State pilot shows a way to improve security while cutting costs
Agency has reduced its serious vulnerabilities while cutting the cost of its security program, said Chief Information Security Officer John Streufert.
AMD in the chips after Intel antitrust settlement
Intel has agreed to pay Advanced Micro Devices $1.25 billion is a settlement of three antitrust and patent disputes, although other cases continue.
Vordel brokers cloud services
Vordel launches its Cloud Service Broker, a tool for aggregating and managing services in public, private and community cloud-computing domains.
Microsoft tries to clean up COFEE spill
Microsoft's Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor, a computer forensics solution that Microsoft provides for free to law enforcement agencies, has been pirated.
Hefty November patch adds to IT woes
Microsoft rolled out six security fixes in its November patch on Tuesday, including three critical and three important bulletins.
E-mail 'biggest' security risk, Microsoft says
An organization's security has a lot to do with its e-mail system, a top security official at Microsoft suggests.
Towns host each other's recovery data
Two Tennessee towns find a COOP solution
Microsoft releases Exchange 2010 and Forefront Protection
Microsoft officials on Monday announced the public release of Exchange 2010 and described the rollout of Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server, an enterprise security tool.
Citrix launches Ready Open Desktop Virtualization Program
Citrix launches Ready Open Desktop Virtualization Program to accelerate adoption of enterprise virtual desktop deployments using the company's XenDesktop.
Microsoft Security Intelligence Report released
Microsoft's Security Intelligence Report details growing threats.
Microsoft expands Windows support for Exchange Server 2007
In response to complaints from users, Microsoft announced plans on Wednesday to support Exchange Server 2007 on Windows Server 2008 R2.
The Web's next act: A worldwide database
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, founder of the Web, wants to create a worldwide Web database, and he wants government agencies to lead the way.
2 examples of how government data linking can work
At the International Semantic Web Conference, data linking experts gave examples of how linking government data can work — one involving agency spending data and one on sharing IT architectures.
NIST report clarifies evaluation of forensic tools for mobile devices
Ensuring the quality of tools used and work done in forensic analysis is critical, and NIST has issued a report that could help in he task of validating them.
How the Semantic Web would work
Rendering data into the Resource Description Framework can make it easier to interpose it with other sets of data to create entirely new datasets and visualizations, researchers from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute said during a demonstration.
Kace updates Windows 7 management product
Kace unveiled an upgrade to its KBox 2000 systems deployment appliance with a new user-state migration capability, which can reduce the risk of losing critical information during deployments of Windows 7.
With governance software, IT projects find a groove in Memphis
Memphis' Project Management Office is using an on-demand IT governance solution from Innotas to dramatically reduce the administrative time and red tape involved in completing projects.
ICANN approves non-Latin characters for domain names
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is opening the Web to millions of users by allowing the use of any of the world’s language scripts in the domain names of Uniform Resource Locators, the Internet addresses also known as URLs.
Military uses social media to share info on Fort Hood shootings
Facebook and Twitter quickly became a way to communicate during and after the attack.
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