Cameron Sturdevant

It was big news in early October when federal officials essentially deleted the ca.gov domain because the Transportation Authority of Marin Web site was hacked up to redirect to serve porn pages. While speaking with Dianne Steinhauser, executive director of the Marin transportation authority, I advised her to shut down the Web site until competent […]

I got to see one of the only IBM BladeCenter S systems in the world yesterday. It is comparable to the HP BladeSystem c3000 “Shorty” that was reviewed by my colleague Wayne Rash. The systems were on display side by side at an IBM office in San Francisco and it was quite a show. Now, […]

I got home last night, felt for my cell phone, a Treo 650 that I’ve had since 2005, and found only an empty holster. Crap. I immediately flashed back to when I probably lost it. I was sitting on the floor of the BART train because I wanted to talk with a friend, there weren’t […]

Salesforce.com (again) showed off Force.com, its platform-as-a-service application development platform, just one month after unveiling the offering. Everyone was brimming with pride and joy and talking of “developer happiness.” Salesforce.com Vice President Adam Gross was joined by James Ward from Adobe and Natan Zaidenweber of StakeWare, an AppExchange incubator partner that uses the Force.com platform, […]

Denver International Airport is among the busiest airports in the world and boasts one of the longest runways in the United States. The airport also conducts a lot of business using credit cards. DIA recently completed its Level 1 (more than 6 million transactions per year) PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) audit, […]

Compliance Without Tears Practically every enterprise must abide by and demonstrate compliance with some group of regulations intended to head off the next Enron or WorldCom scandal or headline-grabbing data breach. Whats more, since so many of the routes through which organizations reach and demonstrate compliance run through their IT infrastructures, this rats nest of […]

Until now, most retailers have escaped the embrace of regulatory compliance, but the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, or PCI DSS, is changing all that. A 12-part, private-industry-defined rule set, PCI DSS governs cardholder data handling and transaction processing among merchants, banks and card processing companies. The PCI standard references technologies such as firewalls, […]

10 Things You Should Know About PCI Compliance Up-to-Date Network Map Requirement 1.1.2 asks for a current network diagram with all connections to cardholder data, including any wireless networks. This is essential for managing any network and will significantly decrease the time needed to l 10 Things You Should Know About PCI Compliance – 2. […]

Oracle Database 11g Boosts Automation Consumer practices such as social tagging, bookmarking and networking are popping up in enterprise technology, such as Vivisimos Velocity enterprise search platform. Oracle Database 11g Boosts Automation – SQL Performance Analyzer The SPA (SQL Performance Analyzer) compares how workloads are handled to predict the effect of schema changes, statistics gathering […]

The Transportation Authority of Marin Web site was hacked to link to porn sites, causing the Federal agency that oversees .gov domains to temporarily remove ca.gov from Domain Name System servers. The porn links were removed and California and Federal IT workers scrambled to get ca.gov back online before major havoc was unleashed. The TAM […]