Cameron Sturdevant

Unbridled government collection of personal information, as outlined in the Information Awareness Office is a bad idea for a lot of reasons, not least of which is the broad notion that the right to privacy is granted in the Constitution. It is an even worse idea because we know almost nothing about what the government […]

Guidance Softwares EnCase 3.22 is a good program for investigators who need to go to court with evidence gathered from a PC. Regardless of password protection and even file deletion, EnCase can pick up data from a hard drive, storage device or Palm PDA. The $2,495 product, which is available now, allowed me to copy […]

Cisco Systems Inc.s 2.4GHz 802.11b Aironet 1100 Series access point provides good reach and satisfactory performance on wireless LANs. In eWeek Labs tests, we configured the $599 Aironet 1100 Series access point to harness VLANs (virtual LANs), quality-of-service markers and Cisco Wireless Security Suite schemes using Ciscos IOS (Internet Operating System) commands, which should be […]

Enterprise IT departments should take a close look at an emerging class of security tools that monitor the network looking for problems. Companies including e-Security Inc., Intellitactics Inc. and NetForensics Corp. already make these products, which cost in the neighborhood of $50,000 to $75,000, sit on networks one level above devices such as firewalls and […]

Enterprise IT managers who are considering a VOIP rollout, especially one based on Cisco Systems Inc.s network gear, should consider using NetIQ Corp.s Vivinet Assessor 2.0 to weed out network weaknesses. As eWeek Labs pointed out in the Oct. 21 voice-over-IP analysis (see www.eweek.com/links), a complete data network assessment is an absolute prerequisite for a […]

While trolling through anti-spam e-mail filters, I came across iHateSpam, from Sunbelt Software, and decided to look. In tests, I found that installing iHateSpam is like going to an aerobics class for the first time: awkward and painful. But the results (as in aerobics) are worth the effort. The hard part was that the thorough […]

Enterprise IT should take a close look at an emerging class of security tools that monitor the network looking for problems. Companies including netForensics (see our review of netForensics namesake product update), eSecurity and Intellitactics make these products, all of which sit a level above specific devices such as firewalls and intrusion detection systems and […]

Fortunately, a combination of low-cost tools and simple best practices can be used to help administrators figure out what applications, such as Luciras MobileSecure, are transmitting to the Internet. Low-cost consumer security products and free protocol analyzers can show and control the data a computer shares over the Internet. These products examine IP packets, to […]

Version 3.0 of netforensics corp.s namesake flagship product takes interoperability and capability to new heights, presenting a formidable challenge to the other security event management products in this emerging field. NetForensics 3.0, which shipped last month, should be considered by IT managers as an effective tool for distilling relevant security events from the torrents of […]

Moores Law and potential changes in Federal Communications Commission policy likely mean that companies will see the day—sooner rather than later—when a single, multifunction wireless device replaces the sundry gadgets now carried by mobile workers. Earlier this month, the FCCs Spectrum Policy Task Force recommended rule changes to include time—in addition to frequency and power—when […]