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Interesting Links for January 25th

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Links that I have found interesting for January 25th:

  • 10 questions to simplify the new rules of IT compliance: An interview with Joe Degidio – With Web 2.0, on the other hand, the real issue is that the collaboration sites can’t be trusted at a business level. It’s easy for malware or botnets to attach themselves to a browser and infect the network. The answer for most companies is just to make them verboten, but for those who do see the business value, what needs to be created is a “socialization zone” using something like Citrix or VMware outside the DMZ. This requires special authentication rights, one-way traffic, and a “wipe-clean” OS, like the Citrix “streaming OS” that rewrites itself every day. I have customers who are doing it successfully. It creates some minor limitations within the environment, but it satisfies the requirements of the business.