Blogarithms
Doug Kaye's thoughts on web services, web hosting and managed services.
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Know Your TCO? "While TCO (total cost of ownership) has long since entered into IT jargon, most people who I've heard toss the term about with knowing looks don't appear to understand it." We all know we should make decisions and recommendations based on TCO, but how do you go about comuting it? Mike Tarrani has posted a number of links to TCO-related resources including a good overview. TEAM Zarate Tarrani Notes from the Field
Posted Monday, January 14, 2002 10:41:16 AM 
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Hold Vendors Liable for Security Breaches "A new report issued by the National Academy of
Sciences adds yet another voice to the chorus warning that
the nation's information systems are poorly protected. The
authors of this study go further, however, and suggest that
the government should consider holding software vendors
liable for security breaches in their products."
Posted Monday, January 14, 2002 6:53:40 AM
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E-commerce Web servers vulnerable to attack "ProCheckUp found a vulnerability in the Netscape Enterprise 3.x Web server and the related iPlanet 4.x running on Windows NT. Netscape Enterprise has a selection of Web publishing commands beginning with ?wp built into the Web server. When Web publishing is enabled, issuing an improper ?wp-html-rend command can bring about an access violation on Windows operating systems and cause the server to crash." Do you know whether your web-hosting service or MSP has installed the patches necessary to protect your server?
Posted Monday, January 14, 2002 5:47:13 AM
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