Cameron Sturdevant

In January 2007, Provilla publicly launched LeakProof; a data leak prevention tool with a claim that it can quickly evaluate sensitive data to ensure that it isn’t copied off to a removable drive or e-mailed out of the organization. Currently, the product creates a 1KB fingerprint of protected documents–regardless of document size. Plans discussed with […]

Penetration testing, which involves probing applications, operating systems and device configurations with the goal of gaining access to protected data, is a good way to determine what weaknesses may be present in an organizations infrastructure. This is among the first steps an organization can take to systematically eliminate risky configurations before attackers can exploit these […]

WebEx WebOffice delivers top-notch group calendaring along with basic database, discussion and document management functions. WebOffice is especially suited for smaller organizations with five to 100 users with little or no IT infrastructure staff and with workers in multiple locations. WebOffice will likely appeal most to organizations that must share calendar events and documents without […]

With major it players such as Cisco Systems and Google hard at work building productivity application beachheads on the Web, now is a good time for enterprises to evaluate the benefits of and drawbacks to deploying hosted office tools such as e-mail, instant messaging, calendars, documents, spreadsheets and databases in their infrastructure. Cisco, which picked […]

On its own, Google Apps is a simple, hosted on-demand offering that requires no additional hardware or software beyond a PC with a Web browser. Enabling Google Apps for SSO (single sign-on) via SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) definitely ups the ante in terms of IT resources that must be available to an organization. However, […]

Google Apps Premier Edition is a hosted collaboration and productivity application platform that combines a customizable start page with chat, e-mail, calendaring, word processing, a spreadsheet and a simple Web page builder into a package that Google sells for $50 per user per year—even though most of these modules are still labeled “beta.” While the […]

eEye Digital Securitys Blink Professional 3.0 centralized endpoint protection software offers enterprises a broad palette of tools to defend their Windows-based client systems. Blink Professional 3.0 has come a long way since we reviewed its debut edition in 2004. In particular, were pleased with the anti-virus capabilities that eEye has built into the product, as […]

May 21, Las Vegas–At the NAC Day session at Interop, a member of the 350-plus audience stood up and said that he considered NAC, even after two years of existence, to be an emerging technology. Another attendee asked if he couldn’t just wait until the nirvana of vendor standardization was achieved and in the meantime […]

Interop in Las Vegas May 20-25 will attempt to answer yet again the question, whither network access control? Cisco, Microsoft and the Trusted Computing Group, backed by an entire NAC (network access control) Day track and a host of lesser players that provide so-called NAC right now products, will attempt to answer the question by […]

The latest addition to Lenovos T-series laptop family is the first to use designs based on Intels Centrino Duo and Pro processor technology. The ThinkPad T61, and the chip set formerly known as “Santa Rosa,” became available May 9. The ThinkPad T61 is the thinnest and lightest 14-inch widescreen ThinkPad laptop. At 13.2 by 9.3 […]

Citrix GoToAssist 8.0 is a remote control service that allows support departments of any size to provide live assistance to remote Windows users without having to preinstall agent software on those users systems. eWEEK Labs test showed, however, that organizations that have adopted restricted rights configurations for user desktops must ensure that the JRE (Java […]

I remember buzz here at eWEEK Labs some time ago about user authentication based on keystroke cadence. It sounded cool but didnt seem to take off. That may soon change. In March, I spoke with Jared Pfost, a vice president at BioPassword. It turns out that the company that became BioPassword purchased the rights to […]