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...
Nearly
everybody gets spam. But do you ever wonder what happens when you click that
“Report Spam” button on your mail reader? Does it do anything useful, or is it
really the same as just clicking “Delete”?
Network Forensics (NF) has matured in recent years to play a critical role in defending against the increasing number of advanced threats. Previously, NF focused on basic network packet capture to gather evidence to prove a security event—useful to lawyers prosecuting or pursuing recompense for corporate or individual damages. Today’s NF is something altogether different, quickly becoming...
For years, the email marketing industry has railed against imperfect spam filtering and advocated reputation measures as an alternative. We’ve acknowledged that filters play a vital role in protecting customers from those who seek to harm or exploit them through unscrupulous practices and malicious tactics. But we also argued (rightly) that filters are poor proxies for customers’ true intentions...
Recent storms in the northeastern United States serve as a
reminder and sometimes cautionary tale: If you’ve waited until the eve of “the
storm” to plan and enact a business continuity strategy, you’ve likely waited a
day too long. And it’s not just snowstorms; hurricanes and other natural disasters
and events, can slow or shut down corporate offices and force employees to work ...
There’s no reason data
stored in the cloud can’t be more secure and reliable than data stored
on-premises. To make this happen, consider four key factors: operational
expertise, controlled environments, encryption architectures and redundant infrastructure.
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