January 2012

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The Next IT Revolution: Mobile Devices and Consumer Apps

If you had to choose one invention that revolutionized the world which would it be?

A 3-Step Plan for Mobile Security

Mobility is here. Mobility is now. Mobility (along with cloud and social media) is one of the three new technologies that brings new productivity opportunities—and associated security risks. Add in the consumerization of IT, an explosion of corporate and personal mobile devices, and the fact that there are no simple mobile security solutions, and you have one of the major IT security strategy challenges of 2012.

The challenge is how to enable productivity and mitigate the threats, vulnerabilities, and risks in a way that strikes the best balance and lowest total costs.

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Victim to Another Attack?

Don't you hate it? You click on the picture or video that you were tagged in or the link that you saw on a trusted source just to find it is malware. Or maybe you went a little further and submitted your name, address, and email before you realized that you were a victim of a phishing attack.

These attacks used to be easily identified, but now they are intertwined into the applications we trust such as Facebook and Twitter (social spam). Read more...

Data Security

Websense Data Security version 7.6.3 is now available for download on MyWebsense. Data Security now supports mobile email DLP for iOS, Android, Symbian and Windows mobile devices. The new ActiveSync proxy agent, a Linux-based appliance, resides between Exchange and mobile users to apply data loss and theft policies to email content and attachments

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Latest News

Global Survey: Malware Attacks Up Because of Social Media; Organizations Lagging on Proper Protection

Websense Security Survey: IT Stresses as Data Breaches Put Jobs on the Line

2012 Cyber Security Predictions from the Websense Security Labs

Websense Improves Dynamic DNS Protection, Granular Social Web Controls, and Bandwidth Optimization

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What Security Threats can we Expect in 2012?

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