Cameron Sturdevant

The newest edition of WinZips namesake .Zip file utility gains strong encryption and sheds the 4GB-file-size limit of previous versions. The beta of WinZip 9.0 doesnt cost anything to try; Version 8.1 sells for $29, the same as competitor PKWares PKZip. The ship date and price for Version 9.0 havent been announced. During tests of […]

For Voice over IP to gain wide acceptance in the enterprise, system makers including Avaya, Cisco and Nortel should get into the hardware business. True, these companies make the PBXs, switches and handsets needed to implement VoIP today. What they dont make is an integrated keyboard/telephone that can be attached to a desktop computer. Fujitsu […]

Anti-spam toolmaker MailFrontier takes a bite out of junk e-mail with Anti-Spam Gateway Version 2.0, which is worth evaluation by organizations that want to keep spam management in-house. MailFrontier Anti-Spam Gateway 2.0 includes much-needed per-user controls that allowed individual users in eWEEK Labs test network to control what was—and was not—junk e-mail (see screen). Previously, […]

Buffalo Technology released an omnidirectional indoor antenna for the companys 802.11g wireless PCI network card at NetWorld+ Interop earlier this month. The antenna comes with the $139 AirStation 54M-bps wireless network card and a 4-foot cable. IT administrators who are using antenna extension cables for 802.11b cards will be able to install the higher-speed (but […]

Wireless and security, separately and together, were the name of the game at Networld+Interop in Las Vegas this week. The biggest news at N+I (relatively speaking) was the Wi-Fi Alliances announcement of WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access), the security architecture intended to replace WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy). And a bevy of wireless vendors with a fondness […]

At the RSA conference earlier this month in San Francisco, Computer Associates and several IT and physical security companies announced the formation of the Open Security Exchange. The group released a white paper outlining data models and an initial guideline for linking data and physical security systems. Although IT managers should check out the specification, […]

RSA Security Inc.s Nightingale technology, announced at the RSA Conference earlier this month in San Francisco, uses an old concept with new engineering to protect sensitive data. eWEEK Labs believes that the work represents a real step forward for data security and that IT managers should put Nightingale on their list of technologies to watch […]

At the RSA Conference held last week in San Francisco, Jim Bidzos, conference chair, announced the “Privacy Threat Index.” And not a moment too soon. Used to track the growing threat to privacy from expanding government surveillance, the PTI level currently is at orange–or “high”–because of ongoing invasive search techniques used by the government. The […]

There are some supremely knotty questions surrounding the issues of privacy, especially for enterprise IT professionals, whose very jobs put them in the unique and sometimes perilous position of having to protect data on many fronts. “Privacy for Data Systems,” the topic of an invitation-only symposium held earlier this month at IBMs Almaden Research Center, […]

Enhanced support for Unix and Linux operating systems and applications makes NetIQ Corp.s AppManager Suite 5.0.1 a compelling package for IT managers in charge of heterogeneous networks. However, in eWEEK Labs tests, the required manual installation of Unix monitoring agents and the still-confusing interface were significant drawbacks to the product, which started shipping last month. […]

SPI Dynamics WebINspect 3.0 is a clever tool for Web application developers that tests for security holes during the production process. During production makes the most sense to look for problems because they are easiest and least expensive to repair then. And because the holes are found before the application is up and running, problems […]

Network Associates Technology Inc. has issued a controlled release of InfiniStream, a Carnivore-like sniffer on steroids that will significantly up the ante for forensic network analyzers when it enters general release. During eWeek Labs exclusive test of the latest version, slated for general release in the next quarter, we were impressed with the huge capture […]