When I last spoke with  F5 Networks (F5 Networks – A Case of Applications and the Network) it was clear that they were getting more focussed on the higher application layers. Our discussion touched on Secerno, a specialist database security company based out of the UK. Today the two companies have announced a joint solution which should be [...]

Yesterday was spent huddled up in a Dockland’s hotel in London, discussing issues of identity management. The Whitehall Media IDM2008 event brought together public and private sector experts to talk about the big, and little, challenges of identity assurance in today’s IT infrastructures.  From document management to remote access, compliance to shiny web 2.0 style portals, [...]

The proliferation of mobile devices and mobile users has had an unexpected consequence: e-mail is going non-corporate. Although they will rarely confess to it, many employees are redirecting work e-mails to private e-mail addresses so that they can pick messages up while on the move, either via webmail or mobile devices. Why is that so bad? [...]