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Making shared services work
Insight Stefan Beck, Asia-Pacific IT director for chemical company BASF, talks to ZDNet Asia about the benefits of integrating and centralizing support services.
Tags: IT Management
Delivering IT as a service
Insight City University's CIO Jerry Yu is gearing his team to deliver IT like a utility service, where the service is available to users at the flip of a switch.
Tags: IT Management
IT to the rescue
Insight International SOS' CTO Todd Schofield shares how real-time information access has helped the organization provide better medical assistance, even in the most remote locations.
Tags: IT Management
Coverity reveals common open-source code flaws
News A US Department of Homeland Security-funded project has listed some of the most frequent open source coding errors.
Tags: Open source, Security, Coverity, Flaw, Python, buffer-overflow vulnerability, Perl, accounting, Java, Samba
LAMP lights the way in open-source security
News U.S. government-sponsored analysis finds that the most popular open-source software is also the most free of bugs.
Tags: Security, Databases, Open source
Developers fast to fix open-source bugs
News Holes in popular open-source packages found in a government-funded scan were plugged swiftly, Coverity says.
Tags: Data security, Hacking, Viruses and worms, Security applications/tools, Open source
Open-source bug hunt project expands
News Bug tally is at 6,000 on the first anniversary of government-sponsored project, which is adding more open-source code to scan.
Tags: Data security, Network security, Security Management, Security applications/tools, Open source
Open-source hunt digs up more flaws
News Government-funded project finds holes in Ethereal and X Window System that pose a risk. But fixes are available.
Tags: Data security, Network security, Viruses and worms, Security applications/tools, Open source
Homeland Security helps secure open-source code
News The U.S. government department is giving millions of dollars to a project that will comb open-source software for security bugs.
Tags: Security, Software engineering/development, Open source, Federal Government
Security research suggests Linux has fewer flaws
News Four years of research by a code-analysis firm finds that the latest open-source OS beats commercial software for quality.
Key bugs in core Linux code squashed
News Serious bugs in the latest Linux kernel have been fixed, a sign that the open-source OS is maturing.
Tags: Security Management, Linux, Linux server OS
Open-source security moves to next step
News Source code analysis expert Coverity has found and helped fix more than 7,500 security flaws in open-source software.
Tags: Security applications/tools, Security implementation/standards, Open source
The Sun that shines under IT
Insight Sun Microsystems CIO Bob Worrall counts down to the first phase of its new ERP project and shares what he believes the IT organization of the future will look like.
Tags: IT Management, Enterprise resource planning (ERP)
Where's the money in security?
News While the C|Level Asia Executive Insights discussion in Singapore touched on the threats of phishing scams and e-mail spam, participants at the roundtable dialog in Malaysia debated over the real value of investing in information security.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Security Management
A battle for the soul of the Internet
Insight Tucows CEO Elliot Noss warns of a threat to cyberspace if international politics are allowed to trump sober judgment.
Tags: Domain names
