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November 2008

Features
Agencies go beyond wireless hot spots to provide critical network connectivity anytime, anywhere.
Technologies that federal IT chiefs have their eye on for 2009.
A unique campus provides an enduring safeguard for the nation's collection of films, TV programs, radio broadcasts and sound recordings.
Departments
Brief Byte:
Best Practices:
Before you apply NIST's templates for FDCC, make sure to take a few precautionary measures.
Tech Insights:
Feds and experts relay 5 smart ideas for emergency notification.
Tech Insights:
Six options for extending the life of older PCs.
Tech Insights:
Take these steps to develop a successful program.
Product Review:
GuardianEdge Hard Disk Encryption protects data on mobile devices and removable media.
Product Review:
ATI graphics card lets power graphics users run multiple apps simultaneously.
The Business of IT:
With preparation, CIOs can ready their federal IT shops to take a leading role in the transition.
Bridging the Gap:
With a move to IP networks, VoIP fail-over and remote monitoring provide agencies a COOP option during a crisis.
FedTech Interview:
General Services Administration CIO
Best Practices:
Follow these tips to improve your network's performance.
Best Practices:
To create successful metrics for security programs, keep your focus on measuring effectiveness, not performance.
Best Practices:
Workarounds can help you adjust to the new OS.
Best Practices:
Take your best shot at collaboration and surveillance using IP cameras.
Best Practices:
Preventing data leakage through your agency's system ports requires a smart plan of action combined with vigilant monitoring of your users' mobile devices.
Best Practices:
Turn on TPM to help empower encryption.
Bridging the Gap:
As the government crafts broader metrics and benchmarks, consider energy-efficiency steps your IT shop can take now.
The Business of IT:
As federal technology organizations begin to adapt to the new administration's goals, CIOs must address a pair of continuing, high-visibility concerns: IT security and budgetary constraints.
Tech Insights:
Try these steps to gain and keep control of that seemingly endless flow of e-mail.
Best Practices:
An IT pro offers advice on how to manage what may be a very destructive worm.
Product Review:
Fortinet serves up one UTM box that lets you rule them all.
Product Review:
Counter security threats with solid endpoint security.
The Business of IT:
It takes smart planning and preparation to cut over to a thin-client architecture.
Tech Watch:
If you're using Windows Server 2008, take a glimpse at ways to make use of its onboard virtualization tool, Hyper-V.