Author Archive
Cheryl Gerber
4 hot spots in federal procurement
Look for innovations to help fix several procurement problems.
- By Cheryl Gerber
IT Modernization
Army requires security hardware for all PCs
Coming mandate specifies that new computers contain a standard Trusted Platform Module.
- By Cheryl Gerber
IT Modernization
Army to require built-in security
Netcom plans to require all new computers to include a hardware-based security technology called the Trusted Platform Module.
- By Cheryl Gerber
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IT Modernization
States scramble to implement voting standards
43 states missed Jan. 1 deadline to comply with 2002’s Help America Vote Act
- By Cheryl Gerber
Workforce
Navair gets plenty of wireless experience
For now, the Naval Air Warfare Center is using a virtual private network (VPN) solution to secure a wireless link between its enterprise network and a set of handheld computers carried by about 100 Navy officers and managers
- By Cheryl Gerber
Digital Government
Wireless links get the squeeze
Handheld computers pose special challenge, concerns for wireless security
- By Cheryl Gerber
Workforce
Air base locks airborne logistics data
Secure wireless handhelds have kept track of supplies moving through a warehouse at Maxwell Air Force base in Montgomery, Ala., for a year
- By Cheryl Gerber
NIST harnesses instant messaging
Fed business development program uses IM to shrink distances and build communities
- By Cheryl Gerber
Digital Government
DISA tests wireless LAN products
DISA is evaluating various WLAN products, such as access points, wireless switches and dedicated security software
- By Cheryl Gerber
Digital Government
A standards-based security fix in the wings
Industry leaders have been working on a separate standards-based solution to the WLAN security problem
- By Cheryl Gerber
Digital Government
A new fix for wireless woes?
Wireless LAN switches tackle security and management shortcomings
- By Cheryl Gerber
Benefits of Active Directory
With the way that much of Microsoft's enterprise now works, customers usually benefit most when they deploy several products in concert
- By Cheryl Gerber
Census wrestles with integration issues
Microsoft Corp.'s Active Directory is a new way of life at the Census Bureau
- By Cheryl Gerber
Feds call for directory assistance
Microsoft's new network directory poses deployment challenges
- By Cheryl Gerber
Ratings up for desktop video
Agencies keep workers well-informed with mix of news and private programming
- By Cheryl Gerber
IT Modernization
Satellite phones answer the call
Agencies rediscover the benefits of commercial satellite services
- By Cheryl Gerber
Boost your network's mettle
Agencies tap existing copper networks for gigabit-speed duty
- By Cheryl Gerber
Cancer researchers solve bandwidth problem
At work on the next stage of the Human Genome Project, scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have a pressing need for broader bandwidth
- By Cheryl Gerber
How low will they go?
As the prices of Gigabit copper Network Interface Cards drop, they will gain greater ground in the market against fiber NICs, according to market analysts
- By Cheryl Gerber