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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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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Posted on November 12, 2009 by varidion
There are lots of papers, blogs and videos amplifying the challenge of the coming wave of Generation Y people, but I thought the video below communicates this better than most. For those that don’t know, the Y Generation, or those born between the years 1982 and 2001, have been dubbed the “Net Generation” and have [...]
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