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Financial Services Group Pushes for IM Standards

Having embraced instant messaging early in that technologys development, financial services companies banded together in 2002 to promote standards for interoperability. The result was...

CipherTrust Tackles IM Security

As IT administrators start to pay more heed to instant messaging usage in the enterprise, vendors in the e-mail security space are extending their...

Phishers Zero in on E-Banking

Scam artists who target online banking customers are adapting their techniques to try to defeat a range of sophisticated new security features designed to...

Protecting Identity

Theres a lot of work still to be done in defining the rules of stewardship for digital identities. We agree with the San Francisco...

A Good Judge of Character

I cant define "suspicious traffic," but I know it when I see it. Unfortunately, this human test—with apologies to the late Justice Potter Stewart,...

ISS Brings in New VP of Channel Program

Internet Security Systems, which has had a reputation in the industry for testy relations with its resellers, has hired a new vice president of...

Anti-Spyware Hones Searches

In the long run, at least, eWEEK Labs believes that anti-spyware defenses are an appropriate and logical component of anti-virus security suites. Integrating spyware...

Microsoft Moves on Security

Citing increased threats from spyware and rootkits, Microsoft Corp. last week unveiled a new enterprise security product called Microsoft Client Protection and a security...

Symantec to Acquire BindView

Symantec Corp. continued its recent run of acquisitions last week, announcing plans to buy BindView Development Corp., of Houston, for $209 million, or $4...

SSL VPN Targets SMBs

Watchguard Technologies Inc.s Firebox SSL Core with Citrix Systems Inc.s Citrix Secure Access is a good Secure Sockets Layer VPN solution for small and...