Foresight Solutions Inc., a decade-old, privately held firm specializing in EDI software, this week ships software that lets corporations register new trading partners on the Web and exchange business documents in HTML, XML, EDI or other formats.
Securant Technologies is making substantial changes to the next version of its Web-centric access control product, ClearTrust SecureControl, to allow it to better support e-commerce applications.
Bibliofind, the Amazon.com Inc. subsidiary for buyers and sellers of used and hard-to-find books, last week disclosed that 98,000 customer credit card numbers it stored in its servers were repeatedly stolen between last October and this February.
Talisma Corp. this week will announce an updated version of its customer-relationship management suite that will help e-commerce ventures keep track of what customers are doing and help them when needed.
ORLANDO (03/06/2001) - As hackers obtain ever more dangerous and easy-to-use tools, they are being countered by novel defense strategies. Witness the experimental idea of setting up a decoy network separate from your real one to fool intruders as they try to fool you.
IBM Corp. announced it has integrated IBM Content Manager, a repository for storing and managing text and multimedia documents, into Siebel Systems Inc.'s Call Center suite to make it easier for call service representatives to retrieve data related to customer history.
Blue Martini Software Inc., known for its signature e-commerce catalog software, is now serving up a different mix: software tools for managing e-mail advertising campaigns and analyzing sales data from Web and in-store sales.
Customer service agents now engage in e-mail, online chat and Web collaboration - in which an agent takes control of a customer's browser to guide the person to specific Web pages - in addition to traditional phone communications.
The U.S. military has a new mission: Be ready to launch a cyberattack against potential adversaries, some of whom are stockpiling cyberweapons.
Havoc wrought by Internet-based computer viruses continues to worsen, a new study concludes. And the worse news is that software vendors are predicting an even darker future in which self-mutating viruses become practically undetectable and almost unstoppable.
A dozen vendors Wednesday said they will produce a security specification for XML to help XML-based applications share user authentication and authorization information across online supply-chain environments or trading exchanges.
PGP, a division of Network Associates, Monday announced it is developing a firewall with gigabit-strength throughput to sell to the service-provider market.
Haht Commerce this week will debut the latest version of its business-to-business application for selling on the Web, adding service-management features such as returns authorizations and order tracking.
Network Associates wants to tap wireless enterprise customers and the service provider market with a new mix of network analysis and security products.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology earlier this month selected the encryption algorithm called Rijndael as the preferred 128-bit encryption for the government, but NIST has to tackle conformance testing and other issues before Rijndael shows up in any products.