In this slidecast, Rainer Enders from NCP Engineering presents: Debunking the Myths of SSL VPN Security.
The NCP Secure Enterprise Solution provides a set of software products that enable complete policy freedom, unlimited scaling, multiple VPN-system setup and control, and total end-to-end security. Practically speaking, one administrator is able to handle 10,000+ secure remote users through all phases.”
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Over at InfoWorld, David Linthicum writes that in order for enterprises to make the transition to a private cloud they must use the proper technologies to truly take advantage of the move.
What’s missing is the deep planning needed to understand the requirements of the applications and data that will reside on a cloud, public or private. Moreover, we aren’t keeping an open mind when looking at the right platform for the job — again, whether public or private.
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At PRWeek, Brittaney Kiefer reports that NASDAQ OMX has launched WorkSpace to solidify the company’s handling of sensitive data in real-time.
Launched on Monday, WorkSpace is part of NASDAQ OMX’s corporate solutions group. The virtual data room allows users to protect sensitive and proprietary information online, update it in real-time, and collaborate with colleagues on issues such as mergers and acquisitions, IPO preparation, bankruptcies and restructurings, auditing, reporting, market research, and fundraising. WorkSpace also offers an iPad app to give users mobile access to the platform.
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In this slidecast, Brian Christian from Zettaset presents: Examining Hadoop as a Big Data Risk in the Enterprise.
While the open source framework has enabled Hadoop to logically grow and expand, business and government enterprise organizations face deployment and management challenges with Hadoop. Hadoop’s core specifications are still being developed by the Apache community, and thus far, do not adequately address enterprise requirements, such as support for robust security and regulatory compliance mandates such as HIPAA and SOX, for example.”
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In this video, Dan Kaplan, executive editor of SC Magazine, sits with CloudFlare co-founder and CEO Matthew Prince to discuss the impact that the company has on security, and how it both protects hackers, and defends against them. And sometimes, CloudFlare itself becomes the target.
CloudFlare protects and accelerates any website online. Once your website is a part of the CloudFlare community, its web traffic is routed through our intelligent global network. We automatically optimize the delivery of your web pages so your visitors get the fastest page load times and best performance. We also block threats and limit abusive bots and crawlers from wasting your bandwidth and server resources. The result: CloudFlare-powered websites see a significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks.
Here at inside-Cloud, we’ve been using Cloudflare for a few months now, and we love their how their analytics give us the real traffic numbers we’ve been needing for our business.
In this video, Intel’s James Greene discusses usage models around trusted compute pools, secure on-boarding of virtual machines to a cloud environment, and auditing of the security posture in your cloud environment that are enabled with a hardware root of trust and Intel Trusted Execution Technology.
In this video from INFOSEC 2012, Adam Ghetti from Social Fortress discusses data security in the cloud. He covers why the current cloud data security model is broken, how to take full advantage of the cloud, future trends, and simple-to-use solutions for complex security problems.
Whether you are on Exchange, Notes, MailEnable, SendMail, or any of the other email applications on the market today, adding hosted spam filtering is a quick and easy way to get some immediate relief from spam, save money, time and resources, and to provide additional services to your users. Here are five benefits of hosted spam filtering you can take advantage of:
Hosted spam filtering is extremely effective at identifying and filtering out all the various spam, phishing, and malware messages that come your way on a daily basis. By filtering so much email, hosted spam filtering providers are able to quickly identify and react to the newest threats, whether they are a botnet launched spam campaign, the result of the newest malware, or just the latest email from that respected barrister with the dead businessman’s accounts to share.
Just how much email is spam varies from one survey to the next, but one thing consistent across them all is that spam wastes bandwidth and disk space. Hosted spam filtering takes both those loads off your systems. The junk is blocked before it ever hits your border, so you save on Internet bandwidth, and you don’t waste disk space on quarantined mail.
One reason admins hate spam filtering almost as much as they hate spam is because someone always wants to know if that urgent email got “blocked by the firewall”. Hosted spam filtering can include a user self-service website and/or daily report, so users can review a summary of any quarantined messages, or go look for themselves to release any false positives. They get faster results, and you don’t have to chase down missing emails.
