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New FaceTime Blog Launches Today Today FaceTime launches its new blog, designed to facilitate the exchange of views and opinions about the changing nature of Internet communications. FaceForward, the FaceTime blog, promises to bring important discussions about security, management and compliance for the new, real-time Internet into an open collaborative environment. Please stop by blog.FaceTime.com to read FaceTime President and CEO Kailash Ambwani's welcome post, leave a comment, ask a question or suggest a topic to explore. 
Special Offer for SurfControl and Websense Customers! As you may know, Internet communications have evolved from simple Web browsing to real-time communications including Skype, instant messaging, P2P file sharing and Unified Communications. Gartner recommends IT managers look at broader secure web gateway solutions that integrate application control and anti-malware in addition to URL filtering. FaceTime's Unified Security Gateway provides a comprehensive solution. FaceTime is currently offering special pricing to SurfControl and Websense customers. Learn more and request a quote today!
FaceTime Now Scans Skype's Encrypted IM Skype just got a little more secure, thanks to FaceTime. Since Skype is encrypted using a proprietary method, it's impossible for traditional security products to view the content of a Skype text conversation. FaceTime is the only security vendor that can examine the content of an instant message as it enters the network, keeping malware and other malicious content at bay. (Full story...) 
Easy Does It: Infection Files For AllIt's too easy for malicious content creators to script horrible infection files. New software helps these cons with slick infection creation tools, complete with an anti-virus kill list. (Full story...)
Hooked on social networksAh, the world of social networking. Like the real world, social networking is clearly a mixed bag. After long resisting it, Troy Wolverton of the Mercury News finally took the plunge about 18 months ago. Wolverton is now hooked on social networking. Are you? (Full story...)
Social Networking at the OfficeSites like Facebook and MySpace can be used to help employees of larger companies get to know each other, but it's not always the best idea to request employees sign up for these personal social networks. Instead, social networking software that can be controlled with a firewall may be your company's best option. (Full story...)
Facebook Adds Privacy Controls, Plans Chat FeatureIf you don't want your co-workers to see your activity on Facebook but still want to keep them as a contact on the social networking site, you're in luck. The Palo Alto-based network recently announced that it's rolling out more privacy controls that will let users "preserve social distinctions" between different groups of friends and acquaintances. (Full story...)
The Never-Ending Struggle for Malware ContainmentWhen it comes to the war on IT security, you secure one battle line and a breach occurs on another. Since malware developers never rest, security-minded institutions have to be proactive in fighting new threats. (Full story...)
US Businesses Lag in Securing VoIPAs VoIP grows in popularity, US businesses are still behind in VoIP security. While over 80 percent of respondents in a Research and Markets survey had deployed some type of VoIP solutions in 2007, over 40 percent of the respondents did not have a specific plan for spending the VoIP security budgets that most of them had in place. (Full story...)
E-discovery management: How IT Should Interact with the Legal Team
Two fundamental questions need to be asked when IT and information security work with your company's legal team: "What data should be saved?" and "What needs to be preserved?" (Full story....)
UK Firms Report Jump in Spend on E-Discovery SystemsIn the UK, corporate attitudes and spending on the management of electronically stored information (ESI) for legal and regulatory matters are changing. There was an increase in the use of e-discovery systems in 2007 by UK companies, growing from 8% in 2006 to 71% in 2007 according to a recent study. (Full story...)
Yet Another UC Tool Hits the EnterpriseTexas-based NEC Unified Solutions is rolling out several unified communications tools for its month-old UNIVERGE360 platform. The product rollout is the latest in a growing list of vendors pushing out new unified communications tools. (Full story...)
IBM to Pump $1B into UCC Over 3 YearsIn a $1 billion bet, IBM has put its money on unified communications. Big Blue recently unveiled new Lotus Sametime Advanced software and pledged to invest the funds to acquire and develop new UC services. The Sametime software hits the market March 28. (Full story...)
Hackers Now Targeting Apple Products More FrequentlyApple products may not face the number of malicious threats that have plagued Microsoft Windows for years, but with the rising popularity of Apple products, including the Macbook series and the iPhone, hackers are targeting the once-immune brand more frequently. (Full story...) 
Apple a Malware Distributor?According to Motley Fool, Mozilla CEO John Lilly accused Apple of being a miscreant when it offers the Safari browser to those who are updating iTunes and QuickTime on Windows. (Full story...) |
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