In enterprises you find yourself very often in a layered approach of defense mechanisms and also very often a more vendor strategy due to potential advantage of identifying a Threat that the other vendor didn't catch so far. (In my opinion - ...

The Symantec Webgates may be centrally managed by the Symantec Central Intelligence Unit (CIU). The CIU provides consolidated reporting representing the information and data stores by all of the webgates in the system. In addition, the CIU provides ...

Symantec Web Gateway can maintain information on the activity of users and departments as defined by Active Directory over LDAP. Defaultly, the SWG will only record the IP address of the network traffice, but, if there is AD in the environment, you ...

This month Microsoft released an update for Windows to address three vulnerabilities in the SMB Server component. Two of the vulnerabilities are remote denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, while one (CVE-2010-2550) has the potential for remote code ...

Most of us are uncomfortable with the word "risk."   The word "security" is better because it sounds more positive. The reality is that security can only be achieved through reduction of risk.  So, we need to discipline ourselves to ...