CA to Beta Test SMB Protection Suites
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CA is seeking beta testers for the third generation of its Protection Suites lineup for small to medium-sized businesses. The products include antivirus, anti-spyware, backup and migration technology, with the new release adding desktop anti-spam and firewall options.
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Multiple Microsoft sources have confirmed that the first beta test editions of Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista were distributed to a select group of about 12,000 testers today. BetaNews learned these are indeed exclusive invitees, not merely a subset of the company's MSDN or TechNet subscriber base.
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Check Point and McAfee unveil products designed to help companies protect their networks.
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BEVERLY, Mass., Feb. 16  /PRNewswire/ -- If you are in charge of testing an IMS network, service or product, you have a lot to worry about.
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Microsoft is now seeking beta testers for its Windows Home Server software, which was unveiled last month at the Consumer Electronics Show and is set to ship before September.
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On a computer that is running Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2), programs that connect to IP addresses that are in the loopback address range may not work as you expect.
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Workshare announced an updated version of its content-protection suite Monday, adding a network-monitoring appliance to augment the company's standalone desktop-monitoring software.The network-based Protect Network appliance, which monitors outbound network Web, instant messaging, FTP, and mail channels, sits at either the network egress point or in front of critical data repositories. It is designed to prevent unauthorized transmission of content.It works in conjunction with other pieces of the company's Content Protection Group suite, including endpoint-security software, Workshare Protect 6, which monitors for unauthorized content use on the desktop. The Workshare Management System is a centralized policy and management server used to establish content-security policy through Workshare's pattern-matching technology."It analyzes what the content is, including whether encryption should be applied, and prompts the user or stops some kinds of transactions," says Marty Jost, senior director of product marketing. "Workshare will also detect hidden fields in spreadsheets, which users may include by mistake."Workshare makes use of a fingerprinting technology to protect unstructured data through automatic or manual blacklisting and whitelisting and can automatically crawl Microsoft file shares. When Workshare detects potential policy violations, it can notify the manager or block traffic.The latest version of the product provides enterprise-wide distribution and management of the software, making it easier to deploy than the previous version, which was manually installed. Workshare has 130 employees and was founded in 1998 by Barrie Hadfield, CTO, with $20 million in venture capital funding from Steelpoint Capital Partners, Intel Capital, and Quester.London-based Standard Chartered Bank, which has global operations that extend into Asia, Africa, and elsewhere, has tested the Workshare content-protection system and is poised to deploy it to approximately 60,0000 desktops worldwide."As a bank, we have a lot of sensitive information and account data as well as proprietary data," says John Meakin, group head of information security at Standard Chartered Bank. "We have to put in place a mechanism that tracks what happens across the network."Sometimes it's necessary for bank representatives in a mobile environment to share client data under certain circumstances, Meakin says, and Workshare would be useful in applying restrictions, such as checking to make sure data is encrypted before it's transmitted. "Workshare will enable us to see where the information is going and intervene," he says.Workshare Protect 6 costs $30 per seat, and the network-monitoring appliance starts at $5,000.Network World is an InfoWorld affiliate
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Software giant unveils public beta that is designed to use five antivirus technologies at the same time.
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Anti-virus protection turned against users CA has updated its anti-virus software to guard against a brace of flaws that created a means for hackers to turn the security protection software against its users.â¦
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Federal agencies required to ensure security of their Windows XP and Vista PCs by the end of February are going to get some tools to help them.
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A reliable data protection strategy is built on two key components: proven, dependable storage hardware, and backup and recovery software tailored to the needs of SMBs. The following tips can help you select the hardware and software you need to safeguard the integrity of your data, guarantee accurate restores, and manage backups without placing an undue burden on IT personnel.
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A software patch to protect your system is available from Microsoft.
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Revamped Endpoint Protection program enters public beta during vendor conference this week.
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Start-up company Haute Secure, which was founded by four former Microsoft employees, has released a beta version of a real-time malware-blocking tool that also stops malicious content from reaching PCs.
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SSL-Explorer is the world's first open-source, browser based SSL VPN solution. This unique remote access security solution provides users and businesses alike with a means of securely accessing network resources from outside the network perimeter using only a standard web browser.     The main addition to this 0.2.7 release of SSL-Explorer is a major alteration to the authentication flow which has been changed to a multi-stage login process.  The system now has the ability to alter the selectable authentication schemes for a particular user depending on those granted to them via their policies. Additionally, an RSS based context sensitive help system has now been introduced into this release. Also included in the release are various bugfixes for proxy support.   SSL-Explorer product page:   http://www.sshtools.com/showSslExplorerCommunity.do    SSL-Explorer SourceForge.net project page:   http://sourceforge.net/projects/sslexplorer/
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Newly updated. This article provides insight into the Metasploit Framework, a very useful tool for the penetration tester. Part two of three.
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Will broad, long beta tests mean fast adoption? Others are doubtful.