29

  • A private investigator's tricks of the trade

    In 1993, Private Investigator Joe Seanor had wrapped up employment stints in the CIA and the Department of Justice, and was looking for something new in his professional life.

    Written by Joan Goodchild • 22 April 10 00:13

  • SOA Helps a Music Promoter Keep the Hits Coming

    As with paper and plastic, "reduce, reuse, recycle" works for software. Especially when you're a small company in a cutthroat business, where squeezing as much life as you can out of an IT infrastructure can mean the difference between breathing easy and landing on the garbage heap.

    Written by Kim S. Nash • 29 Sept. 09 13:44
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    SOA Security: The Basics

    Diving into Service Oriented Architecture? Vordel's Mark O'Neill covers basic SOA security threats and defenses--and explains how security helps increase SOA's business benefits.

    Written by Mark O'Neill • 13 March 09 10:20

  • Data recovery needn't be your dirty little secret

    Enterprises don't like to discuss how often backups fail to take place, restorations prove unsuccessful and damaged media ships out for data recovery.

    Written by Jennifer Kavur • 12 March 09 09:16

  • Rich Internet apps that double as desktop apps

    Finding a single development environment for all purposes has so far proven an unattainable goal. But with the advent of rich Internet applications (RIA), development nirvana gets a bit closer.

    Written by Martin Heller • 03 Feb. 09 09:15
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    Why traditional security doesn't work for SOA

    Many organizations are embracing SOA as a way to increase application flexibility, make integration more manageable, lower development costs, and better align technology systems to business processes. The appeal of SOA is that it divides an organization's IT infrastructure into services, each of which implements a business process consumable by users and services.

    Written by Chris Clark • 10 Nov. 08 10:50

  • When the meteor and the 1PB database collide

    Our fascination with the prospect of asteroids smashing into the Earth is as deep as the craters that can result from such cosmic fireballs. Think of all the movies Hollywood has made, from little-seen B flicks such as A Fire in the Sky to campy cult classics such as Night of the Comet to scientifically shaky blockbusters such as Meteor and Armageddon.

    Written by Eric Lai • 11 Aug. 08 09:43

  • Does your generation pose an office security risk?

    Whether you were born in the swinging sixties or are part of the slacker generation, some security experts say generational social influences can give you bad habits and make you an office liability.

    Written by Joan Goodchild • 11 Aug. 08 08:25

  • Norton Internet Security 2009 beta ramps up

    Security software customers are speaking with their feet: They want security updates and other security interruptions out of their faces, and they won't hesitate to dump their security suites because of performance drag -- whether or not it's actually the security software that's to blame.

    Written by Lisa Vaas • 30 July 08 07:42

  • How secure is secure enough?

    If there is a Holy Grail in the information security industry, it surely is the answer to the question, "How secure is secure enough?"

    Written by Jaikumar Vijayan • 29 July 08 07:44
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