AOL, Oracle tackle software safeguards
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Worried about spyware? spam? "spim"? AOL wants to set your mind at rest. Also: Putting patches in place.
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RSA Security and America Online hope to encourage AOL customers to better protect account information. And VeriSign is announcing a new service called Unified Authentication to reduce the cost of using one-time passwords or hardware smart cards.
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com. As password breaking mischief by hackers, phishers, and spoofers continues to grow in the consumer-PC space, AOL, this week, will offer RSA Security Inc.
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A consultant offered advice Tuesday regarding how Oracle customers can get the best deal and protect themselves while licensing software from the enterprise software giant.Oracle&#39;s licensing practices have been maligned as overly confusing and unfair. But Eliot Arlo Colon, president of Miro Consulting, an independent firm in Fords, N.J., didn&#39;t get into specifics about particular policies, instead organizing a webinar around four categories: compliance, discounts, ongoing annual support costs, and terms and conditions.&quot;When I look at e-mail subject lines, these are the things we get hit with,&quot; Colon said.&quot;Compliance is the foundation. Without it, nothing else matters,&quot; he said, adding that it is &quot;not a gray area. Either you&#39;re compliant or you&#39;re not. ... If you consider areas [of use] gray, or your vendor considers areas gray, you should be concerned.&quot;Companies should self-audit their licenses twice a year, and it should be a &quot;thorough review,&quot; not a couple of mass e-mails, he said: &quot;It&#39;s definitely more of a bear than most people would anticipate.&quot;A third party should review the audit, and the company must possess a &quot;stated and defendable&quot; position on gray areas, he added. It is also wise to get assumptions confirmed in writing: &quot;If it&#39;s not stated in your agreement that you have that right, chances are you do not have that right,&quot; he said.Oracle vigorously defends its intellectual property, according to Colon. &quot;You always have to assume an audit is only 30 days away,&quot; he said. &quot;We&#39;ve worked with companies that say &#39;We&#39;re a strategic partner, we&#39;re in the Oracle top 50,&#39; and then they&#39;re audited.&quot;Colon offered a range of advice concerning license cost. While Oracle and other vendors tend to offer better deals at certain times of the year, customers shouldn&#39;t be easily tempted by a low price, he said: &quot;Waiting until a vendor&#39;s end-of-year, end-of-quarter may not be in your best interest if it&#39;s changing your business process. ... Everyone wants to get a good deal, but discount isn&#39;t the whole game. It&#39;s total cost of ownership.&quot;To that end, organizations should take a close look at their existing annual support costs, he said: &quot;You may find that your support is a lot better than you thought, or you might find products that you&#39;re supporting and not using. ... or that Oracle has acquired half the software you&#39;ve got and now it can be supported under one envelope.&quot;In fact, enterprises should review their annual support spending at least twice per year, Colon argued.IT shops should also seek to rework any complex and ambiguous language in license contracts; determine how globalization and consolidation has altered their company&#39;s licensing needs; mull the ramifications of licensing among mobile workers; and ensure they have collected all proofs of purchases for storage in an asset management repository, Colon said. His company advises enterprise-software customers of companies, including Oracle and Microsoft.When renewal time comes, companies should weigh whether it makes more sense to renew the existing pact or formulate a new one, according to Colon. &quot;Businesses are very dynamic. If you have an agreement signed four years ago, chances are it doesn&#39;t work for you today,&quot; he said.Firms must also ensure they and Oracle are working from the same set of terms and conditions, Colon warned: &quot;You want to make sure you&#39;re protected -- believe me, Oracle is going to make sure they&#39;re protected.&quot;
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Third-party software helps companies comply with regulatory requirements and industry standards while managing and consolidating rules so firewalls run more efficiently, customers and experts say.
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America Online (Quote, Chart) is bundling existing security features along with new ones for the Thursday launch of its AOL 9.0 software client, security edition.
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AOL have signed a deal with Internet security company RSA Security Inc. to launch its new AOL PassCode, designed to add an additional layer of protection to member accounts.
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Today, the Authentication and Online Trust Alliance (AOTA) named the top Fortune 500 companies who have demonstrated commitment to online safety by authenticating their email and domains, protecting users from forged email and phishing ploys.
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For some AOL users, passwords have just become the computing dinosaurs. America Online has partnered with RSA Security to create AOL PassCode, a premium service that secures and manages AOL ScreenNames. AOL PassCode utilizes RSA's SecurID two-factor authentication scheme where a random six-digit numeric code is generated in intervals of 60 seconds from a keychain sized device. AOL claims that this added safeguard provides a second level of account protection. The service is primarily directed toward small business and customers who pay bills and manage funds online. PassCode costs an additional $1.95 USD a month with a one-time service fee of $9.95 USD.
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Software giant hopes to convince governments that its products are secure.
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Check Point and McAfee unveil products designed to help companies protect their networks.
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Dubbed AOL 9.0 Security, the latest version of America Online's software will give dial-up and high-speed subscribers free McAfee antivirus software and automatic upgrades. -The Washington Post
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The US government&#39;s Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT) and software security companies have issued warnings about a number of security vulnerabilities in versions of Oracle Corp.
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AOL has added a range of features to ward off computer viruses, intrusive spyware programs and spam to a special edition of its internet access package, AOL 9.0 Security Edition.
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America Online Inc. is releasing a new version of its software today that focuses on increasing online safety and security, which the company hopes will help it hold on to more subscribers.
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Oracle Corp. released security patches this week that plug several vulnerabilities reported last month in its database software and other products.
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America Online Inc. is packaging new features to combat viruses, spam and spyware in response to growing online security threats. Subscribers will be able to get the free tools