Tuesday, May 14, 2013

10 years later, Nick Carr's 'IT Doesn't Matter' still matters

View from inside Verizon's security SWAT team

Online gaming company recounts fighting for survival vs. DDoS attacks

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May 14, 2013
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10 years later, Nick Carr's 'IT Doesn't Matter' still matters

Nick Carr's article "IT Doesn't Matter" was published in in Harvard Business Review in May 2003 and ignited an industry firestorm for its perceived dismissal of the strategic value of IT.

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Issue highlights

1. View from inside Verizon's security SWAT team

2. Online gaming company recounts fighting for survival vs. DDoS attacks

3. How Facebook developers screwed up Facebook Home

4. Microsoft commits to secure coding standard

5. When HIPAA is too hard for health care, Health Security Solutions

6. What are 'appcessories' and why should we care about them?

7. Intel's McAfee brings biometric authentication to cloud storage

8. How IP video cameras have evolved

9. Upbeat BlackBerry launches new Q5 qwerty smartphone

10. Is this what IT pay is really coming to?

11. Google has to delete offensive autocomplete results, German federal court rules

12. After tweeting from space station, astronauts return home

13. The 10 most important milestones in Web browser history

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View from inside Verizon's security SWAT team

Bryan Sartin is director of Verizon's RISK Team, the communications provider's computer forensics practice, which is also the group that helps create the annual Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR). Network World Editor in Chief John Dix caught up with Sartin to learn more about the RISK Team, get his take on the state of enterprise security, and discuss new findings from the recently published DBIR report.
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Online gaming company recounts fighting for survival vs. DDoS attacks

Fighting denial-of-service attacks has become a matter of survival for some businesses that find their websites getting smashed and network flooded by attackers. Online gaming company SG Interactive says it's under constant attack and the only way to keep going is to set up an anti-DDoS defense. READ MORE

How Facebook developers screwed up Facebook Home

Facebook Home, the product of Facebook's work to put its social network at the front of the Android mobile operating system, was reportedly built by a team of developers who were not familiar with Android. READ MORE

Microsoft commits to secure coding standard

Microsoft says its coding practices and its corporate management structure both comply with an international application security standard to encourage secure software development. READ MORE

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Data Center Transformations

This paper discusses ways to simplify data center transformation and introduces a new process – BOCA – Build Outs, Consolidations and Acquisitions. Learn the five stages of BOCA and see how the right remote access and IT infrastructure management tools, deployed early and continuously monitored, can dramatically improve overall efficiency. Read now!

When HIPAA is too hard for health care, Health Security Solutions

Health care today is a complicated business. Staying on top of the latest medical developments, treatments and technology is a full-time job. Working within the insurance company business process so you can get paid is yet another world unto itself. Running a business trying to keep people healthy (that is the goal right?) is hard enough. READ MORE

What are 'appcessories' and why should we care about them?

As society hurtles forward into the post-PC era, the smartphone will overtake the PC as the platform that connects the greater computing infrastructure with the non-computational. The difference is mobility: smartphones that are smaller than an iPod and have more power than PCs of just few years ago are able to connect with new types of low-cost devices. Some, like the Nike+ Fuelband, are well-known,... READ MORE

Intel's McAfee brings biometric authentication to cloud storage

Intel is introducing new ideas to secure the public cloud, offering a service in which online files can be accessed after users are verified by an authentication scheme including face and voice recognition. READ MORE

How IP video cameras have evolved

IP video cameras can now produce stunning HD images and take up less bandwidth than before. At Interop 2013, Keith Shaw chats with Roert Muehlbauer from Axis Communications about the latest innovations for video surveillance. READ MORE

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The CIO's New Guide to Design of Global IT Infrastructure

Is it possible to eliminate the impact of distance? This paper explores the 5 key principles successful CIOs are using to redesign IT infrastructure of any size. Learn how to be prepared to adapt your environment in a way that supports distributed employees, anytime anywhere collaboration and the need for business continuity during a disaster. Read now!

Upbeat BlackBerry launches new Q5 qwerty smartphone

The annual BlackBerry Live conference was kicked off Tuesday with the launch of a new 3.1-in. qwerty smartphone, the BlackBerry Q5, that's slated to go on sale this summer in emerging markets, but not in the U.S. READ MORE

Is this what IT pay is really coming to?

Spotted this handmade sign on the front of the InteropNet booth at the annual Interop Las Vegas event last week. READ MORE

Google has to delete offensive autocomplete results, German federal court rules

Google has to remove search suggestions from autocomplete in Germany if the results are offensive, the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe ruled Tuesday. READ MORE

After tweeting from space station, astronauts return home

A new crew is taking over the International Space Station after two NASA astronauts and one Russian cosmonaut successfully returned to Earth Monday night. READ MORE

The 10 most important milestones in Web browser history

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Forrester: Mobile is the New Face of Engagement

This Forrester reports examines the dramatic impact mobility will have on CIOs and explains how and why CIOs must step up and work with other executives to establish an "office of the chief mobility officer" to implement an enterprise wide mobile strategy. Learn More

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