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- China's 'secure' OS Kylin - a threat to U.S offensive cyber capabilities?
- Picture a cyber warfare arms race where the participating countries have spent years of building offensive cyber warfare capabilities by exploiting the monoculture on one another's IT infrastructure. Suddenly, one of the countries starts migrating to a hardened operating system of its own, and by integrating it...
- Tags: China, Operating System, Operating Systems, Linux, Software, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-05-13
- Cloud vs sand: Google vs Microsoft
- The numbers don't lie An independent study found on-site Microsoft apps - Office and Exchange - cost 20x in capital dollars and 5x-6x more than Google Apps on a 3 year Total Cost of Ownership TCO basis. How can Microsoft compete? The debate Cloud, as...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Network, Data Loss, Downtime, Microsoft Corp., Business Problem, TwinStrata, SATA RAID 5, Capital Requirement, Update:Here, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2009-05-05
- Reliability Analysis of the APC Symmetra MW Power System
- This paper is a quantitaive reliability analysis of the APC Symmetra MW UPS performed by MTechnology, Inc. MTech. In contrast to common MTBF calculations based on summing component failure rates, this study used techniques of Probabilistic Risk Assessment PRA to calculate the likelihood of over 680,000 potential failure modes. The...
- Tags: American Power Conversion Corp., Analysis, Productivity
- White papers 2009-04-08
- Intridea wins: Postman as chief strategist, Present.ly official SXSW microblog platform
- Intridea, which creates enterprise 2.0 Web solutions, today announced that communications veteran Joel Postman has joined the company as senior partner and chief enterprise social business strategist. Postman, author of SocialCorp: Social Media Goes Corporate, and founder of Socialized, is responsible for supporting Intridea clients with social media...
- Tags: Social Media, SXSW, Intridea, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2009-01-19
- Transforming Risk Management Systems
- Rapid expansion of its oil sands operations was causing one of the world's largest integrated oil and gas companies significant challenges with its risk management systems and practices. The Project Integration Manager of the company sought Kaiser's assistance to enhance its existing systems in this area. The key challenge for...
- Tags: Risk Management, Kaiser Associates, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Strategy, Security, Finance, Management
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- Enterprise Threat Management (ETM): Bringing Security Together Through Intelligence
- While IT security spending has been on the increase in recent years, unfortunately so have vulnerabilities and successful attacks. Enterprises are still being infected with undetected, targeted malware - evading traditional perimeter and host defenses. Professional hackers are in it for the profit now and are creating sophisticated ways to...
- Tags: IT Security, Sourcefire Inc., Professional Hacker, Security
- Webcasts 2009-01-01
- New security venture for mid-market application users
- Good time for a new offering: When Wipro met Fortify Wipro (one of the world’s largest outsourcers) and Fortify a major software security vendor are announcing today their plans to offer a new joint outsourcing solution. This solution combines Fortify’s software security tools with Wipro’s outsourcing...
- Tags: Software, Security Professional, Security, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-10-27
- eManager 3.0.2.3 (Windows)
- eManager is a desktop Expert System that allows the user to follow any procedure, from HR; Health & Safety; to Corporate Governance, allowing the user to get it right first time every time. Ultra simple to use, and typically takes two minutes to train a user, after which they can...
- Tags: Procedure, Microsoft Windows, X-Genics, eManager, Corporate Governance, Regulations, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Government
- Software downloads 2008-10-21
- Gauging Your Own Risk, On This Black Monday
- Don't you wish you had the same tools at your disposal to assess the riskiness of securities you hold, now that Wall Street is going through a Monday as black or blacker than the one in 1987. Bear Stearns, gone. Lehman Brothers, bankrupt....
- Tags: Asset, Stock, Wall Street, Risk Management, XLoss, Asset Management, Financial Planning, Strategy, Financial Services, Security, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Finance, Management, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-09-15
- My Awesome IT Job: Senior security engineer, VoIP carrier
- Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here are a few words from IT pros that love their work. "I...
- Tags: Network, Information Technology, Hobby, Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Security, Networking, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- AuditPro Enterprise Edition 4 (Windows)
- AuditPro Enterprise Edition is a comprehensive enterprise security assessment solution featuring critical asset identification, policy compliance, risk analysis, real time vulnerability views, enhanced reporting capability, and graphical progress analysis. Supporting multiple operating systems and databases, AuditPro brings you the state-of-the-art in information systems security evaluation and risk management. This version...
