Social Enterprise can damage your wealth.

Posted on December 21, 2009 by varidion

Attackers love to tempt people with freebies, security experts say.  “The bait that works best is a popular device,” says Sherri Davidoff, a penetration tester who breaks into corporate networks.  One of her most successful techniques is simple; a fake employee survey.  Victims fill it out thinking they’ll qualify to win an iPod if they [...]

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Confidential Data – Leaving via an IPS near you…

Posted on December 8, 2009 by varidion

One of the biggest information security news items over the past Year is the leaking of confidential or sensitive data by specific applications.  Ironically, the applications that facilitated these breaches were specifically forbidden, but because these programs masquerade as valid applications or hide within SSL encryption, traditional network security and IPS appliances are oblivious to [...]

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File Sharing – Not Just a Geek Problem

Posted on December 5, 2009 by varidion

An alarming trend has been indentified by our Partner, Palo Alto Networks, in their Applications Usage and Risks Report:  browser based file sharing has overtaken the use of client specific Peer 2 Peer applications for the first time.
So what?
Well its simple, if today you detect and remove the use of file-sharing software within your business [...]

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Long Range Forecast: It’s getting Cloudy with Storms.

Posted on November 9, 2009 by varidion

Last week I was discussing the merits of a Cloud based infrastructure with a prospect and he jokingly asked me for a “Long Term Weather Forecast”,  I thought it was a joke but it soon became apparent that some insight into the coming Years would help them choose their wardrobe for the coming seasons.  So [...]

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Customer complaints on Facebook – Who cares? Retailers Must!

Posted on November 3, 2009 by varidion

Today the consumer is more likely to air their grievances on social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and their Blogs before making an actual complaint to the retailer, but only the Web 2.0 savvy retailers are listening.
According to Brand Reputation, over 80% of surveyed consumers are more likely to look for online reviews than [...]

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