Product Spotlight

New Backup Software Migration Approach

Tue, 11 Oct 2005 15:15:00 EDT

IT groups need to be able to consider adopting new backup software for many good reasons. New software might have features and benefits the company needs. The current vendor's maintenance costs may be too high. The company can get cost benefits from standardizing on a single-vendor shop, combining backup and other storage software and even storage systems from the same vendor. The old vendor has acquisition or financing problems or the new vendor is willing to extend pricing breaks to increase the return on investment.

Tokenization: The Building Blocks of Spam

Mon, 03 Oct 2005 03:00:00 EDT

Unlike older spam filters, in which the author programs the characteristics of spam, statistical filtering automatically chooses the characteristics (or 'features') of spam and nonspam directly from each e-mail. Two years from now, when spam has evolved in content, statistical filters will have learned enough to continue doing their job. This is because unlike older spam filters, in which the author programmed rules to identify spam, statistical filters automatically identify damning features of a spam based on message content.

Threat Assessment and Its Input to Risk Assessment

Tue, 03 May 2005 10:00:00 EDT

This article is an excerpt from Risk Management for Computer Security: Protecting Your Network & Information Assets. Printed with permission from Butterworth-Heinemann, a division of Elsevier. Copyright 2005. For more information about this book and other similar titles, please visit www.books.elsevier.com.

REVIEW: Why Would I Never Purchase Another Computer From SONY

Sat, 12 Mar 2005 00:00:00 EST

As part of the ISSJ - Information Storage & Security Journal's product review series, we ordered a Sony VAIO laptop by phone, by dialing Sony's toll free number provided at the Sony Style Web site (www.sonystyle.com) in the United States.