Sean Michael Kerner

Nine months after it acquired Funk Software for $122 million, Juniper Networks  is rolling out network access control (NAC) security products based on Funk’s technology. Memo to Cisco and Microsoft. Your competition in the NAC sector is heating up. Funk Software’s two flagship products are the Odyssey Access Client (OAC) and Steel-Belted Radius (SBR). OAC is […]

Novell  is making its latest flagship Linux applications, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop version 10 (SLED) available today. Novell’s new enterprise Linux server includes the latest 2.6.16 Linux kernel among its updated applications. SLES 10 also marks the debut of the company’s AppArmor technology in its enterprise Linux distribution. AppArmor […]

Change is a fundamental component of any enterprise’s growth. Managing that change however isn’t always an easy thing, that is unless you’ve got the right software. Serena Software is among those that develop software to help enterprises manage, automate and deal with change. Serena claims that 96 of the Fortune 100 and over 15,000 organizations […]

Make no mistake about it, Mozilla Bon Echo is Firefox 2.0. Developers and testers who downloaded the first three alpha versions of Mozilla’s next-generation Firefox browser saw the Bon Echo moniker in the title bar, and for the program folder and desktop shortcut. Bon Echo is a reference to a Canadian provincial park. But now […]

Cisco Systems is hoping to increase its lead in the Network Admission Control space (NAC) with the rollout of its NAC 4.0 appliance. The new technology comes as other vendors, both complementary and competitive, strengthen their own network control initiatives. NAC is a network-based approach to authenticating and enabling access to users and services across […]

TORONTO — What would a birthday party be without presents? Good thing PostgreSQL didn’t have to find out. The open source database project celebrated its 10th year this weekend at its Anniversary Summit event held here. PostgreSQL luminary Bruce Momjian’s keynote highlighted the birthday celebration, which included 41 speakers spread across 20 sessions. The event […]

IBM  has been a huge Linux backer since 1998. Yet despite its love of the penguin, Big Blue’s Lotus Notes product has never fully supported a standalone client for the Linux desktop. That is, until now. Why has it taken so long for IBM to support the Linux desktop for Notes users? The answer is […]

Make no mistake about it, Virtual Private Networks (VPN) are still big business. A new report from Infonetics Research pegs the value of the VPN services market in 2005 to have been $23 billion, which represents 14 percent growth over 2004. Growth is expected to continue, hitting $29 billion by 2009. Jeff Wilson, principal analyst […]

Stats from at least three different security vendors make clear the trend, perhaps even bode well for their businesses: Malware is growing. Although virus rates themselves may be falling, Trojans are picking up the slack at an alarming rate, the vendors said. Another common trend: The growth of malware is almost exclusively targeted at Windows […]

Hardly a week goes by without another browser vulnerability being reported. One security researcher is going to take it a step further this month and by releasing a new vulnerability every day. So far he’s living up to his promise. H.D Moore is the co-author of the Metasploit Framework, an open source licensed platform for […]

Have you noticed more spam in your inbox lately? You’re not alone. Among the lead culprits in the spam overflow is a new take on an old technique called image-based spam. By definition, image-based spam contains its unwanted content inside of graphics, making it difficult for some spam filters to identify. According to a new […]

FEATURE: Though Microsoft might disagree, open source software in many cases can be a real cost saver. It can also save your neck. Literally. Most information workers spend inhumane amounts of time huddled over their computers. We type away at our keyboards, stare at our screens and remain shackled to our chairs seemingly immobile for […]