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  Updated: Ian McShane 08 Jan 2013

  Upcoming Twitter Chat on Targeted Email Attacks

  Join hashtag #MailSec and learn more about the dangers of targetted email attacks and how to prevent them. Takedowns of large botnet rings in recent years have caused spam numbers to plummet. However, the drop in spam doesn’t make spammers any less dangerous. Spammers have now turned to targeted attacks to reach their victims. As targeted attacks and malware continue to expand and grow in number, and data breaches continue to rise, users and businesses of all sizes need to be aware of what to look out for, and how to protect proprietary information. No business is too big or too small to be a target.   Please join Symantec’s email security experts Ian McShane (@ianmcshane), Paul Murray (@paulsmurray), Matt Cooke (@mattcooke), Paul Wood (@paulowoody)  and Eric Schwake (@lombar77) next Thursday, January 10 at 11 am ET, to discuss targeted attacks and what can be done to prevent them from harming you or your business....
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  Updated: Ian McShane 16 May 2012

  Protecting Cloud Services, Applications and Storage with Symantec Protection Engine

  Did you see my session at Symantec Vision 2012?  If not, you missed me talk about how you need your very own Robocop to protect services, applications and storage that accept and distribute files. His prime directives align very well with how you should approach your service and infrastructure security: 1. Serve the public trust - Your users will TRUST your service.  They'll ignore warnings and common sense because YOU are giving them access to something. 2. Protect the innocent - Your users are unlikely to be as security-aware as you are, they may not understand risks and they certainly shouldn't be trusted to protect themselves :) 3. Uphold the law - You need to be able to set and enforce policies and you need to do this at your...
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  Updated: Ian McShane 20 Mar 2012

  Symantec Email Submission Client (SESC) 1.0: NOW AVAILABLE

    Hi!   My last post back in October 2011 introduced the beta program for a new application for our messaging security customers. I'm delighted to announce that we achieved our Generally Available (GA) milestone yesterday on March 19th meaning that the Symantec Email Submission Client is now available for all of our customers to download and install.  This is my first "1.0" product release so I'm particularly excited to see this product ship :)   Did I mention that this is provided at no extra charge?  Yup, free.   We had some excellent beta participants in this cycle, ranging from large enterprise customers to small businesses and we got some fantastic real world feedback which helped us ship an even better product than we originally scoped.   So, what is SESC?   The Symantec...
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  Created: Ian McShane 02 Aug 2011

  Symantec Protection for Sharepoint Servers 6.0 Beta

  I'm excited to announce that the beta program has started for our next release of Symantec Protection for Sharepoint Servers. You can sign up to this beta at this link : https://symbeta.symantec.com/callout/default.html?callid=8A18C6447CE54D99AD4ADEBCC28E7F9C   With this release, you'll see new features such as:   Completely new quarantine management functionality available through the UI. Brand new user interface. Simple export & import of configuration, settings and policies to enable quick and easy disaster recovery as well as roll out your policies to multiple farms in a quick and efficient manner. This release supports the following platforms: Windows® SharePoint® Services 2.0 (WSS 2.0) Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS 3.0) ...