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Featured White Paper: Creating an AUP: Common myths & mistakes

An Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) is the bedrock of any organisation’s management of employee IT use. However, many organisations underestimate the importance of tailoring the AUP to their specific needs or place their business at risk by using outdated or inadequate policies. Click Here

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Latest News

  • MySpace connects with Microsoft Outlook

    Like the LinkedIn social connector, installing the MySpace social connector inserts MySpace as an option for social network integration. MySpace connects with Microsoft Outlook Tony Bradley Social network aims to reinvent itself news
    12 March 2010
    Tags: Social Networking • Friends • Connector • Activity • Account

  • Zeus botnet malware is improving for hackers

    New capabilities are strengthening the Zeus botnet, which criminals use to steal financial credentials and execute unauthorized transactions in online banking, automated clearing house (ACH) networks and payroll systems.The latest version of this…
    12 March 2010
    Tags: Windowsbased • Transactions • Criminal • Botnet • Attackers • Attacker

  • Data centre management remains sloppy, IDC

    IDC found the prime concern was to integrate server, storage, and network management, cited by 31 percent of respondents.However, there are many complexities; for example, larger data centres are more concerned with unifying their physical and…
    12 March 2010
    Tags: Idc • Growth • Directors • Data Centre • Centres • Automation

  • Cisco, Microsoft certification boosts job and pay prospects

    Having the "ability to install, configure, run and troubleshoot medium-sized routed and switched networks" is paying off for CCNAs, who by getting this IT certification also prove they can handle security and wireless technologies as well as a…
    11 March 2010
    Tags: Workers • Skills • Requirement • Professionals • Certified • Certification

  • VMware, Citrix users targetted by virtual PC start-up

    General availability is expected later this year.One beta customer is the Université Rennes 2, a college in France where IT co-director Humberto Duarte says Unidesk "will be very useful for us" because it helps manage desktop tasks such as…
    11 March 2010
    Tags: Startup • Reduces • Deployments • Delivery • Data Center • Brodkin

  • Adobe Reader most attacked application, says F-Secure

    Intel was also attacked in January, but the chip maker has denied any connection between what hit its network and the Google-China attacks.Earlier this week, the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) said that hackers stole more than…
    11 March 2010
    Tags: Pdf • Organizations • Maker • Exploiting • Exploited • Adobe

Latest Features

  • Firefox add-ons that protect your privacy

    For those unfamiliar with Tor, it is a distributed, community run network that provides relative anonymity/privacy to those utilising it. Firefox add-ons that protect your privacy Joseph Guarino Seven top tools for online security Feature
    15 March 2010
    Tags: Remove • Protecting • Privacy • Addons • Addon • Activities

  • Overlooked online threats

    Other attacks may be much simpler, eg guessing the router's password or forcing a denial-of-service attack that knocks the user offline.Other network devices can also be vulnerable. I've been hit with drive-by malware from sites that I visit…
    05 March 2010
    Tags: Race • Mechanisms • Inhouse • Danger • Addons • Ad

  • Fifteen free security and backup programs

    Plus, the software can archive data stored on network drives.Courtesy of Microsoft, SyncToy syncs files between two home network locations, such as a desktop and a laptop, or a flash drive and a network folder.
    03 March 2010

  • Business needs new IT blood

    She started out supporting Windows 7, but she also configured network printers, wiped data from hard drives and servers, diagnosed problems with Microsoft Outlook email and learned about the tape backup and security protocols required for handling…
    02 March 2010
    Tags: Students • Science • Financial Services • Entrylevel • Education • Advance

  • Top five ways for VMware to beat Microsoft

    The company also announced a program two years ago to open its hypervisor to security vendors with a set of APIs making it easier to protect virtual machines, but VMware has not moved fast enough on this front in the eyes of some observers.Some…
    02 March 2010
    Tags: Virtual Machines • Virtual Machine • Management Tools • Forrester Research • Cloud Computing • Apis

  • Security and the rise of corporate espionage

    Even today there are some still blank stares when I suggest to an audience of C-level executives or security professionals that they should all read the front pages of the Financial Times, the Yomiuri Shimbun, etc.as well as the technology news…
    01 March 2010
    Tags: Intellectual Property • Economy • Compromised • Audience • Aspects

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How-Tos

  • How to protect your banking online

    Keeping your network's anti-malware and firewalls updated, particularly in the Finance Department, is Job No.for security pros. Historically low risk, the ACH network has recently expanded to include more participants and new types of non-recurring…
    09 March 2010
    Tags: Victim • Transfers • Transactions • Procedures • Assume • Alerts

  • How to ensure your network security

    But I still consider the infrastructure mature, since we have processes in place for monitoring the network and conducting investigations once we do implement endpoint security technology.Trouble ticketAt issue: The company's intellectual property…
    09 March 2010
    Tags: Usb Ports • Offices • Intellectual Property • Endpoint • Blocking

  • How to stop P2P data breaches

    P2P clients can be buggy and may cause system crashes or other performance problems.The larger issue is that P2P client software is often open source and hosted from the host systems that are part of the P2P network.
    26 February 2010
    Tags: Unauthorised • Sharing • Root • Nature • Folder • Configured

