roviding a service on the Web entails a wealth of concerns, from system design, network architecture, and application development, to maintenance and security. This last aspect is often overlooked and
Don DeMarco, IBM Director  s companies become more and more dependent on information, the business-continuity tolerance for information loss becomes less and less, particularly in e-business, says Don DeMarco, Director,
owards the end of an otherwise typical business day in September, Kurt Sundling, Technical Operations Manager for Monaco Coach Corporation, got word that the Monaco staff’s attempts to access Help
The key to surviving an IT-disabling disaster is a business continuity strategy, a set of policies and procedures for reacting to and recovering from such an event, and the main
esigning a managed security solution (MSS) for your Web servers will cost you, but it doesn’t have to be money. Time and diligence are the only things you need to
ost Web services created with Visual Studio.NET are written in a managed language such as C# or VB.NET, which has security benefits. Managed code can help mitigate security threats such
ept. 12, 2001?This summer, there’s been a huge furor over shark attacks, leading to beach closings and enormous revenue losses for resorts where the attacks have taken place. The massive
n my previous “Best Defense” article, I discussed creating secure Win32 applications. Now I turn my attention to another important battlegroundthe Web, where data input attacks are a real danger.