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Secure 2008 - International Exhibition & Conference
2008-02-18 21:27:00
We are pleased to inform you that Services International is organizing a 2nd International Exhibition & Conference SECURE 2008 at Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai during 24th -26th November, 2008. SECURE 2008 Exhibition represents a great opportunity for those seeking partnerships, alliances, potential investors and suppliers of new technologies and products. The exhibition will feature domestic and international companies displaying an unrivalled safety and security products, technology and services. It includes an investment of efforts towards strengthening the hands of safety and security on the whole with the help of cross boundary awareness in general and in different related industries towards the latest technologies, products and advancements in the same fields. Main Industry Focus: Access Control Systems , Alarms & Alarm Systems , Biometrics, Building Management Systems, CCTV and Remote Monitoring Control Systems , Control Station Equipment , Detection & Alarm Systems , En...
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Junk Mail problem solved by innovative solution
2008-02-17 20:25:00
The scourge of unwanted direct mail could be a thing of the past with today's launch of ChooseYourMail , a new online service at www.chooseyourmail.co.uk.The service allows consumers to register their preferences and to receive direct mail only from companies and lifestyle sectors that interest them. Currently, consumers have to decide between either opting-out of receiving direct mail altogether or else opting-in and receiving hundreds of mail pieces from companies that are of no interest.However, because the opt-out solution (the Mailing Preference Service run by the Direct Marketing Association) prevents consumers from getting mail from companies that would be of interest, consumers are often unsure over whether to register with that service.Chooseyourmail.co.uk, by contrast, allows consumers a third way whereby they can opt-in to receive direct mail only from lifestyle sectors and companies that are of interest, allowing them to be in total control of the direct mail they choos...
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Global Security One revolutionises online security with launch of XGate
2008-02-16 20:32:00
Global Security One (GSEC1) has launched a ground-breaking security device which creates a highly secure wireless network, straight out of the box. XGate provides a range of benefits to both home and business users, including identity protection, secure banking and safe internet use for children through chatroom monitoring. The pioneering device comes with a built-in firewall, anti-virus and anti-spyware to protect against banking fraud and parental controls such as web filters and remote PC shutdown via SMS. By identifying and blocking threats before they reach the computer, XGate provides a defence to ensure that personal information and sensitive data is kept truly secure. “With the increase in criminal activity on the web, our aim is to make the internet safer, without limiting or restricting use,” comments Mark Brooks, Global Marketing Director at GSEC1. “The recent Panorama programme highlighted the potential dangers to children on the net, with 12 per cent of children a...
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IT Underground - International Security Workshop & Conference
2008-02-06 20:40:00
27.02.2008- 29.02.2008Hotel STEP, Prague, Czech RepublicYour IT Life - Security or Disaster? - the choice is yours.....Come to Prague, meet hackers - the good ones!!3 days, over a dozen hours of workshops, best-known speakers...Take care of all IT risks in your company! Join us and feel safe!If you are interested in IT systems penetration and security issues,this conference is for you!IT Underground 2008, a conference organised by S.W. Media and Software - Conference s team. With each passing day your protections become more insecure. As well as the knowledge of your IT people obsolete. That's the reason, we created IT Underground - the conference for IT specialists. To deliver the most important thing everybody needs - KNOWLEDGE - how to defend yourself and how to improve your security****INTERNATIONAL EXPERTS****Daniel Mende, Oliver Roeschke, Raoul "Nobody" Chiesa, Skyper, Enno Rey, Simon Rich, Zaljko Vrba, Alessio "Mayhem" Pennasilico, Riley Hassel, Angelo Rosiello Thomas B. Ruec...
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Veracode Shines Spotlight on Software Backdoors as Emerging Threat
2008-02-04 20:30:00
Exciting innovator in application security testing heals pain points with first online based subscription service for testing software codeBurlington, Mass., 4 February 2008 – Veracode, the first provider of on-demand application security testing solutions, today announced a further innovation – comprehensive detection of backdoors and malicious code. Veracode is the only company to offer application code reviews on a software-as-a-service subscription basis. Veracode’s SecurityReview® is the first solution to enable organisations to discover security flaws in software automatically, without releasing their valuable source code. Whether a company is buying or building software Veracode helps improve the security quality of applications without the need to hand over precious intellectual property by providing comprehensive identification and remediation of the security flaws contained in binary code, the very foundation of today’s software applications. The addition o...