  • How to set up Cisco Flexible NetFlow (with Lego)

    Network performance vendor - Plixer International believes that Cisco's Flexible NetFlow (FNF) is the future of NetFlow technology. Network performance vendor - Plixer International believes that Cisco's Flexible NetFlow (FNF) is the future of…
    25 February 2010
    Tags: Setup • Learn • Flow • Collect • Cache • Blocks

  • Security tips for large and small businesses

    Staff should access these dangerously unpatched servers only via dedicated computers (not the same ones that are used to read e-mail and browse the Internet) on a dedicated "less secure" network.Unless businesses take information security…
    24 February 2010
    Tags: Unpatched • Small Businesses • Enterpriseclass • Clicking • Bob • Active Directory

  • How to alert your contacts if your Twitter account is hacked

    You've been hit by a social network scam on Twitter and don't know how to warn your contacts? So what should you do if you fall victim to a phishing scam turned social network worm? Unfortunately, in the Web world, popularity often leads to…
    23 February 2010
    Tags: Twitter • Sending • Scam • Phishing • Messages • Contacts

Reviews

  • Sony VAIO AW230JH review

    Media applications include InterVideo WinDVD for disc watching, Roxio Easy Media Creator for disc burning, and VAIO Media Plus for organising and playing music, slideshows, and videos (it also lets you stream media stored on other…
    11 March 2010
    Tags: Watching • Speakers • Resolution • Movies • Controls • Bundle

  • Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010 review

    Reflecting its pre-Microsoft heritage, Forefront UAG offers two separate ways of handling endpoint security: a comprehensive and extensive set of policy building blocks based on UAG-specific host checking software, or the option to simply defer…
    08 March 2010
    Tags: Portal • Microsoft Windows • Endpoint • Credentials • Checking • Active Directory

  • Databases for social networks

    They achieve this feat by not wasting time fretting over transactions, instead focusing on precomputing answers.Moreover, certain types of simple queries that might be required of a social network are better suited for the indexing and table…
    18 February 2010
    Tags: Table • Questions • Queries • Nodes • Movie • Friends

  • QNAP TS-239 Pro Turbo review

    Add the TS-239 Pro Turbo to your network: an NAS drive with a ton of features. Our review unit included two populated drives set at a RAID striped configuration and to alter it we had to pull one of the hot-swappable 3.5in drives out.Remote access…
    17 February 2010
    Tags: Scan • Raid • Professionals • Highend • Folders • Expansion

  • ZyXEL NWA-3166 review

    Building and maintaining a wireless network isn't difficult when all of your employees fit around a single access point. It's aimed at small businesses that want to expand a wireless network while minimising the growing pains and eliminating the…
    17 February 2010
    Tags: Profiles • Hybrid • Dedicated • Controller • Aps • Access Points

  • Synology DS1010+ review

    It'll run scheduled backups to an optional USB hard drive, or over the network to another Synology device or any rsync host, and it has built-in email and SMS event notifications. For home it's a great way to centralise media file storage, using…
    15 February 2010
    Tags: Streaming • Gui • Gigabit Ethernet • Expansion • Backups • Arrays

White Papers

  • Phishing for victims: Truth, myth and cybercrime

    Phishing for victims: Truth, myth and cybercrime MessageLabs Protect your data and network from constantly evolving phishing attacks whitepaper Examining the phenomenon of phishing. This white paper explains the potentially catastrophic threat it…
    25 January 2010
    Tags: Term • Activity • Threat • Account • Victims • Phishing

  • VPN Technologies: IPsec vs SSL VPNs

    One of the most efficient and cost-effective methods for fulfilling remote access requirements at many organisations is a Secure VPN, which to ensure security sends encrypted traffic over a public network such as the Internet.
    07 December 2009
    Tags: Remote Access • Ssl • Complexity • Vpn • Benefits • Costeffective

  • Security inside out

    This paper argues that managing security risks in todays environment requires an enterprise security framework, one that extends beyond traditional network perimeter measures to protect applications, middleware, and data infrastructures.
    30 November 2009
    Tags: Compliance • Board • Cio • Ensuring • Argues • Addressing

  • Security, performance, and energy efficiency converge

    The solutions that manage user identities across network resources provide vital services to every IT infrastructure. Security, performance, and energy efficiency converge Intel Why modern data centres thrive on scalable performance and energy…
    26 November 2009
    Tags: Robust • Efficiency • Optimised • Data Centres • Highquality

  • Make internet risks and perils disappear

    Network administrators spend inordinate amounts of time deleting persistent malware, advising victimized users, restoring corrupted data files and otherwise cleaning up messes. Make internet risks and perils disappear Network Testing Labs Realise…
    30 October 2009
    Tags: Amounts • Bank • Administrators • Account • Dangerous • Benefits

  • Oracle platform security services 11gR1

    However, application security has become more crucial because applications are more vulnerable to security breaches than the network they rely on. Application development has become more complex and increasingly costly Web-based applications have…
    13 October 2009
    Tags: Firewalls • Breaches • Detection • Intrusion • Mechanisms • Oracle

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