Kaskad Technology to Open Source Its Korrelera(TM) Reg NMS Surveillance System
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Kaskad Technology, an innovative technology provider, today announced  that it is releasing the source code of its Korrelera Reg NMS  surveillance system.
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As previously mentioned, Nick Halstead will be revealing the top three places in the results from the programming competition he was hosting. Today starts the top three list with third place - an entry from Karol Grecki:   I was really impressed with Karol's entry and if it was not for the fact that it did not 'run out of the box' it would have been a close cut thing to be the winner. The fact is that because it was a pain to get running the two other judges only gave it 1 point each.   The post includes Karol's solution - a method that involved using the Zend Framework as a backdrop. You can see the application in action on Karol's website or just download the code and play along at home.
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Copernic Unleashes Desktop Search Tool  Copernic Technologies Inc. today announced Copernic Desktop Search(TM) (CDS(TM)), "The Search Engine For Your PC (TM)." Copernic has used the experience gained from over 30 million downloads of its Windows-based Web search software to develop CDS, a desktop search product that users are saying is far ...
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Mandiant introduced new incident response automation technology that promises to perform the first set of post-breach analysis tests the IT security company would provide via its breach investigation services.Having already launched several free forensics applications via its Web site, the breach consulting services provider is hoping to cash in on demand for its incident management skills with the new set of electronic evidence discovery (EED) and corporate investigation tools.Labeled as Mandiant Intelligent Response 1.0 (MIR) and targeted initially at large enterprises in the financial services, health care, and ISP verticals -- company officials contend that large customers are ready to invest in applications that could save them millions on post-breach analysis services."We think large and mid-tier enterprises have the capability to use this technology, those that are fortunate enough to have the type of people who can respond, but who might not have standing armies to do so," said Jim Hansen, chief operating officer of Mandiant. "These are difficult skills that we provide, and these tools allow customers to accelerate the response process before someone like us can get there."Hansen said that combined with his company's services, the incident forensics applications, delivered in an appliance form-factor, also extend the consulting provider's breach investigation capabilities.The faster that companies can begin the data mining and incident analysis process after a breach, the more likely they are to discover exactly what type of problem has occurred and deduce whether they might be forced to publicly report any data exposures, the expert contends.The cost of reporting data incidents -- both in terms of issuing immediate breach notifications and responding to any subsequent impact on business, including regulatory fines -- has created a market where enterprises with high-risk information and compliance concerns are ready to invest in software that may give them a leg up in the investigation process, Hansen said."This is a way to begin creating an incident response system with a full audit trail at the push of a button. [It's] something that's going to give teams a head start on the electronic data discovery process," said Hansen. "We're still doing a majority of our business answering response calls, but this product can help investigators get started."The appliance will also arm incident response teams with analysis documentation that can be submitted as part of any legal activity related to a breach or inquiries about the resulting investigation process itself, he said.The executive maintains that the set of data aggregation, analytics, and reporting tools represents a new breed of electronic forensics automation software. Rather than competing with existing discovery applications, Hansen said that MIR was built to integrate with and aggregate from those systems with which the product may be linked via its open API, Hansen said.The individual software modules residing on the Intel-based appliance, which runs on Linux, consist of an endpoint forensic agent, a controller that handles data aggregation and analysis duties, and its console, which offers a Web-based interface that can be accessed remotely over the Web.For now, MIR will only provide analysis of Windows-based systems, but Mandiant said it is already looking to build versions of the appliance that can be dropped into different environments.At $86,500, not including additional support and services costs, the MIR appliance is clearly aimed at large customers, but Hansen said that Mandiant is considering development of a cheaper, more lightweight device or software package aimed at smaller environments. The company may even create a version of the tools to be delivered via a software-as-a-service model, he said.Some industry watchers said the Mandiant system may even allow customers to stay ahead of potential incidents, shifting elements of the electronic discovery process from a reactive measure to a preventative exercise."Mandiant Intelligent Response can change the negative perception associated with rapid evidence discovery by providing a unique collaborative environment that enables remote identification, collection, analysis, and reporting of electronic evidence," said Charles Kolodgy, analyst at IDC. "By fostering precision collection, organizations can avoid gathering incorrect or incomplete data and wasting critical moments when responding to time-sensitive matters."
