Month: September 2003

The Future Demands Your Flexibility

I was in charge of technology at Conoco when PCs first came out—and PCs weren’t very good. But they enabled technology to proliferate much faster

Quashing a Bug Before It Alights

Security is again blowing a hole into Microsoft’s relationships with its customers—both individual and corporate. The Blaster worm and its siblings took down many corporate

A Letter to President Bush

Dear President Bush: You probably don’t know Joel Phagoo. He is a 21-year-old college student who decided to go fishing in New York’s Jamaica Bay

Gotcha! Secure Information Sharing

Did you know that:The main problem is sharing, at all Security and government regulations are driving law enforcement and intelligence agencies to share sensitive information

American Dynamics: LAN, Camera, Action

Traditional video-security systems are known as closed-circuit television (CCTV) for a good reason: These workhorses of perimeter security typically use dedicated coaxial cable to carry

FBI: Under the Gun

Darwin John had established himself as a bit of a miracle worker before being asked to lead an information- systems renaissance at the Federal Bureau

Verizon: Reconnecting

Verizon’s phone cables were crushed and submerged in water after 7 World Trade Center crashed. Finally, its rehabilitation work is just about complete. By the