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How to run Internet Explorer securely

Here are the key configuration changes you can make to disable various features and reduce the attack surface in Microsoft's Internet Explorer. This guide provides a walk-through of IE 6.0 but applies to the latest IE 7.0 as well. (This guidance was prepared and distributed by Will Dorman, vulnerability...

Tags: web browsers, microsoft internet explorer, software engineering institute, cert, microsoft internet explorer 6, microsoft internet explorer 7, vulnerability, attack, analyst, microsoft corp.

Image galleries 2007-06-09

SEI Slide Show (exe)

Create a slide show in minutes from pictures on your hard drive or a CD. Newer digital cameras allow SEI Slide Show to download your pictures directly into the program. Export your Albums and Slide Shows to a CD. Add Sound to your pictures. Add music to your slide show....

Tags: software engineering institute, slideshow, picture

Software downloads 2005-06-24

Global Integration Framework

The discipline of managing information technology as a profession has advanced significantly in recent decades by a number of key movements in the development of best practices. The SEI has its CMM, the PMI has developed the PMBOK, and the OGC has brought forward ITIL. Each of these organizations, and...

Tags: gif, consortium, software engineering institute, best practice, capability maturity model (cmm), itil, software development, software/web development, it services

White papers 2004-08-29

Risk Management Overview

This whitepaper describes the SEI Risk Management paradigm. The paradigm illustrates a set of functions that are identified as continuous activities through the life cycle of a project.

Tags: software engineering institute, paradigm, risk management, financial planning, financial services, strategy, security, finance, management

White papers 2003-07-05

Know Your Enemy: Software Risk Management

The list of evil things that can befall a software project is depressingly long. The enlightened project manager will acquire extensive lists of these risk categories to help the team uncover as many concerns as possible early in the planning process. Possible risks to consider can come from group brainstorming...

Tags: software, category, software engineering institute, tools & techniques, team management, management

White papers 2001-08-17

Software Risk Management

This paper presents a holistic vision of the risk-based methodologies for Software Risk Management SRM developed at the Software Engineering Institute SEI. SRM methodologies address the entire life cycle of software acquisition, development, and maintenance. This paper is driven by the premise that the ultimate efficacy...

Tags: software, methodology, software engineering institute, tools & techniques, management

White papers 2001-03-03

Reuse-Based Software Development Methodology

Software has been reused in applications development ever since programming started. However, the reuse practices have mostly been ad hoc, and the potential benefits of reuse have never been fully realized. Most of the available software development methodologies do not explicitly identify reuse activities. The Application of Reusable Software Components...

Tags: software, software engineering institute, software development, development tools, tools & techniques, software/web development, management

White papers

SEI Investments Sales Productivity Up Almost 300% With Sage CRM SalesLogix

SEI Investments, a global technology and investment services firm, needed a flexible CRM solution that would support its highly complex sales process. After examining several solutions, from contact managers to enterprise-size packages, the company decided Sage CRM SalesLogix from Sage Software was the right solution. Sage CRM SalesLogix has a...

Tags: sage crm saleslogix, investment, software engineering institute, sage software, sales strategy, sales force management, customer relationship management (crm), enterprise software, sales, software

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Social giving for charity begets social giving for community

Normally I don't write about specific events but I'm making an exception as this is almost a mini overview for how charity in social media can turn into a benefit for the social Web community. In May I launched a Social Media Charity Auction that raised about...

Tags: social media, greg verdino, inbound marketing summit, jennifer leggio

Blog posts 2008-08-07

iPhone black screen of death (updated)

I received an email from an iPhone user greatly concerned about "either an unaddressed issue with both 2.0 and 2.01 software - or a rogue apps that is taking down the entire OS." After visiting the App Store from his iPhone "nothing loaded, the screen just stayed...

Tags: apple iphone, apple inc., black screen, btl, e-mail, online communications, jason d. o\'grady

Blog posts 2008-08-07

iPhone 3G boot failure complaints pile up

Updated: The iPhone 3G appears to be having a few software issues that are leaving a few disgruntled customers in its wake. We were tipped off by a reader who outlined the following: This happened while running iPhone version 2.0. Visited App Store using iPhone -...

