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Michael Kaply: Deploying Firefox 2 within the Enterprise

Submitted by Bryan on March 26, 2007 - 9:05am

Michael Kaply has been writing a series of articles on how to deploy Firefox 2 within the Enterprise.  I wrote last year that one of the difficulties of deploying Firefox and Thunderbird in the enterprise was the lack of tools Mozilla provided for deploying the software.  I'm happy to say that   Kaply's articles do a fairly good job on providing some solutions for those organizations that need to manage a large network of clients.  Kaply's original intent is to cover the following topics regarding deployment of Firefox 2 within the enterprise:

  1. Building a custom version of Firefox
  2. Adding Enterprise specific customizations to Firefox
  3. Creating a Firefox installer
  4. Setting up your own update server to deploy Firefox patches

Currently most of his articles can be found on Kaply's blog under the "enterprise" category.

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eWeek: Is the Botnet Battle Already Lost?

Submitted by Bryan on October 16, 2006 - 4:56pm
"Now, there is a general feeling of hopelessness among security professionals involved in finding and disabling botnets. It remains to be seen how this despair affects security products and the attitudes of the technology executives who rely on them.

'We've known about [the threat from] botnets for a few years, but we're only now figuring out how they really work, and I'm afraid we might be two to three years behind in terms of response mechanisms,' said Marcus Sachs, a deputy director in the Computer Science Laboratory of SRI International, in Arlington, Va."

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Plone: Current web site slowness

Submitted by Bryan on September 6, 2006 - 9:30am

"The plone.org web site is currently being hit with multiple spam requests from various sources (on the level of a DDoS attack), and we're currently cleaning up the mischief. If the site is slow for you, we apologize."

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Headaches from security updates for Firefox and Thunderbird

Submitted by Bryan on August 31, 2006 - 5:02am

Sigh...another round of security updates coming from the folks at Mozilla. It looks like version 1.5.0.7 will be at our doorsteps soon.  Now at home, updating Firefox and Thunderbird on the Windows PC is a snap since it is all automatic. However, updating in a secure enterprise environment is a different matter.

In most enterprises, most users don't have administrative privileges and without those rights Firefox and Thunderbird in most cases will not auto install the new version. What would really help is if Mozilla would provide their software in a MSI package. Until MSI packages are provided by Mozilla, it is difficult for me to accept Firefox and Thunderbird as "enterprise software". In a Windows Server 2003 environment, MSI packages are a must for easy deployment, management, and auditing.

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