Cameron Sturdevant

LAS VEGAS, NEV – Despite the mention of Unix and Linux here and there, the first Microsoft Management Summit, which I attended earlier this week in Las Vegas, was entirely about Microsoft, with NetIQ and Altiris, the summits organizers of the previous four years, shoe-horned in. And this show was almost entirely about SMS (Systems […]

Tools Track More Assets Whether its the Chief Financial Officer looking for numbers for an upcoming budget or the Business Software Association checking a companys software license compliance, two bread-and-butter inventory tracking tools—Asset-Metrix Inc.s AssetMetrix 2.0 and Tally Systems Corp.s TS.Census 2.0—can help IT managers keep an accurate account of what they have and where. […]

If you are a Computer Associates customer, I want to hear from you. Thats because CA is following your money and I want to know if it is really doing the right thing. Its clear from four days of interviewing, attending press conferences and lurking in tech sessions that CA is putting security and storage […]

ORLANDO, Fla.—Computer Associates Internationals CA World was about a lot of things, but mostly the software company talked about portal technology. CAs CleverPath 4.0 portal tool, released today, includes integration tools for incorporating third-party applications—an essential addition to the product for rapid deployment. Version 4.0 also has wireless device detection that allows it to automatically […]

Dont expect the latest crop of wireless protocol analyzers to stand still if dual chip sets that allow wireless cards to support 802.11b and 802.11a achieve traction. It mostly comes down to writing a driver that can support features of both chips in a single card, but as our tests revealed, this task is more […]

WLANs are becoming a fact of life, or at least a creeping threat, for many enterprise networks. The most important question to ask of the newly minted pack of wireless protocol analyzers designed to address this threat is: What can these things see in the air that cant be seen on the wired connection? eWeek […]

Having trouble with DoS attacks? Want to figure out a way to see whos behind them or at least track down the source? The complete answer is likely still some way off, but IT managers who want to track the latest forensic and sleuthing technologies should start at citeseer.nj.nec.com/park00effectiveness.html. This NEC ResearchIndex portal is loaded […]

There are a couple of interesting twists in Network Associates Technologies Inc.s Sniffer product line. First is the Sniffer Investigator, a protocol analyzer appliance designed for small to midsize enterprises. Investigator, which shipped in February, is a scaled-back version of Sniffer Pro. The second notable ware, released April 4, is Sniffer Enterprise Management Architecture, a […]

A denial-of-service attack can cripple a network, even if access isnt gained, and a single distributed-denial-of-service onslaught can disable a multitude of systems. Products including Top Layer Networks Inc.s Attack Mitigator Version 1.0 can help a lot, as can firewalls, operating system patches, additional servers and working with ISPs to choke off DoS traffic further […]

I got reacquainted with Novell AppNotes, from Novells research department, at BrainShare last month. Its a publication I hadnt seen in quite some time, and the revised edition is worth a look (online at developer.novell.com/research), even if youre not a Novell user. With articles on a range of technology topics, from LDAP to trouble-shooting Q&As, […]

To put Top Layer Networks Inc.s Attack Mitigator through its defensive paces, eWeek Labs used 60 clients, some set up as targets, most set up as attackers; a Dell Computer Corp. four-way PowerEdge 6300 500MHz system running Windows 2000 with Microsoft Corp.s Internet Information Services as the main target. On the software side, we used […]

Top Layer Filters Traffic Top Layer Networks Inc.s Attack Mitigator Version 1.0 provides powerful protection from DoS and distributed-denial-of-service attacks on Web servers and other network infrastructure devices and desktop systems. The Attack Mitigator is best suited for large organizations that need an extra layer of protection for their networks. It shouldnt be thought of […]