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 [...]
When two peers communicate through VPN tunnels using IKE and IPSEC, the connectivity between both peers can unexpectedly be interrupted. Such a situation may arise due to routing problems, the reboot of a host, etc. In these cases, IKE and IPSEC in general do not provide a way of knowing the peer’s connectivity status, so [...]
“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.
No portal is an island—or at least, it shouldn’t be. Unfortunately, while SharePoint is great for sharing documents, it doesn’t integrate easily with the rest of your enterprise, including non-Microsoft applications and data sources. To be truly useful, your portal needs to bring together all your users and connect to all your applications. Whether you’re [...]
The underlying reasons why corporate email archiving is important Over the past few years, email has become an integral part of the business workflow. This white paper explains why email archiving must be an integral part of every organization. It also examines the different methods for deploying and managing email archive solutions in an organization [...]
The words like “information age”, “information technology”, “the one who has the information rules the world” have long since settled in our minds. Everyone knows that information is one of the most precious resources. Does information itself have any value? No, it doesn’t. Information is crucial in decision making. This is important. Right decision is [...]
