David Strom

QualysGuard Web Service for PCI Compliance Scans by David Strom At-a-Glance View With the compliance status dashboard, you can see how many of your servers are in or out of spec quickly, along with how many vulnerabilities exist. Know Your Requirements Included with the product is a handy reference to PCI specs, the user guide […]

If your organization handles customer financial and personal information, you know you need to regularly scan your servers and outward-facing applications to ensure this data is protected from hackers. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) has been created to guide IT organizations, but staying in compliance with these guidelines is a huge undertaking. […]

What’s your organization’s exposure to risk? Without a central location in which to keep track of your IT assets and risks they represent for your business, you may be more exposed than you realize. Enter Lumension Risk Manager, which can be a very effective tool for IT administrators charged with getting a handle on and […]

If you’re looking at better ways to automate your Windows 7 deployment, you might want to consider Prowess’ SmartDeploy Enterprise. This is one of numerous tools that enable collections of PCs to migrate from Windows XP to Windows 7. As you probably know, Microsoft doesn’t make it easy to do this: While you can upgrade […]

If you have multiple e-mail applications in use in your enterprise and are looking to consolidate them with a single vendor, while adding the ability to provide e-mail encryption, it makes sense to try out Proofpoint’s On Demand Protection Server v 6.0.2.105. It operates either as a Web service with nothing to install on the […]

Hushmail Business Smooths the Path to E-Mail Encryption by David Strom Compose options You can add encryption and digital signing to each message in Hushmail. Preferences While not as copious as Gmail, there are still a respectable number of options to configure your mailbox behavior found in the preferences section. Secure Forms Anyone can easily […]

E-mail encryption has been around almost as long as e-mail itself, but due to quirky installation and support requirements, the security technology hasn’t been very popular with many enterprises. Fortunately, the current crop of e-mail encryption products and services includes options that are easy to deploy and use and that don’t require a great deal […]

You might have missed the news just before the holidays that Microsoft has become slightly more open with respect to its networking protocols. Late last year, they announced a way for third parties to license their core file sharing protocols through an independent organization called the Protocol Freedom Information Foundation. This is good news on […]

DENVER—Microsoft Financing, the software giants lending arm, announced at the companys Worldwide Partner Program July 12 that it has extended its lending reach with greater coverage across the Microsoft portfolio and more flexible payment options. The expansion includes more choices and extended payment options, greater coverage of the Microsoft product line, introduction in other countries […]

Denver—Microsoft Corporate Vice President Chris Capossela announced a new search product developed in partnership with consulting giant BearingPoint at Microsofts Worldwide Partner Conference here on July 10. /zimages/1/28571.gifClick here to read more news from Caposselas keynote at the Worldwide Developer Conference. The product, called SingleView, is built on top of Microsofts SharePoint 2007 collaboration portal […]