Category: security

6 August 2011

Securing Mobile Devices May Be Impossible

Filed under: mobile network operators,mobile phones,security - 06 Aug 2011

From via Securing Mobile Devices May Be an Impossible Task:
Attacks against smartphones such as BlackBerrys, iPhones and Android phones have become quite prevalent in recent years and many of them have focused on getting malicious apps on users phones. Thats a …

2 August 2011

Check Point: R75.20, SecurityPower, and New Appliances

Filed under: business,check point,security,software - 02 Aug 2011

By now I’m sure you’ve seen, heard, or read Check Point’s official announcements made at NASDAQ this morning. This is by no means a regurgitation of the official press releases, but it is my own personal take on what was announced. …

24 July 2011

Thinking About Mobile Security

Filed under: mobile phones,security - 24 Jul 2011

Mobile devices are, like any powerful tool, a double edged sword. They enable unprecedented ability to access and create information from anywhere! They are also a huge problem for information security.

Unlike a traditional PC, where there are a number of …

26 April 2011

ZoneAlarm’s Newest Security Solution: SocialGuard

Filed under: check point,security,social networking,software - 26 Apr 2011

From ZoneAlarm’s Newest Security Solution: SocialGuard:
SocialGuard, ZoneAlarm’s newest security solution, promises a groundbreaking new method of monitoring and preventing safety breaches on Facebook the most popular social networking site by a mile, with over 500 million users without “friending” …

13 April 2011

Gil Shwed: “The [security] industry needs to change a little bit”

Filed under: check point,security - 13 Apr 2011

From Reality Check – Features – Malware – Computer Business Review:

 
“The industry needs to change a little bit,” [Check Point Software Technologies CEO Gil Shwed] says. “Our software blade architecture is the right direction but it’s not enough. I think …

14 March 2011

CPshared and CPUG: A Couple of Observations

Filed under: check point,security - 14 Mar 2011

On the two Check Point user community sites CPUG and CPshared, I made a couple of interesting observations today:

CPshared already had more active threads today than CPUG. This includes all the public boards, which I verified by loading …

10 March 2011

Announcing CPshared: The Open Technical Forum for all things Check Point

Filed under: check point,security - 10 Mar 2011

I’ve been a participating in the Check Point user community in various places for a long time now. Heck, I ran a Check Point community of my own for a while. It’s not often the community gets a new …

29 January 2011

The Cisco Valet: Easy Setup, but is it Secure?

Filed under: computers,gadgets,networking,security - 29 Jan 2011

A PR firm representing Cisco asked me if I wanted to review the Cisco Valet, which is a line of “surprisingly simply home wireless” devices that, I have to say, does what it says on the tin. It is …

28 January 2011

Speaking IPv6

Filed under: computers,connectivity,ipv6,networking,security - 28 Jan 2011

IPv6 is the next generation of IP–the protocol by which most of our computers, phones, and other related devices talk to each other and to the Internet. Today, everything generally talks using IPv4, which has a 32-bit address space, or …

27 December 2010

Check Point R75 Now Available

Filed under: check point,security,software - 27 Dec 2010

Anyone who’s following the Check Point TwitterFacebook page, or has been peeking around in User Center has probably seen the release of R75–Check Point’s next major release. DLP, Mobile Access, Identity Awareness, and Application Control are all …

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