Articles by Denise J. Deveau

This story was originally published on Sept. 25, 2008, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series After more than a decade in the software privacy and antipiracy space, Keith Beeman, general manager, Worldwide Anti-Piracy, Small and Midmarket, Solutions & Partners for Microsoft, says he has been able to gain a first-hand vie...

This story was originally published on Sept. 25, 2008, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series After more than a decade in the software privacy and antipiracy space, Keith Beeman, general manager, Worldwide Anti-Piracy, Small and Midmarket, Solutions & Partners for Microsoft, says he has been able to gain a first-hand vie...

This story was originally published on Sept. 26, 2008, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series When it comes to security software, who really knows what lurks in the minds of today's users? It appears that most people seem to choose their security products based on a lot of other factors beyond their ability to protect th...

This is the second installment in a multi-part series on building a Web site for your small business. Part 1 looks at essential elements of a business Web site. This article offers site design guidelines With all the free online Web building and design tools, a lot of time-strapped business owners might think that with a few strategic drags and dr...

This is the first installment in a multi-part series on building a Web site for your small business When it comes to setting up your Web presence, entrepreneurs are surprisingly lax. Depending on who you talk to, about half of small businesses do not have a Web site. Most of those will tell you that it's just too complicated, time-consuming and exp...

While enterprises may be on top of their security practices for the most part, data leakage as a result of end user misuse and abuse is something that might very well be flying under the radar According to a newly released global study by Cisco, "The Challenge of Data Leakage for Business and Employees Around the World," employees are taking numero...

When it comes to security software, who really knows what lurks in the minds of today's users? It appears that most people seem to choose their security products based on a lot of other factors beyond their ability to protect their computers from the malicious forces at work Whatever the label on the box or the icon on the screen, it also appears t...

After more than a decade in the software privacy and antipiracy space, Keith Beeman, general manager, Worldwide Anti-Piracy, Small and Midmarket, Solutions & Partners for Microsoft, says he has been able to gain a first-hand view of software piracy issues on a global scale Piracy is a pervasive issue that can often catch enterprise customers by sur...

Kathleen Gilroy, cofounder of Swift Media Networks in Boston, eats, lives and breathes Web 2.0. Not only is her latest business venture focused on Web 2.0 services for conferences, but she's also used just about every Web-based tool there is to run her own various startups. With five full-time staff members, she has become a well-seasoned user of blogs, wikis, collaboration tools and just about any other free or low-cost service she can leverage.

Firing up a brand-new PC is a magic moment that can never be recaptured. The flawless performance, the lightning-fast speeds, the uncluttered desktop -- they're a thing of beauty. In time, though, just about all PC users will have to cope with their share of problems, from sluggish download speeds to out-and-out system failures For anyone with the ...

Part 1 of this two-part series examined the effects phishing can have on a business as phishers target smaller businesses. Part 2 looks at its impact on Web users If one were to look for sure bets in the online world, phishing would be right up there on the growing list of security concerns. The art of phishing has been a remarkable study in techno...

It's been on the radar of USA Credit Union's IT department for three years. They all knew about it. They were watching it every day. They had also heard rumblings that more and more of their industry counterparts had fallen victim to the attackers, Daniel Schneider, the credit union's senior manager of IT, told TechNewsWorld Phishing was definitely...