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Indias outsourcing firms are working to improve data protection and to pre-empt protectionist laws, officials of the of the National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) said this week. “There could be some legislation on data protection. I dont want to wait for it to happen. I want to be pro-active,” said Kiran Karnik, […]

Security spending actually will decrease in the near future as enterprises improve security management and efficiency, according to Victor Wheatman, managing vice president at the Gartner Group. Wheatman also noted that reduced spending is not a sign of decreased interest in security. “By 2006, information security spending (including staff salaries and external services) will drop […]

Electronic criminal activity now ranks above the threat of cyberterrorism, said Amit Yoran, head of the Homeland Security Department cyber security directorate, at a summit hosted by SecurE-Biz.net in Washington Thursday. Criminals are strongly motivated by money, well-organized and have acquired high levels of skill, said John Watters, CEO of iDefense Inc. Cyberterrorists are highly […]

An international coalition of police from the U.S., the U.K. and Australia will work together on an Internet pedophile patrol. The law-enforcement officers intend to listen in on chat-room conversations around the clock to ferret out sexual predators and warn their intended targets of possible danger. A notice will appear in chat rooms to note […]

Highwall Technologies this week unveiled a system to detect and locate rogue wireless devices. The Rogue Detection System 2.0 is comprised of a management console, an element that monitors airwaves for all 802.11 devices. A single hardware system is able to monitor a five-floor building using amplification and special antennas. Read the full story at […]

Brocade Communications Systems Inc. outlined its market plans and stuck to its financial guidance in a presentation to industry analysts this week. The company will pursue opportunities in multiprotocol routing, blade servers, and entry-level switches. The compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for all Brocades markets could swell to 30 percent with new segments added, said […]

Veritas Software Corp. this week extended its support for the Intel Itanium 2 platform on Red Hat Linux 3.0, with the introduction of VERITAS Foundation Suite 2.2 storage management software and VERITAS Cluster Server 2.2 on Itanium for Linux. The two products bring storage management and high availability to Linux deployments with demanding service levels. […]

Decreasing OEM prices have dampened CMC Magnetics Corp. and Ritek Corp. gross margins in the second quarter. CMC went from 36 percent in the first quarter to its current 29 percent, while Ritek dropped from 29 percent in the first quarter to 25 percent now, the two companies said. The companies expect production of 16x […]

Storage consultant GlassHouse Technologies Inc. this week announced the acquisition two U.K.-based storage solution providers. GlassHouse will pay an undisclosed sum in a stock deal for Source Consulting and Sagitta Performance Systems. The two companies will merge and be known as GlassHouse U.K. Source Consulting focuses on services to legal, financial services and insurance companies. […]

Highwall Technologies this week unveiled a system to detect and locate rogue wireless devices. The Rogue Detection System 2.0 is comprised of a management console, an element that monitors airwaves for all 802.11 devices. A single hardware system is able to monitor a five-floor building using amplification and special antennas. Read the full story at […]

For now, established vendors of Balanced Scorecard tools have little to fear from Microsofts new, free business-intelligence add-ons, Office Business Scorecards Accelerator and the Office Excel Add-in for SQL Server Analysis Services, which the company released last week. Thats because the scorecard accelerator is only available in a single language (English) and hasnt been certified […]

As the deadline for HIPAA compliance moves closer, both the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and the National Committee for Quality Assurance have offered some help. From the HHS, a free listserv will alert subscribers to announcements about HIPAA, notices of available resources to assist […]