Monthly Archives: December 2001
Freeing Up the Network Bottlenecks
Nortel Networks Corp. last week unveiled a suite of products and services designed to increase the performance of corporate networks by eliminating the data...
Survey: Even After Sept. 11, Security Lags
Corporate IT largely remains unprepared for preventing and overcoming breaches of information security despite the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, a recent survey found.Computer...
Badtrans.B Worm Spreading Fast
A fast-spreading e-mail worm infected thousands of home users over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend and began spreading in enterprises as well early last week.Known...
Keeping Up With Windows Fixes
For large enterprises, sorting through Microsoft Corp.s bulletins on its latest security fixes and then determining which machines need what hot fix can be...
5 Steps to Enterprise Security – Step 4: Response
Hey, did you know that the home page on your Web site says, Hacked by Chinese?"Getting an e-mail or a phone call to this...
Privacy Quiz Questioned
Microsoft Corp. last week launched a Web-based tool designed to help Internet users determine the level of online privacy they want.The tool takes the...
The Express Way to Device Management
Configuring security devices is one of the most basic and time-consuming aspects of setting up a protection perimeter around IT assets. Organizations that rely...
Network Associates Names New Execs
Network Associates is making some changes at the top.The e-business security solutions vendor on Monday named former McAfee division president Gene Hodges as the...
Network Associates Names New President
Network Associates Inc. on Monday continued its year-long overhaul of its executive ranks, naming Gene Hodges its new president.Hodges, who had been running the...
Ginger Unveiled–Its a Scooter!
New York, December 3, 2001--Inventor Dean Kamen this morning unveiled his invention, variously known as "Ginger" and "It," ending a full year of speculation....