Cameron Sturdevant

About

Cameron Sturdevant is the executive editor of Enterprise Networking Planet. Prior to ENP, Cameron was technical analyst at PCWeek Labs, starting in 1997. Cameron finished up as the eWEEK Labs Technical Director in 2012. Before his extensive labs tenure Cameron paid his IT dues working in technical support and sales engineering at a software publishing firm . Cameron also spent two years with a database development firm, integrating applications with mainframe legacy programs. Cameron's areas of expertise include virtual and physical IT infrastructure, cloud computing, enterprise networking and mobility. In addition to reviews, Cameron has covered monolithic enterprise management systems throughout their lifecycles, providing the eWEEK reader with all-important history and context. Cameron takes special care in cultivating his IT manager contacts, to ensure that his analysis is grounded in real-world concern. Follow Cameron on Twitter at csturdevant, or reach him by email at cameron.sturdevant@quinstreet.com.

ProxyAV Isnt Ready for Prime Time

Blue Coat Systems Inc.s innovative ProxyAV 2000 hardware capably blocked Web-based threats such as viruses, worms and Trojans in eWEEK Labs tests, but only after we overcame a raft of first-release configuration headaches and software quality problems. Click here to read the full review of ProxyAV 2000. 2 Blue Coat Systems Inc.s innovative ProxyAV 2000 […]

Crypto-Server Secures Networks

CryptoCard Corp.s Crypto-Server 6.1 significantly eases two-factor authentication for Windows networks compared with earlier versions of the product. In eWEEK Labs tests, we used a wide variety of hardware tokens supported by Crypto-Server 6.1 to lock down access to our Windows environment. Click here to read the full review of Crypto-Server 6.1. 2 CryptoCard Corp.s […]

ETC Show Highlights Issues Facing E-Mail

The first e-mail technology conference, held in San Francisco last month, aimed to explore such issues as using e-mail as a marketing channel and as a productivity platform, but it ended up bogged down talking about spam. Its understandable that, like the Inbox event before it, the conference had a hard time getting beyond the […]

E-Mail Show Explores Authentication

Center stage at the first (and probably last) E-mail Technology Conference in San Francisco was the issue of trust between message senders and receivers. Several facets of this thorny spam-related issue shared the spotlight. Authenticating sender identity is edging closer to commercial viability. Emerging user authentication standards, including the independent Sender Policy Framework, Yahoo Inc.s […]

A Comprehensive Strategy: How to Make the Move to IP Telephony

Proper planning goes a long way toward smoothing the voice-over-Internet Protocol path, but your company should count on sizable equipment, network architecture and cultural changes when making the move to a voice-over-IP telephone system. Step 1: Upgrade the Network One of the biggest challenges to implementing an effective voice-over-IP telephony system is remediating the data […]

Newest Phishing Scam Employs Legitimate Web Sites

Increasingly sophisticated phishing attacks are chipping away at the reliability of e-mail and Web-based applications as a trusted form of communication for business transactions. And the Anti-Phishing Working Groups latest report doesnt hold much comfort. The APWGs latest monthly report, issued last week, indicates that the Citibank brand was again the No. 1 target for […]

LashBack Unsubscribes Spammers

On June 15, the Federal Trade Commission told Congress that a national Do Not E-mail list is not feasible at this time. In deciding that a secure Do Not E-mail list is not possible, the regulators at the FTC made the right choice. A list of valid e-mail addresses would be a veritable spam bonanza, […]

ChoiceMail Is Ahead of Its Time

Digiportal Software Inc.s ChoiceMail Enterprise 2.5 anti-spam software is one too many steps ahead of the effort to block junk e-mail using sender identity. Click here to read the full review of ChoiceMail Enterprise 2.5. 2 Digiportal Software Inc.s ChoiceMail Enterprise 2.5 anti-spam software is one too many steps ahead of the effort to block […]

Qurb 2.1 Requires a Close Eye

Qurb 2.1, the latest edition of Qurbs namesake anti-spam system, integrates directly with Microsofts Outlook and Outlook Express. This integration makes the product a decent second line of defense for corporate users who dont get a lot of mail from new people. eWEEK Labs looked at the first release of Qurb a year ago, which […]

Inbox Show Highlights Anti-Spam Challenges

The first Inbox conference, held earlier this month in San Jose, Calif., was supposed to be about “everything e-mail” but was instead dominated by everything spam. A highlight of the show, which was attended by about 200 e-mail vendors, experts and enterprise e-mail administrators, was the pending submission of Microsoft Corp.s Caller ID technology, the […]