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  Do organizations need an e-mail encryption solution? Yes, in almost all cases. Why? Every day, your organization exchanges sensitive, private, and regulated data with others via e-mail. Without encryption, this data is free and clear, all over the public Internet. Given this, one would assume that many organizations are regularly deploying e-mail encryption solutions and negotiating encryption policies and processes with business partners. Unfortunately, this isn’t the case: today’s [...]

Visibility http://www.forescout.com/solutions/visibility.html This video shows how ForeScout CounterACT lets you see every aspect of your network in real-time – who, what and where.  See switches, endpoints, operating systems, software, processes, peripheral devices, printers, handheld devices, vulnerabilities, and more. Track changes. Create reports. Guest Networking http://www.forescout.com/solutions/guest_networking.html This video shows how ForeScout CounterACT lets you enforce network access policy. Automatically grant full network access to employees, limited access to contractors, and Internet-only [...]

On our IT Security /NAC blog today- I’m here to describe the security solutions that ForeScout Technologies provides, so that you can decide if and how your organization might benefit from them.   INTRODUCTION. ForeScout enables its customers to unleash the full power of their network through enterprise-class security and control. ForeScout’s automated solutions for network access control, mobile security, threat prevention and endpoint compliance empower organizations to gain access [...]

This week, it is our privilege here  at SMSAM SYSTEMS LTD to share with you and your entire team-  an amazingly deep and highly  informative resources on the subject of Enterprise Security Intelligence (ESI).  It’s not enough to set up a strong firewall and watch who or what is coming or going. You must have total visibility into what is happening across your enterprise and beyond as cloud services become [...]

  This piece was written specifically to demystify the somewhat confusion regarding DATA LEAK PREVENTION, DLP. I’ll therefore crave your indulgence to thoroughly peruse it contents. Most network security products(IPS/IDS) focus on keeping the bad guys — Trojans, viruses and hackers — outside of the network, but data loss prevention (DLP) keeps the good stuff — sensitive enterprise data — in. With more business data leaks tainting the reputations of [...]

Recently, while carrying out an evaluation at our client site  (a large financial services operator with over 5000 users), we noticed an insanely downward reduction in their bandwidth consumption from about 15Meg to about 8 Meg  during peak hour usage- after Websense v10000 was rolled out to production), please note that this is not a marketing rhetorical jibes   thrown around just to get your attention, but the incontestable truth aftermath the deployment ! NOTE: [...]

Organisations are becoming ever-more aware of the need to defend their computer networks from Cyber attacks, there have been recent warnings from governmental agencies and regulatory bodies of the increasing threat – 51% of malicious software threats that have ever been identified occurred in 2009 Threats from externally based criminals are not the only risks faced, increasing numbers of varied devices are being attached to the enterprise network by remote [...]