Cameron Sturdevant

There is little doubt that the American economy is headed for sluggish growth or more likely a recession, and this means that IT managers need to focus on fundamentals. The first thing to keep in mind is that telecommunications, data networking (voice networking intentionally left out), customer-driven supply chain integration, storage and security increase in […]

Help is here for managers who must ensure that data and signatures on handheld computers and wireless devices are authentic and secure. ECC (elliptic curve cryptography) systems provide much of the protection of schemes based on integer factorization problems or Diffie-Hellmans discrete logarithm problems, while using only a fraction of the computing power. ECC makes […]

Its hard to like “spy on your neighbor” programs such as Telemate.Net Software Inc.s NetSpective 4.7. Company policies should clearly state what is in and out of bounds when it comes to Internet use and leave well enough alone. IT managers have bigger problems than technology can solve if they need to snoop in the […]

Network Associates Inc.s Sniffer Wireless, the first wireless protocol analyzer on the market, does a good job of showing network managers airborne network problems and security flaws. Although wireless hardware products often include utilities that can reveal some of the same problems, Sniffer Wireless provides a complete picture of the wireless network. The high-end software […]

Attendees at the mis Training Institutes recent conference on PKI, in Atlanta, learned that the public-key infrastructure in Microsofts Windows 2000 Advanced Server Edition lacks features essential to enterprise-level security. There is almost no facility for key history or key backup; secure time stamps are not supported; and the component doesnt support Online Certificate Status […]

With Lanutil32 elite 5.02, vector networks continues its foray into desktop management. Its new ability to distribute Windows 2000 applications, combined with the suites already-capable PC inventory and remote control, makes the product worth a look for IT managers of medium-to-large enterprises. This is just the latest management tool to support Windows 2000 applications; clearly, […]

ZENworks for Servers from Novell Inc. has gained support for Windows NT and Windows 2000 servers and is now a tool that IT managers familiar with the time-consuming intricacies of Novell software installation should consider for cross-platform management of critical servers. When complemented by ZENworks for Desktops 3.0, Version 2.0 of ZENworks for Servers makes […]

Pki technology is in demand because the Internet is easy to tap, IP data is simple to decode and computer users often make up personas at will. Based on a request for public-key infrastructure proposals from The Prudential Insurance Co. of America, eWeek Labs came up with a plan to test the implementation and management […]

Nothing rubs the gloss off marketing hype like field testing, and few technologies are more in need of de-glossing than PKI. In Part 1 of this eValuation, eWeek Labs explained the technology and gave advice on best practices for implementing a public-key infrastructure system. Part 2 gets down to testing. eWeek Labs went to work […]