Sean Michael Kerner

CEOs aren’t doing enough to address the myriad IT security threats that loom large. At least that’s what Ernst & Young concluded from survey results it released today. E&Y contacted 1,233 organizations representing 51 countries for its “Global Information Security Survey 2004,” a report meant to gauge enterprise perceptions of security. In the 11-year history […]

JBoss, the self-proclaimed Professional Open Source company, released JBoss Application Server 4.0 today. The announcement follows closely behind the announcements of JBossCache 1.1 and the company’s new partnership with Sleepycat Software. JBoss Application Server 4.0 is the first open source J2EE 1.4-certified server, a dubious distinction it obtained in July after a rigorous

Microsoft has extended its Government Security Program (GSP) by offering government customers access to the source code of Microsoft Office 2003. The GSP, one of a number of programs in the company’s Shared Source Initiative, is meant to foster collaboration and trust between Microsoft and government organizations. Under the terms of the license announced today, […]

The nascent market for secure sockets layer-based virtual private networks is likely to grow in favor of the larger IT vendors, according to a new report from research firm Meta Group. The growth of the SSL VPN market may also represent a significant opportunity for the SSL certification industry as well. Meta Group’s report said […]

The GNOME Foundation today released the latest evolution of its widely used Linux desktop GNOME version 2.8. The new release adds some significant new features and further expands the usability of the Linux desktop. The Linux desktop currently has two principal open source projects, GNOME and KDE that are both vying to become the dominant […]

In an effort to help ensure standardization, the Free Standards Group has officially released the Linux Standard Base (LSB) 2.0, a specification composed of interoperability standards, a base set of APIs and libraries and developer environments and test suites. The goal of LSB is to prevent the fragmentation of Linux and to ensure a degree […]

Microsoft has been granted a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on a process known as tabbing through a Web page in order to find links. Although the patent award has raised the ire of some in the open source browser community, the implications for the widely used technique are unclear. The patent […]

Verisign has launched its new name server initiative, a move designed to improve the speed with which .com and .net DNS zone files are updated. VeriSign Naming and Directory Services (VNDS) promises to update the core 13 .com and .net authoritative name servers in less than five minutes. The current rate is about twice per […]

IT security vendor McAfee has gone where no other security vendor has gone, so far at least. The company said its intrusion protection system (IPS), Intrushield, has achieved Common Criteria Certification EAL 3. Common Criteria Certification is typically a critically important certification for defense and other highly sensitive areas of governmental IT operations. Many are […]

Nokia is getting into the mobile blogging business with its new partner, blogging expert Six Apart. Their new initiative promises to make posting camera phone images to a blog easier than ever before. Mobile blogging, or “moblogging” to the initiated, involves posting to a blog directly from a camera-enabled cell phone. It allows users to […]

Though its next official full release is still months away, enterprise Linux player Red Hat is rolling out the latest incremental update to its Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 3 product. The latest features are all about security. The update also marks the third incremental update to RHEL3 since it was released in November of […]

A draft study released this week by the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) looks at the various policies and legislation being considered by various levels of government around the globe. The 33-page document provides an exhaustive list of various initiatives and their current status. More than 45 nations have had some […]