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All-in-One Network Security Appliances: Common Myths and Misperceptions
July 24, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Optimum security is a trade-off against the needs of the business. These trade-offs are not related to the solution's architecture but to the function itself. In a UTM scenario, don't have the...
Provided by Network Box
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White Papers
IP-ATM Security
January 21, 2008, 12:00am PST
When one thinks about ATM security, the first, and often the only, thing that comes to mind is the physical security of the ATM machine itself and the series of scams that have been perpetrated...
Provided by Network Box
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White Papers
Network Box Intrusion Detection & Prevention System
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Wikipedia defines Intrusion Detection as "The act of detecting actions that attempt to compromise the confidentiality, integrity or availability of a resource", and then goes on to say that "When...
Provided by Network Box
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White Papers
Network Box White Paper: Forgotten Security Part 4 - Keeping Up-to-Date
November 18, 2009, 12:00am PST
Many vendors now have a rigorous attitude towards patching and updating their systems. These days, Microsoft is frequently used to demonstrate best practice and other manufacturers are following...
Provided by Network Box
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White Papers
Network Box Advisory: Forgotten Security
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Some businesses rely on IT departments to spot the weak points in the system and rectify them as soon as possible. Whilst the need for a rapid resolution is understandable, this method exposes the...
Provided by Network Box
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White Papers
Network Box White Paper: Securing Schools From Social Media Threats
September 25, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Schools today face increasing internet security risks from the number of new platforms and technologies used by pupils and teachers in and out of the classroom. The proliferation of social...
Provided by Network Box
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White Papers
Authentication - Who Are You?
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Identity fraud is rising. It is increasingly simple, with more ways of doing it than ever before. As more and more applications become available to over the Internet, there is a growing need to...
Provided by Network Box
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White Papers
SPAM Back-Scatter
July 16, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The core of the back-scatter problem is that it is trivial to forge the sender address of an email; as the standard email protocols provide no mechanisms to authenticate the sender's email...
Provided by Network Box
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White Papers
How That PDA Could Bring the Whole System Crashing Down
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
As users blur work and personal Internet use, particularly on their own devices, one could find organization exposed to malware simply because of their ignorance. The battle for corporate network...
Provided by Network Box
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White Papers
From WEP to WPA: Securing Wireless Networks With the Flick of a Switch
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
At Network Box, one of the most common questions it asked by IT directors and managers is how to protect wireless networks. Obviously, there are many security technologies on the market that are...
Provided by Network Box
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White Papers
Network Box White Paper: Hacks, Hoaxes and Horrors
July 8, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Most of the hoaxes people encounter these days come to them via the Internet. The number of opportunistic and targeted Internet-based crimes and misdemeanors carried out every day results in...
Provided by Network Box
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White Papers
How to Choose the Right Security Personnel
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The continual success of the network security industry owes much to the ever-advancing, cutting-edge technology. However, this is only as effective as the security professionals that run it. This...
Provided by Network Box
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White Papers
Technologies for Spam Detection
April 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
None of the techniques above can provide total protection in isolation; most have a way round them. The only real solution to the spam problem is to combine techniques, to create a probability...
Provided by Network Box
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White Papers
Managing Your Greatest New Security Risk: Your New Employees
March 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The people using new technologies like instant messaging the most are graduates. These new employees have a very different attitude to IT from those of ten or even five years ago. They are...
Provided by Network Box
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White Papers
Parasitic Malware
March 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
It should also be noted that the term 'Parasitic Malware' can refer to malware that exploit vulnerabilities in other malware to install themselves. For the purposes of this paper, however, the...
Provided by Network Box
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White Papers
Phishing With Good Bait
March 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Phishing is fraudulently attempting to acquire sensitive information like passwords, credit card details etc. It's tied into the growing crime of identity theft and, over the past two years, there...
Provided by Network Box
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White Papers
Network Box White Paper: Securing Remote Workers
November 5, 2009, 12:00am PST
In the case of home workers, the employee must use a VPN. The three most commonly used today are PPTP, IPSEC and SSL. IPSEC and SSL are the most secure, because they can use the highest security...
