Southern Company

Learn how this leading energy provider, with 4.4 million customers and 28,000 employees, uses Dell Crisis Management & Alerting services to enable enterprise-wide communication to manage through any incident to accelerate recovery.

White Paper | Mobile & wireless | Networking | Security | 11/24/09 at 5:35 pm | data management, disaster recovery, security


Share our Strength

With Dell Email Management Services, Share Our Strength® effectively eliminates email downtime, protects its IT environment from unwanted spam and viruses, and significantly reduces data stores.

White Paper | Security | Storage | 11/24/09 at 5:29 pm | data management, email security, security


Top 10 Things to Know about Data Protection

Data protection is fast becoming part of the IT arsenal to combat data loss/theft. It can significantly reduce the amount of damage done by the above and their associated costs. Download this white paper to learn the top 10 things you should know about data protection.

White Paper | Security | Storage | 11/24/09 at 5:23 pm | data management, disaster recovery, security


Gone in 6.0 Seconds: Protecting Laptops and Data from Theft

Join Dell for an informative discussion on the steps you can take to prevent data loss and maintain control of sensitive data in a mobile workforce -- protect your employees, your customers and your business against the risk of lost laptops.

Webcast | Business intelligence | Security | 11/24/09 at 4:40 pm | security


Top 10 Actions a CIO Can Take to Prepare for a Hurricane

Each year hurricane season unleashes erratic, dangerous, and damaging storms on coastlines around the globe. Hurricanes and other natural disasters impose an unwelcome set of challenges for businesses and CIOs. This white paper discusses the ten key actions CIOs can take as help achieve communications and business continuity to protect against the unpredictable.

White Paper | Mobile & wireless | Security | 11/24/09 at 4:22 pm | data management, disaster recovery, security


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Why Windows security is awful

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The first Linux botnet?

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Windows 7: Unimproved Security

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Sidekick: Microsoft's biggest failure yet?

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Fake virus infection Web pages are everywhere

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And the best free Anti-Virus program is...

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Where Google Chrome security fails: the password

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Time to look for an AVG replacement?

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Protecting Mom's PC

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What's really the safest Web Browser?

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peer-to-peer

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SVG a graphics format for 21st century

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Take Chrome OS for a test spin

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Solaris Tip: Have Your Files Changed Since Installation?

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64-bits of protection?

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Android fragments vs. the iPhone monolith

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What Gizmodo missed about the Pro WX Wireless USB disk drive

 

Where Google Chrome security fails: the password
I heard mention that the Chrome OS will have some sort of encryption available a la bitlocker. If it's possible to encrypt personal data using another password or key, then it may have potential for very secure data.... And Ubuntu has an 'encrypt home directory' option, perhaps google should follow suit.
- Dann

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