Tuesday, November 08, 2005
Check employees' home computers for threats to your network
NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: MICHAEL OSTERMAN ON MESSAGING
11/08/05
Today's focus: Check employees' home computers for threats to
your network
Dear networking.world@gmail.com,
In this issue:
* Lessons from across the pond
* Links related to Messaging
* Featured reader resource
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The potential threats to VoIP networks are many and include:
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number harvesting and more. An industry group is working toward
a best-practices document that will spell out for businesses how
to build secure VoIP networks using specific makes and models of
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Today's focus: Check employees' home computers for threats to
your network
By Michael Osterman
In late October, I had the privilege of participating at the
Message05 event in London, an event focused on the e-mail
industry in the U.K and beyond. One of the more interesting
parts of this conference was the roundtable discussions in which
vendors, IT managers and others were given 90 minutes to kick
around a variety of issues - the two I led were focused on
content security and e-mail hygiene. Here are a couple of the
more interesting takeaways from the conference:
* One of the U.K.'s largest employers recently experienced a
major incident that brought its e-mail system and the rest of
its network to a complete halt for three days. It took a full
four weeks for all of the servers to be patched. At the time of
the conference, the company's IT management still didn't know
what caused the outage - it could have been anything from an IM
worm to a virus brought in on a USB keychain device. The company
has spent enormous sums of money combating the effects of
whatever caused the outage and reinforcing its defenses to
prevent something else like this from happening again.
* When Volvo negotiates with security vendors for new systems,
the company requires that its employees are provided with the
same desktop capabilities for use at home. Volvo's thinking is
that because a lot of its employees do work from home, it's
critical to make sure that threats cannot enter the corporate
network by way of users' personal machines.
Both of these points illustrate the critical need for
organizations of all sizes to focus on a wide and growing array
of threats that could easily impact their networks. A single
piece of code, for example, one that could bring down a network
for days, can enter through an e-mail, an image file embedded in
an e-mail, a single IM, a USB keychain device, a diskette, an
employee's laptop, an employee's home machine, a contractor's
machine, an employee's child or any of a variety of other
sources. It is critical, therefore, to protect every avenue by
which a threat could enter a network, not just those in the
workplace.
The top 5: Today's most-read stories
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To contact: Michael Osterman
Michael D. Osterman is the principal of Osterman Research
<http://www.ostermanresearch.com/>, a market research firm that
helps organizations understand the markets for messaging,
directory and related products and services. He can be reached
by clicking here <mailto:michael@ostermanresearch.com>
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Friday, November 04, 2005
John Gallant Spotlights Top Network News and Issues in VORTEX Digest for Nov. 4, 2005
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John Gallant Spotlights Top Network News and Issues
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Nov. 4, 2005
Volume 7, Number 6
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In This Issue:
* Thoughts from VORTEX 2005
* Focus on what's core to you
* Vendors and customers move forward together
* Subscription information
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"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have
ended up where I intended to be."
Douglas Adams
Dear Vorticians,
After spending months preparing for VORTEX 2005 and then two-and-
a-half whirlwind days at the conference with 30 speakers in 19
different interviews, panels and presentations, it's difficult to
put the whole shooting match into perspective. In a way, it's all
a blur that will take some time to sort out. Some real highlights
stand out in my mind and, as with any event, a couple of
disappointments. Some speakers and sessions exceeded expectations
in ways I couldn't have predicted, and some discussions or topics
didn't generate the spark I'd hoped.
As Douglas A. says above, VORTEX 2005 may not have always gone
where we expected it to go, but we certainly ended up where we
intended. That's because the two fundamental premises of VORTEX
were validated in resounding fashion.
First, Geoffrey Moore and I began our work together on this
project with the belief that the enterprise IT industry is
undergoing profound change, and that both IT customers and
providers are wrestling with the impact of that change. They're
trying to apply and deliver technology in new ways and struggling
with how to improve the value they deliver - either to customers
or, in the case of IT executives, to the business.
This came out in a variety of ways:
* Geoff's keynote focusing on how to spark innovation by
stripping away resource-draining contextual activities and
realigning people and money to where they will have far more
influence on the things that really make a difference for your
company - the things that are core to you. That theme was fleshed
out by CIOs from companies like Levi Strauss, Nortel, Electronic
Arts and Fidelity who talked about how they are dealing with the
core/context challenge every day. (Here's a link to Geoff's soon-
to-be-released book "Dealing with Darwin":
http://www.networkworld.com/nlvortexdarwin)
* Microsoft's Ray Ozzie and Sun's Greg Papadopoulos explored the
ramifications of the movement toward software as a service. This
was a great prelude to Microsoft's announcement this week of its
services plans. Read more here:
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/110105-gates-ozzie.html.
* Cassatt's Bill Coleman and CIOs from Hasbro and DolphinSearch
debated and prognosticated on the inevitability of utility
computing and what it means for IT departments and the IT
industry.
