Security Spotlight
- According to recent research, more than three-quarters of all bandwidth consumed on campus is actually taken up with applications that fall into the categories of gaming, social networking, media, file sharing, and Web browsing. More
Campus Security News
- In the face of explosive data growth on campus a consortium of colleges and universities concerned about their institutions' abilities to recover data and applications has formed a new council dedicated to the topic.More
- Bradford Networks has bundled its appliances and software into an offering it calls Network Sentry, which allows customers to pick and choose which forms of security it wants to implement.More
- Omnilert has released a version of its notification system, e2Campus version 3.1, which integrates the Shibboleth single sign-on platform. The new capability allows users to log into their home site and gain access to other applications without having to sign into each separately.More
- Genetec has updated its IP video surveillance application. Omnicast 4.5 adds support for ObjectVideo analytics technology as well as video devices with built-in analytics. More
- Microsoft rolled out six security fixes in its November patch Tuesday.More
- M86 Security has upgraded its e-mail gateway security program. MailMarshal SMTP version 6.7 includes a blended threat module that blocks e-mails containing malicious URL links and uses a cloud-based malware behavior analysis service for rapid identification of new malicious links.More
- Someone spilled hot COFEE, otherwise known as Microsoft's Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor.More
- Rave Mobile Safety has released Rave Alert 4.0, an upgrade of its notification service. The new version includes simplified integration capabilities with back-end systems and more robust alerting capabilities.More
- SmoothWall has added filtering of Flash-based games into a Guardian Web Filter feature pack that it's making available to users of its Web filter product.More
- An organization's security has a lot to do with its e-mail system, a top security manager at Microsoft suggested. More
- Boise State University in Idaho, with nearly 20,000 students and 2,500 faculty and staff, has installed BlueCat Networks appliances to manage the DNS and DHCP infrastructure on the campus network.More
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