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Brits Lack Trust in Digital Age
2008-02-04 20:28:00
Alarming levels of distrust emerging amidst UK's mobile users and their social networksLondon: Four in five UK internet users admit to feeling unsafe sharing their mobile phone number via the contact areas of social networking sites such as; Facebook, Bebo and MySpace. Nearly 80% of all respondents in a recent Mobyko.com survey stated they would not publicise their own number in this manner. The findings reveal the reason behind this growing trend of cautiousness - is the innate lack of trust relating specifically to the people within an individual's online social network.Julian Saunders, CEO of Mobyko.com said: "We know that people freely share their mobile numbers in the physical world. But, when it comes to doing so in the virtual world different factors come into play. It could be argued that the majority of people within our virtual communities are simply people we've either never met or perhaps just the once - and are not necessarily trusted acquaintances. This raises ...
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Web hosting providers underestimate the security threat facing web applicat
2008-01-30 16:26:00
Hosting customers left to fend for themselves as attack levels riseJanuary 30, 2008, New York. Despite the highly publicized attacks on websites worldwide, many web hosting customers remain unprotected against the newest forms of attacks as cyber crime tactics evolve, says Applicure, a leading web application firewall specialist which protects hosting companies and their customers from incoming web server attacks. Hundreds of thousands of web site operators - many with little or no technical expertise - rely on web hosting providers to keep their websites and web applications safe. Yet events such as the recent SQL injection attack that compromised more than 70,000 websites, and the 10,000 web sites serving up malicious code in December, show hackers are exploiting vulnerabilities in web applications with impunity. The combination of traditional firewall technology becoming mainstream and enterprise networks improving their defenses has driven hackers to find more vulnerable targets...
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Web hosting providers underestimate the security threat facing web applicat
2008-01-30 16:25:00
Hosting customers left to fend for themselves as attack levels riseJanuary 30, 2008, New York. Despite the highly publicized attacks on websites worldwide, many web hosting customers remain unprotected against the newest forms of attacks as cyber crime tactics evolve, says Applicure, a leading web application firewall specialist which protects hosting companies and their customers from incoming web server attacks. Hundreds of thousands of web site operators – many with little or no technical expertise – rely on web hosting providers to keep their websites and web applications safe. Yet events such as the recent SQL injection attack that compromised more than 70,000 websites, and the 10,000 web sites serving up malicious code in December, show hackers are exploiting vulnerabilities in web applications with impunity. The combination of traditional firewall technology becoming mainstream and enterprise networks improving their defences has driven hackers to find more vulnerable tar...
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WatchGuard Ups the Ante for Network Security
2008-01-28 16:23:00
Unveils next generation of highly reliable security solutions that strengthen network security, improve user connectivity and simplify network management January 28, 2008 - WatchGuard(r) Technologies, a global provider of network security solutions, today unveiled its latest network security software for the Firebox(r) X Peak(tm), Core(tm) and Edge unified threat management (UTM) appliances. This positions WatchGuard UTM devices as the leading price/performance UTM appliances, delivering a wide range of new security capabilities, connectivity features, increased performanceand robust network administrative tools. The new WatchGuard Fireware(r) 10 and Edge 10 releases are highly-reliable, feature-rich UTM operating systems. Unlike other network security devices, Fireware 10 and Edge 10 are optimized for today's complex network connectivity schemes and are designed for high-reliability, enhanced UTM functionality, hardened security andgreater administrator management and ease of ...
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BullGuard Declares War on Spam with Free Spamfilter
2008-01-23 16:21:00
BullGuard Launches Free Spam filter with Free SupportCopenhagen, 23rd January 2008 - Today BullGuard, specialist security solution provider, is pleased to announce its global attack on spam with the release of a free Spamfilter. The BullGuard free Spamfilter which includes 24/7 Live Support and integrates with all major email clients is available for download from BullGuard's website www.bullguard.com. "Research has shown that people consider spam to be the number 1 nuisance on the internet", says Theis Søndergaard, CTO and co-founder of BullGuard. "Over 80% of all emails sent today are spam. With our free Spamfilter we give people a tool to keep their inboxes clean. In turn we use their input to further improve the efficiency of the BullGuard Spamfilter.The BullGuard Spamfilter is a collaborative filter which benefits from user input worldwide. If BullGuard Spamfilter users report a message as spam, which is done by simply clicking a button in their email client, other users will ...

