Jacqueline Emigh

A large consortium of users, vendors, and insurers known as the Center for Internet Security (CIS) this week will hold a meeting to promote standard security settings for Microsoft’s Windows 2000. Meanwhile, the group is testing products from Symantec, BindView, NetIQ, and other companies for use with its own emerging set of template-based benchmarks, meant […]

To fend off growing competition from Microsoft’s Windows 2000, Linux, and other network operating environments, Novell has begun to articulate a new product roadmap and “solutions” strategy. Under its emerging “solutions” approach, Novell hopes to shore up its market position by selling products and services that work with each other to solve “business problems.” says […]

An emerging standard called Linux Standard Base (LSB) is getting lots of play lately as a boon to software developers. If all goes as planned, though, network managers could start benefiting, too, possibly as early as the end of this year. Linux continues to draw criticism for its interoperability, scalability, and usability issues. Nonetheless, growing […]

In the aftermath of September 11, organizations everywhere are shoring up their security defenses. If you’re a network manager, chances are good that you’ll be called upon to either set up security policies or to update existing policies. Luckily, there are some free resources available on the Web to help you out. This month, the […]

Previous article: Driveby Hacking on the Go, Part 1 Right now, a lot of war driving is apparently still being done just for fun. Driveby hackers catch a bit of free Internet access, or eavesdrop on e-mail. However, if left wide open, the security holes in wireless networks carry the potential for much more serious […]

How did Frank Keeney, a California-based security consultant and war driving convert, spend his recent vacation? With his wife and kids along for the ride, Keeney used a laptop, rigged up in the back of his SUV, to map access points to home and corporate wireless LANs all the way from Pasadena to San Francisco. […]