Monthly Archives: May 2001
Making Online Business Secure
Given the amount of information customers must provide when ordering goods and services online, privacy compliance is a key issue for companies doing business...
Denial-Of-Service Attacks Common
A researcher at the University of California at San Diego has documented that denial-of-service attacks are commonplace on the Internet, with an average of...
SAML Apps Before Their Time?
Customer demand for single-sign-on security for B2B sites is pushing vendors to deliver applications months ahead of specification approval—even at the risk of creating...
Securitys Fighter Pilots
Rick Fleming vividly remembers the look on the executives faces. The officials already knew that their credit union had some Internet-related security problems. But...
Trend Micro Seeks Cure in Virus Battle
Eva Chen has been in the anti-virus game longer than some of the aspiring virus writers who keep her busy have been alive. In...
Who Wants to Be an Ex-Billionaire?
Who wants to be an ex-billionaire? Well, no one. But that didnt stop PSINets former CEO William Schrader from taking the plunge.Youre probably not...
Expert Systems Do Nothing More Than Put Experts at Risk.
I recently read "White-collar sweat-shop: The Deterioriation of Work and Its Rewards in Corporate America" (Norton & Co., 2001). Author Jill Andresky Fraser, finance...
Stealth Mode Works for Middleware
The next big change in Internet-based computing will be one that most users wont see. And thats a good thing. Last week, IBM was...
The Great Skills Shortage Debate
On one hand, theres dot-com die-off. there are H1-B visas going begging. There are job boards seeing IT job-seeker traffic as if theyre Los...
A Depressed It Job Market? Hardly
Corporate layoffs are always big news; job creation and hiring streaks, however, rarely make headlines. So forget, for one moment, headlines and news reports...