Microsoft executives say the company's ambitious plan to integrate security and identity software is progressing slower than hoped but that the foundation for the work will be set early next year.
Microsoft Thursday began detailing a security strategy that will see it combine its identity management efforts with its Forefront security products built for clients, servers and the network edge.
Novell plans to use its capital to acquire companies in the areas of open-source software as well as software for data centers and identity management.
Leslie Lambert, vice president and chief information security officer at Sun Microsystems Inc., returned from a three-week business trip to India with a few souvenirs and a whole new set of IT security priorities for 2009.
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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