Cameron Sturdevant

If youre like most IT pros, the costs of operating your computing hardware are rising, with no sign of leveling off. The culprit is the increasing complexity of hardware, which is driving a spiral that could break your IT budget if nothing is done. Vendors are responding. Microsoft announced in March its DSI (Dynamic Systems […]

Discuss This in the eWEEK Forum Symantec Corp.s DeepSight Threat Management System has added anti-virus data to its mix, bringing the product up to par with competitors. IT managers at large corporations that traditionally mine application and operating system vendor sites for known vulnerabilities should consider adding DTMS 5.0 to their security assessment tools. DTMS […]

Microsoft Corp.s systems management server has never been a technical leader in the server and desktop software deployment, inventory tracking and remote trouble-shooting categories. However, eWEEK Labs tests of the new SMS 2003, which is being released to manufacturing this week and will be generally available shortly, lead us to recommend that IT managers take […]

Responding to concerns about privacy, state and national legislators are moving to restrict your companys access to information about its customers. At the same time, products are coming onto the market that do much of what the laws are intended to do in guarding privacy. Its a moment of opportunity for IT managers with vision […]

Californias anti-spam law, which enables residents, the state attorney general and ISPs to seek civil damages from spammers, will undoubtedly spark lawsuits and perhaps even legal victories. However, although California Senate Bill 186: Restrictions On Unsolicited Commercial E-mail Advertisers will likely catch some culprits, legislators will be outwitted by spammers who are motivated by the […]

After reviewing RFP responses from more than 30 anti-spam vendors, eWEEK Labs and service provider WiscNet invited six companies to show what they could do to help WiscNet solve its spam problem. The results, following, are based on WiscNets installation and initial use of each product in a variety of test environments that sought to […]

Just dump it. its OK. After spending three days living and breathing anti-spam product demonstrations and implementations in Madison, Wis., Ive come to that conclusion. Dumping spam is not only OK to do; its the only thing to do. Having spent a significant amount of time with some of the top vendors in the crowded […]

The Postini Perimeter Manager anti-spam service requires that all MX (Mail Exchange) records for an organizations domain be directed to Postinis operations center. Thus, as with FrontBridges TrueProtect, all mail is filtered before getting to an organizations e-mail servers and requires no hardware or software purchase. Unlike TrueProtect, Postini Perimeter Manager does allow administrators to […]

Anti-spam service providers block spam before it even gets to an organizations mail servers, with no software or hardware to install or maintain. However, the service options are more expensive than the software and hardware options. FrontBridge Technologies has a simple guiding principle when it comes to fighting spam: Spam has no place in the […]

McAfee Security, a network associates inc. company, has taken the open-source SpamAssassin and integrated it into its SpamKiller Anti-Spam gateway appliance. (The company acquired the famed open-source product in May 2002.) SpamAssassin has had a long run as an open- source product and is still freely available at www.spamassassin.org. As such, SpamAssassin is a favorite […]