28 March 2002

Wall Street Embraces Linux Merrill (nyse: MER - news - people) is one of many Wall Street brokerages doing a large-scale Linux deployment in an effort to cut their costs and boost revenue... ... Merrill's plans, and others like it, are very significant because they are the first companywide--rather than departmental--Linux implementations. While not without risk, this lends an enormous amount of credence to the argument that Linux can be used in place of more established technologies like Unix. [Forbes] 9:33:10 AM      comment []   Exploring XML Encryption IBM Developer Works are running a good article on XML Encryption. Over the last year or so almost all the new feeds and systems I've linked in with on projects have used XML for interop. XML Security is going to be extremely important over the next year or two. It is particularly useful, because you can encrypt and sign individual elements rather than only full messages. The signatures will ofcourse verify the integrity of a message or element and the element by element encryption is useful for only allowing access to the part of the message you need in your subsystem. 8:57:31 AM      comment []   Increased Security Spending Includes Personnel During the past year, Giga found that organizations appeared to appropriate larger portions of the budget for senior security managers, including chief security officers (CSOs) than before. Spurred by Sept. 11 and a heightened awareness of the need for security, the time of "jungle rules" for security management is at an end. [Internet News ] 7:57:29 AM      comment []

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