safety organization

ZDNet Resources

• sort by:
• Relevance
• Date
• Popularity

Incident Scene, Event and Disaster Management: More Effective Response With Wireless Broadband and Rugged Devices

Public safety agencies have historically relied primarily on voice communication with some use of data. Today, large repositories of vital data are available at all levels. Public safety organizations are demanding the ability to have this information available at every incident. The Department of Homeland Security has articulated a vision...

Tags: Broadband, Disaster Management, Incident Management, Motorola Inc., Wireless Broadband, Wireless, Safety Organization, Mesh Networking, Broadband Internet, Wireless And Mobility, Networking, Telecommunications

White papers 2008-04-07

Additional Resources

Second iPhone worm behaves like botnet

That'll teach them what happens to jailbreakers!This only hits those who deliberately climbed the fence and ventured into the dangerous would outside Apples walled garden.Victims of this have nothing on Apple for this. The vulnerability was introduced by their own incompetent actions, but knowingly non-sanctioned by Apple.The learning: You better...

Tags: Smart phones, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Apple iPhone, worm, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

KFC UNThinking at the UN

Honestly, the professional PR brigade never cease to amaze me with some of the nuttiest ideas for brand enhancement that all too often turn out to be just the opposite. My ZDNet colleague Jason Perlow was spammed today by a top PR agency with...

Tags: Brand, KFC Corp., UN General Assembly, Yum, Branding, Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, James Farrar

Blog posts 2009-10-22

LHC cooled to operational temperatures

these experiments should be abolishedthese arrogant Eurocrats are putting the world at risk and are performing acts against nature and God.Where are the greenies when you need them???The amount of power this thing is using, where are the "global warming" theorists? Why aren't the greenies upset?Hoping someone shuts this...

Tags: LHC, collider

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

Gobierno del Estado de Veracruz, Mexico Improves Analysis With Integrated Information System

Gobierno del Estado de Veracruz wanted to create a robust, flexible, and scalable information system to facilitate information gathering and provide access to up-to-date information for objective decision making and provide a secure data warehouse to extend information visibility throughout the organization. The challenge was to establish performance analysis indicators...

Tags: Information System, Data Warehouse, Analysis

Case studies 2009-10-01

Developers plan integrated platform for managing energy, resource conservation goals

It must be awfully annoying for businesses to have to deal with point applications for environmental/energy management. Plainly speaking, these things should be just part of overall management tools associated with compliance, sustainability and overall operational excellence initiatives. Someone must have clued in ESS, which provides Environmental,...

Tags: Software, Sustainability, Compliance, Greenhouse Gas, Crisis Management, Tools & Techniques, Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-09-21

Eurotransplant Improves Patient Safety and Transparency With Service-Enabled Legacy Systems

Eurotransplant wanted to ensure rapid donor information capture and improve data accuracy and increase patient safety by providing surgeons with better access to the transplant waiting list and organ availability data. The challenge was to achieve greater transparency of organ allocation rules and enable the organization to evolve from data-driven...

Tags: Patient, Oracle Corp., Legacy System, Eurotransplant, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Hardware Upgrade, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware

Case studies 2009-09-01

Cisco's Brave New World

An intriguing and very well written article in this week's Economist documents Cisco CEO John Chamber's ambitious plans to conquer 30 new areas of business: ...From “virtual health care” to “cloud computing” and “safety and security” to “routers in space”, the company is tackling more than 30...

Tags: Information Technology, Brave New World, Cisco Systems Inc., Chambers, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-08-30

SafeFox 3.5.1 (Windows)

SafeFox is based on FireFox, is a free, fast, secure and safe browser. SafeFox.org is an organization cares about internet safety and security. The mission of SafeFox is to provide safe tools, knowledge and community for people on the internet. SafeFox Features: Safe Password Keyboard; Safe Banks List. We don't...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Windows, SafeFox, SafeFox 3.5.1, SafeFox.org, Web Browsers, Internet

Software downloads 2009-08-06

Compliance Technologies Mechanic's Mate 3.30.205 (Windows)

Mechanic's Mate is a CMMS software package which maintains a computer database of information about an organization's maintenance operations. This information is intended to help maintenance workers do their jobs more effectively (for example, determining which storerooms contain the spare parts they need) and to help management make informed decisions...