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Sensors will be used to relay data to medical files.
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To: TECHNOLOGY EDITORS  Contact: Jim Dobbs of Augusta Systems, Inc., +1-304-599-3200, ext. 114, jdobbs@augustasystems.com   PITTSBURGH, June 12 /PRNewswire/ -- In an effort to bolster security and monitoring capabilities at the upcoming 2007 U.S.
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New product from Pegasystems lets customers apply predictive models to business processes without complex coding.
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(InfoWorld) - Developers and other supporters of the Kerberos authentication platform gathered at MIT's Stata Center on Thursday to unveil a new industry effort aimed at furthering the technology. Already in use by an estimated 100 million people through its longtime inclusion in other technologies, including popular products made by Apple, Microsoft, Red Hat, and Sun, backers of the new MIT Kerberos Consortium said that the group should help the platform -- invented at MIT 20 years ago -- remain relevant and accommodate new trends around shared infrastructure and mobile computing. The new Kerberos association, whose members include Centrify, Financial Services Technology Consortium, Google, Stanford University, Sun, TeamF1, and the University of Michigan, will provide some of the funding, technological expertise, and development resources needed to help achieve those goals, organizers said at the event. Sam Hartmann, chief technologist of the consortium and one of the five full-time developers of Kerberos, said the technology remains one of the IT industry's best-kept secrets but that the group is hoping to change that via its new efforts. "Kerberos has grown incrementally until today, but it's a technology where people who are using it don't know how much they've used it. When a computer security program works, you shouldn't notice it. You should be able to get your job done, and it shouldn't get in the way," Hartmann said. "Anyone using Microsoft's Active Directory or Apple Mac Server has used [Kerberos] without even knowing it, and that's the level of success we're striving for," he said. "Our job now is to expand the envelope to bring Kerberos to new developers and uses." With the backing of the group, Hartmann said that developers will attempt to modify Kerberos to work within the smaller footprint of mobile devices and applications to offer expanded authentication capabilities to areas like wireless e-commerce. The current iteration of Kerberos designed for use across multiple organizations remains "a pain to set-up" he admitted, while pledging that the assembled team will push to improve the technology's functionality to that end. The MIT Kerberos Consortium will also seek new opportunities to align the authentication system with industry standards, including SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language), as well as with standards bodies like the Information Assurance Task Force (IATF) and the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards. Bruce Vincent, the chief technology strategist at Stanford, said that Kerberos has proven critical in allowing commercial authentication systems to communicate and provide access management across multi-vendor IT systems. "Without Kerberos as part of the fabric of our existing infrastructure for ID management and a number of other uses, there's no way we could manage authentication across thousands of systems today," Vincent said, while adding that Stanford was committed to the platform for the "long haul." Officials from Centrify, which has built its own software business around Kerberos, an open-source project, said that the platform is as relevant today as it has ever been, particularly inside large corporate IT shops. As a result, his company has been able to recruit $36 million in venture funding from Silicon Valley capitalists, including Sigma Partners, and sold products to roughly 25 percent of companies ranking in the Fortune 50. "A lot of large enterprises are dealing with compliance problems, and this is forcing customers to take a hard look at how they manage their internal systems and access technologies," Kemp said. "The reality of the situation is that computing environments and infrastructure will be heterogeneous and that the people who wrote Sarbanes-Oxley weren't thinking about this situation. Most vendors' technologies don't talk to each other." Contrary to some rumors, consortium representatives reported that the Kerberos community has not had a falling-out with Microsoft and said that the platform's presence in Active Directory remains crucial based on the product's popularity among businesses. "MIT wants to make sure that everyone plays nicely together," said Stephen Buckley, executive director of the Kerberos Consortium. "Bad things only happen because people do nothing. If MIT and these visionary companies did nothing, the world's ability for authentication would fracture."
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For today's IndyCar drivers, risking their lives on over 200-mph turns isn't enough to guarantee a shot at victory. Racers also rely on sophisticated data-analysis software to constantly monitor their car's inner workings. By Patrick Karle.
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A new, low-cost open frame display from Digital View (www.digitalview.com)  offers OEM system developers and integrators a flexible and  cost-effective means of creating non-networked digital signage  solutions.
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TechWeb - Esper issues the first production release of its open-source Esper event-stream processing and event-correlation engine.
