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Monday, July 11, 2011

Aristotle on anonymity

Online Social Security Statement in limbo as agency adjusts for future | Ease your pain with identity management as a service

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Aristotle on anonymity
Way back in 2006 I had a series of newsletters about anonymity. That's when I first tried to separate anonymity from privacy -- but they still keep getting confused to this day. Read More


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Independent Lab Comparative Review
MierConsulting engineers conducted an hands-on, comparative review of three leading contact center packages, focusing on these products' multimedia, mixed voice and text-based contacts - capabilities. Read Now

Online Social Security Statement in limbo as agency adjusts for future
While the debate over Social Security benefits is heating up in Congress one of the most basic ways everyone interacts with the agency - the yearly Social Security Statement - is in limbo as the agency struggles to move it online. Read More

Ease your pain with identity management as a service
As cloud computing becomes mainstream, it's possible to move almost any type of traditional IT service to the cloud. Identropy offers identity and access management as a service in a private cloud. With Identropy's pre-configured, pre-architected solution, it's possible to get a solution up and running very quickly and at a fraction of the cost of a traditional custom-developed IAM solution. Read More


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Benefits of an ITIL Help Desk in the Cloud
You can implement help desk processes based on ITIL easily with reduced up-front costs and automatic upgrades.  Used by more than 72,500 companies worldwide, the Force.com platform is the most widely used Cloud platform in the world. Read More

Who are all these hacker groups?
Hacker groups that attack or steal—some estimates say there are as many as 6,000 of such groups online with about 50,000 "bad actors" around the world drifting in and out of them—are a threat, but the goals, methods, effectiveness of these groups varies widely. Read More

Vacation interruptus: Don't let a tech crisis ruin a getaway
Planning on taking a vacation this summer? If you're a tech manager, you may find yourself with unwanted baggage -- guilt, anxiety over how things are going in your absence or even concern about the status of your job. Read More


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Data Center Transformations
Build outs, consolidations and acquisitions are large-scale projects that can be very disruptive and require careful planning and implementation to maintain operations. This white paper examines the process and what's required to meet IT goals and objectives and maintain business continuity. Read now!

Microsoft beefs up Outlook-to-Hotmail security
Microsoft on Thursday boosted the security of a tool that lets Outlook users send and receive messages through the company's Web-based Hotmail service. Read More

The Latest Security Tool for Your Arsenal: Whitelisting
Phishing, spear phishing, trojan horse and other attacks are growing in number and sophistication, seemingly by the day. There can be little disputing that notion after RSA, Sony, Lockheed and Citicorp were embarrassed by breaches this year. Read More

PDFs that exploit iPhone, iPad zero-day available on the Web
German government security officials warned that one of the recently revealed Apple iOS flaws could be put to malicious use. Read More

Microsoft plans 22 patches for Windows, Office next week
Microsoft today said it will issue four security updates next week, only one of which is pegged as critical, to patch 22 vulnerabilities in Windows and Visio 2003. Read More



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