Michael Myser

BMC Software Inc. announced Monday it will acquire identity management vendor Calendra for $33 million, a move that the company expects will help it deliver a more complete identity management suite of products. “Historically wed been a provisioning and administration product based in a distributed environment and [spread] across all kinds of applications,” said Cindy […]

Celebrated Hotmail founder Sabeer Bhatia recently returned from a global business trip that took him to India, New Zealand, Australia and England, and he is now prepping for the launch of five new startups over the next three months. “Every single one of them solves a problem I have, and Im guessing theyll solve problems […]

Though some legal issues still surround “honey pots,” their use within the security industry is fairly common and is considered a critical weapon in fighting malicious hackers and viruses. “Theyre an incredibly valuable tool,” said Rich Mogull, research director at analyst firm Gartner Inc. of Stamford, Conn. “You cant really know whats happening without monitoring […]

Before long, VOIP systems will be filled with spam, open to hackers and taken down by worms. But security, infrastructure and VOIP vendors say its important to get ahead of the curve, and they encouraged enterprises to consider security first when implementing VOIP systems in a panel Wednesday at Ziff Davis Medias online Virtual Tradeshow […]

Security experts discussed the merits and flaws of Microsofts Windows XP SP2 (Service Pack 2) in a panel discussion Tuesday as part of Ziff Davis Medias Security Virtual Tradeshow. Across the board, they highly recommended that enterprises quit their flinching and install the upgrade, although they still offered several caveats. “An absolute, resounding yes, you […]

Analysts, law enforcement agents and corporate IT managers focused on surprisingly nontechnical security solutions Tuesday as they discussed the latest risks to corporate networks as part of Ziff Davis Medias online “virtual” tradeshow on security. “Management support at the highest levels of an organization is critical to the success of any security initiative,” said panelist […]

A day before the deadline set by Oracle for PeopleSoft shareholders to accept its takeover bid, PeopleSoft founder and CEO David Duffield issued a letter defending stock sales he made in late 2003. In the letter to Oracle Corp. chief executive Larry Ellison, Duffield said he “recently learned that Oracle and its representatives are circulating […]

Recognizing the growing need for anti-spyware solutions in the enterprise, Computer Associates International Inc. on Monday announced new software designed to tackle unwanted spyware, adware and trojans. CAs new eTrust PestPatrol Anti-Spyware r5 allows system administrators to scan the enterprise for traces of spyware, identify it, and remotely clean it wherever it may reside, without […]

The electronic currency site that the Source Code Club said it will use to accept payment for Cisco Systems Inc.s firewall source code is confident it can track down the perpetrators. Dr. Douglas Jackson, chairman of E-gold Ltd., which runs www.e-gold.com, said the company is already monitoring accounts it believes belong to the Source Code […]

As adware and spyware companies hoping to do business in the United States clean up their act in response to the Internet Spyware Prevention Act (I-SPY) recently passed by the House of Representatives, anti-spyware vendors are trying to stay ahead of a growing onslaught of malicious software developed outside of U.S. jurisdiction. “I think the […]