Provided by Network Box
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White Papers
Part II: Routing, the Hole in the Wall
September 23, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Routing can be tricky. If one knows where data is going, one is half way to resolving a large number of application problems. But understanding where data is being routed to and from is crucial in...
Provided by Network Box
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White Papers
Network Box Advisory: Forgotten Security - Part 1: Monitoring
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Companies are protecting themselves from high-profile threats such as malware attacks, but are often leaving themselves vulnerable from the 'forgotten security defences'. The first of these...
Provided by Network Box
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White Papers
Network Box White Paper: Securing Social Media - Series Part 5: Guide to Secure Use of IM (instant Messaging)
June 3, 2009, 12:00am PDT
One is often asked by clients how to block a particular application, most notably one that includes Instant Messaging (IM), such as Facebook, Skype, MSN etc. But the problem with blocking an...
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White Papers
Network Box White Paper: Securing Social Media Series - Part 4: Guide to Secure Use of Facebook
May 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Huge numbers of companies are banning employees from using Facebook and other social networking sites, concerned about the amount of time wasted on these sites and the drop in productivity as a...
Provided by Network Box
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White Papers
Network Box White Paper: Securing Social Media Series - Part 3: Guide to Secure Use of Twitter
April 8, 2009, 12:00am PDT
It seems one can't open a newspaper or look at a news site without seeing Twitter all over the headlines. From Barack Obama's use of Twitter during his election campaign, or reports that the...
Provided by Network Box
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White Papers
Network Box White Paper: Securing Social Media Series - Part 1: Blogging
May 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Blogs are now a mainstream form of communication for most companies, and are a trusted source of information: Technorati reports that 37 per cent of bloggers have been quoted in traditional media,...
Provided by Network Box
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White Papers
Gang Culture in the Online World
March 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Off late when online scams such as phishing were relatively new phenomena, an email containing grammatically incorrect English may have been enough to dupe a recipient. Similarly, a phishing...
Provided by Network Box
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White Papers
Online Privacy and Browser Security
September 15, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In the past year there have been a number of debates on the need for online privacy. Some commentators (Sir David Omand and Scott McNealy) have argued that privacy online must be sacrificed for...
Provided by Network Box
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Case Studies
Network Box Helps Biwater Group Keep Its Network Flowing
October 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The Biwater Group designs and constructs water and wastewater systems across the world (the name 'Biwater' - or 'Two waters' - was adopted because of its involvement in the provision of clean...
Provided by Network Box
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Case Studies
Network Box Case Study: Charnwood Borough Council
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Like many organisations, CBC was using a number of different security technologies to protect itself against the burgeoning myriad of online threats. For example, it outsourced its firewall, VPN,...
Provided by Network Box
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Case Studies
Network Box Scores With Tottenham Hotspur
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Tottenham Hotspur FC is one of the UK's top premiership football clubs and is also a modern sports business, dealing with large amounts of electronic correspondence and internet traffic from fans,...
Provided by Network Box
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Case Studies
The Acorn Group Chooses Network Box
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The Acorn Group is one of the largest independent estate agency networks in the South East of England and is ranked in the top 20 estate agents across the UK. The company's consistent growth...
Provided by Network Box
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Case Studies
Network Box Eases the Strain for Combat Stress
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Combat Stress is a mental health and welfare service charity that provides treatment and support to over 7,000 ex-Services men and women of all ranks, suffering from psychological disability as a...
Provided by Network Box
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Case Studies
Sunderland AFC Uses Network Box
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Sunderland AFC is a UK premiership football club. The club has over 120 full-time employees at three different sites in the UK. Network security is a top level priority for the club, and a need to...
Provided by Network Box
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Case Studies
Network Box Case Study: Jeyes
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Jeyes manufactures, markets, sells and distributes household cleaning and hygiene products throughout the world in more than 60 countries. The biggest threat Jeyes faced was from malicious spam...
