Google announced Thursday its Web Security for Enterprise, which is designed to protect corporate Web surfers from viruses, spyware, and malicious Web sites. It also extends the protection to remote workers if needed.
In addition to real-time malware protection and URL-filtering, the product also offers reporting and policy enforcement features. It’s basically a re-branded and more affordable version of a product from Postini, a company that Google acquired last year, a Google representative said.
With Web Security, companies have the option of adding protection for off-network employees who may be working in places such as hotels or airports, without requiring them to sign on to their secure corporate network.
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Top-level managers and chief executives often do not realise the impact that IT-security incidents can have on their organisations, according to influential group the British-North American Committee.
In a report entitled Cyber Attack: A Risk Management Primer for CEOs and Directors, launched on Wednesday, the Paul Twomey said that chief executives underestimate the scale of data-security problems and fail to recognise the consequences of data breaches for business. BNAC is a group of business leaders and academics from the UK, US and Canada aimed at lobbying the governments of all three countries about management and business-related issues.
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Sun Microsystems is helping fund new startup dedicated to minimizing — rather than detecting or preventing — attacks
First there was intrusion detection, then intrusion prevention, and now, intrusion tolerance. A professor and researcher at George Mason University is readying the commercial rollout of a new, patent-pending technology that basically assumes an attack or infection on a server is inevitable, so it instead minimizes the impact of an intrusion.
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