Not long ago WebSense announce that they received some great accolades from SC Magazine for their WebSense Express. Of course this is just one of many awards they have earned.
The SC Magazine review reports that �Websense Express shows that small businesses on a tight budget no longer have to rely on scaled-down Web-content filtering solutions� [...]

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What is Sears thinking? Take a look at a recent tracking software that comes with joining an sears online community. The proxy:

1. Monitors and transmits a copy of all Internet traffic going from and coming to the compromised system.
2. Monitors secure sessions (websites beginning with �https�), which may include shopping or banking sites.
3. Records [...]

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All in all it was a good year for SMB IT Security. It seems the problems keep coming and get more complicated, but a major theme seems to be materializing…greed. There was a time when most viruses and security issues were Pride related. Hackers from around the globe seeing what they can get away with [...]

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McAfee continues to dominate the endpoint security industry with its Total Protection for Enterprise solution. Leading research firm Gartner, Inc. has placed the company in the leader quadrant in its “Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms.”
Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms is based on an assessment of a company’s ability [...]

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Because of the ever-increasing vulnerability of IT systems, and because new and increasingly complex attacks are being devised every day, an organization can face significant challenges in deploying all of the various software components required for security risk management and control.
Besides the cost of the software and updates, total cost of ownership (TCO) considers [...]

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McAfee�s Avert Labs has found more new malware in 2007 than in all of 2005 and 2006 combined. Ok, we are not even 75% through 2007 and we have topped ‘05 & ‘06 combined. It is not getting better out there it is getting worse! All the security in the world is not worth a [...]

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While you were Burning / vacationing / spacing out offline this Labor Day weekend, many folks online were hit with invitations from a social networking service called Quechup that violates your address book, and abuses user trust by spamming all your contacts.
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Spyware?
Well, yes, of course it is spyware…but the worse kind. [...]

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The storm worm has built a botnet of perhaps as many as 10 million PCs using a revolving strategy of current events and eye-grabbing “headlines” to lure victims into what may be the single largest operating botnet. Major security players like Symantec have commented on the situation.
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Anti Virus, Anti Spam, Anti [...]

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Every business network is vulnerable to the perils of spyware and adware. If you are connected to the internet, then you risk getting one of these critters downloaded onto your system. Whenever your employees visit certain Web sites, instant message or download programs, there is a chance your network could face an intrusion.
With “drive-by”� downloads [...]

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While a computer virus can come into your system and corrupt your entire network, there are other looming threats that can, sadly, do even more damage. Not only can they damage your network, but they can also steal your most precious information. As a business, that puts you, and more critically, your customers, in a [...]

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