Security

July 28, 2010

Wednesday, July 28, 2010 4:53 PM/EST

Jailbroken iPhones Could Mean Trouble For Enterprise IT

By Tony Kontzer The Copyright Office decision to allow jailbreaking of smartphones has significant implications for the world of enterprise mobility.

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May 10, 2010

Monday, May 10, 2010 10:08 AM/EST

Facebook Woes Coming To IT

by Tony Kontzer Today's subject is privacy--or more appropriately, the lack of it. Whether you're in charge of customer data for a large corporation or simply one of Facebook's more than 400 million users, chances are you have reason to...

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May 5, 2010

Wednesday, May 05, 2010 9:45 AM/EST

Is Your Copier Secure?

Pretty well known in IT circles, but worth repeating -- especially since network television coverage is bound to give some crooks ideas: modern copying machines keep records of the stuff you copy, so you need to treat them as data...

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April 21, 2010

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 10:54 AM/EST

Governments Watching Google

"[W]e regularly receive requests from government agencies around the world to remove content from our services, or provide information about users of our services and products," says Google, which has now released data on where those requests come from. The...

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March 24, 2010

Wednesday, March 24, 2010 9:30 AM/EST

Google vs. China: Google 1, China 0

Exploring Google's decision to fight back against China. By Tony Kontzer

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March 11, 2010

Thursday, March 11, 2010 9:20 AM/EST

Pa. CISO Unfairly Fired

Pennsylvania's CISO was fired last week over public comments related to an alleged hack into a state system. But he should be applauded. By Tony Kontzer

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March 5, 2010

Friday, March 05, 2010 3:10 PM/EST

RSA: Feds Wave White Flag on Cyber Crime

IT and security leaders should heed warnings from top federal officials about cyber crime and work with government to fight threats. By Tony Kontzer

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March 4, 2010

Thursday, March 04, 2010 5:53 PM/EST

RSA: CISOs as Entrepreneurial Business Partners

A new era is upon us in which IT security just might shed that lunatic fringe label. By Tony Kontzer

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January 20, 2010

Wednesday, January 20, 2010 9:49 AM/EST

Network China Vs Command China

Thomas Friedman writes in the New York Times that China's restrictive internet policies are bumping up against its need to foster a data-dependent modern economy. He contrasts the old, Party-centric model, which he calls "Command China," with the new, business-driven...

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January 15, 2010

Friday, January 15, 2010 10:04 AM/EST

Twittering the Google-China Story

by Tony Kontzer Few technology business stories have triggered the range of responses that Google's well-documented standoff with China has generated. The topic seems ideally suited to the Twit Digest treatment, in which I take some recent piece of tech-related...

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