New Avaya Communication Manager Software Accelerates Evolution to Full-Feat
2008-01-21 16:20:00
Avaya's Advanced Intelligent Communication s Platform Helps Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Xeta Technologies Gain Flexibility, Streamline CostsFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, January 21, 2008 Basking Ridge, NJ -- Avaya today introduced enhancements to its market-leading IP Telephony solutions delivering advanced Intelligent Communications capabilities using end-to-end, full-featured Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). This includes the latest version of Avaya's flagship IP telephony software - Avaya Communication Manager 5.0 - which enables businesses to gain essential and innovative telephony functions using end-to-end SIP. With open standards-based SIP, businesses can drive greater cost-efficiencies in the deployment of enterprise communications, and help improve productivity among an increasingly-mobile workforce. Since its debut in 2002, Avaya Communication Manager has helped businesses cost-effectively evolve their communications to IP Telephony and now, SIP. It also provi...
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Email bullying, online fraud, electronic identity theft: guard against cybe
2008-01-18 16:19:00
If a malicious employee stole data from your organisation, would you have the skills to detect it? Could you gather evidence that would help the authorities prosecute a criminal case? Would you be able to produce the evidence to handle a disputed transaction, or a misbehaving employee? In this digital age we live in, computing security and business IT processes are under more scrutiny and pressure than everbefore. A new postgraduate course from The Open University is now available to equip professionals with a basic understanding of this complex field.Computer Forensics and Investigations provides an introduction to the world of digital evidence collection, forensic computing and IT incident management. The course will enable people to know what to do in the first initial stages of investigation - being a 'First Responder' to a situation and helping an organisation prepare for problems before they happen.Carefully constructed to balance the legal and technical aspects of this...
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Time To Take Information Classification Seriously Warns The ISF
2008-01-16 16:18:00
Data losses put focus back on classifying and protecting sensitive data says a new report from the Information Security Forum16 January 2008: Recent high profile date losses have highlighted the need for better information classification and the implementation of data protection measures based on the level of sensitivity and confidentiality, according to the Information Security Forum (ISF). In its latest report, the ISF suggests that because many existing approaches to information classification are overly complex they rarely deliver business benefits and are often simply ignored. "Traditional Information classification is characterised by the 'Top Secret' rubber stamp in James Bond films," says Nick Frost, the report's author and senior research consultant at the ISF. "Today, information exists in many different forms, from paper documents and verbal communications to the masses of electronic data stored, transmitted and processed. While introducing an effective enterprise wide...
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Gemalto and Nagravision Achieve A World’s First By Demonstrating An End-t
2008-01-15 16:16:00
• First ever integration and testing of the complete value chain was implemented at Open Mobile Alliance (OMA)TestFest 21• Nagravision and Gemalto first to successfully demonstrate interoperability between head-end equipment and a Mobile TV card in full compliance with the OMA BCAST SCP 1.0 specifications• Nagravision’s OMA BCAST SmartCard Profile head-end solution is available today and Gemalto’s one will be available early 2008 providing all the functions needed to protect broadcasted service and contentCheseaux, Switzerland and Paris, France - January 15, 2008 - Nagravision, a Kudelski Group (SWX:KUD) company, and Gemalto (Euronext: NL0000400653 GTO) announced today that they achieved a world’s first by demonstrating a fully operational, end-to-end OMA BCAST Smartcard Profile 1.0 Solution for mobile TV services.At the OMA TestFest 21, held in Bled (Slovenia), from November 9th to 16th, the companies implemented the first ever integration and testing of the complete va...

70,000 websites hit by SQL attack - media commentary
2008-01-09 21:35:00
Commentary from Yaacov Sherban, CEO Applicure Technologies Ltd, on recent SQL attack on 70,000 websites. The recent SQL injection attack which compromised more than 70,000 websites (including .gov and .edu sites) and hijacked visitors’ PCs is another real life example of how hackers are now targeting applications instead of network vulnerabilities. This time it was a database attack: MS SQL was attacked, next time it could be Oracle, MySQL or indeed some entirely different system component. The unavoidable conclusion is that unless organizations deploy a web application firewall with updating capabilities their websites, customers, and information assets will be exposed to attacks. The underlying fact is that developers are unable to build secure web applications for three main reasons: 1. Developers are not working closely enough with the security industry to develop securer applications. Security training and secure coding are essential to create safer applications. 2. Ev...
