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FACETIME WINS SC MAGAZINE READER TRUST AWARD FOR BEST IM SECURITY
FaceTime Enterprise EditionTM was named Best IM Security solution in SC Magazine's Reader Trust Technology Awards. The prestigious award recognizes the product's position in the eyes of both information security professionals and SC Magazine's judges.
"This clear endorsement by customers, IT professionals and the end-user community validates our commitment to providing best-of-breed security for instant messaging," said Frank Cabri,
VP of Marketing at FaceTime.
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FACETIME SECURITY LABS LEADS PANEL ATANTI-SPYWARE COALITION WORKSHOP The Anti-Spyware Coalition hosted it's successful first Public Workshop on February 9th, 2006. The public were able to meet face-to-face with the members of the Coalition, and many prominent members of the community, from anti-spyware vendors, advertising companies, and academia, spoke on panels dealing with many diverse issues. Click here for the workshop's agenda and to watch video replays of of the sessions.
SETTING A SECURITY AGENDA FOR GROWTH
Your business continues to expand, and you are responsible for adding new offices, employees, and applications to an already overstretched network infrastructure. Somehow, you need to manage growth while maintaining a robust security posture. Discover how by joining the Check Point Security Tour and learn about the best protection from new threats - 
key to positioning your company for unlimited growth.
Click here for a complete list of tour cities and dates.
GOOGLE TAKES AIM AT CHAT RIVALS
Announced a few weeks ago, Google has integrated its popular Gmail with its new IM feature, allowing users to chat and send e-mails from the same web browser window. Analysts suggested the move is designed to steer Gmail users towards the company's six-month-old Google Talk service. However, according to Neilson/Netratings, Google lags well behind other IM services with only 866 thousand subscribers compared to AOL's 53 million. (Full story...)
IT MARKETING SMARTS
CIOs have entered the marketing game today, seeking to increase customer loyalty and secure funding. In addition to annual reports, brochures and newsletters, CIOs have marketed IT by showcasing IT awards, publicizing service-level metrics, branding projects, conducting town hall user meetings, publishing a catalog of services and reviewing business unit performance. (Full story...)
2005 SALARY SURVEY SAYS: IT PAYS TO BE A SECURITY PRO
For those of us who work in IT and consider ourselves security pros, our financial future looks great. Pay is good and getting better, especially if our job title includes the words "chief" or "director." The median income for U.S. information security professionals, including salary and bonuses, is $81,558 a year. (Full story...)
iPODS SLIP THROUGH GAPING SECURITY HOLES
Portable storage devices like iPods could pose a security threat to companies. Andy Burton, founder of Centennial, said, "The good news is that if 13% of people believe they have blocks in place then that's a lot higher than the industry feel," though he added that those blocks may owe little to security fears but rather concerns about productivity. (Full story...)
ONLINE FRAUD FUELED BY PHISHING KITS
Despite numerous efforts to stop phishing -- including industry partnerships and development of stronger antiphishing tools -- it appears that phishing attacks continue to be on the rise, said Dave Jevans, chairman of the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG). (Full story...) 
BRADY BUNCH AND ADWARE
Remember the Bradys from the 1970s sitcom? They were the model family. Saccharine to the point of nausea and perhaps lucky for them they didn't own a family computer. Read on to take a walk down memory lane and imagine what could have happened if the Bradys did have a family PC... (Full story...)
ADWARE FIRM ADMITS ERROR, APOLOGIZES
Controversial adware marketer 180solutions admitted that it was unable to identify the rouge affiliate that was installing its Zango software illegally. Smith also blamed the breakdown on his company's detection and reporting mechanisms, not the S3 technology. "Our software was certainly hacked, [buy] no amount of software development will ever make any software completely bulletproof," said Smith. (Full story...)
WORKAHOLIC BOSSES RISK BURN OUT WITH 100 HOUR WEEKS
What ever happened to the 40-hour work week? According to new research, professionals pose risks to their health by putting in up to 100 hours per week at the office. (Full story...)
ANALYZING AN EMPLOYEE'S PC USE WITHOUT HIS OR HER KNOWLEDGE
What do you do when your department supervisor asks you to find out what activity has been completed on an employee's computer? "The short answer is: Very carefully," answers Ron Nutter of Network World. (Full story...)
IT PROS REVIEW OF THE MOVIE 'FIREWALL'
Did you see Harrison Ford's latest thriller, Firewall? CSO Magazine sent 4 security experts to review the movie on its technical authenticity. What did they find? In the word of one reviewer, "…let's assume for a moment that it was the modem card he pulled out of the fax machine, that he was able to cobble together with his daughter's iPod and some cabling, then plug into the network down in a server room, and have it instantly recognized and talking on the network. Yeah, that'd happen!" (Full story...) |
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