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Experts advise the following before signing over your secure operations to a managed security service provider (MSSP): • Get a clue. Before you start thinking about whos going to be managing your security, decide what theyre going to be managing. Your firewall, intrusion detection, virtual private network, anti-virus, e-mail scanning and authentication are all pieces […]

Companies are increasingly turning over the keys to their e-businesses to security professionals, who often lack the expertise or personnel to operate them safely. Hiring security providers to protect corporate networks and the critical data those networks contain is a growing trend, but the companies providing such services are unregulated and not subject to industry […]

Who knew that managing passwords could be so unbelievably expensive? Boeing did. The aerospace company recently estimated it was spending millions of dollars a year — Boeing would not provide an exact number — in support costs and lost productivity because of password management tasks. Boeing provides intranet access to 150,000 employees, many of whom […]

A leading open source developer, Miguel de Icaza, said he will launch an open source project to create a platform-neutral version of the upcoming Microsoft .Net development environment. The move indicates early support for the .Net architecture from an unexpected source. And if de Icaza, the lead developer of the Linux/Gnome user interface, wins many […]

The Federal Communications Commission was twice smacked hard in the face: first when an appeals court overturned the panels decision to take back and reauction NextWave Telecoms wireless licenses and then again when the U.S. Supreme Court said it wouldnt consider the FCCs plan to repo bankrupt Metro PCS licenses. But the FCC was due […]

London Time Bandwidth trading company Arbinet-thexchange expanded its spot market for telephone minutes last week when it turned up a switch in London, letting members trade phone time on either side of the Atlantic. Increased European demand pushed the company to activate the switch, said CEO Curt Hockemeier. Navy Smarts The U.S. Navys plans to […]

HotJobs Joins Monster.com TMP Worldwide, owner of job-listing site Monster.com, plans to buy competitor HotJobs for about $460 million in stock. The two sites combined will have more than 650,000 job listings and 14 million résumés, according to TMP. The company says it plans to maintain HotJobs as a separate site. E-Mail Junkies We cant […]

Long-haul and metro network operators are beginning to wring value from already-lit fiber by selling individual wavelengths of light to bandwidth-hungry businesses not rich enough to afford individual fibers for different data services. Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) gear allows operators to load on new features and add capacity to their networks more cheaply than […]

Content Bridge, the first operating content peering exchange, has a problem: Its only two resellers are going under, and customers and partners are hesitant to join. In the volatile world of content delivery networks (CDNs), content peering has long been a contentious issue, with at least five initiatives running concurrently to establish a standard that […]

An oil giant is showing other businesses how to use the Internet to bolster the supply of technical experts. The problem: BP — the worlds third-largest oil company — has hundreds of leases in the Gulf of Mexico, but doesnt have the resources to analyze the boatloads of seismic data from each tract in order […]

Two vulnerabilities have been discovered that could wreak havoc on the most widely used database software on the Internet, Oracle8i, according to security experts. The first and most serious hole would allow hackers to overflow the buffer of 8is Transparent Network Substrate (TNS) Listener, which is responsible for establishing connections between a client and remote […]

Microsoft is launching a two-pronged offensive against what it sees as its chief competition on the Internet: open source code. In a preliminary license for its wireless Internet tools, the software giant appears to be floating a trial balloon by explicitly banning the use of open source code. Microsofts language, which could become part of […]