CenterBeam
Saint John Telegraph Journal, 11/1/04: Conference aimed at attracting technological investment
New Brunswick is ready for technology growth, but needs more nurturing to realize its potential
BY DAVID KELLY
Industry leaders are preparing to converge on Saint John for two days to discuss ways New Brunswick and Atlantic Canada can attract more technology dollars.
Delegates from the information, communication and technology sectors in Canada and the United States will be in the Port City on Nov. 14 and 15 for the first Ignite Summit at the Saint John Trade and Convention Centre.
The summit boasts an impressive lineup of high-profile speakers, moderators and panelists.
Frank McKenna, the former New Brunswick Premier and chairman of CanWest Global, and Kevin Francis, the president and chief executive officer of CenterBeam will each deliver keynote speeches during the event.
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Security
eWeek, 11/1/04: Blazing an E-Mail Audit Trail
By Michael Caton
With an ever-rising tide of corporate e-mail, companies face numerous difficulties as they attempt to meet regulatory requirements aimed at ensuring their e-mail communications are auditable.
As part of these challenges, companies must deploy products and technologies for creating policies, ensuring secure delivery of content, tracking communications to prove that they are auditable and audited, and retrieving archived messages as needed. Complicating these processes is the need to also deal with communications that are outside corporate e-mail, including instant messaging, Web-based e-mail services and Web-based discussion boards.
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The Wall Street Journal, 11/1/04: AT&T to Widen Security Push With New Web-Virus Protection
By SHAWN YOUNG
AT&T Corp., expanding a recent push into computer security, is announcing today new technology for protecting companies from some of the most damaging types of Internet worms and viruses.
AT&T, based in Bedminster, N.J., is the biggest provider of phone and data services to businesses and owns one of the world's largest data networks. This year it has sharpened its focus on the fast-growing field of data security as a potentially important source of revenue and as a way of distinguishing itself from rivals.
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eWeek, 11/1/04: New IE Flaw Spoofs URLs
By Larry Seltzer
A series of HTML-based exploits allow a malicious HTML programmer to direct a user to a different Web site than the one indicated in the user's browser status line.
Two separate but similar issues affect Internet Explorer. The first, reported by Benjamin Franz of Germany on the Bugtraq mailing list, involves an improper mixture of anchor and table tags, with links to two different sites.
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Computerworld, 11/1/04: GM, Boeing push identity management
Expect single-sign-on rollouts to lower costs, improve access to apps
News Story by Jaikumar Vijayan
General Motors Corp. plans to migrate its end-user identity management services to a single global provider over the next several years as part of a broad initiative to improve IT efficiency and reduce the automaker's operational costs.
When it's completed, the consolidated identity management system will enable universal application access and single-sign-on capabilities for about 500,000 end users, including GM employees and workers at suppliers, contractors and other business partners, according to Tony Scott, the company's chief technology officer.
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Computerworld, 11/1/04: Symantec tries to widen reach beyond security tools
'Information integrity' strategy blends assessments of operational, IT risks
News Story by Jaikumar Vijayan
Symantec Corp. this week outlined an "information integrity" strategy that users and analysts said addresses a growing need for a more holistic view of the operational and security risks facing companies.
But they added that whether the new approach succeeds will depend on how well Symantec, which is primarily known for its antivirus tools and firewalls, can execute on its wider vision.
As part of the initiative, Symantec will deliver products and services designed to give companies a full assessment of the risks and vulnerabilities they face and then enable them to act upon that information, said Enrique Salem, the Cupertino, Calif.-based company's senior vice president of security.
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