Intrusion detection is a vital part of any firewall, its all very well to block traffic, but how do you know what is being blocked and what is going through on your open service ports (SMTP, IMAP, DNS etc)? Snort is the most popular Intrusion Detection system around. Its offered as an open source project, ...
An article in Computer Weekly mentioned that Bristol council will be migrating 5500 desktops to Suns StarOffice suite. Even taking in to account the cost of converting existing documents and two half-day courses for users, they stand to make massive savings over Microsoft Office. StarOffice is developed by Sun, here is their sales description Enhanced ...