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• Victorian Justice IT system runs 9 years late

  A computer program to streamline Victoria's criminal justice system is running nine years late and could cost four times as much as planned.

• Facial recognition to reopen unsolved crimes

  Facial recognition technology will be rolled out across Victoria over the next 18 months allowing police to reopen 20,000 unsolved crimes.

• Vic govt dept to get reporting software

  Victoria's Department of Human Services (DHS) will early next year implement a corporate reporting software solution supporting some 3,000 internal and 100,000 external users.

• Firewalls: Keeping the outside out

  Firewalls protect your network from outside attacks, but what can you do when those pesky users keep taking their computers outside your network? ZDNet Australia investigates.

• 2007: How was it for outsourcing?

  Government continues to shun colossal outsourcing contracts in favour of selective sourcing, while businesses display growing confidence in software-as-a-service -- however sustained skills shortages have plagued deployments, sparking interest in offshore options.

Features and Case Studies (32)

• Six wireless access points tested

  Until recently, it's been difficult to use the words "secure" and "wireless" in the same sentence. Recent developments mean that's no longer the case. ZDNet Australia looks at six different options.

• Intrusion detection systems reviewed

  Despite a rocky beginning, intrusion detection and prevention systems are an important part of any security arsenal. We road-test six hardware and software-based systems.

• Patch me happy

  Security patches are a big worry: they come out at odd times, they suck up your bandwidth, and just occasionally they break things. We look at patch management packages to ease the burden.

• Firewalls: Keeping the outside out

  Firewalls protect your network from outside attacks, but what can you do when those pesky users keep taking their computers outside your network? ZDNet Australia investigates.

• DoE Victoria learns from project management lessons

  Working out an IT governance scheme when you have 600,000 users in place is a challenge, but stricter project management has been so successful for the Department of Education in Victoria that the government agency is now adopting the same methodology even for non-IT projects.

Reviews (51)

• Servers on a budget: 4 Servers tested

  Need a new server but only have AU$2500 to spend? The range of options is surprisingly good as long as you're willing to do without some of the fancy features.

• Data centre 101

  Secrecy seems to shroud the data centre arena -- all well and good for security's sake, but not so great when trying to pick a provider. We pull back the curtains to find what data centre options exist in Australia.

• Lose the wires, keep the security: 6 wireless access points tested

  Until recently, it's been difficult to use the words "secure" and "wireless" in the same sentence. Recent developments mean that's no longer the case. We look at six different options.

• Voice over IP: Security, stability, success

  If you're thinking about voice over IP, we take a look at the steps involved in getting it set up and what's on offer from four major vendors.

• Detection and prevention: 6 intrusion detection systems tested

  Despite a rocky beginning, intrusion detection and prevention systems are an important part of any security arsenal. We road-test six hardware and software-based systems.

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