The lowdown on security appliance
<b>What is it?</b> A security appliance is simply a dedicated hardware device that runs security software, improving performance and reducing the processing load on servers.
Security appliances
Growing security needs place a proportionally growing burden on agency IT managers.
Sometimes one tool is all you really need
Don't need a full suite? Sometimes all you want is the single best product for handling the system maintenance chore at hand. Here are some standalone utilities we tested, comparing them to similar modules in the larger suites.
To clean & protect
<font color="CC0000">(Updated) </font>I don't know about you, but my hard drive often looks like a graveyard of missing program parts.
UT-San Antonio, Gateway make pact for PC notebooks
The University of Texas at San Antonio has signed an agreement with Gateway Inc. to obtain notebooks and tablet PCs for students, faculty and staff.
What good are DoD's supercomputers?
Even as the Defense Department funds development plans for petascale computers, it is finding that it may have little commercial software to run on such machines once they are finished.
Internaut: DHS provides a lesson for large-scale IT deployments
Read between the lines of the July announcement of the Homeland Security Information Network-Secret and you'll discover two interesting lessons.
Government should commit $1.2b to transit security, report says
A 9/11 Commission member urges the federal government to increase funding for security measures.
Defense hones Novell ID management
The Defense Department's Washington Headquarters Services is rolling out an authentication service on its network that meets the requirements for new standard federal ID cards.
Cyber Eye: Response to worms is good, but prevention is better
Last month, Microsoft Corp. doled out the first payment from its antivirus reward program, paying $250,000 to two people who helped identify the author of last year's Sasser worm.
Agriculture awards GTSI mobile, wireless contracts
The Agriculture Department awarded two blanket purchase agreements to GTSI Corp. for mobile and wireless hardware and software.
EPA seeks geospatial data hosting
The Environmental Protection Agency is seeking information about industry ability to host geospatial data sets from a variety of sources.
Federal-state e-authentication project pays off
When employees for the City of Chicago file reports on the discharge of wastewater into public waterways, they fill out an online form and press a few keys.
New records management system for NMCI
EDS is deploying Total Records and Information Management (TRIM) software manage all Navy and Marine Corps records and documents.
A password only works when nobody else knows it
The good news about passwords is that they are integrated into just about every type of software, and users understand and accept them.
AT&T's Networx team takes shape
The team includes Northrop Grumman Information Technology, EDS Corp., GTSI Corp., SRA International Inc., Cingular Wireless LLC and Global Crossing Ltd.
How strong is your password? NIST has some formulas
Entropy is a measure of disorder within a system.
PSST: the password is...
Passwords are among the oldest and still most commonly used forms of authentication.
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Another View: From hunter-gatherer to information cultivator
For all our sophisticated, Information Age gadgetry, we are still a society of primitive hunter-gatherers in dealing with the information bombarding us daily.
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