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Ultra-Portable USB Device Protects PCs from Broadest Range of Attacks
2008-01-07 19:08:00
LAS VEGAS, January 7, 2008 – Taking a page from its own miniaturization playbook, Yoggie Security SystemsTM (exhibiting at 2008 International CES in the Sands Convention Center, Innovation Pod #269) has introduced a unique, ultra-portable USB key-sized hardware-based firewall solution to protect PCs from malicious attacks. The Firestick PicoTM places a physical barrier between PCs and the Internet to ensure that threats never reach users’ computers. Unlike software firewalls, the fire red colored Firestick Pico mini-computer is based on a dedicated hardware platform specifically designed to protect PCs from the most devastating menaces including denial of service, buffer overflow and the broadest range of malicious attacks. It blocks all Internet threats and attacks outside – before they reach PCs or laptops.The Firestick Pico is a complete Linux-based 300 MHz computer with a dual flash memory mechanism that constitutes an ‘untouchable operating system’ running ...
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Pitney Bowes Calls For ‘Soft Target’ Security Review
2007-12-20 21:15:00
New FBI Report Identifies Trend Towards Use of Chemical / Biological WMD’s Document outsourcing specialist Pitney Bowes Management Services is calling on public and private sector businesses to urgently review mail security measures in light of a new terrorism threat report released by the FBI. The report called "Terrorism 2002-2005" argues that terrorists are increasingly eyeing so-called ‘softer targets’ as security around traditional diplomatic and military targets improves. The report suggests that it is chemical and biological WMD’s that represent the gravest threat – and that ‘civilian targets’ have become the focus. Richard Thompson, Managing Director, Pitney Bowes Management Services, states: “This latest FBI report should make UK public and private sector businesses sit up and take notice. “One need only think back to the letter-bomb incidents earlier this year to recognise how ill-prepared organisations are to mail-based threats of this type. “For man...
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Simplistic Security Could Cause Corporate Collapse in 2008, Warns Secerno
2007-12-17 21:13:00
Database security expert argues intelligent behaviour analysis will be keyOxford, United Kingdom, 17 December 2007 - Secerno (www.secerno.com), the technology leader in data security, today warned that simplistic security solutions based on signature block lists or rules-based network security will put organisations at risk in 2008 , as it becomes impossible for these products to keep up with the multitude of new attacks.2007 has been regularly punctuated with data breaches, and as a result public awareness of data protection has risen to an all-time high of 85% (1). The Information Commissioner's annual report also highlighted the ICO received almost 24,000 enquiries and complaints concerning personal information over the 2006/7 period, prosecuting 16 individuals and organisations just over 12 months (2). Steve Hurn, CEO, Secerno comments, "The memory of the damage caused by 2007's numerous security breaches will not fade quickly. Breaches such as the HMRC's loss of two discs aff...
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Security Companies Europe launched the latest version of their directory wi
2007-12-12 15:19:00
Security Companies Europe launched the latest version of their directory with security-related resources.Vienna, AT - 7 December, 2007 – Security Companies Europe, a non-profit web directory launched their latest version a few days ago. The free web directory offers a listening to websites, companies and other security-related resources in several categories of their directory. Since September 2006, when Security Companies Europe went online they nearly doubled the content and functions. What’s new?• Directory for free and trial version downloads• Directory for manuals as books, guides and standards• Directory for newsletters• Directory for news feeds• Advertising possibilities with logos“Everyone is invited to add his resource to our directory. A listening is free of charge and no back link is required for the 1st add into the directory (excluding logo advertising). If someone want to get more that one listening in our directory we require a back link to increase th...
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Survey Shows Slapdash Staff Risk Corporate Data
2007-12-11 21:11:00
Workers’ reliance on corporate data conflicts with their neglect of company resourcesLondon, 11 December, 2007 – A survey of more than 100 UK office workers has revealed that employees are hugely reliant on access to network data to do their jobs, yet show an alarming apathy about the value of that data. The survey was carried out by secure online backup specialist, Data barracks, and the findings are a stark warning to UK businesses:• Data dependent: Workers are so dependent on corporate data that 84% felt they couldn’t do their job for more than half a day if they lost access to it, whilst 43% felt they could not cope for any period without access• Recreational risk: More than half (57%) have at some point lost an office work laptop/BlackBerry/USB stick, with the most common loss location being a pub, bar or restaurant • Personal priorities: More than three-quarters (77%) admitted storing personal content such as photos on their office network or...
