Extrusion Protection Heads for the Desktop
February 12, 2007 18:24 PM
Extrusion protection is heading for the desktop. Once defined by gateway appliances that monitored Web, e-mail and IM traffic for sensitive information that might be slipping out of the enterprise, a new crop of products put an agent directly on...
Cisco Gets 2 for 1 with IronPort Acquisition
January 04, 2007 20:54 PM
Cisco Systems tapped into two robust markets???anti-spam and messaging compliance???with today's $830 million acquisition of IronPort....
Beware My +2 Sword of Leadership!
December 19, 2006 19:37 PM
I got a press release today with the following headline: "Genesys Named in Leaders Quadrant of Leading Analyst Firm's Report." The double use of "leader" immediately jumped out at me. The headline implies that being named a leader by a...
Info Leak Prevention for the Mid Market
December 12, 2006 14:07 PM
Code Green Networks is launching an information leak prevention appliance for the mid market. The appliance sits at the boundary of the internal network and monitors e-mail, Web mail, HTTP and FTP traffic for sensitive corporate information....
PC Power Costs -- Should You Care?
November 30, 2006 01:22 AM
Energy costs to power and cool the data center are a top concern for IT these days, but what about all those laptops and desktops in your organization? Does their power consumption matter?...
Bye-Bye Independent Managed Security Providers
October 27, 2006 01:03 AM
BT bought Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP) Counterpane this week for "tens of millions of dollars," according to Chuck Pol, president of BT Americas....
Teaming up for Leak Prevention
October 18, 2006 18:30 PM
Major vendors are partnering with start-ups in the emerging Information Leak Prevention (ILP) market to spice up their products and tap into compliance dollars....
Barracuda Networks Responds
October 03, 2006 15:22 PM
The following post contains the correspondence between Barracuda Networks and Frank Bulk in response to Frank???s blog on Barracuda???s representation of its Spam Firewall e-mail capacity....
Truth vs. 'Truthiness' in Vendor Claims
October 02, 2006 20:33 PM
Veteran IT buyers know that vendor promises about performance or capacity tend to be aspirational rather than factual. But Barracuda, maker of the Network Spam Firewall, has stooped to a new low: eight times lower, that is....
IBM Acquires ISS for MSSP Biz
August 23, 2006 18:07 PM
IBM today announced it will acquire security vendor ISS for approximately $1.3 billion. ISS made its name selling intrusion detection and prevention products, but Big Blue snapped up the company for its managed security services portfolio....
But Will It Match My Tinfoil Hat?
August 17, 2006 15:44 PM
A new line of wallets has metal-infused RF shielding built in to prevent thieves from remotely scanning RFID-embedded credit cards. This is just silly....
Wireless Device Driver Flaws Allow Takeover of PCs, Macs
August 03, 2006 16:14 PM
This week Intel and SANS announced three vulnerabilities for Centrino device drivers on Windows, the worst of which could let the attacker execute code with kernel-level privileges....
Vyatta Launches Open Source Router
July 26, 2006 13:57 PM
Vyatta officially launched its open source routing platform this week. The routing software, called Open Flexible Router (OFR), is available for a free download....
Emerging Enterprise: Strategic IT
June 16, 2006 04:00 AM
IT leaders at most small and midsize companies still don't have much say in business decisions, according to an NWC/InformationWeek survey of more than 400 SMB technology executives. We
Cisco Flirts with Data Security & Microsoft Embraces SSL VPNs
May 24, 2006 17:37 PM
Two interesting developments on the security front last week: Cisco is flirting with the database security business while Microsoft declared its love for SSL-based remote access....
NAC Ideas Worth Hearing
May 04, 2006 22:09 PM
So many vendors were shouting about Network Admission Control (NAC) at this year???s Interop that they nearly drowned out the ???ding-ding??? of the slot machines. That means enterprises investigating NAC first have to tune out high levels of marketing B.S.,...
Cell Phone Malware Growing Fast
May 02, 2006 00:29 AM
The number of cell phone viruses and Trojans has doubled in the past seven months, leaping from 100 to 200 since October of 2005, according to researchers at F-Secure....
Gates? $100 Million Estate a Poor Venue for Piracy Talks
April 19, 2006 23:51 PM
Memo to Bill Gates: I???m not sure that wining and dining an avowed Communist in a $100 million dollar high-tech mansion owned by the world???s richest man makes a strong case for the financial harm caused by software piracy....
Pen Fights ID Theft?
April 14, 2006 21:15 PM
You know identity theft has gone mainstream when pen manufacturer Uni-ball launches an ad campaign touting a high-security ink designed to fight ID fraud....
A Modest Proposal: Kill the Web
March 29, 2006 06:30 AM
It???s time to stop letting users have access to the Web at work. Companies that take this bold (though unpopular) step will reap substantial rewards. Here???s why....
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