Brands used to bully owners of domain names that the brands did not like, without any real legal basis. A new reverse domain name hijacking (“RDNH”) case may prevent this bullying from happening again and cause brands to think twice before initiating suspect legal claims creating a seismic shift in the bargaining powers between domain name owners and trademark owners.
As businesses look to implement innovative new cloud services and support multiple platforms and devices, they are faced with the daunting task of maintaining security, data, privacy and the identities of the users and customers they support. Unfortunately, data loss incidents, misguided privacy policies, grievous data collection practices and ineffective planning and communication responses are...
With Microsoft Exchange 15 (E15) on the horizon, many businesses are wondering whether they should skip the Exchange 2010 upgrade and wait for E15 to upgrade their aging messaging systems. Changes in IT management and requirements have increased the urgency to deploy the newest features in Exchange, mostly around high availability and global availability.
Email dominates business communications despite being little more than a one-to-one/one-to-many “push” technology that hasn’t kept pace with the modern business world, doesn’t facilitate true interactive, many-to-many collaboration, and suffers from a range of size and security restrictions due to its underlying SMTP-based infrastructure. For instance, stakeholders can only exchange marked-up...
Offering both convenience and an easy, informal way to exchange ideas and information, instant messaging (IM) is growing exponentially as a corporate communication tool. A 2010 report by a leading research firm indicates that IM accounts are expected to exceed 3.4 billion by 2014, with business users making up a growing percentage of these accounts as organizations recognize that IM allows...
We all know email is the backbone of business communication. When the corporate email system goes down, productivity of the workforce plummets and there is a greater outcry than when any other “utility” function provided by the enterprise IT department is out of service. In the enterprise, email has arguably become more reliable and trusted than the telephone or any other human collaboration...
The hype surrounding the
public cloud has reached a fever pitch in the past year. Amazon is making big
news with EC2. Meanwhile, in the unified communications (UC) arena, Microsoft’s
recent introduction of the Office365 service is really making IT departments
sit up and take notice. This combined email, IM/Presence, conferencing,
collaboration and voice behemoth — largely because it is...
2011 is being heralded as the “year of the breach”. Combined with the rise of fraudulent business activities and uncertainty of the U.S. economy, recent studies indicate trust in email, advertising and businesses is heading towards an all-time low. The convergence of these events and data collection abuses has us heading towards a trust tsunami.
Malware is finding a new place to wreck havoc: the
smartphone. In fact, a recent study conducted by McAfee shows a 46 percent
surge in malware and malicious software targeting mobile devices compared to
one year ago.
Cyber crooks are infecting popular mobile platforms through
malicious applications and, unfortunately, no mobile platform is immune from
the destruction it can cause....
With severe consequences for non-compliance, email messaging security can no longer be ignored; more and more organizations and people contend, it is now a “must have.”
But the challenge is that email was not designed to support the gamut of today’s business requirements. Until recently the only way to achieve messaging security was to send a decryption key to the recipient...
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