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Businesses today often deploy a conglomeration of security solutions from different vendors to protect different aspects of the network. Sometimes these products play well together, other times they don’t. Conflicts can be difficult to troubleshoot, management is made more complex and confusing by the need to learn different interfaces and run multiple management consoles, and total costs may be difficult to assess. Server and client security may be addressed separately, with different products.
Despite these difficulties, a single monolithic solution may not be the answer, either–especially if you’re concerned about scalability. A more scalable and more cost effective approach is a set of security products that are specifically designed to integrate with one another. That’s exactly what Microsoft is attempting to do with their Forefront family of security products. It’s an ambitious effort, but many in the IT industry are still a little confused as to exactly what Forefront is and what it does. Let’s try to untangle some of the confusion and look at how Forefront can form the basis of an integrated and highly scalable business solution.
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Categories: Enterprise 2.0 · InfoSec · Microsoft · SharePoint
Oracle co-president Charles Phillips offered a few hints as to what partners can expect from the company’s next database and applications generation. The upcoming Oracle 11g database, for example, will allow “segregation” between applications users and the database that feeds their applications, he said. The upshot is that application users will not be able to see underlying data in the database unless they have the rights to see it. This was one of the first public company comments around the next database version. Phillips said nothing about timing, but Oracle shipped the current 10g Release 2 last summer and observers expect the company to start getting more specific about both the 11g database” and E-business Suite 12 this week at Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco. Oracle has pledged continued upgrades not only to its home-grown apps suite but for Siebel, PeopleSoft and JD Edwards apps as well. The ultimate end game remains the next-gen “Fusion” applications but Phillips again pledged there would be no “forced march” away from customers’ current branded applications.
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Categories: BI · Business Intelligence · InfoSec · Oracle
Microsoft has announced the beta release of “Forefront Security for SharePoint” a revision of the MS-acquired Sybari “Antigen for SharePoint Server” product, that brings needed security to SharePoint (MOSS 2007) and Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0. Forefont, a package of security add-ons, will be implemented to protect SharePoint/MOSS from viruses and other malicious software. “As business customers use collaboration software to connect internal users, customers and partners in an increasing variety of ways, they want to maintain the highest level of protection for critical business information,” said Margaret Arakawa, senior director of Security and Access Product Marketing at Microsoft.
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Categories: CMS · InfoSec · SharePoint
