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Jenny Stout

Jenny Stout

MANAGER of EDITORIAL SERVICES AT THE IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY
I'm Jenny Stout, Manager, Editorial Services, at the IEEE Computer Society, the world's premier organization of computing professionals. We publish a wide variety of scholarly journals, general-interest and technical magazines, conference proceedings, books, and digital products that explore the theory, application, and social implications of computers and computer technology, but my work focuses primarily on the editorial team. Our high-quality, peer-reviewed publications represent the best in current research and topical industrial developments.

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Question:

Securing your Multi-Platform Network

May 21, 2010 at 2:05 PM
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Answer:
James McGovern and Gunnar Peterson provide a short and thoughtful look at enterprise security in their “10 Quick, Dirty, and Cheap Things to Improve Enterprise Security, from IEEE Security and Privacy’s March/April 2010 issue. In this article, the authors argue that evolutionary progress in enterprise information security “doesn’t always require cross-functional teams, a project management office, and other enterprise foofaraw.” A digital version of the entire issue can be purchased from QMags for $5.
Question:

Getting Smart About Smartphone Security

May 14, 2010 at 2:05 PM
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Today's handheld devices are powerful enough to be considered personal computers because you can use them to do most things people want to do on a desktop, including processor-intensive tasks such as watching movies. All that computing power is good—unless it's harnessed for evil. The March/April 2010 issue of IEEE Security & Privacy on Mobile Device Security (http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MSP....) features four articles on mobile device security, including “Google Android: A Comprehensive Security Assessment.” A digital version of the entire issue can be purchased from QMags for $5 (http://www.qmags.com/magazines/IEEESecurity&Pri...).
June 4, 2010 at 12:06 PM
Smart phones pose many new challenges to usable security, but the current means of specifying security policies or preferences for resource sharing are either woefully inadequate or too hard to use. “ What's on Users' Minds? Toward a Usable Smart Phone Security Model ,” < a href =" http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MPRV... /" target ="­_ blank "> ” an article from IEEE Pervasive Computing ’s April-June 2009 issue, covers this topic in much more detail. </ a > In particular, the approach described adopts a semantic-based policy representation to help users' understanding of security policies and to better reflect what users really want.
 
Question:

Help! Designing a cloud-based, SaaS application?

June 18, 2010 at 12:06 PM
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Technology innovations have shaped the IT Industry since its inception. Adoption of a particular innovation is often a key survival factor: "fast followers" learn from others, monetize an innovation, and almost always make abnormal profits. Thus, the important question for IT professionals is, "How can I evaluate an emerging trend for its investment worthiness?" To answer this question, the author of <a href=" http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MITP... target="_blank" rel="nofollow">“IT Innovations: Evaluate, Strategize, and Invest,” in IT Professional’s November/December 2009 issue” describes a diffusion of IT innovations framework that can evaluate emerging trends in the IT space. He also analyzes some current trends using this framework and suggests strategies for investing in them.
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IT Challenge: Does Pair Programming Work?

June 10, 2010 at 1:06 PM
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In IEEE Software’s Jan/Feb 2010 issue, Stuart Wray looked at a range of programmer experiences and came up with several mechanisms, including pair programming chat and fighting poor practices, that he thinks make for a successful pair programming experience. What do you think of his findings?