Some hosted spam filtering providers offer email archiving as an additional service, so you can establish an archive for compliance and redundancy without having to invest in new servers and disk space. That same archive can serve as a redundant store of email. Hosted spam filtering providers have multiple circuits for redundancy too, so your users can get to email even if you have an outage on your Internet connection.
Hosted spam filtering is an extremely cost-effective solution for fighting spam. Services are typically based on a per user cost and a monthly subscription. You don’t have to buy servers or appliances; there’s no licensing or software assurance. You just pay a low monthly fee per user, so your costs are predictable, easy to allocate, and are only based on what you need. There’s no need to buy extra capacity for future growth, or try to expand a system that is overtaxed. And since it’s a subscription, you can classify it as an operational expense, which should make your accounting department and/or your CIO happy too.
Testing out hosted spam filtering can be as simple as signing up for a free trial, and adding an MX record to your DNS. You’ll start seeing improvements in your spam filtering, and lower bandwidth utilization, as soon as your TTLs expire.
This guest post was provided by Casper Manes on behalf of GFI Software Ltd. GFI is a leading software developer that provides a single source for network administrators to address their network security, content security and messaging needs. Learn more about the benefits of using hosted spam filtering.
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Hosted anti-spam is a great alternative to traditional anti-spam software; this article outlines 10 advantages that come with this solution.
Updating filters, taking user reports, digging through the quarantine folder for the alleged false positive – this is just some of the fun email admins experience daily when dealing with spam. Fortunately, there’s a solution to this – hosted anti-spam. Hosted anti-spam offers many benefits to small to medium sized businesses, moving much of the grunt work associated with spam to a managed service provider. Here are ten advantages that come with this solution:
Hosted anti-spam filtering solutions use multiple Internet connections to minimize the chance of service interruption. If your Internet connection goes down, your service provider can queue up messages, ensuring delivery as soon as your connection is restored.
Hosted anti-spam solutions work hand in hand with anti-malware solutions, protecting inboxes from infected attachments and phishing attacks.
Some estimates place the volume of email that is considered spam as high as 90%. Hosted anti-spam solutions filter all that noise out before it hits your pipe, saving you on bandwidth costs.
Of course the primary reason to use hosted anti-spam is to filter inbound mail, shielding your users from spam and conserving disk space on your servers. Hosted anti-spam solutions can identify and block new spam messages much more effectively than an on-premise solution, providing better protection to your users.
The worst thing a user can do to your corporate email system is to send messages that are interpreted by others as spam. It can take days to get yourself off a spam black-list, and until you do, business communications are compromised. Hosted anti-spam filtering checks your outbound email too, ensuring you don’t suffer from a user’s mistake.
One of the best features of hosted anti-spam solutions is that it serves as a back-up to your email systems. When you need to take the email server down for maintenance, hosted anti-spam solutions can continue to accept email and provide users with access through a simple web browser.
Some of the best hosted anti-spam providers can also offer email archiving, to assist with storage issues as well as compliance.
With hosted anti-spam solutions, you can provide users with their own quarantine folders, enabling them to “self-service” requests to check for blocked or missing email messages. Rather than one catch all mailbox that you must review, users can take care of themselves.
Along with that, hosted anti-spam solutions can deliver individual reports to each user detailing blocked messages. They can then choose to release them or delete them, removing this task from your workload.
With global companies, sometimes deploying solutions that support local languages can be very challenging, especially when IT is all based in one country. Multi-language support lets you extend your hosted anti-spam solution to other countries, without needing to deploy language packs or hire an interpreter.
With hosted anti-spam doing the heavy lifting, protecting your inboxes, and conserving bandwidth, you’ve eliminated most of the problems associated with spam. The self service features hosted anti-spam solutions offer empower your users to take care of themselves, leaving you to more important work.
This guest post was provided by Casper Manes on behalf of GFI Software Ltd. GFI is a leading software developer that provides a single source for network administrators to address their network security, content security and messaging needs. Learn more about the benefits of using hosted anti-spam.
All product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.
In this slidecast, Adam Stern from Infinitely Virtual presents an overview of the company’s hosted virtual dedicated server and cloud computing technologies.
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