The past year has seen unprecedented consolidation in the IT security field, especially in the antivirus business, where big companies have gobbled up innovative small companies.
Since the first President George Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act, agencies and businesses have been under pressure and progressively tighter regulations to make goods, employment and services available to the disabled.
Firewalls are an essential element of network protection, though they're not the whole package. Selecting the most appropriate firewall for a network configuration is only part of the job; you must also configure it correctly and maintain it properly by updating it to reflect newly disclosed vulnerabilities and closing ports against new network threats.
E-mail has generated a whole new category of electronic records. The messages have enormously variable sizes and difficult-to-classify subject matter, and can carry attachments, nonstandard formats and viruses. There may be uncertainty regarding their true origins and true intended recipients. And they exist in a paradigm in which the precise sequence and time stamps of messages could be critical to placing their content in proper context.
There are tens of millions of disabled workers and potential workers in the United States, and tens of millions more who could benefit from being able to communicate or learn more easily using computers.
