Author: Vince Kimball

SANS Resources – The Twenty Most Critical Internet Security Vulnerabilities (Updated). The Experts' Consensus Version 2.100 October 2, 2001 A little over a year ago, the SANS Institute and the National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) released a document summarizing the Ten Most Critical Internet Security Vulnerabilities. Thousands of organizations used that list to prioritize their… Continue reading The Twenty Most Critical Internet Security Vulnerabilities (Updated)

Build Web Cred. Business 2.0 Oct 3 2001 2:09AM ET [Web developer news]

Joshua Allen – Today, Brian Valentine called a meeting about our response to Gartner's negative comments on IIS security. Many people think that Microsoft is an ivory tower where we ignore our customers. These people might be surprised to know that literally thousands of e-mails have been flying around on internal mailing lists about what… Continue reading Better Living Through Software

WSDL wizard, pocketSOAP update, SOAP/XML-RPC on MacOS, new Wrox book. Activity on the XML protocols front continues apace, with Phalanx System's WSDL wizard for COM, SSL support in pocketSOAP, XML protocol support in Applescript, and a new web services book from Wrox. [xmlhack]

Jabber Everywhere. Jabber, Inc. has released a free, 100-user version of its commercial server. [JabberCentral]

The Economist: Safe keeping. To see how expensive this would be and to solve some of the uncertainties associated with preserving digital documents for centuries, Brian Cooper, Arturo Crespo and Hector Garcia-Molina at Stanford University are building the grand-daddy of all digital warehouses, the Stanford Archival Vault. [Tomalak's Realm]

MIT Technology Review: Brave New World for Higher Education. Michael Schrage. Anyone who cares about the future of software needs to understand market trends as much as digital design. Similarly, anyone who genuinely cares about the future of higher education must accept that market forces are now as critical as technological innovation. [Tomalak's Realm]

Introducing MovableType. There's a new content management system for the masses in town, named Movabletype. WriteTheWeb asked its founders to explain what they're up to. [WriteTheWeb]

The TAO of Topic Maps. Topic maps are a new ISO standard for describing knowledge structures and associating them with information resources… [xBlog: Visual thinking linking | XPLANE]

Knowledge management and desktop Weblogs.  The biggest trend in business right now is the move to find ways to more effectively manage knowledge workers through knowledge management.  This is akin to what Taylor did to improve the poductivity of the manufacturing workers but applied to knowledge workers.  Surveys claim that over 50% of businesses will take steps to buy… Continue reading Taylor