Protecting Data
The new focus of messaging security is on protecting data with Data Leakage Protection and Data Loss Prevention as the buzzwords of the moment. Is this really new and if so, why the shift and why now?
Features
Secure Document Collaboration Approaches
Organizations can re-create the secure room approach with secured digital rooms for document collaboration.
How Secure is Your FTP?
FTP is quick and cost effective, but it is an aging technology. Given the current environment, the time has come for Secure FTP or managed file transfer technology.
The Latest in Authentication Adoption
Adoption of email and domain authentication has reached its tipping point. More and more compliant brands see the benefits, including brand protection and enhanced deliverability.
Overcoming Mobile Insecurity
What is the threat landscape for mobile devices? Beyond the hype, we offer tips and steps to consider this year.
Virtualization and Messaging
As virtualization-enabled server infrastructures grow in data centers, a new opportunity for further efficiency has emerged—virtual appliances. This new technology is making its way into many arenas, including messaging.
Columns
“On Message” with Ben Gross
Tradeoffs and Risks in Compliance Systems
Federal Surveillance
Messaging News guest columnist Gregory Nojeim, Center for Democracy & Technology
On Message by Ben Gross
| Link roundup for 5/6/08 |
| 05/06/2008 |
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mail-trends: Mihai Parparita’s tool to let you analyze and visualize your own Google-based email collection. The software is still in its early stages and requires a Python installation and a Google Apps or Gmail account. Mail-trends is open source under the BSD license. Hopefully, Mihai will update the package to support other IMAP servers in [...]
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| Link roundup for 5/4/08 |
| 05/04/2008 |
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Cory Doctorow: How to stop your inbox exploding: In the Guardian Cory writes covers a set of simple tips for keeping messages to your inbox to a minimum. The five tips are: Sort your inbox by subject, color-code messages from known senders, kill people who make you crazy, half-resign from mailing lists, and keep a [...]
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| Link roundup for 5/1/08 |
| 05/01/2008 |
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Struggling to Evade the E-Mail Tsunami: Randall Stross at the New York Times writes a refreshingly entertaining piece on the often overdone topic of email overload. He provides nice comparisons the habits of Thomas Edison and H. L. Mencken for responding to the overload of communication in previous times.
Not Using Tweetscan to Manage Your Brand? [...]
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| Link Roundup on Identity Management 4/13/08 |
| 04/13/2008 |
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Understanding CardSpace | : As part of his Perspectives series, Jon Udell interviews Vittorio Bertocci, the author of Understanding Windows CardSpace. The interview is interesting and covers a number of current identity management topics. In addition to the audio of the interview, a full transcript is available. The inline audio player requires a Microsoft Silverlight [...]
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| Link roundup for 4/5/08 |
| 04/05/2008 |
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The Conversation Has Left the Blogosphere: ReadWriteWeb has a nice summary of a variety of tools, that aggregate many of the new messaging services such as Twitter along with messaging and updates from social network services such as Facebook and new collaborative new services such as Digg.
Careful What You Text or Tweet: EmailTide covers the [...]
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| 1Password — the Login Manager and Form Filler for the Mac and iPhone |
| 04/02/2008 |
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Briefly, 1Password is an application to manage passwords and auto-fill web forms for the Mac, the iPhone, and the iPod Touch. At first pass, the functionality may not sound exciting, unless you are like me and you sit down and think about how many times a day you type in different combinations of usernames and [...]
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| Link roundup for 3/30/08 |
| 03/30/2008 |
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The theme of today’s link roundup is about obtaining access to data you may have stored on one web-based service from another web-based service or an application. The name “data portability” is becoming a popular label for this type of interoperability. As the data people store in online services with Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and other [...]
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| Link roundup for New Types of Spam |
| 03/26/2008 |
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419 scams hidden in Google and Yahoo calendar messages: There is a piece on the Commtouch blog about spam arriving in the form of .ics calendar invites. I have received a number of these myself. Users who have their calendar application such as Outlook, Google Calendar, and Yahoo Calendar set to automatically accept calendar invitations [...]
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