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Endpoint Security Software Assumes a Lapse in Judgment

Friday, September 4th, 2009 by clear-blue-security

To Click or Not To Click?

That is the question racing through the mind of the second shift employee who is being suckered by a phishing URL. There is only one answer to the question but time and time again IT Professionals need to be prepared for a lapse in good judgment.

Despite training and constant reminders, employees fall victim to the simplest lures. We all want to know who Britney Spears is dating but it only takes one employee to click on the ‘find out’ hyperlink in a harmless looking email. Sadly, a sudden lapse in employee judgment can become tomorrow’s headline when data is stolen from an unsuspecting endpoint.

In the August 29th “State of Phishing” report published by Symantec, there was a 52 percent increase in phishing attacks from the previous month.

The problem is worsened with laptops and remote computers. When the cat’s away, the mice will definitely play. Most mobile employees take personal ownership of the corporate laptop; downloading music, games and visiting social networks. Outside the security of the corporate network, all goes undetected.

IT Professionals need to ensure endpoint security applications, browser applications and operating systems are up to date and running effectively. Clear Blue Security’s endpoint security software is the answer to immediately implementing security policies and monitoring out of network endpoints.

Protect your laptops today. Download Clear Blue Security’s Endpoint Security software for free.

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Are There Chinks in Your Endpoint Security Protection Armor?

Thursday, August 6th, 2009 by clear-blue-security

Being an Antivirus vendor is tough business. Even giants like Symantec have trouble keeping up now and then.

In a comparative lab test conducted by Virus Bulletin this month, 35 antivirus products were run through a battery of tests in a Vista SP2 testing environment including virus scanning and avoiding false positives.

Get the full story here: Virus Bulletin

12 products failed the test (~30%). Among the failures was the enterprise Symantec Endpoint Security protection product. The company described the failure as a rare and obscure virus that has not been reported by any customers. However, it raises questions about vendors being able to keep-up with an ever-changing list of environment updates.

Clear Blue Security is an endpoint security protection product that can work inside a heterogeneous antivirus network, avoiding the cost and commitment to a single vendor. And in times of uncertain performance, Clear Blue Security allows users to switch antivirus vendors without an expensive detachment process.

Protect your endpoints today.  Download Clear Blue Security’s Endpoint Security protection software for free.

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Without Automation is Endpoint Security Management Possible?

Monday, August 3rd, 2009 by clear-blue-security

The war cry of IT managers today is, “I want my team to provide services, not be mechanics.”

IT professionals are working their way out of the trenches as companies focus on leveraging technology to save money and deliver more solutions faster. But do company owners understand the soft costs of mis-managing the talent pool?

Using intelligent and expensive resources to perform rudimentary tasks seems counterproductive in most organizations. And, as the role of IT becomes critical path to the business mission, IT professionals are expected to continuously evolve and manage more with less.

Automation promises a way for the IT department to scale manpower and simplify laborious tasks that take away from design and implementation responsibilities. Endpoint security management is a good example of a task best left to an automated system.

It is impractical for most companies to assign a full-time resource to manually monitor every endpoint to ensure security compliance. By using an automated endpoint security management tool like Clear Blue Security, endpoints are monitored real-time even when outside the network.

In a recent survey conducted by Clear Blue Security on 125 small and medium sized businesses, 100% of the businesses exhibited critical security vulnerabilities on the network. A majority of the threats were “elementary” and could have been easily avoided if an effective monitoring and detection system were in place.

“Most small and medium sized companies have basic security measures in place. A firewall and antivirus are par for the course.” comments John Sirvydas, CTO of Clear Blue Security. “We find most problems in the configuration of endpoint security tools. An endpoint security management system is required in resource constrained and complex networks to ensure the tools are updated and running properly.”

Protect your endpoints today.  Download Clear Blue Security’s Endpoint Security management software for free.

 

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