Steve Clark

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TBS Senior Editor S. Abdallah Schleifer spoke with MBC News Director Steve Clark in London about the advantages of moving to Dubai and how the move will affect their news coverage.
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Steve Clark: I think its purely a matter of economics.
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Clark: On screen the audience shouldn't notice a flicker of change.
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Clark: I wouldn't exactly call it a recruiting mission, but if you are a director of news it would be very remiss if you didn't come around and look at the new blood.
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Clark: I've been invited to go and I will shortly go to Dubai to have a good look around.
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Clark: First of all I cannot speak about what the state of MBC was in its early days.
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Clark: I was immensely impressed when I came here as to how seriously the journalists here regard their craft.

As MBC News Director Steve Clark told TBS, "It's very expensive to run a news operation based in London.We have been here now for ten years.

MBC News Director Steve Clark; APTN CEO Ian Ritchie; Reuters TV News Editor Rodney Pinder; Zafar Siddiqi, CEO of Middle East Business News; and Hany El Konayyesi, APTN senior editor responsible for the Middle East Custom Coverage division.

"This may not seem leading edge," says Steve Clark, director of information services at Madison Building and Construction Co."But we used to have people at construction sites running to the nearest Kinko's to fax a 50-page project summary."

When Clark suggested sharing the files by e-mail, some of the contractors expressed concerns about the security of sending the documents over Internet e-mail.That led Clark to opt for a VPN.

At first, Clark tried to get all the contractors to use a single ISP.But some of the contractors objected, saying they had their own ISP accounts and did not want to incur the cost of using an additional one.

With a VPN extranet, it really does not matter whether all the participants use the same ISP.All that's required is for each member of the group to have some type of access to the Internet.The VPN software or equipment in each site must simply be configured with the IP address of the VPN equipment in the main site of the extranet.That way, the traffic exchanged by members of the extranet group can be carried over multiple providers' networks.
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"Our expertise has been in networking," says Madison's Clark.

Many financial institutions have used encryption and PKIs for years.But the majority of companies outside of that industry are in Clark's situation and lack in-house expertise.This is why some companies are looking for outside help in managing their extranet VPNs.

"A PKI is essential for providing user authentication," says Johna Till Johnson, an analyst at Meta Group, a research and consulting group.

"But administering the PKI for an entire supply chain is a daunting challenge," says Johnson.

"We are not using a PKI today mostly because we have no expertise in that area," said Steve Clark, director of information services at Madison Building and Construction Co.Today, Clark employs user names and passwords for access control; but he is looking into public-key infrastructure-based systems so that he can extend VPN access to outside contractors.

What IRE is doing has some appeal to managers like Clark since they are likely to start with a modest effort, but want the ability to scale up as VPN access is extended to more users.IRE offers three tiers of products to allow users to start small and scale up.

At the low end is the SafeNet/Security Center, a stand-alone Windows NT system that supports up to 5,000 users or devices.It includes a GUI for administering security and authentication services, and comes bundled either with a Pentium PC or as stand-alone software.

For companies that need to support more users, IRE offers SafeNet/Security Center with Redundancy.

TBS: Steve Clark, MBC News Director

"We wanted Tier One user support," said Steve Clark, director of information services at Madison Building and Construction Co.

MBC News Director Steve Clark discusses the advantages of moving to Dubai and it will affect their news coverage.

"We are not using a PKI today mostly because we have no expertise in that area," said Steve Clark, director of information services at Madison Building and Construction Co.Today, Clark employs user names and passwords for access control; but he is looking into public-key infrastructure-based systems so that he can extend VPN access to outside contractors.

What IRE is doing has some appeal to managers like Clark since they are likely to start with a modest effort, but want the ability to scale up as VPN access is extended to more users.IRE offers three tiers of products to allow users to start small and scale up.

At the low end is the SafeNet/Security Center, a stand-alone Windows NT system that supports up to 5,000 users or devices.It includes a GUI for administering security and authentication services, and comes bundled either with a Pentium PC or as stand-alone software.

For companies that need to support more users, IRE offers SafeNet/Security Center with Redundancy.