They are at it again! Although they are big troublemakers for anyone in my profession, I have started to appreciate the perseverance and diligence of spamsters, albeit at creating trouble in the cyberspace. This time around spamsters have come up with a new spam tactic using hyperlinks to Macromedia Flash (.swf) files that automatically redirect [...]
Web 2.0 is on my mind a lot these days for the openness it generates and the amount of data users reveal on its pages. Particularly when data leakage is a priority and attackers are on the prowl for data that brings them financial gain. And then I began reading Steve Rubel’s blog about how [...]
Cyberoam is the closest customers get to security that carries human intelligence. That’s what United Kingdom saw in Cyberoam. I don’t normally post on the partner world in this blog, although identity being necessary with security for now and the future is a cause close to my heart and belief system and I look forward [...]
While preventing surfing through web-based proxies is the key offering from the latest Cyberoam version release, there’s more to it than that. The release also captures the latest trends in surfing and downloads. Streaming radio and TV online is one area. The other is rising mobile application downloads with our growing fascination with the latest [...]
44,000 pieces of time-wasting, bandwidth eating, server clogging spam a day. That’s 1,338, 363 pieces of spam in a month. And a crazy 16,060,365 spam mails in an entire year. That’s one man’s spam in UK – of the highest spam recipient. This tally from ClearMyMail shows the spam problem. It took him 2 hours [...]
To companies and schools, proxy sites are a red flag. It could be a security threat – becoming an entry point for malware, it could be a data leakage point – or it could mean users accessing social networking sites or downloading streaming audio-video rather than be on work. Then there’s the threat of legal [...]
It’s true. Security has been the last piece of the puzzle. When it comes to innovation, we think of What’s Possible rather than What’s the Problem. And that’s the way it should be. Otherwise innovation would be dead. But then, a larger headache awaits all of us later in the day. It was the case [...]
Now, that’s the title of our presentation at TechSabha for Government security professionals. Which is why, I’m deviating from the usual round of corporate, network and user security I speak about. When Einstein said that WW IV would be fought with sticks and stones, he may have been off the mark. ‘Cause it doesn’t take [...]
Nobody seems to question the capacity of Unified Threat Management appliances these days. Now that we have introduced multi-core processors, the question has become moot. Multi-core processor driven Cyberoam UTM appliances aren’t just about powerful hardware, but redesigned software too, to take the greatest advantage of the scalable multi-core architecture. With that, Cyberoam has raised [...]
Had a pretty revealing day this weekend. The best persons to know where Cyberoam is installed it seems are the DP – depository participant – sales men. I had the sales person from my DP come over for some paper processing related to my shares. In advising me to invest more in shares and asking [...]