December 2007  









On-Demand Webinar
Single Point of Control for IM, P2P, Spyware and URL Filtering

Your employees – especially the Web 2.0 generation – often introduce consumer-oriented applications onto the corporate network to work more efficiently. When these applications circumvent the security infrastructure, it's difficult for IT to maintain visibility and control. How can your organization take advantage of the productivity and cost benefits of real-time communications while mitigating their inherent business risks?

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SpywareGuide Greynets Blog

Don't miss the Greynets blog - a destination where you can hear from the people who are part of the SpywareGuide and FaceTime Security Labs research teams, as well as developers, programmers and the occasional guest blogger.



  New Resource Provides Unprecedented
Visibility into Greynets

GreynetsGuide is a new comprehensive Web-based reference center that helps enterprise network administrators better understand evasive and consumer-oriented applications like public IM clients, P2P file-sharing, anonymizers, IPTV and consumer VoIP that are increasingly being adopted by employees.

GreynetsGuide.com details the source, behavior and effective removal tools for more than 600 greynet applications of concern to IT managers. FaceTime Security Labs' researchers are identifying and adding new greynets to the database daily. Check out the site at www.GreynetsGuide.com


  Unified Communications:
What it Means to Your Business
As more and more of our communication uses the IP network, it becomes easier to tie all methods of communication together so they can be accessed from one spot. With this efficient integration, your business can be more productive. (Full story...)

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  The Annual Greynets Survey

Every year, FaceTime partners with research firm New Diligence to produce "Greynets in the Enterprise: An Annual Survey of Trends, Attitudes and Impact." For the latest survey, published in October 2007, data was collected from more than 700 employees and IT managers to determine the impact greynet applications are having on their organizations.

This year's survey reveals:

  • 85% of employees use their work PCs for "personal, non-work purposes"


  • 38% of these employees send personal IMs or engage in chat while at work


  • Regardless of company size, 8 in 10 workers surf, shop and chat over the company network


  • IM usage is tracked in less than half of work locations covered by the survey


  • The number of work locations with 8 or more greynet applications in use has almost tripled in the last three years.


    • Click here to get the full report, "Greynets in the Enterprise: 3rd Annual Survey of Trends, Attitudes and Impacts,"


      IT Pros Careless with Web Security
    You'd think that an IT professional would be the last person to participate in risky activity on the Internet, but it turns out that's not the case. Even though IT types should be well versed in the dangers of identity theft, they're more careless with personal data online, especially on social networking sites, according to a new report by FaceTime and Microsoft. (Full story...)


      New Podcast: Hacks on Social Networking Sites
    Security risks continue to plague social networking sites, including a recent spate of MySpace attacks in which the profiles of several celebrities were compromised to, in some cases, spread malware. SC Magazine reporter Dan Kaplan, in a chat with FaceTime Security Labs' researcher Chris Boyd, finds out whether organizations should be worried (Listen now...)


      Bloggers Corner: Skype Worm Preys Upon Good Samaritans
    What's most unusual and disturbing about a new Skype worm is not just the large amount of files it drops, but the message that it causes to be sent. (Full story....)


      Google Expunges Malware Sites from Search Results
    The purge was long overdo, but Google finally removed its index of thousands of malware sites that wormed their way into the results lists for hundreds of legitimate search phrases. (Full story...)


      VoIP on 3G will beat Wi-Fi
    If you think Wi-Fi will save VoIP, think again. While it's true that mobile VoIP is set to grow, it's going to run over the 3G data networks provided by cellular handsets, not Wi-Fi, at least according to a new report. (Full story...)


      MySpace Still Denies Security Holes
    Alicia Keys' MySpace page isn't the only musician profile to be hacked with malware. Some 8,000 band profiles have been hacked in the exact same way, and MySpace is fast gaining the reputation as a "bubbling scum of malware." (Full story...)


      Good CIOs Lead By Following
    Stress is a leading cause of turnover in IT, especially at the service or help desk. It may be part of the reason there are fewer and fewer college graduates seeking a career in IT. (Full story...)


      Wrestling with Workplace Blogging
    Should your company have a corporate blogging policy? This article deals with whether blogging helps or hurts a corporation, and how much control a company should have over unsanctioned blogs written by employees. (Full story...)


      Eleven Questions for a Warez Site Owner
    If you've ever wondered what the owner of a major warez site thinks about software piracy or how much money he ought to make off of helping distribute illegal content, here are your answers. (Full story...)






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