New
company finds holes in raw code
A new company hopes to make life a lot harder for malicious hackers,
releasing technology that analyzes computer code for security violations
and enforces secure coding practices.
Fortify Software Inc., a start-up company in Menlo Park, Calif., plans
to unveil two new product suites on Monday, one to inspect source
code written in the C++ and Java programming languages, the other
to probe security holes in software applications, the company said.
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Linux vs. Windows: Which Is More Secure?
Cambridge, Mass., Computing Infrastructures Senior Analyst Laura Koetzle
finds that both Windows and Linux can be deployed securely. Microsoft
Corp., however, fixes security problems the quickest—which is
a good thing, since it also has the most major security holes.
Forrester found that many IT professionals believe that Linux is more
secure than Windows, but Koetzle found that the real-world answer
is more complicated than that simplistic analysis.
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Sun,
Microsoft Pact Viewed As 'Unholy Alliance' Against Linux, IBM
Microsoft and Sun redrew the battle lines in the computing world Friday,
with news of a 10-year pact designed to better integrate the leading
proprietary Unix and Windows platforms and unifying the rivals against
a common enemy--IBM and Linux.
During a brief press conference, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and
Sun CEO Scott McNealy--megarivals whose companies have battled fiercely
in the operating system market for more than 20 years--pledged to
make their platforms and respective development tools interoperate.
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IT holds
key to governance
IT managers should plan now for tough new European regulations on
financial accounting, experts warned last week. The new rules, currently
being developed by the European Commission, could affect data storage,
email management and archiving, as well as accounting systems.
Under the EC's proposed directive on auditing, published last month,
firms could face tougher auditing requirements and stiffer penalties
than those imposed by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) in the US.
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