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Case Studies
Network Box Case Study: PDD
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
PDD is a product innovation consultancy, working with some the world's leading brands, such as Sony Ericsson, Orange and Levis, in the invention, conception and development of products that are...
Provided by Network Box
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Case Studies
Network Box Case Study: Pluswork Group
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The Pluswork Group is a temporary and permanent recruitment specialist with offices in the North West of England. It has recruitment specialists at various office locations, as well as on the road...
Provided by Network Box
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Case Studies
Network Box Case Study: Selectaglaze
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The main issue was that while most provided a reasonable user interface, there was a steep learning curve to get to grips with all of the different security and policy based aspects. It quickly...
Provided by Network Box
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Case Studies
Network Box Case Study: Hillary Blinds
October 28, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Hillarys Blinds is the largest manufacturer of made-to-measure window blinds in the UK and has a turnover in excess of £90 million. The challenge was using three separate security solutions but...
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Case Studies
Wyboston Lakes Secures Customers With Network Box
October 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Wyboston Lakes Conference and Training Centre situated in 350 acres on Picturesque countryside on the Cambridgeshire / Bedfordshire border, is the largest independently-owned, singlesite...
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Case Studies
Securing Vital Infrastructure Network: Network Box and ES Pipelines
April 8, 2009, 12:00am PDT
ES Pipelines is an independent gas transporter, taking gas to businesses and homes across the UK. The majority of communication between customers and suppliers is done via email, much of it...
Provided by Network Box
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White Papers
Forgotten Security Part II: Routing, the Hole in the Wall
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Many companies have routing where the path that data takes to arrive at a workstation differs from the path that the data takes back to the originator. If one of these paths goes through a...
Provided by Network Box
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Whitepapers
Adding SPF to Your Anti-Spam Solution
May 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The Sender Policy Framework (SPF) is an open standard that introduces a grammar for domains to describe the email they send. These descriptions are published in the Domain Name System (DNS), and...
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Whitepapers
Adding SPF to Your Anti-Spam Solution
May 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The Sender Policy Framework (SPF) is an open standard that introduces a grammar for domains to describe the email they send. These descriptions are published in the Domain Name System (DNS), and...
Provided by Network Box
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Whitepapers
Securing Your Network When Employees Telecommute
May 12, 2011, 12:00am PDT
As the authors prepare to write this, they are thinking of the many times they get up in the morning and start working at their home computer. It is possibly the most convenient invention since...
Provided by Network Box
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White Papers
Forgotten Security Part II: Routing, the Hole in the Wall
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Many companies have routing where the path that data takes to arrive at a workstation differs from the path that the data takes back to the originator. If one of these paths goes through a...
Provided by Network Box
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Case Studies
Securing Vital Infrastructure Network: Network Box and ES Pipelines
April 8, 2009, 12:00am PDT
ES Pipelines is an independent gas transporter, taking gas to businesses and homes across the UK. The majority of communication between customers and suppliers is done via email, much of it...
Provided by Network Box
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Case Studies
Wyboston Lakes Secures Customers With Network Box
October 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Wyboston Lakes Conference and Training Centre situated in 350 acres on Picturesque countryside on the Cambridgeshire / Bedfordshire border, is the largest independently-owned, singlesite...
Provided by Network Box
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Case Studies
Network Box Case Study: Hillary Blinds
October 28, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Hillarys Blinds is the largest manufacturer of made-to-measure window blinds in the UK and has a turnover in excess of £90 million. The challenge was using three separate security solutions but...
Provided by Network Box
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Case Studies
Network Box Case Study: Selectaglaze
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The main issue was that while most provided a reasonable user interface, there was a steep learning curve to get to grips with all of the different security and policy based aspects. It quickly...
Provided by Network Box
-
Case Studies
Network Box Case Study: Pluswork Group
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The Pluswork Group is a temporary and permanent recruitment specialist with offices in the North West of England. It has recruitment specialists at various office locations, as well as on the road...