Tags: Compliance, Mechanic, Microsoft Windows, Compliance Technologies, Compliance Technologies Mechanic

Software downloads 2009-07-02

Top 10 Tangible Measures for Effective Security Risk Management

Visibility and measurement are the very heart of security risk management. Without them it would be impossible to identify, assess and mitigate risks. They are also the key to effective process management. Identifying appropriate metrics ideally requires a consideration of the organization's business goals, strategies and compliance requirements, and the...

Tags: nCircle Network Security, Compliance, Security

White papers 2009-06-22

Revolver Mail 7.1.2 (Mac)

Revolver Mail includes 3 important basics for personal organization: Email, addresses and organizer, all for free! Revolver Mail is a safe and network-compatible alternative to the existing email programs. It includes: Email, addresses, calendar, tasks, notes and projects. Many special functions are designed for the use in small companies or...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Revolver Mail, E-mail, .Net, Open Source, Online Communications, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2009-05-27

The Sullivan Group a Marathon Technologies Customer

I've spoken with the good folks of Marathon Technologies on several ocassions see Marathon Technologies launches everRun VM and Marathon Technologies and Microsoft dance together. This time, I had the opportunity to speak with  Erika Simpson, Network Administrator, and Rob Jones, IT Director, a user of Marathon's everRun VM, from...

Tags: Software, Marathon Technologies, Sullivan Group, SamWare, Server Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Virtualization, Servers, Hardware, Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-05-13

Report: US air-traffic control systems hacked

Report: US air-traffic control systems hacked Why does....The FAA need to have these systems linked to a public facing system? Couldn't they use private networks and segment this stuff from the internet? I just don't understand why there needs to be a connection. I would just like someone...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Cyberthreats, SECURITY, Linux, ATC, FAA, Linux IS

Discussion threads 2009-05-08

And speaking of keeping kids safe online

As yet another young person finds herself in hot water over pictures posted on MySpace (this time, a 14-year old faces child porn charges after posting explicit photos of herself so that her boyfriend could see), a new organization has emerged to teach kids about responsible, sensible Internet usage. ...

Tags: Cell Phone, Webwisekids.org, Webwisekids, Games, Cellular Phones, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-03-26

Data breach costs, customer churn up a bit; Repeat offenders abound

Data breach costs, customer churn up a bit; Repeat offenders aboundPrevent most net breaches!!!Our system prevents a majority of Network Breaches while keeping the Networks "UP," Provides a Real Time Global Administrator that sits transparently over other OEM's Network Management systems (i.e., IBM Websphere, HP OPenview, SCADA, etc), the system...

Tags: NETWORKING, Enterprise software, network, SCADA

Discussion threads 2009-02-02

Information Assurance for ASTRO25 Networks: Securing Your Mission Critical Communications

The security of voice and data communications is a top priority in any organization. This is especially true for government agencies that rely upon these systems for the safety and security of human lives and must comply with Federal information assurance requirements like FISMA, DHS-4300, CJIS or DIACAP. To protect...

Tags: Router, Motorola Inc., Wireless, Routers & Switches, Network Technology, Networking, Security, Wi-Fi, Telecommunications, Wireless And Mobility

White papers 2009-01-22

Bringing the FOSS tribe together: The future of community shows

Given the economy's impact on tech shows, I have to wonder what the future holds for the various Linux shows and fests around the globe. Talking to Ilan Rabinovitch of the Southern California Linux Expo SCaLE, the future still looks bright -- maybe brighter than the future for the more...

Tags: Team, Community, Event, F/OSS, SCaLE, Q, SCaLE Attendee, Team Management, Linux, Open Source, Management, Operating Systems, Software, Joe Brockmeier

Blog posts 2009-01-20

Protecting PII: How to Work With IT to Manage Risk

Privacy professionals must make sure their IT organization is employing responsible privacy practices that will ensure the safety of their company's business-critical data or face significant fines. Understand the critical nature of the test data privacy problem and tips on how to work with IT to implement a test data...

Tags: Information Technology, CXO Media, Strategy, Management

Webcasts 2009-01-01

Eliminate the FCC?

Eliminate the FCC?Way of the world.As is well known, a government agency which regulates an industry becomes an advocate for that industry. And scientists have no fewer interests and opinions to advance than other people.You wrote:That's the problem. Any government institution can be corrupted, any set of safeguards overrun...

Tags: Federal government, FCC

Discussion threads 2008-12-24