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Websense Predicts 2008's Top Ten Security Threats
2007-12-06 21:48:00
Olympics, Online Advertisements and Web 2.0 Threats Top Hacker's To-Do ListsChertsey - December 6, 2007 - Websense , Inc. (NASDAQ:WBSN) today issued its annual security predictions for 2008-with content-based threats topping the list. Specifically, the Websense® Security Labs(tm) expects: the Olympics will spur a flurry of hacker activity such as compromises of popular Olympic news or other sports sites; hackers will leverage the increased adoption of Macs and iPhones as new means for cross-platform Web attacks; special interest groups that fall within a certain age group, wealth bracket, or people with particular purchasing habits, will become targets of Web 2.0 attacks; and spam will increase in the blogosphere and "talk back" sections of news sites to drive traffic and increase search engine rankings of infected Web sites. "Looking at the current attack trends, cyber criminal techniques are evolving quickly and efficiently to not only evade detection, but to steal data and ma...

FASTHOSTS WEBHOSTING HACK COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED
2007-12-06 21:45:00
*Mission critical and e-commerce websites should have been protected *Free Applicure download detects threats in realtime for hosting companies and small/medium sized businessesToday’s Times story on the shut down of many small websites in a crucial retailing period before Christmas is a further blow to the web hosting community. Web hosting companies are an easy target to hit multiple businesses in one fell swoop. “Firewalls have improved significantly, so it is now difficult to perform attacks on a network level, therefore hackers are now aiming at the web application level”, said Yaacov Sherban, CEO of Applicure. “Unfortunately, web application developers are writing pretty awful code. This is a major issue, and most web applications are vulnerable at some level.”Applicure is an expert in application security products for websites and web-based applications, and offers dotDefender Monitor as a free download from www.applicure.com. It is the only product on the market ...
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Websense Predicts 2008's Top Ten Security Threats
2007-12-06 21:09:00
Olympics, Online Advertisements and Web 2.0 Threats Top Hacker's To-Do ListsChertsey - December 6, 2007 - Websense , Inc. (NASDAQ:WBSN) today issued its annual security predictions for 2008-with content-based threats topping the list. Specifically, the Websense® Security Labs(tm) expects: the Olympics will spur a flurry of hacker activity such as compromises of popular Olympic news or other sports sites; hackers will leverage the increased adoption of Macs and iPhones as new means for cross-platform Web attacks; special interest groups that fall within a certain age group, wealth bracket, or people with particular purchasing habits, will become targets of Web 2.0 attacks; and spam will increase in the blogosphere and "talk back" sections of news sites to drive traffic and increase search engine rankings of infected Web sites. "Looking at the current attack trends, cyber criminal techniques are evolving quickly and efficiently to not only evade detection, but to steal data and ma...

67% Of Security Executives Do Not Have Robust Controls In Place To Prevent
2007-12-06 21:08:00
According to real-time survey conducted at the Qualys CSO Interchange Event in LondonCSOs are most concerned about brand reputation and risk managementLondon, 6 December 2007 - Brand reputation, risk management and preventing data loss surfaced clearly as the burning concerns of senior security professionals participating in the London meeting of the CSO Interchange, a high level forum geared to discussing hot topics of the day. 60% profess to having only "some idea" as to where their customer data is stored and "limited controls" over it. 72% see the impact ofpayment card loss on brand reputation as their biggest concern. Speaking at the event, cross-bench peer, Lord Erroll, a member of the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee, described the recent HMRC data breach as a "godsend"..."with luck the missing CDs have ended up in a landfill site but this fiasco will force the government to start taking security seriously and the powers of the Information Commissioner's ...
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FaceTime Provides Unprecedented Visibility into Greynets with New Public Re
2007-12-05 21:50:00
GreynetsGuide.com Catalogs More than 600 Applications Free RTDiscover Tool Provides Real-Time Visibility on Employee Usage BELMONT, Calif., Dec. 5, 2007 — FaceTime Communications, the leading provider of solutions that control greynets and manage Unified Communications in the enterprise, today announced it has launched www.GreynetsGuide.com. Greynets are Internet-enabled, communication eore prominent bug referring to Spywareguif/Oscar List price!rodu.er the Salus/Oscar list.ds:ration.ce for unified communicaapplications that are typically installed by end users without the sanction of corporate network managers.The Web-based guide aims to be a comprehensive reference center to help enterprise network administrators better understand evasive and consumer-oriented applications like public IM clients, P2P file-sharing, anonymizers, IPTV and consumer VoIP that are increasingly being adopted by employees. GreynetsGuide.com details the source, behavior and effective removal tools for m...
