Monthly Archives: May 2005
IBM, Lenovo Complete Deal
Lenovo Group Ltd. has completed its $1.75 billion purchase of IBMs PC business, creating the third-largest personal computer vendor in the world and giving...
ISS Sticks with Its Game Plan
CEO Tom Noonan has been with Internet Security Systems Inc. since the Atlanta companys humble beginnings in 1994 as a startup with one product...
SANS Issues Top 20 Flaws List
The SANS Institute last week issued the first quarterly update to its formerly annual Top 20 Internet Security Vulnerabilities list, which many organizations use...
Schmidt Leaves eBay for Security Startup
Howard Schmidt, perhaps the United States most visible chief security officer, has left online auction house eBay and is donning the jersey of a...
Cisco Security Device Faces Tough Competition
Cisco Systems Inc. hopes to make inroads in security with its new multifunction appliance, but integration and price issues, along with Ciscos late entry...
Trustgenix Eases ID Management
Small and midsize organizations that are required by a larger partner to automate authentication of users when accessing Web applications should consider Trustgenix Inc.s...
Field Guide Is All Over the Place
The first thing to clear up is that Michal Zalewskis latest book, "Silence on the Wire: A Field Guide to Passive Reconnaissance and Indirect...
IBM Launches Open Plan for Vertical Markets
IBM has added key weapons in its arsenal for attacking vertical markets: its expertise with open source and open standards and its vast intellectual...
SAN File Systems: Failure or Future?
Highly scalable performance. Massive storage capacity. Heterogeneous platform support. These are not usually the characteristics associated with technologies that have failed to win major...
XOsofts Assured Recovery Speeds Disaster Recovery
This week, XOsoft Inc. will make available its Assured Recovery software, a new product that allows customers to perform fully automated scheduled tests of...