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....
With the economy tightening, collaboration is absolutely vital to business growth. The need to grow and innovate in today’s business landscape requires a new approach to connect, communicate and collaborate to increase revenues and reduce costs.
As businesses look to adopt more “litigation friendly” email practices, many are turning their attention from email archiving to disaster recovery. Email archiving has been known to make the thorniest email discovery problems go away. In many organizations, however, there is a gap between email archiving and disaster recovery that can make eDiscovery costly and time consuming.
Ninety-seven percent of all distributed email spam and malware is delivered
by botnets. A botnet is a term that refers to a large group of
malware-compromised computers that are designed to follow malicious commands
from its controller, which may include delivering a spam campaign en masse,
performing Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks or infecting other
computers in order to propagate...
Organizations are struggling to keep up with the constant threats presented through email communications. A recent IDC survey found that 60 percent of organizations reported spam blocking effectiveness of less than 95 percent.
Business dependency on IT systems has never been greater, so when things go wrong the impact can be catastrophic. Messaging systems today are a critical component in business activity. Whether it’s the CEO waiting for information on her BlackBerry as part of an acquisition negotiation, or the thousands of queries that flow through the corporate Web site and are dealt with by email, any glitch in...
The past decade has
witnessed an explosion in both the volume and variety of digital communications
used by consumers. Currently, most of us are wired to email, IM and SMS
messages, and many of us are using Facebook, Twitter, RSS feeds and other
channels to receive info and communicate with others on a constantly increasing
basis. Enterprise technology solutions, however, are still lagging behind...
Messaging is the core of any business. Email and instant messaging are staples in most offices, but, often, they are only two among many applications employees must access daily, each requiring its own unique username and password. All these identities create havoc for employees who have to remember them, as well as fundamental insecurity for the enterprise when employees write down or select...
The Web has come a long way in the last few years. However, many of these advancements have disrupted traditional approaches to Web security. Given the fundamental shifts in the Web, there is a need to revisit how we secure users online today.
The traditional approach to Web security was simply Web filtering—a solution that could control users: preventing them from going to unproductive...