Frost & Sullivan is in its 50th year in business with a global research organization of 1,800analysts and consultants who monitor more than 300 industries and 250,000 companies. The company’s research philosophy originates with the CEO’s 360 Degree Perspective™, which serves as the foundation of its TEAM Research™ methodology. This unique approach enables us to [...]

USB flash drives, or memory sticks as they are sometimes referred to, are immensely popular with information workers as a portable storage device. USB flash drives have consistently followed the general IT hardware trend of increasing the size, improving the speed and constantly reducing the price of each unit. For example, a 4GB SanDisk flash [...]

Protecting intellectual property and sensitive information is a top security concern for any organization today. Co-workers need to share documents and files with colleagues, customers and partners on a daily basis, and frequently those items contain confidential information. The issue for IT is that “we want to give easy collaborative access, but we also need [...]

Microsoft SharePoint is a collection of products and software elements that include a web browser for collaborative functions, process management modules and a document management platform. The bottom line for management is that SharePoint empowers users to manage content effectively, improving workflow processes and helping people to make better and faster business decisions. The issue [...]

In this paper, Cryptzone has set out to illustrate why there is a growing interest in Security as a Service within hosted environments among SaaS distributors, resellers and customers, how the value chain of SaaS actors benefit from Cryptzone’s solutions for Data Leak Prevention and information security and how the business model works. This paper [...]

What is Outbound Content Compliance? Outbound Content Compliance (also outbound content security or OCC) is a new segment of the computer security field, which aims to detect outbound content that violates the security policy of the organization and/or government regulations and prevent it leaving the organization. OCC deals with internal threats, either malicious or accidental, [...]

The number of vulnerabilities in the Top-50 most popular programs typically installed on end-user PCs is increasing at an alarming rate. This trend is primarily driven by the increase in vulnerabilities discovered in 3rd party programs (non-Microsoft), which have exceeded Microsoft as the criminal’s preferred target.

In this paper, we examine the software portfolio of the average user based on empirical data from over two million users frequently scanning their systems with Secunias Personal Software Inspector (PSI). Our analysis demonstrates, that the complexity and frequency of the actions required to keep a typical end-user system secure, most likely exceeds what users [...]

For years the software industry has promoted reduced privileges for user accounts as a key security best practice to prevent misuse and successful exploitation of end-point systems. There are two main rationales/assumptions that back up this strategy: A) malware requires administrative access to successfully exploit and compromise a system, and B) users without administrative access [...]

Video conferencing has had many false dawns, but perhaps something is changing. Some of the technology perceptions that have affected its adoption for a long time still persist. There are concerns about interoperability between different vendors‟ products, the quality of the sound and video, the communications costs and impact on network bandwidth. Most of these [...]