Promising greater bandwidth to remote locations and speedy return on investment (ROI), one technology that has been immune from tight IT spending is Virtual Private Networks (VPN).
Australian federal and state law enforcement agencies have introduced the Linux platform as a new crime fighting tool with the New South Wales state computer crime unit recently installing 40 boxes with triple boot systems.
IT is maturing, shedding the free-spending days of its teenage years and is forcing IT professionals to optimize razor-thin budgets, existing investments and depleted staff.
Computer forensic standards are being introduced for IT professionals to ensure systems are created with benchmarks to support evidentiary requirements.
IT managers are rejecting elaborate waivers pushed by IT security vendors for routine penetration testing, but legal concerns have been accelerating since the introduction of the Cybercrime Act