Recent Articles
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SarbOx Reaches Far and Wide
Three companies working to meet a rapidly approaching Sarbanes-Oxley deadline show the breadth of systems the act affects and the lengths to which IT managers must go to maintain compliance over time. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act, officially known as the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002, has corporations subjecting themselves to a…
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A Progress Report on Windows’ ASN.1 Vulnerability
On February 10, Microsoft disclosed a dangerous vulnerability in all modern versions of Windows, along with a patch to fix it. Nine days may not seem like a long time, but every day that goes by without a real exploit is great news. Click here for Microsoft’s advisory and links to the patches) At the…
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How to Ensure Your Business Partners Have Adequate Security
Information sharing between organizations and their business partners is an increasingly critical business requirement. Companies that provide these capabilities enjoy a competitive advantage. The process of meeting these requirements and the constant struggle to lower costs while improving business efficiency have created complex network and information security issues that companies must address. Organizations often provide…
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Microsoft Partners Assess Fallout from Code Leak
With security experts busily downloading, peering at, and analyzing leaked source code, the industry is still buzzing with controversy over last week’s Windows security breach. But what about the impact of the leak on Microsoft’s relationships with channel partners? Will Microsoft still be able to trust its partners, and vice versa? Will application security be…
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Integrity 2.0 Manages Storage
Avail Solutions LLC’s Integrity 2.0 backup software offers flexible, multitiered storage management and dynamic resource tracking capabilities that can streamline data backup in small and midsize networks. Avail Solutions LLC’s Integrity 2.0 backup software offers flexible, multitiered storage management and dynamic resource tracking capabilities that can streamline data backup in small and midsize networks. Version…
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Reconstructing IT for 40,000 Mortgage Brokers
As mortgage rates sank to an all-time low last year, 11-year-old Accredited Home Lenders Inc., which services an aggregate customer base of about 40,000 mortgage brokers, found itself a victim of its own success. The unprecedented expansion the company was experiencing revealed a rickety technical foundation—one riddled with unreliable point-to-point interfaces, a heavy reliance on…
