Combating SPAM Problems in a Corporate Environment
Perhaps no problem plagues the Internet as deeply as that of unsolicited junk E-mail, or SPAM. While there's no doubt that SPAM can be annoying to the end users, SPAM can cause problems for both the network administrators and for those who own or manage a company. The reason for this is that SPAM robs your company of productivity and of system resources.
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Date: 2003-05-27
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Future Directions: Too Much of a Good Thing
Managing IT complexity is a major problem for most companies. This is especially true for the many small and mid-market companies struggling to manage all of the distributed systems they deployed over the past decade. If you couple this proliferation of systems with the increasing demands being placed on IT organizations because of the move to e-business, you'll begin to see why so many customers are looking to IBM for help.
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Date: 2003-05-12
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Getting Closer to 99.9999% Network Uptime
Back in May 2002, Cisco Systems announced new software for its 12000 series routers, Globally Resilient IP (GRIP). GRIP is meant to eliminate data loss on the network even if there are circuit failures or human errors. Not a bad trick if they can do it.
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Date: 2003-05-12
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DSL and Cable Modem Security
Although high speed internet access may not have reached you yet, it probably will soon. The advantages are obvious, but there's a dark side: security. I'm not going to talk about the more general aspects of securing your system here (I've done that in General Security), but only specifically about the issue of clear text passwords with telnet, pop, and ftp.
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Date: 2003-05-08
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Like, hello?
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Wireless price wars aren't good for companies such as Sprint PCS and Nextel. But the cutthroat environment suits one tech company just fine.
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Date: 2003-05-07
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Vaccinating Handheld Computers
Johns Hopkins Medicine has turned to a firewall designed for handheld computers to protect doctors who are using Pocket PC devices to gain instant access to medical data. The medical school and health-care organization recently deployed a wireless LAN to let doctors use the devices to update medical records, access radiography information, and write prescriptions. But security was a concern.
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Date: 2003-05-07
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Bandwidth, Contention, and Profits
Whether your company offers data service to businesses, residential consumers, apartment dwellers, or university faculty and staff the effort required to provide quality data services becomes increasingly complex as you add customers or users. Contention is one of the most significant forces working against your efforts to deliver cost effective quality data services to your customers. Contention forces you to use more and more of your available bandwidth to control who has access to your shared service.
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Date: 2003-05-06
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Ten Ways to Make the Most of IIS
As an IIS administrator it sometimes gets downright annoying having to fend off all the insults from Apache admins I meet claming innate server superiority. Generally the discussion about Web administration starts first with all the various security holes plaguing IIS and the negative press the platform garnered over the last year.
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Date: 2003-05-02
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