Cameron Sturdevant

Im going to lobby the legal department of Ziff Davis Media (publisher of eWEEK) to file an amicus curiae brief in Verizons appeal of an order sought by the Recording Industry Association of America, which forces Verizon to reveal the identity of a subscriber who is suspected of downloading copyright-protected content. RIAA is using the […]

SpamActive, Clearswifts latest salvo in the anti-spam campaign, worked as expected in filtering unsolicited e-mail at our server and should help Clearswift catch up to anti-spam service provider Brightmail. Users of Clearswifts EnterpriseSuite and MailSweeper for SMTP can tap SpamActive, released last month, to get up-to-the-minute updates on spam traffic, as determined by Clearswifts ThreatLab […]

LANDesk 6.62 is among the first desktop management systems to be agnostic about operating system image source files, using its own or competitors images to prepare PCs for deployment. This is the first edition of the suite released by LANDesk Software Inc., a recent Intel Corp. spinoff, and eWEEK Labs tests showed Version 6.62 contains […]

Logitech cameras with digital zoom have gained the ability to track human faces and keep them centered on the screen, a trick usually reserved for much more expensive cameras. The cameras became available last month and cost in the $79 range. Using technology from A4-Vision, Logitechs stationary camera uses skin tones, facial features and motion […]

Standards play a huge role in enterprise applications—as well as the decision companies make to use a product or not—and that role will only get bigger as Web services gain momentum. However, as vendor-led consortia increasingly define the standards that shape enterprise products, its getting tougher to separate standards from vendor politics, posturing and power. […]

AlterPoints DeviceAuthority neatly tracks network device configuration changes and made it easy for me to see who was making changes to Labs routers, firewalls and switches. Competitors such as Tripwires comparably priced Tripwire for Network Devices can also do this. In addition, Tripwire for Network Devices is OPSEC-compliant, meaning that it works well with Check […]

Securify Inc. has revamped its SecurVantage packet sniffer, adding an enterprise management console and automatic policy generation, enhanced reporting, and better alert management— improvements that make the product a top contender in the emerging space of network security management. SecurVantage monitors are connected to the span port of switches in the network, and they scan […]

From 1946 to 1960, the FBI operated 3,000 wiretaps and 800 bugs on the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). Agents spied on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as part of a concerted effort to thwart his organizing efforts in the civil rights movement. The USA PATRIOT (Uniting and Strengthening America by […]

Ipswitchs Whatsup Gold 8.0 is a good tool for small offices or large departments at big organizations that need network and device monitoring in an easy-to-use, affordable package. When I tested WhatsUp Gold 8.0, slated to ship next week for $795, I was impressed with the intuitive interface. IT managers who already use the product […]

F5 Networks Inc.s Big-IP 4.5 joins a growing list of products that offer to move security, high availability, and other connection and user decisions away from servers and applications and into special-purpose appliances. As eWeek Labs tests of Big-IP 4.5 show, this approach makes sense. Big-IP let us discard “bad” traffic or send it to […]