RSA Security announced Wednesday that it will ship in June a tool to help IT organizations that are already using the company’s event-logging software to comply with new rules required by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, HIPAA and other regulations.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 05/12/2005
In an effort to reduce the pain users face in combing through Licensing 6.0 documentation, Microsoft this week previewed a change coming in July to its massive Product Use Rights document.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/12/2005
A free download available from Microsoft on Thursday brings support for Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2) to Windows XP Service Pack 2.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/12/2005
PGP Corp. is shipping updates to both its desktop and server encryption products aimed at centralizing policy management and expanding enterprise management features.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 05/12/2005
Defrauded customers may be eligible for free Windows XP Pro, but with some strings attached.
A year after publicly declaring an end to their longstanding feud, Sun Microsystems and Microsoft plan a news conference on Friday to discuss progress in their relationship.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/11/2005
Dell Inc. chairman and founder Michael Dell is investing $100 million in Red Hat, the Linux distributor that often stands in as a symbol for the open-source movement's challenge to Microsoft's OS dominance.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/11/2005
This MCSE thinks he'd have a difficult time trying to pass the new performance-based questions being added to many MCSE exams.
Microsoft unveiled "Maestro" this week and released a private beta of the server-based business performance management scorecard application.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/11/2005
Windows Firewall's ease of use and centrally configurable settings makes it worth turning on.
IBM is readying two upcoming releases of its IBM Director systems management tool for Intel platforms, as well as a toolkit to enable third-parties to integrate their own tools with Director.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 05/11/2005
Gotchas from readers who've implemented Windows' Volume Shadow Copy Service.
- By Bill Boswell
- 05/10/2005
As planned, Microsoft released only one security bulletin for May in its monthly Patch Tuesday event today. The bulletin patches an "important" flaw in Windows 2000 that can allow an attacker to take control of a vulnerable computer over the Internet.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/10/2005
The Win32_Product class is useful in many ways, including uninstalling Windows Installer-managed apps.
Thanks to legislative pressure, security breaches are public knowledge, but media coverage has turned transparency into hype and hassle.
Microsoft on Friday posted Service Pack 4 for SQL Server 2000, the first service pack update for the company's flagship database server since early 2003.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/07/2005
From the business wires this week: a .NET framework that supports ASP.NET; products and services that reduce your spam intake; and an online service that can help you recover Microsoft Access files.
Venturing into the world of the incredibly tiny means packing up and moving to where the action is. With that Auntie Em closes shop on her opinion column.
Mixed signals in the United States and slower growth in Western Europe and Japan to slow IT spending growth through 2005, analyst firm says.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/05/2005
May will be a light month for security bulletins from Microsoft. The software giant plans to release only one bulletin during its monthly Patch Tuesday next week.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/05/2005