IBM has been on a shopping spree over the last several years to beef up its Tivoli identity and access management suite. Over the summer, Big Blue rolled out the results of its acquisition with Consul Risk Management, launching the Tivoli Compliance Insight Manager to automate the tracking and reporting of non-compliant behavior across the enterprise. In this Q&A interview, Joe Anthony, program director for identity management for Tivoli explained to SearchSecurity.com IBM’s strategy moving forward and why some vendors, in his view, are moving away from point solution vendors to solve their identity and access management issues.

What happens when you build computer software? In one word: change. In this first article in a series on Software Configuration Management (SCM), Kathy T. Evans-Davis defines SCM, describes how and why its used, and discuss some rules and guidelines that work to produce the best products during the software development process.

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In just three years, the bytes of data generated by digital cameras, mobile phones, businesses IT systems, and devices will equal the number of grains of sand on the world’s beaches.

It’s a mind-boggling estimation from market analysis company IDC. But it reflects the proliferation of devices and systems used by consumers and businesses, said Stephen Minton, IDC’s vice president of worldwide IT markets and strategies, during a briefing on Thursday.

Over the next few years, corporations will face tough decisions on how to store data, find information and comply with regulations, said Minton, who laid out a forecast of what IT managers can expect from what’s being labeled the"information explosion."

Six years after the events of 9/11, many corporate IT operations are overconfident about their ability to handle a disaster, according to a Forrester Research, Inc. report released on Tuesday.

The survey of 189 data center decision makers found a severe lack of IT preparation for natural and manmade disasters.

Part 7 in this series on deploying IBM Lotus Connections covers working with the Lotus Connections APIs. This article is intended for I/T specialists and developers and is helpful when building programs that use Lotus Connections data and services.

Synaptris will showcase its IntelliPRINT Dashboard Reporting at the Business Partner Showcase of the Lotus Collaboration Summit in New York, 18 September 2007. IntelliPRINT Dashboard Reporting delivers user-driven Dashboards and on-demand Analysis to users of Lotus Notes & Domino applications, INSIDE Lotus Notes!

A native dashboard component, IntelliPRINT Dashboard Reporting enables users to easily create dashboard widgets with real-time data, use these widgets to make a report, and rapidly drill-down for on-demand analysis within the collaborative Notes environment.

IBM’s Lotus Collaboration Summit is the opportunity to see and experience how collaboration software can enhance the way business is done on a daily basis. The IBM Lotus Collaboration road show will take place across selected North American cities from 18 September to 25 October 2007.

Fair Use exceptions to U.S. copyright laws are responsible for more than $4.5 trillion in annual revenue for the United States, according to the findings of an unprecedented economic study. According to the study commissioned by the Computer and Communications Industry Association and conducted in accordance with a World Intellectual Property Organization methodology, companies benefiting from limitations on copyright-holders’ exclusive rights, such as "fair use"–generate substantial revenue, employ millions of workers, and, in 2006, represented one-sixth of total U.S. GDP.

Millions of people use Google’s search engine every day, but don’t realize the balance inherent in U.S. copyright law helps enable it to exist. Google strongly supports the intellectual property rights of content creators and the protection of copyright. They think creators deserve to be rewarded for their work, and support the balance of copyright law as fundamental to promoting future creativity.

While protecting the rights of creators, the Constitution and the courts place limits on the rights of copyright holders. For example, copyright laws encourage others to make use of content in limited ways without seeking anyone’s permission through the doctrine of "fair use." By enabling journalists, scholars, and the general public to quote from and comment on others’ writings, the fair use doctrine underscores basic rights of free expression.

Fair use exceptions to U.S. copyright laws account for more than $4.5 trillion in annual revenue for the United States, according to a report issued on Wednesday by the Computer and Communications Industry Association.

Recent studies indicate that the value added to the U.S. economy by copyright industries amounts to $1.3 trillion, said Black. The value added to the U.S. economy by the fair use amounts to $2.2 trillion. The fair use economy’s "value added" is thus almost 70% larger than that of the copyright industries.

A Swedish security researcher who publicly posted 100 embassy, government and Fortune 500 email passwords in late August has revealed that he used The Onion Router, or ToR, exit nodes outfitted with a packet sniffer to catch the unencrypted email messages and passwords.

Ironically enough, ToR is a free tool distributed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation that’s supposed to allow users to communicate anonymously. According to the researcher, Dan Egerstad, the governments whose email and passwords he intercepted have instructed personnel to use ToR, "a software that sends all your traffic through not one but three other servers that you know absolutely nothing about," he said in a blog post.