Larry Barrett

Managing an increasingly mobile workforce can be a tall order. Add to it the proliferation of devices running on the network, and the ongoing strain of maintaining a robust and secure Web presence, and it’s a real challenge. VeriSign is trying to help. With the new Managed DNS service, VeriSign is offering an enterprise-ready system […]

Dell’s Streak Android-based tablet PC goes on sale later this weekSource: Dell Dell is just days away from launching its new Streak tablet PC — a move that will see it competing with Apple’s popular iPad device. For its part, Dell is betting that features like front-and-rear cameras and access to the Android Marketplace will […]

Socially engineered scams piggybacking off of major news and pop culture events were rampant in the first six months of the year, giving consumers and enterprise IT administrators even more security issues to worry about. As eSecurity Planet reports, McAfee’s 2Q 2010 Threats Report found more than 10 million new or existing pieces of malware […]

Thanks to the Web and the millions of applications and data sources it’s spawned, enterprises have been swamped with an untenable amount of unstructured data that doesn’t fit into convenient existing software containers. As CIOUpdate reports, this influx of unstructured data begs for a new breed of intuitive and utilitarian enterprise content management (ECM) apps […]

After years of layoffs, hiring freezes and shuttered IT projects, it appears the worm is starting to turn for technology professionals — particularly those with telecom, cloud-computing and virtualization expertise. As CIOUpdate reports, a new report from TechServe Alliance found that more than 9,700 IT jobs were added in July, a modest but psychologically significant […]

Many people were left scratching their heads after eBay ponied up big money to buy Skype, an Internet phone provider. After a brief and rocky marriage, the Internet auctioneer sold its stake in the VoIP firm for $1.9 billion, leaving Skype to its own devices. Now, Skype has opted to take its show public. The […]

Despite the best efforts of antivirus vendors and developers, security vulnerabilities continue to be exposed in software programs, whether they are relatively new or long-established. For example, just last month Microsoft warned of a potential vulnerability in a developer component for Windows XP, which debuted back in 2001. Part of the reason is popularity. The […]

Officials at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia are beginning the long and shameful process of notifying 21,000-plus patients that a laptop containing their Social Security numbers, insurance information and other data was stolen from an office. As eSecurity Planet reports, this latest preventable data breach serves as just the latest reminder that health-care organizations […]

Strong sales of new smartphones running the Android mobile operating system helped push Google’s mobile OS past RIM for the top spot in the second quarter. As Enterprise Mobile Today reports, high demand for Android-based models such as Sprint’s HTC EVO 4 and the Motorola Droid X helped knock RIM from the perch it’s held […]

Between iPhones, portal USB drives and even iPods, today’s employee has a full arsenal of digital devices that can be used to download and remove classified, competitive information from their employer. As CIOUpdate reports, an extremely high percentage of workers admit they’ve used these devices and their personal email accounts to send sensitive information to […]

Smartphones are something of a necessary evil in the eyes of most IT administrators. The combination of support and security issues can cost millions of dollars every year and hamstring other projects more closely aligned with pressing business priorities. So, as Datamation reports, many companies are washing their hands of the smartphone problem and hiring […]

Patients’ personal data is being exposed at an alarming rate, according to the latest security report from the Identity Theft Resource Center, a trend that illustrates how hackers and identity thieves are targeting less secure data sources for their nefarious projects. As eSecurity Planet reports, more than 100 health-care providers reported significant data breaches in […]