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Many IT managers struggle to provide adequate performance over the enterprise WAN. This research note from the Info-Tech Research Group addresses the costs and benefits of WAN optimization. Complimentary with registration.

More and more companies are relying on Web-based applications to provide online services to their employees, to support e-commerce sales and to leverage portals, discussion boards and blogs that help staff better communicate with customers, partners and suppliers. However, as the number and complexity of Web applications have grown, so have the associated security risks. This paper discusses the security challenges created by Web applications and suggests some steps you can take to address them. Complimentary with registration.

An overview of IBM's marketplace-leading Web application security solutions that gives organizations the necessary visibility and control to address the critical Web application security challenge. Complimentary with registration. Sponsored by IBM.

IT Quiz: Test yourself to see if you have the knowledge to fit into the open source world, and compare yourself with the rest of the respondents.

MailFrontier, Sophos, Symantec, and Trend Micro deploy effective spam combatants. Spam is such a significant problem these days that even the federal government has gotten involved, passing legislation such as the CAN-SPAM Act. Meanwhile, a wide variety of companies has collaborated on an authentication scheme called the Sender ID Framework, aimed at making e-mail fraud even harder to perpetrate. Realistically, though, neither CAN-SPAM nor e-mail-sender authentication is likely to do much to stem the flood of mail. Fortunately, anti-spam products continue to evolve and improve.