Jim Rapoza

Rising awareness of network security risks has spurred more vendors to offer access-control solutions. This eWeek Labs eValuation pits two relative newcomers against new releases from two long-established players. On the side of the Old Guard are Netegrity Inc.s SiteMinder 4.5 and Securant Technologies Inc.s ClearTrust SecureControl 4.5. (These two have been competing so long […]

The need for anonymous digital certificates that protect the privacy of individuals is well-accepted, but the need for anonymous certificates from businesses and certificate authorities is often overlooked. This issue arose during discussions at the recent eWeek Labs eValuation of PKI (public-key infrastructure) systems. Content protected by digital certificates is protected through strong encryption, but […]

Tell me you have a service to build hosted template-based Web sites. Yawn. Say that the sites it builds are based purely on Macromedias Flash. Hmm, I havent seen that before. Then point out that you are adapting the service so that it helps businesses add value to Web sites and intranets. Now Im interested. […]

Its tough to move up from no. 3 when nos. 1 and 2 are household names and youre a little-known company from Norway. Its even tougher when the other guys products are given away for free but you charge for yours. Accordingly, Opera Software A/S has finally bitten the bullet and released the newest version […]

Microsoft Corp. products tend to be weak in their first versions and improve with each subsequent release. Site Server, the companys first attempt at a full e-commerce system, was born weak and didnt get much better in its next two versions. Two years after the last major release, Microsoft has renamed the product Commerce Server […]

Coreldraw graphics Suite, one of the most popular applications for image creation and photo editing, is now available on Linux systems. However, it isnt really a native Linux application. Like many of the Corel productivity applications built for Linux, CorelDraw makes heavy use of the Wine emulation environment, which renders it less stable than a […]

Axent Technologies Inc.s Webthority 3.0 is a new, simple-to-deploy access-control application that uses the companys experience in security to provide good control over who can view Web-based content. In tests, eWeek Labs found Webthority 3.0 to be a straightforward tool for variegated access to content on Web sites, extranets and intranets. Released in October, Webthority […]

Your company needs a PKI—at least, thats what youve been told. After all, a public-key infrastructure provides important benefits such as data confidentiality, secure communications and strong authentication. But where exactly will it be implemented? To which users? To how many users? Just within the company or to business partners as well? And just what […]

Building a web application can be haphazard work, as evidenced by the ubiquity of applications that are plagued by bugs and security problems. Fusebox.org, an information portal for Web developers, is trying to stomp out buggy apps by defining a standard methodology for building solid applications. The Fusebox framework was created by a group of […]

After my recent review of Netscape 6, i received e-mail from several users who had encountered bugs in the new Netscape browser. This got me thinking about bugs in general and how they affect every business and computer user out there. n Many years ago, I worked in quality assurance, and I learned then that […]