Archive for March 2009

26
Mar

Information Security Management System (ISMS) and ISO\IEC 27001:2005

Recently my current employer, M.H. Alshaya Co. W.L.L., became the first retailer in the Middle East to be certified with ISO/IEC 27001:2005 certification. This was a result of hard work from around 150 employees (whose processes were included in the scope) spanning across multiple departments. I was a member of the ISMS (Information Security Management [...]


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24
Mar

Dashboard Designer in Pentaho BI version 3

Today Pentaho released version 3 of their BI suite Enterprise Edition. Apart from a few bug fixes, majority of the functionality is the same as that available in Enterprise Edition version 2 (previous post). One significant addition is the self-service dashboard designer.

Along with the adhoc report and adhoc analysis, you can now create an adhoc [...]


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18
Mar

VoIP Security: The Basics

In my previous post I gave a brief overview of VoIP and how it can add tremendous value to an organization by reducing communication costs. This article talks about the various security related issues that needs to be addressed in any VoIP implementation. It would be a gross mistake on the part of administrators to [...]


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11
Mar

Low-Cost Corporate Communications using VoIP

Voice over IP (VoIP) is emerging as one of the most powerful technologies revolutionizing the telecom industry. Most of us are fairly comfortable with using VoIP for personal use, courtesy free telephony services from Skype, Yahoo Voice, MSN Messenger, Google Talk, and Gizmo5. Apart from free PC-to-PC services, VoIP has also contributed towards low cost [...]


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