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.
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 [...]
The numbers of employees using some form of mobile technology while working has soared. The benefits to the organisation are well documented; employees are more contactable, will probably extend their working days and should be more productive. However, this is not a one way street; employees are avid consumers of all things mobile, as much [...]
Since its inception ten years ago, NETASQ has been recognized as one of the leading European network security providers with more than 45,000 appliances sold to date. NETASQ works from a basic premise: no matter the size of an enterprise, the risk of attacks is exactly the same. NETASQ aspires therefore to provide the same [...]
“NETASQ MFILTRO has one of the highest spam catch rates on the market today, with zero false positives during our tests” – DataNews 7 Sept 2007 The biggest demand of the market for an anti-spam solution is efficiency and simplicity. This whitepaper explains in more detail how the different technologies are used in NETASQ MFILTRO.
The world of IT and security is changing. We’re moving from highly centralized infrastructures to a more federated approach, where relationships are loosely coupled, identities are scattered across systems, and we all live and work in the cloud. But such a move has exposed weaknesses in our IT systems—and prevented us from taking full advantage [...]
WIN Enterprises manufactures embedded board- and appliance-level computers for use in OEM solution-level products. Offering a wide range of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) designs that can be modified when ordered in OEM quantities, WIN delivers a range of services spanning design through to drop-shipping of tested products to end-users. This paper covers the products WIN offers [...]
We are pleased to present the 2010 Human Factor in Laptop Encryption Study: United Kingdom sponsored by Absolute Software and conducted by Ponemon Institute. First published in December 2008, this study seeks to extend our understanding of employees’ perceptions about ensuring that information assets entrusted to their care are effectively managed in encryption environments, especially [...]
Software flaws that compromise the security of the system are often referred to as vulnerabilities. As the complexity and source code for modern operating systems has grown dramatically so has the number of vulnerabilities in the OS. The CERT Coordination Centre estimates that software vulnerabilities have grown in number from 171 in 1995 to 8,064 [...]
