Sharon Gaudin

March Madness may have a double meaning this year. The 19-day-long NCAA Division 1 basketball championship tournament could take a huge toll on many corporate networks. Beyond being a productivity drain on employees worked up over the daily barrage of games and office pool activity, the availability of free video streams this year may clog […]

The Department of Homeland Security isn’t all that secure… at least when it comes to its computer systems. The Committee on Government Reform gave the agency, which in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks was charged with protecting the nation from threats, a failing grade for network security the second year in a […]

Have you ever written a funny — maybe slightly cutting — email about a colleague or business partner? You and your friends probably got a few laughs out of it. Would it seem as funny if a lawyer was reading it aloud in the middle of a courtroom? Yah, probably not. Thoughtlessly written emails, or […]

The CEO of a fairly large mid-West manufacturing company is waiting in an airport for his flight to start boarding. Anxious about his company purchasing a major competitor in two weeks, he paces back and forth, talking to his financial team on his cell phone. The more worked up he gets, the louder his voice […]

When you call to make a flight reservation with JetBlue Airlines, you just might be talking to someone in their bunny slippers. No, they’re not getting carried away with casual Friday. Eighty percent of JetBlue’s reservation agents work from home. And as the airline just passed its six-year anniversary of allowing its agents to telecommute, […]

The information security officer at a large investment firm was being pulled in two different directions over instant messaging. Brian Erdelyi, head of security at Blackmont Capital Inc., needed the company’s traders and advisors to use an enterprise-level IM for better security and to meet strict Canadian regulations for storing communications. His users, however, wanted […]

The Mozilla Foundation’s Firefox 1.5 blew away the competition to take the top award in the Enterprise Linux category in the Datamation Product of the Year 2006 awards. The open-source browser easily beat out the second-place finisher, Red Hat Inc.’s Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0, by garnering more than twice the votes. The Zimbra Collaboration […]

Edging out its closest competitor, Trlokom, Inc.’s SpyWall took top honors in the Enterprise Security category of Datamation’s Product of the Year 2006 awards. SpyWall, the newly anointed flagship product for the five-year-old company, outdistanced the second-place finisher, eSoft, Inc.’s ThreatWall. Digital Defense, Inc.’s Frontline V3.2 came in third, with eIQnetworks, Inc. coming in a […]

SAN JOSE – Trust was the watchword in Bill Gates’ keynote speech, which opened the RSA Security Conference here yesterday. And he laid out a wide-reaching, four-pronged plan to improve trust and security in what he calls an ever-increasingly digitized world. The security industry needs to help companies create trusted relationships with partners and customers, […]

Information security is different today than it was just five years ago. And how you go about having a successful career as an IT security professional is different, as well. Kevin Beaver, an information security consultant with Atlanta, Ga.-based Principle Logic, LLC, says the industry has shifted so much in the last several years that […]