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	5 Windows 7 security features businesses need to know about The words Windows and security have not always been compatible. In the past, Microsoft's quest to make its operating system as easy to manage as possible for the "typical" user has often meant sacrificing adequate safeguards against intrusion and infection. Windows XP's notorious vulnerability to network worms stands as a recent example; Microsoft shipped the operating system with a firewall but initially left it turned off by default. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Learn the 3 Best Practices for Securing E-mail Any IT manager will tell you it's critical to protect data. With information flowing freely today via mobile devices, collaboration technologies and unified communications, it isn't easy. Learn data leak prevention (DLP) triage and the steps to protect proprietary data in e-mail, while also complying with government and industry regulations. Read now! In this Issue 7 Steps to Stronger Enterprise iPhone Security Who really sets global cybersecurity standards? Saudi Arabia to ban BlackBerry service on Friday InfoWorld review: Meeting the network security and compliance challenge Log management review: Splunk 4 Microsoft sticks to plan, denies emergency patch for XP SP2 Police bust e-crime gang for online bank thefts Hackers demontsrate how attack can identify user's location Facebook logins freely available on Net, researcher finds Juniper's Mobile Device Security Gamble WHITE PAPER: MessageLabs The Wild, Wild Web: How to Ensure 360-Degree Border Security Managing the security and availability of Web, email, and IM is complex. This paper will discuss the modern threat of blended attacks from web, email and IM. and highlight how a comprehensive hosted solution by Symantec Hosted Services can secure your networks from these threat vectors. Read Now 7 Steps to Stronger Enterprise iPhone Security Which pieces of iPhone security advice should CIOs take to heart, and which should they ignore? Here are seven practices to insist on and three to ignore, according to Forrester Research. Read More Who really sets global cybersecurity standards? Herding wild cats may be easier than settling issues or making over-arching decisions that affect international cybersecurity. Read More Saudi Arabia to ban BlackBerry service on Friday Saudi Arabia has ordered the suspension of Research in Motion's BlackBerry service as of Friday, as it does not meet current regulations, according to the country's telecommunications regulator. Read More WHITE PAPER: MessageLabs Employee Web Use and Misuse: This white paper examines a Web security solution that gives companies the ability to monitor and enforce their Internet usage policies, bringing site monitoring and URL filtering together while insuring security with anti-virus and anti-spyware protection. Read Now InfoWorld review: Meeting the network security and compliance challenge ArcSight, LogRhythm, and NitroSecurity lead a strong field in mining event log data for security alerting, compliance auditing, and countless other uses Read More Log management review: Splunk 4 Splunk doesn't have all the features of the top competitors, but pairs good value with an active development community Read More Microsoft sticks to plan, denies emergency patch for XP SP2 Although some had hoped that Microsoft would violate its own patching policy, the company yesterday stuck to its guns and declined to provide a fix for a critical bug to users running Windows XP Service Pack 2. Read More WHITE PAPER: MessageLabs Top Ten Web Threats and how to eliminat This paper raises real challenges for IT managers who have to protect the business against malware, keep internet bandwidth available for legitimate business needs and enforce acceptable use policies for the human resource department. Read Now. Police bust e-crime gang for online bank thefts UK and Irish police have today swooped on an international e-crime gang accused of attempting to steal money from up to 20,000 online bank accounts and credit cards in the UK. Read More Hackers demontsrate how attack can identify user's location A new online attack can identify exactly where a web user is surfing the net from. Read More Facebook logins freely available on Net, researcher finds Far from having to force hack Facebook passwords in the style of last week's harvesting exercise by Canadian researcher Ron Bowes, it turns out that thousands are already freely available on the Internet. Read More Juniper's Mobile Device Security Gamble Cisco Systems has purchased dozens of companies in its history so most deals receive relatively little attention. There are exceptions however. When Cisco acquired companies like Scientific-Atlanta (2005), WebEx Communications (2007), and Jabber, Inc. (2008), it signaled a change. Cisco was broadening its strategic focus and viewing the network as a platform rather than a series of boxes. To this... Read More
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