Bridging And Switching Basics
White Papers This chapter introduces the technologies employed in devices loosely referred to as bridges and switches. Chapters in Part 4, "Bridging and Switching," of this book address specific technologies in more detail.Bridges and switches are data...
[January 11, 2004, 23:00]
Gain A Clear Understanding Of How TCP Operates
White Papers Chapter: Chapter 46, Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Fundamentals and General Operation This sample chapter explains the fundamentals so that the details of TCP operation make sense. In this chapter, author Charles M.
[May 17, 2006, 1:00]
Security Overview? Read Internet Lockdown
News Chapter 1 introduces general concepts about enterprise security. This chapter will surely reduce the time it takes companies to create or review an IT procedure manual and employee policies. Chapter 2 runs through an attack from a hacker's point of...
[June 26, 2002, 11:16]
Digital Identity Management review
Reviews A final chapter considers the immediate future and what disruptive technologies may emerge. That sort of privacy issue is discussed in a chapter written by Gareth Crossman, policy director for Liberty.
[November 30, 2007, 11:15]
Schneier On Security review
Reviews So in the election security chapter you jump from 2006 to 2003 and back to 2006 again. Airline travel gets its own chapter — it's a particular obsession for anyone who travels regularly. Privacy and surveillance get both a chapter and another of...
[October 22, 2008, 14:39]
SGI Emerges From Bankruptcy Protection
News A judge accepted computer maker Silicon Graphics Inc's reorganisation plan on Tuesday, setting the stage for the company to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in October, the company said. The funds will be used to pay off Chapter 11...
[September 20, 2006, 9:25]
Email Interception Law Faces More Delays
News According to the Home Office Web site, the government had hoped to bring Chapter II, Part 1 of the Act into power before Easter, and a source close to the issue said that a date of 4 March had been planned.
[March 1, 2002, 14:48]
Defeating The Hacker review
Reviews A sample chapter is available online here. The same precautions that prevent a hacker from stealing your data also protect against network abuse by employees or accidental loss of data when a notebook computer gets left in a taxi.
[March 30, 2006, 10:00]
Sun's Plans...and How They Could Go Wrong
Talkback It's my recollection that In the book "Soul of a New Machine" (review: http://www.forum2.org/eran/shelf/soul-machine.html excerpt: http://www.businessweek.com/chapter/kidder.htm) concerning the development of the Data General Eagle minicomputer...
[September 24, 2004, 6:08]
Switching To VoIP review
Reviews This last topic has its own chapter, and Wallingford makes the interesting point that despite popular belief to the contrary, VoIP can actually be more secure than its older, PSTN counterpart, which largely relies on the assumption that few can...
[September 2, 2005, 10:50]
Privacy Comes Under Attack
News Chapter II of Part I of RIPA, which makes it possible for law enforcement to access traffic data without a court order is still to come into force. Huge demands have been placed on Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to stockpile traffic data on...
[March 30, 2002, 6:31]
SGI To Shutter Irix This Year
News But it does mark the end of another chapter as the computing industry whittles down the list of hardware and software foundations in widespread use. Among other versions of Unix that have fallen by the wayside in recent years are Sequent's Dynix...
[September 11, 2006, 12:00]
HP Puts Vision Into E-service Effort
News She called the announcement "the beginning of Internet Chapter Two, where the Web will work for you. E-speak will do for services what the Web has done for data," promised Rajiv Gupta, general manager of HP's Open Services Operations.
[May 19, 1999, 7:46]