- Tags: Asset, Enterprise Security, Network Intelligence, Microsoft Windows, AuditPro Enterprise Edition, Asset Management, Security, Strategy, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Management
- Software downloads 2008-06-18
- Hacking SCADA for terrorism and destruction
- SCADA scares me, and I've seen enough things on the Internet to be desensitized to many things, but attacks against SCADA threaten our national security in a very real and topical way by attacking power grids, water treatment plants, nuclear plants, etc. Hacking networks that SCADA devices reside on and...
- Tags: Device, Hacking, Internet, Network, SCADA, Terrorism, Attack, Enterprise Software, Software, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-06-12
- SocialCalc: a killer app?
- David Greenfield details SocialCalc, the wikified spreadsheet from SocialText. While David's assessment is comprehensive, I partially disagree with his analysis that:  ...SocialCalc will have a long way to go. Today there’s no Excel integration, something that Google Sheets already offers. What’s more the range of functions provided with SocialCalc...
- Tags: Killer Application, Socialtext, Spreadsheet, SocialCalc, Google Sheet, Productivity, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- Secure coding: the invisible elephant
- The last couple of weeks, I've been trying to vaguely connect the dots between social computing, cloud computing and traditional process based systems. There are multiple legs to the story but one that had pretty much escaped my attention was the security angle. I will not claim any special expertise...
- Tags: Software, Google Inc., Database, Cloud Computing, Information Technology, Computer Science, Microsoft Corp., Computer, Ms Davidson, Tools & Techniques, Security, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-04-08
- From an Eye in the Sky to Roots on the Ground
- How much pulp/lumber/biomass/sugar cane is there on that piece of ground? There are many reasons for asking that question. As commodity prices and energy pirces climb, the need for the answers get more urgent. The folks at Lanworth have gathered the global database, experience and...
- Tags: Analysis, Shailu Verma, GIS, Software, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-03-17
- New research: IT cost overruns, delays and contract terminations
- A report from the European Services Strategy Unit, an independent watchdog agency, summarizes the scope of major public sector IT failures over the last decade. The report is titled, Cost Overruns, delays and terminations in 105 outsourced public sector ICT contracts. Key findings presented in the...
- Tags: Project, Termination, Information Technology, IT Cost, Strategy, Workforce Management, Software Development, Management, Human Resources, Software/Web Development, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-01-10
- Business Analysis Essentials
- Instantly save $300 off the standard course price when you register on TechRepublic, ZDNet, or BNET! Offer ends June 26, 2009.View Available Dates and Locations In this introductory course, you'll delve into the role and responsibilities of the business analyst-the communication link between all business areas and a...
- Tags: Technique, Global Knowledge Network Inc., Raleigh, Schaumburg, Business Analysis, Requirement, Productivity
- Training 2008-01-01
- Introduction to Project Management
- Instantly save $300 off the standard course price when you register on TechRepublic, ZDNet, or BNET! Offer ends June 26, 2009.View Available Dates and Locations Learn project management techniques and best practices in this updated version of Project Management Essentials, the 2006 PMI Product of the Year award...
- Tags: Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- Training 2008-01-01
- UK Rural Payments Agency (RPA): IT failure and gross incompetence screws farmers
- A combination of IT failures and management incompetence have prevented the Rural Payments Agency RPA, which administers UK farm subsidy payments, from successfully executing its core mission despite years of effort. This extremely negative assessment is based on a new report issued by National Audit Office NAO. Accenture is implementing...
- Tags: Payment, Agency, Information Technology, Accenture Ltd., U.K., Operational Accounting, Finance, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2007-12-16
- Securing IP Telephony - Can You Hear Me Now?
- When considering an investment in IP Telephony, the more planning and analysis done up front, the less problems during and after the deployment. An infrastructure assessment and risk assessment should be part of every IP Telephony project. The right partner can help determine if the current infrastructure has the capacity...
- Tags: Telephony, IP Telephony, IP, VOIP, Telecommunications, Telecom & Utilities, Networking
- White papers 2007-12-10
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