Tags: apple iphone, apple iphone 3g, 3g, cellular phones, wireless, consumer electronics, personal technology, larry dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-07

Teaching language to robots

For a project scheduled to end in 2011, Plymouth University researchers will build two robots using software allowing them to interact with each other to exchange learned information like humans. The team will use language-learning techniques designed for children. According to The Engineer, the goal of the project is to...

Tags: project, concept, neck, belpaeme, robots, emerging technologies, roland piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-08-07

CIOs: We love video conferencing and online training; Enterprise 2.0 on the ropes

Chief information officers have the hots for online training, video conferencing and collaboration software such as Microsoft's SharePoint. Just don't ask these execs to blog, use a wiki or enter a virtual world. That's the recap from a survey of 1,400 CIOs by staffing firm Robert Half...

Tags: cio, online training, enterprise 2.0, wiki, online communications, larry dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-07

A look at risk-reward: Apple may nuke apps on your iPhone remotely

Apple apparently can disable App Store software remotely on your iPhone 3G. The iPhone calls home and poof the application is nuked. Needless to say that this has caused a bit of a blog ruckus Techmeme. MacRumors notes that Apple has come under fire for removing App...

Tags: apple iphone, apple inc., 3g, tools & techniques, cellular phones, consumer electronics, personal technology, management, larry dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-07

Video: Mobile takes center stage at LinuxWorld

ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks with Senior Editor Sam Diaz about one of the big themes at this year's LinuxWorld Expo--mobility. Diaz discusses how large companies like Motorola are encouraging Linux developers to write software for mobile devices. by Larry Dignan

Tags: mobile, video, diaz, linux, advertising & promotion, corporate communications, operating systems, software, marketing, larry dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-07

Mobile takes center stage at LinuxWorld

ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks with Senior Editor Sam Diaz about one of the big themes at this year's LinuxWorld Expo--mobility. Diaz discusses how large companies like Motorola are encouraging Linux developers to write software for mobile devices.

Tags: mobile, diaz, linux, advertising & promotion, operating systems, software, marketing, motorola, sumi das, sam diaz

Videos 2008-08-06

Fake CNN news items malware campaign spreading rapidly

A currently active malware campaign taking advantage of a known social engineering tactic, namely, to entice the spammed user into clicking on a site with a fake news item in order to trick them into installing a fake Flash player (flashupdate.exe; get_flash_update.exe and watchmovie.mpg.exe), was massively spammed last night, with...

Tags: malware, social engineering, cnn, spyware, adware & malware, cyberthreats, e-mail, viruses and worms, security, online communications, dancho danchev

Blog posts 2008-08-06

Oracle: Gimme an L. Gimme an I. Gimme an N-U-X

Oracle: Gimme an L. Gimme an I. Gimme an N-U-XWidespread adoption in what arena?Everytime someone says this I can't help but wonder what they mean. Linux is quite common in the server room which appears to be the arena Oracle is talking about.Because "Unbreakable" went so well last time they...

Tags: unix, operating systems, open source, i. gimme, linux, oracle corp., gimme, n-u-x

Discussion threads 2008-08-06

Oracle: Gimme an L. Gimme an I. Gimme an N-U-X

Enterprise software giant Oracle is at LinuxWorld this week, positioning itself as head cheerleader for widespread adoption in the Enterprise. In addition to a keynote speech that discussed Oracle's position around Linux, as well as details of its own deployment, there were two announcements issued today. The...

Tags: data center, oracle corp., linux, data centers, unix, operating systems, open source, software, storage, hardware, data management, sam diaz

Blog posts 2008-08-06

VMware launches new system builder, certification programs, joins Linux Foundation

VMware is investing more resources in the channel and IT community -- and getting more involved in the Linux community -- to preserve its lead in the virtualization software market. At LinuxWorld and Next Generation Data Center Conference this week, the Palo Alto, Calif. virtualization software leader...

Tags: vmware inc., system builder program, virtualization, linux, cloud computing, utility computing, storage management, open source, servers, hardware, operating systems, software, storage, paula rooney

Blog posts 2008-08-06