Cameron Sturdevant

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 […]

June 2008 will be a milestone for IPv6 adoption. By that time, U.S. military and government agencies must source IPv6-capable hardware and software. For most IT managers, the switch to IPv6 will be an onerous transition involving extensive equipment, application and protocol tests. /zimages/4/28571.gifClick here to read more about the switch to IPv6. While NAT […]

Microsoft claims it has the tool for deploying Vista: System Center Configuration Manager 2007. eWEEK Labs tests show that its indeed a tool for deploying Vista, but not the only one that should be considered. Now in its second beta, SCCM 2007 is the successor to Microsofts Systems Management Server and slated to be released […]

OK. Your organization has made a decision to move to Windows Vista. Youve weighed the good against the bad, youve tested the new operating system with your existing apps, and youve navigated the complex licensing landscape to determine how much a migration it will cost over time. Now, you just have to deploy Vista to […]

Microsofts System Center Configuration Manager 2007 is a server-based product that helps IT managers set up server, desktop and laptop systems. eWEEK Labs tested Beta 2 of the product at our facilities in San Francisco and at Blade Network Technologies, where we had access to dozens of systems with which we could put SCCM 2007 […]