"Cyber Spying-Tracking Your Family's (Sometimes) Secret Online Lives" starts out with a discussion on the ethics of spying on your family members, a good thing since I'm guessing most people who pick up this book will struggle with that particular issue. Once you're okay with spying, the authors take you through everything from digging through Web history to erasing your tracks. This is a good resource for parents who might be concerned about what their children are doing online.

There are many books on information security- from books that cover a broad spectrum to books on specific topics such as intrusion detection or firewalls. Many, if not most, of these books are written for those who are already in network administration or information security. For those who need the information in plain English- these top picks should help.

Email worms and viruses are spreading via messages that are sent without your knowledge, and spammers use open relays established by viruses to send their junk mail through innocent computers turned spam zombies - yours, if you're not paying attention.

Based on analysis of real-world examples, this article will show IT departments the critical role of pre-defined management processes and strong employee skills for staying resilient and avoiding IT failure.

There is no single technical approach that delivers both aggressive recovery and meets low cost objectives. Any comprehensive solution must be a combination of a number of strategies - each addressing part of the total data protection problem. When budgeting for a data protection strategy, administrators should note that the cost of the solution should include the people, the technology, as well as the costs imposed by the technology on the underlying IT infrastructure, such as e.g., servers, storage, and networks. IT organizations should consider the future of data protection and how they will adapt their current strategy to meet today's data protection demands and tomorrow's requirements. Ignoring data protection problems can have severe consequences for any organization and a comprehensive approach including a combination of people, process, and technology will help any organization prepare for anything from a small incident to a major disaster.

Managing storage resources has never been more challenging or critical. After all, according to many analysts, storage is growing at an estimated 50-60 percent, or more, annually for the average company, even as storage utilization rates remain at an alarmingly low 30 to 40 percent. At the same time, storage resources are often spread across multiple geographic sites as well as virtual environments, making end-to-end visibility difficult.

As IT more closely aligns with the business, technology begins to deliver greater value to the entire company. Every year, IT organizations invest in new or upgraded software, hardware and infrastructure in an effort to meet increasingly challenging business objectives and manage the risks associated with IT organizations. But technology alone is not enough. In order to ensure an IT organization is managing IT risk and maximizing IT performance to prevent IT failures, people and process have to be addressed as well.

Rapid storage growth across the enterprise, both inside and outside the data center, and new business requirements, are straining traditional data protection approaches. This article examines these challenges and investigates how a new disk-based backup technology called data deduplication can be an effective tool for solving pressing backup and recovery challenges.

The IT market is undergoing a noticeable shift in its business model as traditional hardware and software tech players become more services-focused. After all, customers demand it-but not simply because of the rapidly changing, increasingly complex IT environments in which they operate. The move toward IT services is also driven by the challenges of simply doing business in today's highly competitive, fast-paced digital marketplace. Already faced with tight budgets and overtaxed resources, organizations are looking for ways to improve efficiency while managing risk and optimizing service delivery.

Summary:Many of us surf the Internet, even shop and bank online, without really understanding that if we can get out to the world from our home computers, the world can get in. Many of us surf the Internet, even shop and bank online, without really understanding that if we can get out to the world from our home computers, the world can get in. Test your knowledge of home computing security issues; you might be surprised by some commonly held misperceptions.