Sandra Gittlen

 

 

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Recent articles by Gittlen

Six hours to hack the FBI (and other pen-testing adventures)
May. 27, 2008
It takes a lot to shock Chris Goggans; he's been a pen (penetration) tester since 1991, getting paid to break into a wide variety of networks. But he says nothing was as egregious as security lapses in both ...

Utility storage: Ready for a long haul?
May. 19, 2008
Utilization rates are up and spending down at early adopters. But storage virtualization remains tough to figure out, impossible to use in multivendor setting and hard to manage. Is it helping or hurting the utility ...

Can your network handle HD video?
Apr. 14, 2008
Consider this: In the week following Sept. 11, 2001, your users were glued to their television sets tracking breaking news. If an event of similar proportions happened today, they would expect the enterprise network to ...

10 tips for a successful video rollout
Apr. 14, 2008
Here are 10 tips network managers should follow for a successful video deployment.

Web 2.0: Just say yes
Mar. 03, 2008
Not wild about wikis? Not big on blogs? Not sold on Second Life? IT execs who ignore Web 2.0 collaboration technologies could be hurting their company's bottom line.

Three IT projects that matter
Dec. 20, 2007
Privacy, enterprise rights management and data center automation projects are getting the green light.

DirecTV tunes in to mobile CRM
Nov. 26, 2007
DirecTV adds mobile capability to Siebel On Demand application via Antenna Software's AMPower tool.

Poll
Aug. 27, 2007
Please take our poll.

Guide to: Online security
Aug. 24, 2007
We asked 10 of the most savvy and experienced security experts and industry veterans to fess up about their own online habits.

Weaving a better Web
Apr. 23, 2007
In 1999, Vint Cerf pitched the idea of an interplanetary network that would extend the Internet's reach beyond Earth. Even though it came from the man who had co-developed the Internet in 1973 and was at that time a ...

Inside advice
Mar. 29, 2007
It may be a job seeker's market, but IT executives say prospective candidates better show their business chops if they're going to command an employer's attention and money.

Data center land grab: Get ready for the rush
Mar. 14, 2007
Call it the Data Center Land Grab of 2007. Big-name companies like Microsoft, Google and HSBC have already ponied up hundreds of millions of dollars this year to stake their claim to acres of land across the country, ...

Cool career opportunity: Data center architect
Feb. 19, 2007
Are you a go-getter who has experience managing servers, storage, security and facilities, and wants to get into the next big thing? If so, you just might be the perfect person for a role that is growing exponentially ...

NAC helps with wireless LAN security at Sinclair Community College
Nov. 26, 2007
Sinclair Community College turns to network access control to secure access for regular network and wireless LAN users.

Best practices for deploying secure Web gateways
Nov. 01, 2007
Analysts, users point to cheap upgrades, understanding traffic patterns and flexible policy enforcement as crucial deployment elements

New secure Web gateways eye next-generation Web-application traffic
Nov. 01, 2007
Layering it on thick: Network administrators face a new class of secure Web gateways to manage security issues Web 2.0 raise.

ADP back-burners virtualization, cranks up heat on automated change management - Network ...
Aug. 20, 2007
ADP implements BladeLogic Operations Manager automated change-management tool as it prepares for virtualization.

The Web as a platform
Apr. 18, 2007
Tim O'Reilly, who co-developed the idea of Web 2.0, a vision for the next generation of software, says the biggest change we'll encounter is a move away from traditional network architectures to having "the Web as a ...

The benefits of crowdsourcing
Apr. 18, 2007
Scott Anthony, a colleague of industry guru Clayton Christensen and managing director of Innosight in Watertown, Mass., says social networking, which encourages companies and individuals to collaborate via technology, ...

Weaving a better Web
Apr. 18, 2007
From Vint Cerf to Tim O'Reilly to Johna Till Johnson, experts take a stab at how the Internet might look down the road.

At long last, IPv6
Apr. 18, 2007
Tim Winters, software managing engineer with the University of New Hampshire Interoperability Lab, predicts that the move to secure granular bits of data will finally mean the emergence of IPv6.

Data security takes center stage
Apr. 18, 2007
Stan Quintana, managed-security services vice president at AT&T in Bedminster, N.J., agrees with Passmore that federation is critical to securing data moving across intranets and extranets.

Sensor-based networks
Apr. 18, 2007
Another big area that's ready to take off is sensor-based networking, Johna Till Johnson says.

Federated identity is key
Apr. 18, 2007
Dave Passmore, research director at the Burton Group, says that federation is critical to data security.

Battle of the ages
Feb. 01, 2007
Charleston Southern University CIO Rusty Bruns has a secret weapon to handle needy users -- Buddy Gray, a 63-year-old network manager.