Category Archives: Security

re The importance of email uptime

A great insight from Michael Osterman on email uptime. http://www.messagingwire.com/spv-26.aspx

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Social Networking and the Enterprise

A good article from Ferris here stating that enterprises need to consider security and compliance when bringing social networking into the business; Social Networking and the Enterprise. And a reminder my relevant articles are here; http://www.cleartext.com/downloads/IDM_NovDec_08_XMPP.pdf http://www.cleartext.com/downloads/IDM_MayJune_P5.pdf

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A starter on Phorm

I’ve been asked couple of times recently about Phorm, NebuAd and similar technologies, so here’re some links to get you started. The following two transcripts of some Security Now episodes from Steve Gibson of GRC (Steve coined the phrase ‘spyware’) … Continue reading

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ScanSafe Wins CNET Networks Award For Security Product Of The Year 2008

It’s good to see ScanSafe getting this award after the falling out with MessageLabs a few years back … Well done ScanSafe.

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Antivirus sales to slow: Gartner

I tend to ignore Gartner, mainly because they’re always hyping something, often the same thing. Take IM for example, since Cleartext started out with IM in 1999 they’ve been saying there’s high growth in EIM over the horizon. I suppose … Continue reading

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Akonix sells out

Akonix sold out this week which leaves just FaceTime as the only significant independent IM security vendor, not sure if this is good news or bad for the enterprise IM market.

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You really do need your own enterprise IM system

The article linked below should demonstrate a good enough reason to use an enterprise IM platform rather than public IM. Apart from the levels of ‘security’ offered by each public IM network it’s fairly obvious from the embedded chart that … Continue reading

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Mobile spam

200 million cellphone users hit by SMS spam tidal wave in China  Recently reported by Sophos, go here for their story.

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Online Armor

Online Armor gets Firewall of the Year from Computerworld Editor in Chief, Scot Finnie. Go here for the full article on Scot’s blog.

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