Redmond responded on Wednesday to an independent security vendor's discovery of a hard-drive encryption vulnerability affecting Microsoft's BitLocker function, Intel/HP's BIOS and several other products and programs.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- August 27, 2008
The writing's on the wall, it seems, for purveyors of security point solutions. Gone is the day of the best-of-breed anti-virus, firewall, e-mail security or encryption vendors. These days, it's a security suite play.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- August 26, 2008
Check Point Software Technologies today released a new solution to address Internet security woes.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- August 25, 2008
Businesses may have been slow to adopt Microsoft Windows Vista, but expect that to change by late 2008 to 2009, according to a recent Forrester Research report.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 25, 2008
Citrix Systems has upped the competitive ante by adding a new set of performance-related features to its flagship XenApp product.
- By Tom Valovic
- August 25, 2008
Microsoft released Windows Small Business Server 2008 to hardware manufacturers, with an eye toward achieving a full product launch in November.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 22, 2008
In a sign that hackers have no problem taking advantage of open source solutions, Linux-based product distributor Red Hat issued a "critical" security advisory on Friday, saying that its servers had been compromised.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- August 22, 2008
The old jokes are rolling in as Microsoft plans to include comedian Jerry Seinfeld as part of its new $300 million ad campaign, the Wall Street Journal reported today.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 21, 2008
Microsoft on Thursday released an improved security filter for its Internet Information Service (IIS) Web server that is designed to help thwart SQL injection attacks.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 21, 2008
Microsoft plans to pour an additional money into business and open source technology collaboration with Novell.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 20, 2008
Microsoft really wants SharePoint users to upgrade to SQL Server 2008, which was released to manufacturing on August 6.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 20, 2008
Microsoft has made substantial changes to its virtualization licensing program, changes that will lower the cost of using virtualization for many customers.
- By Keith Ward
- August 19, 2008
Companies can avoid attacks and minimize security cost overruns by practicing IT vulnerability management, according to a July study published by the Aberdeen Group.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- August 19, 2008
In early August, Bellevue, Wash.-based Nintex rolled out a solution for those concerned with governance in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 environments.
- By Herb Torrens
- August 18, 2008
Microsoft rolled out the highest level of its enterprise support programs to date, adding a new offering called "Microsoft Services Premier Ultimate."
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 18, 2008