Security experts now believe that trojan, spam and malware protection software cannot adequately prevent system compromise by increasingly sophisticated rootkits.
Privacy experts from afar afield as the United Kingdom met with the Australian government this week to examine weaknesses in the Privacy Act which is currently under review.
Australian IT managers are not succumbing to the Windows Vista hype, instead opting to run pilots, delay installations, or shun the operating system entirely. The first retail copy of Vista, signed by Bill Gates himself, was sold at midnight on Monday, accompanied by a cable TV countdown and a flurry of media attention.
Standardization is the last line of defense for many enterprise firms in the battle against vendor lock-in; however, the time taken to formulate product standards, for the early adopters, is risky. We asked Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Australian and New Zealand vice chairman Clive Gold about how standards, and standard-based products, free enterprise firms from being locked into using proprietary technologies for years to come.