Why securing virtual world is not enough

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Jul 13, 20072 mins

Security: He’s been building up to this for a few weeks and now it’s time for Roger Grimes to expand his idea of a secure computing ecosystem into a broader realm. “I’m asking that all companies rework their communication processes to validate themselves to customers whenever initiating contact with the consumer via e-mail, mail, or a phone call,” Grimes writes in Anti-phishing for the real world. “Securing the virtual world isn’t enough. It’s the message, not the medium.”

Handhelds: What with its internal music player the iPhone might be intended primarily as a consumer device but, no matter, the enterprise will come to the iPhone. NetSuite’s SuitePhone is one instance. “So is this a unique circumstance due in large part to the way NetSuite was built originally? After all, it does not use Flash or need Java to run, making porting to the iPhone, which lacks support for both, that much easier,” Ephraim Schwartz wonders. NetSuite says no. “To make matters even more interesting, NetSuite didn’t spend one day in Cupertino to figure out how SuitePhone would run on Apple’s new device,” Schwartz reports.

The news beat: Hewlett-Packard’s Trusted Hardcopy secures paper documents by enabling them to be used as a medium for data transfer. NTT DoCoMo targets 300 Mbps in a Super 3G test that examines the speed with which communications can be handed from one base station to another. And WSO2 upgrades its open source Web services-based application server, now known as WSAS 2.0.