WatchGuard has announced introduction to the market two new Wireless Access Point products. With more companies adopting bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies to enable a mobile workforce and enhance productivity, they will provide customers with the same level of security for wireless local access network (WLAN) traffic that they rely on for traditional wired traffic.
· Six million consumers end relationship with organisations each year due to call centre security concerns
· Consumers struggle with multiple passwords and inefficient security processes
· Banks, retailers and mobile operators fare poorly in consumer perception stakes
Guildford, England: Banks top the list of organisations consumers trust least with their personal data, according to a survey of 2,000 UK consumers. Mobile phone operators and retailers also fare badly in the eyes of the consumer in a report from Avaya, the global provider of business collaboration and communications services, and Sabio, the contact centre technology specialist.
HOLLYWOOD, FL: Prolexic, the global leader in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection services,has announced that it mitigated an attack against a U.S. metropolitan utility company earlier this month. The utility, which provides services to an estimated 420,000 electric, 305,000 water, and 230,000 sewer customers, has engaged Prolexic to provide DDoS protection services.
Reacting to Deutsche Telekom’s new and interactive real-time map of global cyberattacks, Tufin Technologies says it is significant that the bulk of attacks (27.3m last month) identified by the Sicherheitstacho service were against the Server Message Block (SMB) – aka the Common Internet File System (CIFS). Reuven Harrison, CTO of the security policy management specialist, says this attack vector operates across an application-layer network protocol that is mainly used for providing shared access to files, printers, serial ports, and miscellaneous communications between nodes on a network.
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