Provided by Network Box
-
Case Studies
Network Box Case Study: PDD
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
PDD is a product innovation consultancy, working with some the world's leading brands, such as Sony Ericsson, Orange and Levis, in the invention, conception and development of products that are...
Provided by Network Box
-
Case Studies
Network Box Case Study: Jeyes
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Jeyes manufactures, markets, sells and distributes household cleaning and hygiene products throughout the world in more than 60 countries. The biggest threat Jeyes faced was from malicious spam...
Provided by Network Box
-
Case Studies
Sunderland AFC Uses Network Box
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Sunderland AFC is a UK premiership football club. The club has over 120 full-time employees at three different sites in the UK. Network security is a top level priority for the club, and a need to...
Provided by Network Box
-
Case Studies
Network Box Eases the Strain for Combat Stress
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Combat Stress is a mental health and welfare service charity that provides treatment and support to over 7,000 ex-Services men and women of all ranks, suffering from psychological disability as a...
Provided by Network Box
-
Case Studies
The Acorn Group Chooses Network Box
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The Acorn Group is one of the largest independent estate agency networks in the South East of England and is ranked in the top 20 estate agents across the UK. The company's consistent growth...
Provided by Network Box
-
Case Studies
Network Box Scores With Tottenham Hotspur
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Tottenham Hotspur FC is one of the UK's top premiership football clubs and is also a modern sports business, dealing with large amounts of electronic correspondence and internet traffic from fans,...
Provided by Network Box
-
Case Studies
Network Box Case Study: Charnwood Borough Council
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Like many organisations, CBC was using a number of different security technologies to protect itself against the burgeoning myriad of online threats. For example, it outsourced its firewall, VPN,...
Provided by Network Box
-
Case Studies
Network Box Helps Biwater Group Keep Its Network Flowing
October 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The Biwater Group designs and constructs water and wastewater systems across the world (the name 'Biwater' - or 'Two waters' - was adopted because of its involvement in the provision of clean...
Provided by Network Box
-
White Papers
Online Privacy and Browser Security
September 15, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In the past year there have been a number of debates on the need for online privacy. Some commentators (Sir David Omand and Scott McNealy) have argued that privacy online must be sacrificed for...
Provided by Network Box
-
White Papers
Gang Culture in the Online World
March 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Off late when online scams such as phishing were relatively new phenomena, an email containing grammatically incorrect English may have been enough to dupe a recipient. Similarly, a phishing...
Provided by Network Box
-
White Papers
Network Box White Paper: Securing Social Media Series - Part 1: Blogging
May 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Blogs are now a mainstream form of communication for most companies, and are a trusted source of information: Technorati reports that 37 per cent of bloggers have been quoted in traditional media,...
Provided by Network Box
-
White Papers
Network Box White Paper: Securing Social Media Series - Part 3: Guide to Secure Use of Twitter
April 8, 2009, 12:00am PDT
It seems one can't open a newspaper or look at a news site without seeing Twitter all over the headlines. From Barack Obama's use of Twitter during his election campaign, or reports that the...
Provided by Network Box
-
White Papers
Network Box White Paper: Securing Social Media Series - Part 4: Guide to Secure Use of Facebook
May 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Huge numbers of companies are banning employees from using Facebook and other social networking sites, concerned about the amount of time wasted on these sites and the drop in productivity as a...
Provided by Network Box
-
White Papers
Network Box White Paper: Securing Social Media - Series Part 5: Guide to Secure Use of IM (instant Messaging)
June 3, 2009, 12:00am PDT
One is often asked by clients how to block a particular application, most notably one that includes Instant Messaging (IM), such as Facebook, Skype, MSN etc. But the problem with blocking an...
Provided by Network Box
-
White Papers
Network Box Advisory: Forgotten Security - Part 1: Monitoring
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Companies are protecting themselves from high-profile threats such as malware attacks, but are often leaving themselves vulnerable from the 'forgotten security defences'. The first of these...
Provided by Network Box
-
White Papers
Part II: Routing, the Hole in the Wall
September 23, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Routing can be tricky. If one knows where data is going, one is half way to resolving a large number of application problems. But understanding where data is being routed to and from is crucial in...
