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Healthy ways to spend $40 billion

Much has been written about the $40 billion in stimulus funds the U.S. federal government has allocated for healthcare IT. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) allows Congress to begin releasing money in 2010 to healthcare ...

From LINDA MUSTHALER, NetworkWorld,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Congress

Lost: A $49,000 laptop computer

About fifteen years ago, my husband and his colleague had their laptop computers stolen out of a car. They were fearful of reporting the incident to their boss, largely because the laptops had cost the company about $7,000 each. A $14,000 hit to the ...

From LINDA MUSTHALER, NetworkWorld,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Intel

How to protect a database from the inside out

In 2008, more than 285 million sensitive records were reported to have been breached. 99.9 percent of the records were stolen from servers and applications. The companies held accountable for the breaches paid hundreds of millions of dollars for ...

From LINDA MUSTHALER, NetworkWorld,  16 Oct 2009

Engineers fix the shortcomings of the traditional firewall

Network World - Sometimes, the problems we experience with computers are a result of a legacy design. Hardware or software might have been architected 10 or 20 years ago when the world of computing was vastly different from the way it is today. As a ...

From LINDA MUSTHALER, ComputerWorld,  12 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Skype,  Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.

Survey: Mainframe managers discuss their priorities

Availability, security and data centralization are a few reasons why mainframe computing is alive and well Sign up for this newsletter now! Linda Musthaler's CIO-level look at the latest networking technologies and their benefits and ...

From LINDA MUSTHALER, NetworkWorld,  2 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Bill Miller,  BMC Software, Inc.,  IBM,  Gartner, Inc.

A security evangelist shares his best practices

For this week’s newsletter, I reached out to eIQnetworks’ Security and Compliance Evangelist, John Linkous. eIQnetworks  is the maker of SecureVue, a comprehensive security, log management and compliance automation software package for the ...

From LINDA MUSTHALER, NetworkWorld,  25 Sep 2009

Best practices and automation for data privacy

Much has been written about data security, and how to protect data in a computer system to ensure its confidentiality, integrity and availability. Have you given much thought to data privacy? It's not quite the same thing as data security. Privacy ...

From LINDA MUSTHALER, NetworkWorld,  18 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Facebook Inc.,  Federal Trade Commission

BMC's CTO gives advice on cloud management

I recently had the opportunity to talk to Kia Behnia, CTO at BMC Software. Given that BMC's core business is software to automate, control and manage enterprise systems, I thought it would be worthwhile to get Behnia's insight on managing applications ...

From LINDA MUSTHALER, NetworkWorld,  27 Aug 2009

Related Topics: BMC Software, Inc.

More tips on detecting botnet infestation

This week I reached out to Chris Poulin, the CSO at Q1 Labs, maker of the QRadar family of log management and security information and event management products. Poulin says that botnets are different from other security threats, but they are ...

From LINDA MUSTHALER, NetworkWorld,  19 Aug 2009

Related Topics: IBM

Detecting "bot rot" using log management or SIEM

In last week's newsletter, I talked about the growing sophistication of botnets and how easily they can invade your network. For this week's article, I reached out to a number of experts in the logging and security incident and event management ...

From LINDA MUSTHALER, NetworkWorld,  7 Aug 2009

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