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| Passwords Are Past Their Sell By Date? |
August 18th, 2010
Stephen Howes, CEO of GrIDsure, the innovative alternative to passwords and PINs, comments on the latest research from Richard Boyd at the Georgia Tech Research Institute highlighting the weaknesses of passwords:
“The report from the Georgia Tech Research Institute correctly confirms that passwords are past their sell-by-date. However, I find it bewildering that the Institute is recommending passwords should become longer and more complicated. This goes against every other trend that I have come across in my business and personal life towards making things more convenient and less complicated. Who is seriously going to remember the recommended 12 character strong password consisting of letters, numbers and symbols? It’s a recipe for frustration and you can guarantee that users will either forget these passwords or, more likely, just write them …
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| Facebook Nets Over One Billion Hits from People at Work |
August 15th, 2010
Accessing and downloading content from Facebook and YouTube while at work still accounts for more corporate web activity and bandwidth usage than from any other sites, according to new figures from managed security company, Network Box.
Just over seven per cent of all hits from business networks are to Facebook, with Google the second most popular at four per cent. In the dataset used, Facebook clocked up 98 million more hits (totalling 1,008,046,041) in the second quarter of 2010 than it did in the first (which saw 909.710,076 hits), a rise of 10.8% in the quarter.
YouTube, while nowhere near Facebook or Google in terms of hits from corporate networks, has had a 10% increase in terms of the number of hits in quarter two compared to the first quarter of this …
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| New Email Archiving Service ‘In the Cloud’ |
August 11th, 2010
A new email archiving service has been launched today by managed security company, Network Box. The service, based on Webroot’s® Emailing Archiving Service, is fully managed and web-based, and provides unlimited email storage as well as the ability to search and retrieve emails quickly.
Providing email archiving ‘in the cloud’ makes the cost of an archiving solution much more practical and affordable than providing it on site; it reduces the need for (and cost of) unlimited file storage, and there are no upfront licensing or hardware costs.
The Webroot system from Network Box – which integrates with Microsoft Outlook – works by capturing email messages when they are sent or received, and transferring them securely to the Webroot Email Archiving Service (using either TLS or SSL encryption, depending on the customer’s requirements). …
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| Cloud Services Shouldn’t Altogether Replace Onsite Security |
August 07th, 2010
Cloud services have an important part to play in security management, but the issue facing companies is knowing where they fit and where they don’t. A new guide from managed security company, Network Box, investigates what should be done where.
In A Guide to Cloud Security, Network Box – which itself offers cloud security solutions and services – advises companies on which services are best done in the cloud but recommends against neglecting those security services that can’t be delivered remotely, such as firewall, intrusion detection and prevention, and device security.
The guide, which is free to download from Network Box’s website, lists what security services can be provided in the cloud, and what should be kept on site:
Effective cloud security services Areas that can be effectively delivered …
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| Network Box urges UK Government to Focus on Cybercrime as Britain Climbs the Virus Charts |
August 04th, 2010
June saw the UK become the fourth largest producer of spam in the world, and it is now also the fourth largest producer of viruses, according to July threat statistics from managed security company, Network Box.
The number one virus producer remains the US, which has increased production by around one per cent (to 14.6 per cent). But India’s slight increase in production (from 9.2 to 9.5 per cent) was enough to move it to number two in the charts and see Korea drop to third place, with a decline in production of more than three per cent.
The UK has moved from sixth to fourth place in the virus charts – it now produces five per cent of the world’s viruses – the result of an increase of two per cent …
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