Provided by Network Box
-
White Papers
Network Box White Paper: Securing Remote Workers
November 5, 2009, 12:00am PST
In the case of home workers, the employee must use a VPN. The three most commonly used today are PPTP, IPSEC and SSL. IPSEC and SSL are the most secure, because they can use the highest security...
Provided by Network Box
-
White Papers
Phishing With Good Bait
March 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Phishing is fraudulently attempting to acquire sensitive information like passwords, credit card details etc. It's tied into the growing crime of identity theft and, over the past two years, there...
Provided by Network Box
-
White Papers
Parasitic Malware
March 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
It should also be noted that the term 'Parasitic Malware' can refer to malware that exploit vulnerabilities in other malware to install themselves. For the purposes of this paper, however, the...
Provided by Network Box
-
White Papers
Managing Your Greatest New Security Risk: Your New Employees
March 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The people using new technologies like instant messaging the most are graduates. These new employees have a very different attitude to IT from those of ten or even five years ago. They are...
Provided by Network Box
-
White Papers
Technologies for Spam Detection
April 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
None of the techniques above can provide total protection in isolation; most have a way round them. The only real solution to the spam problem is to combine techniques, to create a probability...
Provided by Network Box
-
White Papers
How to Choose the Right Security Personnel
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The continual success of the network security industry owes much to the ever-advancing, cutting-edge technology. However, this is only as effective as the security professionals that run it. This...
Provided by Network Box
-
White Papers
Network Box White Paper: Hacks, Hoaxes and Horrors
July 8, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Most of the hoaxes people encounter these days come to them via the Internet. The number of opportunistic and targeted Internet-based crimes and misdemeanors carried out every day results in...
Provided by Network Box
-
White Papers
From WEP to WPA: Securing Wireless Networks With the Flick of a Switch
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
At Network Box, one of the most common questions it asked by IT directors and managers is how to protect wireless networks. Obviously, there are many security technologies on the market that are...
Provided by Network Box
-
White Papers
How That PDA Could Bring the Whole System Crashing Down
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
As users blur work and personal Internet use, particularly on their own devices, one could find organization exposed to malware simply because of their ignorance. The battle for corporate network...
Provided by Network Box
-
White Papers
SPAM Back-Scatter
July 16, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The core of the back-scatter problem is that it is trivial to forge the sender address of an email; as the standard email protocols provide no mechanisms to authenticate the sender's email...
Provided by Network Box
-
White Papers
Authentication - Who Are You?
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Identity fraud is rising. It is increasingly simple, with more ways of doing it than ever before. As more and more applications become available to over the Internet, there is a growing need to...
Provided by Network Box
-
White Papers
Network Box White Paper: Securing Schools From Social Media Threats
September 25, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Schools today face increasing internet security risks from the number of new platforms and technologies used by pupils and teachers in and out of the classroom. The proliferation of social...
Provided by Network Box
-
White Papers
Network Box Advisory: Forgotten Security
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Some businesses rely on IT departments to spot the weak points in the system and rectify them as soon as possible. Whilst the need for a rapid resolution is understandable, this method exposes the...
Provided by Network Box
-
White Papers
Network Box White Paper: Forgotten Security Part 4 - Keeping Up-to-Date
November 18, 2009, 12:00am PST
Many vendors now have a rigorous attitude towards patching and updating their systems. These days, Microsoft is frequently used to demonstrate best practice and other manufacturers are following...
Provided by Network Box
-
White Papers
Network Box Intrusion Detection & Prevention System
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Wikipedia defines Intrusion Detection as "The act of detecting actions that attempt to compromise the confidentiality, integrity or availability of a resource", and then goes on to say that "When...
Provided by Network Box
-
White Papers
IP-ATM Security
January 21, 2008, 12:00am PST
When one thinks about ATM security, the first, and often the only, thing that comes to mind is the physical security of the ATM machine itself and the series of scams that have been perpetrated...
Provided by Network Box
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