Security Zone

Developers often ask me how they can safely store secret information when building secure systems. A secret is any data known only to one or more valid computers, users, or

or example, a number of financial institutions seem predetermined to use NIS to manage large numbers of accounts across a multitude of systems. So what’s the problem with that? Anyone

ust before Christmas, in an annual telebriefing designed to predict future technology trends, John Gantz, chief research officer of International Data Corp. (IDC), in Framingham, Mass., remarked that “a major

Editor’s Note: This article discusses a new feature in the Microsoft Visual C++.NET compiler, which at the time of publishing was still in beta. The features described may change before

The Future of Web Applications: Web ServicesToday’s global Internet environment is a muddled mix of different operating systems, technologies, and protocols?all which are widely dispersed throughout the world. This mixture

recently read an advertisement for some Windows security software that boasted “incredible security using 160-bit RC4.” Superlatives aside, take claims like this with a grain of salt. Based on the

eb services is the latest wave in distributed computing. Its ability to connect clients and servers independent of platform, programming language, and transport protocol gives it great promise. The potential

he indisputable appeal of Web services will drive most organizations to evaluate development platforms such as .NET. However, security concerns have always made organizations reluctant to embrace new technologies. Fortunately,

The music industry is terrified of the Internet, which it perceives as a loosely controlled world where consumers freely distribute the content in which they have invested millions. The success