* AT&T's Ed Amoroso talked about how security must change because
our current defenses are fundamentally flawed and cannot be
fixed. The security challenge rang out loud and clear during the
event, with CIOs in a roundtable discussion citing security as
their top concern and attendeess voting resoundingly that
security problems will be with us for a long, long time.
* Services oriented architecture is taking root in corporations
and the payoffs will be huge. In fact, some 80% of the VORTEX
attendees say SOA presents "rich opportunities for investors and
entrepreneurs."
* Mobility technologies are changing business dramatically, as
the CIOs on our wireless panel detailed. This seems particularly
true in the IT-challenged health care field, where the providers
we talked to are fundamentally rewriting the rules of their game.
The second premise of VORTEX is that it's imperative that both
vendors and IT executives explore these issues together in order
to speed the evolution of enterprise IT. This year, with help
from the new CIOs on our advisory board, our program better
reflected the concerns of the buy side and, as a result, we had
many, many more senior IT executives in the room. They, and the
top vendor executives in attendance, got a better understanding
of each other's needs and strategies. That may have been the most
important thing to come out of the event.
There's additional coverage of speakers and sessions in the
VORTEX Blog (http://www.networkworld.com/weblogs/vortex/) and in
upcoming days I'll share some more thoughts as well as links to
coverage from the event.
Thanks for all the input you provided to help make VORTEX 2005 a
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Wednesday, November 02, 2005
Mailbag: Fixed, mobile systems live together in harmony
NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: STEVE TAYLOR AND LARRY HETTICK ON
CONVERGENCE
11/02/05
Today's focus: Mailbag: Fixed, mobile systems live together in
harmony
Dear networking.world@gmail.com,
In this issue:
* Readers reply to fixed vs. mobile debate
* Links related to Convergence
* Featured reader resource
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Last week, we published a mock debate on the virtues of fixed
vs. mobile solutions
http://www.networkworld.com/nlconvergence9799. Today, we'd like
to share a few reader replies to our discussion.
First, we'll hear from David J. Green, senior Internet marketing
and security consultant at NetGreen Consulting. Green has
succinctly answered the debate with a matrix approach,
suggesting that wireline services (just barely) edge out
wireless solutions for enterprise applications.
He suggests that, "whoever can provide 'good enough' service
that is fast, cheap and easy to use will win."
Green's matrix is shown below, using a scale of 1-5 with 5 being
high:
Good enough: Wireless-3, Wireline-4
Fast: Wireless-2, Wireline-4
Cheap: Wireless-3, Wireline-2
Easy to use: Wireless-4 Wireline-3
Totals: Wireless-12 Wireline-13
Next, we hear from Madhusudhan Mendu, who states, "My opinion is
it all depends on the business need."
Mendu suggests that the both wireline and wireless services will
"complement each other." In one example, he notes that mobile
"backhaul still needs wireline connectivity" and that "end users
[still need] wireline broadband access." In another example, he
cites a sales representative's need for "mobile connectivity for
access to his CRM system on his mobile device while on the move"
vs. the "end user who requires larger screen/intense application
like IPTV [that] will choose wireline broadband access."
As a parallel, he asks: "Did watches replaced clocks?" or "Did
cell phones replace desk phones?" - concluding that in both
cases neither solution displaced the other, and that both
continue to exist as complementary solutions.
The top 5: Today's most-read stories
1. Vulnerable security algorithms raise concerns
http://www.networkworld.com/nlconvergence10163
2. Gates, Ozzie go 'Live' with Microsoft services plan
http://www.networkworld.com/nlconvergence10164
3. Telecom merger approvals get mixed reviews
http://www.networkworld.com/nlconvergence10165
4. AT&T: Fall of an icon
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/103105-att.html?t5
5. FCC okays telecom mergers with conditions
http://www.networkworld.com/nlconvergence10166
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To contact: Steve Taylor and Larry Hettick
Steve Taylor is president of Distributed Networking Associates
and publisher/editor-in-chief of Webtorials. For more detailed
information on most of the topics discussed in this newsletter,
connect to Webtorials http://www.webtorials.com/, the premier
site for Web-based educational presentations, white papers, and
market research. Taylor can be reached at
mailto:taylor@webtorials.com
Larry Hettick is an industry veteran with more than 20 years of
experience in voice and data. He is Vice President for Telecom
Services and Infrastructure at Current Analysis, the leading
competitive response solutions company. He can be reached at
mailto:lhettick@currentanalysis.com
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delivers.
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Vulnerable security algorithms raise concerns
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Network World's Network/Systems Management News Alert
Vulnerable security algorithms raise concerns, 11/01/05
Industry experts agree that the future of two widely used
security algorithms is fated, but with no clear alternatives in
sight products that rely on them may have to remain "good
enough" for some time.
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The top 5: Today's most-read stories
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<http://www.networkworld.com/nlnetsystemsmgmt10213>
2. Gates, Ozzie go 'Live' with Microsoft services plan
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3. Telecom merger approvals get mixed reviews
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4. AT&T: Fall of an icon
<http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/103105-att.html?t5>
5. FCC okays telecom mergers with conditions
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlnetsystemsmgmt10216>
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