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More Government IT Security Dollars Up for Grabs
The federal government’s IT security spending growth will outstrip total federal IT spending growth over the next five years, according to a new report from the analysts with INPUT. The government business analyst firm predicts compound annual growth in IT security spending within the U.S. government of 8.1 percent through 2014. That should mean a…
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Nokia Could $1 Billion Patent Recourse from Apple
(Reuters) – Apple faces the possibility of having to pay Nokia up to $1 billion for the technologies used in iPhones sold so far if it loses a lawsuit brought by Nokia, analysts said. The world’s top cellphone maker Nokia filed the suit in the United States on Thursday, saying Apple had infringed 10 patents…
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Database Security: The Path to Compliance Zen
As more organizations seek to fill their security compliance gaps these days, many of them are finding the most glaring holes are in the database. As the prime repositories of all of that sensitive data that regulations such as SOX, HIPAA and PCI DSS were designed to protect in the first place, databases continue to…
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Former Microsoft Open Source Maven Talks Up Cloud
For three years, Sam Ramji was Microsoft’s point man on open source and Linux as its senior director of open source strategy, which didn’t make him the most popular guy in town in the world of community-built software. Ramji, however, is less likely to be such a lightning rod in his new job leading product…