N+I spotlights security and apps management

摘要

A mix of new and established companies this week will use NetWorld+Interop Las Vegas 2004 to launch a slew of management pro- ducts, many aimed at helping businesses safeguard networks and applications against worms or other attacks. Fresh off a week in which the Sasser worm congested networks around the world, the timing of the product introductions couldn't be better (see story, page 11). "We're looking for easier, less manual and less tedious ways to distribute patches to workstations and servers," says Larry Sikon, CIO at Thomas Weisel Partners, a banking and brokerage firm in San Francisco. "[Patch management] tools in the past have had a degree of complexity I am not comfortable with at my organization."