LANSING - By any measure, the first Michigan Cyber Security Summit was a total success. It drew so many participants that registration had to be cut-off the week before the event. It provided outstanding presentations from nationally known speakers including Cornelius Tate, the newly appointed Director of the Department of Homeland Security�??s National Cyber Security
TROY - Join ConnecTech and the Information Security Regional Skills Alliance for a WebEx discussion with a panel of experts on how the new Professional Investigator Licensure Act - requiring licenses for investigators working on digital forensics - will impact your business. There are a number of exemptions for full-time staff working on behalf of
CHICAGO - CDW Corp. has released the results of their survey of business IT professionals that revealed a disparity between the most common IT security headaches and businesses' deployment of solutions that could relieve them. The report, called "User-Proof IT Security Report," interviewed over 300 IT professionals at companies with more than 100 employees, focusing
OTTAWA, Ontario - The IT industry must help citizens reclaim their digital identities. That's the view of a top Canadian civil servant dealing with the issue, Ontario's information and privacy commissioner Anne Cavoukian. Cavoukian made reference in a recent paper to how people are losing control of their personal information that is globally circulating in
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. - McAfee has discovered the use of Google Docs by spammers that circumvent spam filters in order to deliver their unsolicited messages. Google Docs is Google's online rival to Microsoft's Word text processing application. By hosting their message on legitimate sites such as Google Docs, spammers make it harder for anti-spam technology
NEW YORK - Economic and policy problems have placed a few potholes in front of the fast-growing clean-technology business. Forecasts for clean-technology adoption all point upward these days, buoyed by high double digits growth rates in sectors like wind and solar power over the past several years. But a panel of financial experts here at
BEIJING, China - If you want information about the earthquake in China get it from a news site and not from a link to a video that arrives in your e-mail inbox. That's the message from the US-CERT (Computer Emergency Readiness Team) on Thursday. The group has received reports of a new variant of the
LANSING - The Small Business Association of Michigan named State Representative Brian Calley as the organization's 2008 Legislator of the Year. Rep. Calley was presented the honor at SBAM's June 19 annual meeting and networking luncheon in East Lansing. SBAM President and CEO Rob Fowler says Calley is a promising elected official who fights for
ANN ARBOR - The price of a gallon of gas, now averaging $4 a gallon in the United States, is having a major impact on the international automotive industry and the way it conducts business. The implications of fuel-cost increases reach far beyond sales trends - technology, manufacturing, and policy are all critical components of
LANSING - The Small Business Association of Michigan announced its officers at the organization's June 19 annual meeting and networking luncheon in East Lansing. Chair: Tom Mathison, Tower Pinkster Architects, Grand Rapids First Vice Chair: Mike Fox, Ingenuity IEQ, Midland Second Vice Chair: Cynthia Kay, Cynthia Kay and Company, Grand Rapids Secretary: Becki Kraus, Rebecca