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Global Warming Email Hack Reveals Value of Routine Correspondence
Several solution providers and security vendors have told me of late that the biggest stumbling block in selling protection technology to SMBs is their perception that they have nothing to protect. Perhaps that’s true since the value of the information is in the eyes of the owner, and many don’t consider email to be necessarily…
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Understanding the State of Endpoint Security
Understanding the State of Endpoint Security What You Need to Know About the State of Endpoint SecurityBy Ericka Chickowski No Title The Ponemon Institute recently conducted a study on behalf of Lumension to take the pulse of decision makers from both IT security and IT operations groups about endpoint management and security. Unsurprisingly, Ponemon found…
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Seven Tips for Scalable Security Training
One of the biggest ways channel partners can add value to their IT security implementations is to complement technology and consulting with a mature portfolio of security training offerings. As the famous hacker Kevin Mitnick will attest, people are every organization’s weakest link when it comes to keeping systems and data locked down. But what…
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AVG Finds Scareware that Downloads Porn
Rogue software and Trojans have perfected the art of appearing like a legitimate antivirus applications and tricking users into paying for cleaning up there system. As computer users become more aware of this threat, the scareware purveyors are turning to a new trick: porn. Roger Thompson, the chief scientist at AVG, has found new scareware…
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80% of Security Products Fail to Meet Expectations
Bulletproof security is a practical impossibility. Anyone who claims to have perfected the art of security is either a fool or a liar, since no security product or schema is foolproof or invincible. What security promises is risk mitigation; assuming that security technology works as advertised. And that’s the unspoken problem that undermines security effectiveness,…
