Security Community Blog

Starting with the April 2009 issue, we began publishing each issue of CIO Digest to the Amazon Kindle. Readers want to consume content in a variety of different formats, and the increasingly popularity of the Amazon Kindle prompted us to begin making each issue available on it.

The July issue has some really interesting articles, including an exclusive interview with Steve Vollmer, the VP of IT and CTO at Las Vegas Sand Corporation, features on ways to optimize storage investments and strategies on weathering the 2009 economic climate, and much more. Click here to access...

If you have purchased a Symantec product from a retail store (we call this as Box product), it is very important that you register this in the License Portal (https://licensing.symantec.com). Symantec will never know to whom or to what company it has been sold to unless you register it. It will be a big problem if you didn't register and you lost your certificate. It will be very difficult for us to track the record for that Box product that you bought.

If, for example, you lost your CD for SEP 11.0 and you need to get a copy of that, since we can't find a record that you own the product, Customer Care will not provide you the download (especially for products like SEP because this doesn't have activation). The same goes if you need a license key/file or if you want to get an upgrade. Getting technical support will also be twice as difficult.

The info regarding that product will only flow on our database once this has...

Hi everyone,

I just wanted to bring your attention to two great "Connect and Protect" contests. So now, whether you're securing your company's infrastructure or you're ensuring that all that critical data is backed up, your experiences could be just the ticket to winning.

For more information about the Security Community Connect and Protect contest, click here.
For more information about the Backup and Archiving Connect and Protect contest, click here.

And, good luck!

Hello Everyone!
The user group board of directors would like to thank everyone who attended the meeting. I have gone ahead and attached the slides from the two presentations that took place. If anyone would like to present or host a future meeting please let us know. Also please spread the word about our group! The experience and knowledge of our group grows with each new member.