DETROIT ? Leslie Touma, president and founder of the Michigan Security Network, explains why anyone involved in security in the Great Lakes region should attend the Northern Border Security Conference July 27-28 at the Hyatt Regency in Dearborn. To listen, click on MITechNews.JenesysGroup.Com a>>
LANSING ? Ken Theis, the Michigan chief information officer, plus director of the new Department of Technology Management and Budget, provides an update on how the consolidation process has gone so far and where he sees it headed over the next three to five years. To listen, click on MITechNews.JenesysGroup.Com a>>
NEW YORK - IBM is apologizing for handing out USB drives at a security conference in Australia this week that had malware on them. The thumb drives were distributed for free to people who walked up to the IBM booth at the AusCERT conference, CNET News.Com reported. "Unfortunately we have discovered that some of these
TROY ? A Sharepoint Portal development project is among 29 student projects that will be showcased June 12, at the Walsh College Business Information Technology and Information Assurance Capstone Fair at the Troy campus. The fair is free to the public. The Capstone project demonstrates to faculty, family, fellow students, and industry professionals that students
STAMFORD, Conn. - A significant increase in server sales during the next two years will lead to a further acceleration of data center power, cooling and space problems, according to Gartner. Gartner says that users need to quantify the effects of new deployments and take action without delay. "While server sales are expected to rise
SAN FRANCSICO - Organizations will increase their use of electronic discovery, according to new research from IT trade association CompTIA, which will open up opportunities for IT solution providers with the right skills and expertise. E-discovery conventionally refers to the discovery process in civil litigation using electronically stored information. However, many firms routinely engage in
NEW YORK ? CA and the Ponemon Institute, an independent research firm specializing in privacy, data protection and information security policy, report somewhat unsettling results from a study analyzing significant cloud security concerns that persist among IT professionals when it comes to cloud services used within their organization. The study, entitled "Security of Cloud Computing
NEW YORK - CA has announced the release of CA ARCserve r15. The solution set includes CA ARCserve Backup - CA's traditional offering in this space - two rebranded CA solutions, which are now ARCserve Replication and CA ARCserve High Availability, and an innovative new disk-to-disk backup and restore product, CA ARCserve D2D. The ARCserve
SEATTLE - When Robert Trout wants to illustrate cryptography's particular need for speed, he tells the story of the Enigma encryption engine. In 1942 mathematician Alan Turing and his colleagues at Bletchley Park, England's code-breaking headquarters, had reverse-engineered the Enigma, a German encoding device, and the Allies started reading Axis battle plans. Suspecting trouble, the
DETROIT - Current software engineering practices inadvertently leave software and systems susceptible to attacks. As evidence, the DHS's Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) lists 797 explicit defects and the list is growing at a constant rate. These defects cost the average U.S. Company $22 million dollars a year to fix. Moreover, it isn?t like recommendations for