While it would never admit it, one of the main threats to Microsoft's strategy is the open source movement and especially the Linux operating system. Therefore the whole concept of sharing and openness, promoted on a global scale, by the open...
To enable this new world and protect you from its dangers has meant a larger and larger proportion of your IT budgets being spent on IT security. It is in the interests of the IT security industry to awaken you to these opportunities and threats.
Back in December, instant-messaging (IM) management company IMLogic partnered with security companies McAfee and Sybari (recently acquired by Microsoft) to build IMLogic's Threat Center, which aims to protect users from peer-to-peer and IM threats...
The lack of a common approach to defining the unwanted programs has resulted in the anti-spyware tools that flag perceived threats in different ways. There seemed to be a lack of clarity as to their mission and who exactly they were serving," he said.
While this limits user access to many components of popular websites, it will protect against the potential threat. While the obvious risk is to the home user, many organisations could be exposed since they do not filter employee emails sent from...
Technical fire walling for media sharing, blogs, instant messaging, social networks and syndication feeds. Acceptable use codes for employee-generated content - what's appropriate, what's off bounds. In the same way, media has become as mission...