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Copyright (c) 1998 InfoWorld Media Group Inc. Who better to catch a hacker than a hacker? This was the thinking of a business-hosting ISP that will remain unnamed, that called […]

Ford, Chrysler, and General Motors are dipping their toes in Web water. But only Daewoo and tiny Auto-By-Tel really seem to know how to swim. For 30 years automobile dealer […]

Attracted by the inexpensive, ubiquitous reach of the Internet, business is rapidly embracing the Web as the preferred medium for E-mail, marketing, and commerce. Companies like online bookseller Amazon.com, and […]

Across the northernmost reaches of Alaska, frozen tundra stretches as far as the eye can see. Here, some 250 miles above the Arctic Circle, a smattering of modular buildings dot […]

After all, with the Web's growing importance as a business tool, your enterprise applications are increasingly the window through which your end users interface with your business. When those customers […]

Throwing cash around on the Internet scares consumers, merchants and bankers alike. Firewalls, smart cards and digital certificates have gone a long way toward quelling the fears that the Net […]

Data Warehousing for Grown-upsData warehousing is no longer a novel concept. Most IS managers in financial services, health care and telecommunications began their first data warehouses and data marts years […]

Oracle, IBM and Informix say their new databases can handle SQL data and objects. But what are the trade-offs? We turned to the universal server gurus themselves for some answers. […]

Are your networks and systems running up to snuff? To monitor system health, IS shops are stitching together a variety of performance auditing and reporting tools. Gathering enterprise performance information […]

Depending on whom you ask, the Year 2000 two-digit date field problem is either a $600 billion to $1.5 trillion global crisis or an over-hyped marketing ploy that is feathering […]

The landscape is littered with Internet providers offering consumer dial-in access. Faced with falling margins and pushy competition, Internet access standbys are retooling themselves as full-service providers. With 3,000 remote […]

Doing business with customers, suppliers and partners electronically holds much potential and promise. But to realize benefits, say IS executives, IS must first sort through infrastructure, security, development tools and […]

A phoned-in bomb scare prompts the evacuation of an industrial management systems manufacturer headquartered in California's Silicon Valley. Outside the building, a man clips on a badge that reads 'Security […]

The corporate help desk is emerging as the keeper of information on enterprise hardware and software assets Aetna Canada's vice president of business technology services, Don Critchley, stood at the […]

Buggy technology, marketing problems and fast-closing competitors have put the financial hurt on once-powerful Sybase. With a renewed focus on three core product groups and some new blood, the database […]

The new distributed systems management framework, the offspring of the much-publicized IBM/Tivoli pairing, has garnered strong buy-in from ISVs. Now it has to prove that it's got what it takes […]

Businesses with intellectual property and online customers to protect are increasingly calling on cyberforensics investigators to get to the bottom of cases of employee wrongdoing and electronic crimes. 'People are […]

Something looked fishy in PayPal Inc.'s merchant account system. Late in 2000, hundreds of new accounts were being opened under the same names, including Hudsen and Stivonson. PayPal's antifraud team […]

Observing cybercrooks in its midst last summer helped PayPal develop a pattern-analysis fraud prevention tool that has greatly reduced its fraud rates. In late October, PayPal's chief technology officer, Max […]

Hiring outlook: Despite a new interest in forensics work since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, forensics placements are still slow, according to Tracy Lenzner, founder and president of LenznerGroup, a […]

Palo Alto, Calif. U.S. cybersecurity czar Richard Clarke, warning that cyberattacks on the nation's critical IT infrastructure could potentially cause 'catastrophic damage to the economy,' last week urged more spending […]

About a year ago, Fred Meyer Jewelers began a migration away from the mainframes at its parent company, Fred Meyer Inc., a $5.5 billion retailer based in Portland Ore. That's […]

Data Efficiency Positions: * Database administrators Skills: SQL/Oracle/DB2 and supporting operating systems Salary: $71,500-$102,500, based on region and experience Source: Robert Half International Inc. (RHI), Menlo Park, Calif. * Database […]

PALO ALTO, CALIF. - U.S. cybersecurity czar Richard Clarke said Wednesday that cyberattacks on the nation's critical IT infrastructure could potentially cause 'catastrophic damage to the economy' and urged more […]

If you've got a network in Russia, you must register your encryption methods and programs with the government. All data and voice traffic in China goes through government-owned switching centers. […]

Standard XP Security features: Firewall: The Internet Connection Firewall provides basic packet filtering and custom settings for ActiveX controls and other executable files. The default setting is to deny all […]

'When Windows XP is released, soon all hell will follow. New zombies and nanobots are waiting to exploit vulnerabilities. Be warned . . . ' When an Australian hacker identified […]

Rising concerns about privacy mean that the security of sensitive information such as medical and financial data and information about children is coming under tighter scrutiny these days. And this […]

* What type of data is personal and sensitive in nature? * Where is that data stored? * Who's looking at the data? * Which employees in which roles need […]

Who: Leslie Peckham and Mike Kleckner Title: Information security advisers Company: American Family Mutual Insurance Co., Madison, Wis. (www.amfam.com) Report to: Enterprise technology strategies director Skills: Ability to explain and […]

A few years ago, American Family Mutual Insurance Co. ran its IT operations like most other companies do: Business units would hand down an order for a new program or […]

When undertaking a new development project, American Family enables the business unit project managers to set security requirements themselves. A key element is a template developed by the company's two […]

Some 300 purchasing managers at Fortune 1,000 companies have wireless networks in their near-term purchasing plans, according to John Pescatore, a security analyst at Gartner Inc. in Stamford, Conn. 'Out […]

Eve* as you read this, some of your corporate gear-heads are installing wireless base stations and network interface cards (NIC) behind your back. They may not know it, but they're […]

About a year ago, Payet Guillermo's systems and Web development work called for more robust capabilities for the sharing of information and applications. That's when he started dabbling in XML. […]

Consumer information is currency. And businesses that collect, mint and trade this information have done so thus far with relative impunity. 'The key to privacy protection is enforcement. Right now, […]

Information technology managers fear that the Council of Europe's final draft of a controversial cybercrime treaty, which was approved by the council's European Committee on Crime Problems last month, will […]

With Microsoft set to release its first browser-based consumer privacy controls later this month, the Platform for Privacy Preferences Project (P3P) standard is about to step into the limelight. Already, […]

* The Platform for Privacy Preferences Project (P3P), developed by the World Wide Web Consortium, is an emerging industry standard that gives users more control over personal information gathered on […]

Rancho Mirage, Calif. Three wireless-savvy IT managers predicted last week that the rollout of wireless applications in the U.S. will continue to be slow for the next few years because […]

For the second time this year, script kiddies using old tactics are bolstering their egos in the name of their countries. While Israeli and Palestinian hackers continue to duke it […]

A word of warning to IT transplants trying to make career contacts in California's Silicon Valley: Too much schmoozing can be hazardous to your health. "There's a lot of schmoozing […]