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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (15701)	1/14/2003 12:20:48 PM
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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (15701)	1/14/2003 12:40:30 PM
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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (15701)	1/14/2003 1:48:31 PM
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FCC on telecom and alcatel results Message 18443096 things are really looking up for networking equipment it seems, at least there is some sort of substantiation for the rise.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (15701)	1/14/2003 4:07:13 PM
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Web Services Nirvana: Fast Track or Slow Boat? 1/14/03 By Ed Raymond www.CRMDaily.com The trend toward Web services, which promise to provide dramatically easier integration between enterprise applications, has taken over the e-business spotlight recently. For instance, Siebel's (Nasdaq: SEBL - news) Universal Application Network, featured in Siebel 7.5, relies in part on Web services to enable links between Siebel CRM and other vendors' back-office applications. Proponents say Web services will make it relatively easy for programs built on differing standards -- including Microsoft's .NET, Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and proprietary systems -- to share information, allowing them both to live useful lives within the same organization. Siebel Systems' David Schmaier, executive vice president of products, wholeheartedly adopts that view. Schmaier recently told CRMDaily.com that .NET and J2EE are going to coexist, with Web services as "the lingua franca." But how great an impact will Web services really have on corporate IT operations, and how soon? According to Schmaier, "in the next two or three years, if you don't embrace Web services, you won't exist as a software company." Bridging Multiple Standards Most large organizations today have multiple standards at work, and the difficulty of patching them together has been a major barrier to getting disparate corporate systems to communicate. "You might have an order fulfillment system and an ERP (enterprise resource planning) system on two different platforms," said Eric Austvold, lead infrastructure analyst at AMR Research. "The question is, how do you share [information] between those two applications?" Historically, software vendors have left it up to the customer to figure out the answer, he told CRMDaily. Dead Issue "With the advent of Web services in the last 18 months, the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) has come up and said, 'Let's create a common set of languages and describe how you would share information between enterprise applications,'" Austvold explained. "Web services eliminates the issue of whether you're using .NET or J2EE," Ed Abbo, vice president of technology at Siebel Systems, told CRMDaily. "Web services provides an abstraction layer that allows a systems developer to invoke the services of those applications without having to worry about the nuances of whether it's .NET or J2EE or a legacy platform. "We believe that the world will be heterogeneous," he added. "Companies will continue to use both .NET and J2EE for their strengths." Distant Horizon But Austvold cautioned that it will be a while before anyone sees the full benefit of Web services. "It's got something like a ten-year horizon on it," he said. The standards are immature, and vendors are just starting to implement them. Even when vendors fully support the standards, the customer will have to buy a specific version of a product that supports a particular standard, then implement it. "That time frame just by itself is going to be 36 to 48 months, minimally," Austvold said. "What [proponents are] saying about Web services helping to broker the disparity between two different platforms is true," Austvold acknowledged, "but I'd caution that it's going to take quite a while for that to develop and have customers realize the benefit of that technology." story.news.yahoo.com

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (15701)	1/14/2003 4:24:36 PM
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New Outlook for Enterprise Security Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier www.NewsFactor.com 1/14/03 The beginning of the year always brings a flurry of new product announcements from marketers eager to jump-start sales. The computer security industry is no different from other sectors in this respect. Vendors have arrayed a virtual smorgasbord of new security products for the enterprise. One of the biggest focuses in 2003 will be intrusion detection and prevention. Most companies have realized that no operating system is 100 percent secure, and antivirus products and firewalls alone will not protect them. In this arena, Michael Rasmussen, Internet security research director at Giga Information Group, gave high marks to IntruVert Networks' line of intrusion detection and prevention appliances. The company, which also was cited as an up-and-comer by Gartner research director Richard Stiennon, produces IntruShield Network Intrusion Detection System (IDS) appliances, which are designed to detect and prevent denial-of-service (news - web sites) (DoS) attacks and offer real-time intrusion detection. Another company, Sentry Bay, is operating under the assumption that Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT - news) Outlook and Outlook Express will be infected by malware in 2003. To help lessen the likely blow to corporate systems, it is offering ViraLock, a program that encrypts user address books to prevent viruses from replicating via that channel. Beyond the Perimeter Meanwhile, Forrester (Nasdaq: FORR - news) analyst Laura Koetzle told NewsFactor that the time-honored concept of securing a network's perimeter, though still important, will not be enough in the coming year. "I think that host-based intrusion detection and prevention is definitely going to become more important," she noted. "Most corporate security folks have grasped that perimeter security isn't good enough anymore; they actually need a layered defense." Toward that goal, Koetzle recommended Zone Labs' Integrity and Intercept products, which provide host-based intrusion detection. In other words, Koetzle said, these offerings "monitor the behavior of an end-point PC." If the PC "exceeds parameters" -- if it behaves in an abnormal fashion -- the software can detect and halt the questionable behavior before an infected PC can damage other machines on the network. Zone Labs Integrity has two components: a desktop solution, not surprisingly called "Integrity Desktop," and a central management console for firewalls, antivirus software and VPNs (virtual private networks). According to Ian Robinson, director of enterprise products at Zone Labs, Integrity Desktop is very similar to the company's consumer firewall product, Zone Alarm. He told NewsFactor that the company decided to produce this enterprise offering when it found that "people were placing orders for several thousand [licenses for Zone Alarm]." Beyond Products: The Big Picture When asked what the biggest security threat will be in 2003, Rasmussen had a simple answer -- but it is one that a software or hardware product cannot solve. He told NewsFactor that shrinking or flat security budgets will hamper CIOs' and CTOs' efforts to secure their networks. However, the ramifications of lax security may be more costly than the monetary outlay required to secure those networks properly in the first place. Rasmussen explained that litigation may be a potential consequence of security break-ins due to negligence, even if such negligence is an inescapable consequence of limited security budgets. In such a scenario, a lawyer might be as hot a commodity as any product -- after the fact, at least. Rasmussen mentioned that a new California law will require any business that does business with California residents to disclose any security compromise that might leak personal information. The scope of this law is broad, and it is untested in the courts so far. Eat Your Vegetables Forrester analyst Koetzle also said the most-needed security item is unlikely to appear on the menu of vendor product offerings. According to Koetzle, the advice that companies do not want to hear -- and will not hear from security vendors -- is that "it's really about process and awareness by employees." Therefore, enterprises' top priority should be "a lot of training and making sure that all employees are aware to the level that they need to be. I'd venture to say that no one has everyone at the right levels of [security] awareness." She added that most vendors "tend to do a very good job of stirring up a lot of fear and not as good a job at helping people figure out how to fix it.... That's much harder to do than buy shiny new software or hardware." story.news.yahoo.com