Sandra Gittlen

Home access to the corporate enterprise is on the rise, according to industry watchers. Gridlocked highways, skyrocketing fuel costs, and the desire for a better work/home life balance have employees clamoring to telecommute. This sea change could mean big headaches for IT managers who are caught unprepared. Chris Hernandez, senior network engineer at Holtzbrinck Publishers, […]

Bob Woods likes to keep his staff lean. As global IT director at Ampacet Corp., a large chemical manufacturer in Tarrytown, N.Y., Woods has a staff of eight IT professionals who serve 800 employees worldwide. Normally these numbers work, but when MyDoom and other high-profile viruses took down his messaging system early last year, that […]

Security experts agree the anti-phishing legislation introduced to the U.S. Senate last month is a good first step. But they also agree there are bigger ”phish” to fry in the war against online fraud. The Anti-Phishing Act of 2005, put forth by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), calls for the criminalization of two essential parts of […]

The emphasis on security in the enterprise has companies scrambling to beef up their teams or turn to outsourcers. But with so many newcomers claiming to be security experts, IT managers are looking to security certifications as proof-positive of a person’s skills. ”When these people are going to be put in charge of auditing or […]

The excitement around collaboration tools is building in the IT community. However, experts warn that companies should start preparing now for the nuances of real-time communications. From compliance to security to infrastructure considerations, IT groups have a lot to think about when it comes to rolling out collaboration tools, such as instant messaging, audio and […]

While AskJeeves, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo all are making a splash with their individual desktop search tools for the consumer market, IT pros say these products, and others like them, could help enterprise users get a handle on their massive content stores. ”For users who have a few thousand documents that span several years, [these […]

Few would argue that prevention is the best form of network security. Certainly not the Datamation readers who supported NFR Security’s Sentivist IPS as the winner in the Product of the Year 2005 Enterprise Security category. Sentivist turned back a strong challenge from Digital Defense Inc.’s Frontline 3.0 subscription-based vulnerability testing tool. Other finalists were […]

If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. IT managers looking to thwart renegade use of consumer-oriented instant messaging tools are turning to enterprise collaboration tools with sophisticated features. And Datamation readers have picked their favorite, giving top honors in the Enterprise Instant Messaging Software category to Microsoft’s Live Communications Server 2005. ”It’s innovative in that […]

Sometimes being an early technology adopter can be a downer. But Bill Miller, CIO for El Paso County in Colorado, plans to use what he has learned from his failed radio frequency identification (RFID) project next year, when he says the technology will be ready for prime time. ”Early adoption is generally a lot of […]

For Allen Gwinn, senior IT director at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, the question is not if his 15,000-user network will be exposed, but how to control the damages when it happens. Gwinn knows that as part of an educational institution, his network is a prime target for hackers. At the same time, there is […]