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SANDY, Utah, Feb. 19  /PRNewswire/ -- Opengear, a quality supplier of remote management solutions, today announced that it has partnered with Nagios to integrate their renowned open-source host and network monitoring program within Opengear's IM4200 gateways and CM4000 console servers.
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Safend, an international provider of endpoint i
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Hamlib purpose is to develop flexible and portable shared libraries that offer a standardised API to control any radio oriented equipment through a computer interface.   Hamlib provides a unified environment for the development of radio and rotator control applications. The release 1.2.7 includes many improvements since last official version.  Check it out at http://hamlib.org !  New in 1.2.7: * Much Improved Documentation * New models: IC-820H, DttSP, Elektor SDR-USB, DDS-60,               FT-450, FT-767GX * Fixes: IC-746, IC-765, IC-910, Kenwood's, FT1000MP, FT817, .. * New rigsmtr toy to graph polar signal strength * New experimental rigctld rig daemon, with simple protocol  Download pages are accessible at http://sourceforge.net/projects/hamlib rpms, .deb and Win32 DLL's coming soon.  Please, test it out and report to hamlib-developer@lists.sourceforge.net Developers are also invited to join the Hamlib team by subscribing to this mailing list. If your favorite rig is not in the supported list, feel free to ask.  Many thanks to all the developers and testers who participated in this release, especially regarding the documentation. Contributors and backend maintainers are listed in the AUTHORS file.  Have fun and let us know!  73's de Stephane - F8CFE & the Hamlib team
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Sun is offering its UltraSparc T1 processor, Niagara, to the market through its OpenSparc program, in which specifications of the microprocessor are shared in an open-source community with hardware and software developers.
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(InfoWorld) - Talend, an open source data integration software maker, unveiled a new service-based software product Monday, Talend On Demand, a service (SaaS) version of the company's Talend Open Studio product. [ TalendÂ Â is one of the featured startups in InfoWorldâs Month of Enterprise Startups feature. ] The new product allows customers to share Web-based metadata repositories with remote offices and business partners who might be scattered across the globe. The hosted repositories, which are managed and hosted by Talend, enjoy the benefits of the Open Studio data integration software but offload management, configuration and maintenance of repositories, said Yves de Montcheuil, vice president of marketing at Talend. Repositories hold a variety of information that is used by Open Studio. For example, metadata repositories might store application descriptions and data types, descriptions of jobs, project documents, and business models as well as data mappings, functions, and reusable code necessary to do data transformation, de Montcheuil said. The kinds of data held in the metadata repositories tends to be small and easily transported via HTTP and SSL to the customer's Open Studio application, de Montcheuil said. Customer data is not hosted remotely but rather remains on the customer's network. That differentiates Talend's SaaS offering from hosted data integration solutions by established data integration vendors like Informatica, de Montcheuil said. Talend is a two-year-old startup based in Paris. The company's Open Studio product is an open source ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) data integration tool that was first released at the end of 2006. Since then, the free software has been downloaded more than 75,000 times, and attracted a community of around 500 open source developers contributing connectors to leading commercial and open source products and 1,000 beta testers to refine the company's releases, de Montcheuil said. On Demand was created to satisfy the needs of Talend's large and small customers that didn't want to have to deploy and maintain a local metadata repository, de Montcheuil said. The SaaS model also makes it easier for geographically dispersed project teams to coordinate and reuse code, he said. Smaller firms don't have to worry about the headache of deploying and configuring a server or servers for the repository, whereas larger customers that want to share a repository across their organization have an easy way to do so. "It has appeal across the board," de Montcheuil said. Talend is partnering with a leading European hosting company in France to manage the hosting operations, although de Montcheuil declined to name the firm. Customers who wish to set up a hosted repository simply need to sign up on the Talend Web site. Instructions on configuring administrative permissions for the online repository will be sent in an e-mail, he said. Talend On Demand is free for as many as two users. After that, customers will pay $99 a month for a three-user license. De Montcheuil didn't have pricing available for larger packages of licenses.SEE ALSO:Talend: Data integration for the masses!
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NEW YORK, Sept. 13  /PRNewswire/ -- KCSA Worldwide (http://www.kcsa.com/) has been selected as the public relations agency for Reactrix Systems, Inc.