Robert Richardson is the editorial director of the Computer Security Institute,
which provides training to computer, information and network security professionals.
A recent survey by CSI, along with the FBI’s Computer Intrusion Squad,
focused on computer crimes and security. During an interview with ADT, Richardson
examines how companies are tackling these issues.
Java tools undergo an extreme makeover...
Thanks to the influence of Eclipse's open-source tooling platform, the new face of the Java IDE will
resemble a lean plug-in environment rather than the traditional feature-stuffed tool suite.
For a number of reasons,
enterprises are doing far
less building and much
more buying today. The
consequences of this
transition have blurred a
once-clear ROI picture.
Employees at Hunter Dickinson clamored for wireless capability so they could
easily work from its worldwide offices in South Africa, Tibet, Mexico, Chile
and Canada.
But Hunter Dickinson’s Anthony Maw was leery about implementing wireless
capability in the company’s infrastructure.
Software development
managers have discovered
that the right tools and
techniques can make
globally dispersed teams
nearly as effective as under-one-roof, traditional teams.
Technology evolves, and old tech fades away. But sometimes good tech gets replaced by something altogether worse, and gets sorely missed.
Businesses are relying on data visualization software to wring greater value from their data,
get a better handle on their operations, satisfy customers and stave off competitors.
Some enterprises are developing hybrid, or interdependent, applications that have both conventional (client desktop) and embedded (mobile or wireless) components.
Evolving business demands and ever-more capable technology are conspiring to rewrite the once-straightforward definitions that used to describe data warehousing.