Research by IDC published in January this year found that 57 percent of U.S. workers use social media for business purposes at least once per week. As social networking and collaboration tools that started out in the home become increasingly absorbed into the workplace it appears that the business environment is inexorably changing forever.
Today more than ever, enterprises rely on email for business-critical operations. To the dismay of many IT executives, current generations of email security appliances were designed as point solutions to solve the one-off problems that affected email from the past decade-like spam filtering, virus protection or routing email.
To get underway, many companies chose quick fix, low cost email marketing solutions based on open source or early generation technology. While they may have sufficed in their day, changes in consumer communication behavior, advances in messaging technology and the requirements of a dynamic environment have rendered these solutions obsolete. Yet, many companies continue to rely on them. To keep...
Security is an ever-evolving game and enterprises must
strive to stay one step ahead of those that seek to attack them. Evolving
mobile technologies, adapting malware and a new breed of attackers are all
trends that enterprises should be paying attention to.
There’s little denying the
impact email plays in our daily lives. This valuable tool has helped to
revolutionize the way we communicate and do business. Unfortunately, for all of
the productivity gains realized as a result of this technology, there are still
a number of risks email systems present on a daily basis. A staggering
percentage of email — as high as 90 percent according to...
The decline of the security hardware appliance is closely linked to the rising popularity of virtualization for business applications of all kinds. Virtualization, the technology that enables multiple heterogeneous operating systems to run simultaneously on the same physical piece of hardware, has been around for some time, but it is really only recently that it has come into its own...
Compliance
with SEC and FINRA electronic communication mandates has driven significant
growth in the message archiving market, and the sophisticated needs of this
audience have, in turn, accelerated technological development. All indications
for 2010 suggest the expansion of regulatory oversight to more businesses, as
well as more sophisticated obligations for those already managing compliance...
Every day there are news
stories about bots and all the harm they cause. Bots are pieces of software,
often called malware, which criminals surreptitiously install on computers to
inflict harm, such as sending spam, stealing financial information or
conducting DDOS attacks against other computers. Corporate PCs are tempting
targets as they often have access to confidential company information....
Each of the hundred billion emails, IMs and documents
created every day need to be preserved for some period of time. Yet, IT
managers — who already struggle to manage overflowing in-boxes and maxed out
email servers — are about to be hit with another data explosion.
What daily event exposes the
enterprise to as much risk as the sending of an email attachment? Can you
think of one? Email used to be a medium
for short messages. First it was an inter-company tool, then an intra-company
tool, then a personal tool.
Today it’s the primary vehicle of collaboration, whether creating a
T-ball schedule for the kids or a mission-critical order for customers....
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