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Diffie: Infrastructure a disaster in the making

Thu, 14 Apr 2005 04:20:28 -0500

Part 2: Diffie, now chief security officer, vice president and a fellow at Sun Microsystems, explains why Windows' spread into critical infrastructure is dangerous and how use of elliptical curve cryptography will grow with the proliferation of smaller, integrated mobile devices.
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Hellman: Authentication at every access point

Thu, 14 Apr 2005 04:20:20 -0500

Part 1: Hellman, now professor emeritus of electrical engineering at Stanford University, explains why phishing is one of the biggest threats we face, why strong authentication is needed at every access point and why security add-ons won't do much to ease the threats of cyberspace.
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Patricia Seybold Group Identifies Liquid Machines as Leader in the Enterprise Rights Management Market

Tue, 29 Mar 2005 04:05:32 -0500

"Liquid Machines' Solutions for Managing Digital Rights on Electronic Desktops: Tracking How Customers and Business Partners are Distributing Content across the Web" (Patricia Seybold Group - March 2005) discusses the suitability of Liquid Machines ERM products to the growing enterprise need for a rights-management solution that can protect their sensitive and high-value documents, prevent information leakage, and eliminate potential violation of compliance regulations. The report identifies many key differentiators of Liquid Machines ERM solutions' including its Policy Droplet? control, technology superiority in the area of policy enforcement and persistence, and strategic partnership with Microsoft® to extend Windows® Rights Management Services.
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Virtual-Server Face-Off

Sun, 27 Mar 2005 07:06:02 -0500

The year 2004 might very well become known as the year of virtualization. Initially, IT pros recognized the value of virtualization technologies in test and demo environments. However, with the advent of ever more powerful systems coupled with continued improvements in virtual machine (VM) technologies, virtualization has since become a production-level technology that enables server consolidation.
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Microsoft Preps Move on ID Management

Sun, 27 Mar 2005 07:05:27 -0500

Observers say Microsoft's intent is to centralize some identity services and make it easier to deploy its identity platform by reducing the amount of integration end users must do and giving developers one point where they can tie their applications to the identity platform.
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RSA Security Solutions Adopted for PSP (PlayStation®Portable)

Sun, 27 Mar 2005 07:03:15 -0500

i-Newswire, 2005-03-25 - RSA Security Inc. ( Nasdaq: RSAS ) announced today that it has licensed RSA BSAFE® Secure Sockets Layer ( SSL ) and public key infrastructure ( PKI ) products to Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. ( SCEI ), to provide a secure interactive environment for software title developers and publishers creating game titles for its new PSPTM ( PlayStation®Portable ) handheld entertainment system.
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