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Gemalto Provides Web Services To Seb’s German Affiliate For Designing Per
2007-10-22 22:29:00
Gemalto supplies SEB with user-friendly online tool for full card customization with a personal photograph Amsterdam, October 22, 2007 - Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, today announces it has supplied SEB German y with an innovative end-to-end solution for secure Internet design of personalized credit cards. The SEB Group is a North European financial group for 400,000 corporate customers and institutions and 5 million private customers. It has a strong local presence in Germany with some 1,000,000 clients in this country. Gemalto’s CardLikeMeTM provides SEB customers with a user-friendly interface to upload a picture of their choice on the bank website to create a unique personal card. As part of its overall project management responsibility, Gemalto developed the software solution required for processing the photograph on SEB’s website and ensured complete card personalization and fulfillment. Commercial launch took place this summer.G...
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MessageLabs Launches Next Generation Version Of Email Archiving Service
2007-10-17 22:28:00
- Software as a Service (SaaS) provider is first to offer a complete solution for major archiving needs: email storage management, legal discovery and regulatory compliance -New York, NY and London - October 17, 2007 - Mess ageLabs, a leading provider of integrated messaging and web security services to businesses worldwide, today announced the launch of v3.0 of its Archiving service.A pioneer in the software as a service industry, MessageLabs is the first managed service provider to offer email archiving suited to all three major archiving needs: email storage management, legal discovery and regulatory compliance. According to research conducted by Osterman Research, 49 percent of organizations that today do not have an archiving system expect to implement a solution by the end of 2008. Much of the interest in archiving is being driven by rapidly growing email databases - Osterman Research data shows that message stores are growing at an average of 35 percent annually. Inbox size m...
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Companies Exposed from Inadequate Disaster Recovery Planning and Testing
2007-10-17 22:25:00
Core Facts:* Inadequate Disaster Recovery Planning and Testing - Symantectoday announced the findings of an international study indicating that while 91 percent of IT organisations carry out full scenario testing of their disaster recovery plans incorporating relevant people, processes and technologies, nearly 50 percent of those tests fail. This means that one in two UK organisations is not equipped to handle events, such as natural disasters, computer system failures and external computer threats. * Nearly Half Executed Disaster Recovery Plan - Nearly half of ITorganisations surveyed have had to execute their company's disaster recovery plans. The research findings show that 48 percent of organisations have had to execute disaster recovery plans and 44 percent surveyed without a disaster recovery plan experienced one problem or disaster, while 26 percent experience two or more, and 11 percent experienced three or more. * CEO's Not Taking Active Role in Disaster Planning - 69 p...
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Webroot(R) Research Finding: Most Small and Mid-sized Businesses Worldwide
2007-10-16 22:21:00
Seven Out of 10 SMEs Worldwide Reported Spyware and Virus Infections but Underestimate the Consequences. Global Economic Engine Vulnerable to Cyber Crime. Crawley, UK, October 16, 2007 - Webroot Software, Inc., a leading provider of Internet security software for the consumer, enterprise and SME markets, today unveiled its latest report, "State of Internet Security: Protecting Small and Medium Businesses ". The report highlights startling survey results surrounding Internet security threats among SMEs worldwide. In conjunction with the report, Webroot has released a handbook for SMEs, "A Guide to Security for Small & Medium Business" that provides tips and best practices for protecting technology infrastructure and sensitive customer data from malware and cyber criminals."Unlike larger corporations, SMEs often lack the monetary resources and IT expertise to install and maintain the type of protection needed in the face of today's growing malware threats. The real dichotomy here is t...
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Gemalto Achieves Major Breakthrough in Security Technology with Java CardTM
2007-10-10 22:23:00
World's first Common Criteria certificate of a smart card involving formal assurances from the utmost EAL7 levelAmsterdam, The Netherlands - October 10, 2007 - Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, today announces that its implementation of Java CardTM technology has been Common Criteria certified EAL4 using formal assurances from the EAL7 level, the highest level of certification possible. This is the world's first Common Criteria certificate of a smart card involving formal assurances from the EAL7 level. It provides high confidence in open multi-application cards as it ensures that each embedded application is completely and securely isolated from the others and that this security process has been mathematically proven. Gemalto received the certification end of September 2007.The EAL levels, which range from 0 to 7, offer a simple scale for comparative measurement to the consumer. Internationally designed and recognized "Common Criteria" sec...
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