Stories about: Proofpoint

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    4 reasons why Facebook and vanity don't mix 15/03/2011 10:51:00

    My colleague, Bill Brenner, has a t-shirt he likes to wear that basically says social networking feeds the darker sides of human nature. The shirt is a parody of a Venn Diagram and shows the relationship between sites like Facebook and Twitter to what some might called undesirable character traits, such as ADHD, stalking and narcissism.
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    Spam Traffic Returns after Holiday Break 13/01/2011 01:17:00

    Spammers are people too...apparently. They have families and want to take a vacation to spend quality time with them over the traditional holiday break just like everyone else. Or, at least that is the way that it appears if you follow the trends in spam traffic.
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    How to tame the social network at work 18/10/2010 21:14:00

    They're a productivity sink and a bandwidth suck. They're a vector for malware and a gift for corporate spies. They're a data spill just waiting to happen. And like it or not, they're already inside your enterprise.
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    8 ways to fight spam filter frustration 07/08/2008 09:25:03

    Spam. It fills our in-boxes, wastes our time and spreads malware -- and it's only getting worse. According to Ferris Research, which studies messaging and content control, 40 trillion spam messages are expected to be sent in 2008, costing businesses more than $140 billion worldwide -- a significant increase from the 18 trillion spam messages sent in 2006 and the 30 trillion in 2007.
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    Data leakage prevention: Hot technology for 2008 15/01/2008 12:22:04

    How hot is the data leakage prevention market? Well, if the big boys like Cisco, Symantec, McAfee and Trend Micro are snapping up DLP start-ups to the tune of US$1.6 billion in 2007, there must be a reason.
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    Five data leak nightmares 08/01/2008 10:20:34

    Data breaches cost companies an average of US$197 per record in 2007, according to a study by the Ponemon Institute. The average cost of a data breach was US$6.3 million, up from US$4.8 million in 2006.
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    Data loss start-ups sell out 08/01/2008 09:19:04

    The rapid consolidation in the anti-data leakage market in the past year is enough to make an IT manager's head spin: This segment of the security sector ballooned to include dozens of start-ups, then even more quickly dwindled down to a few independent companies as larger vendors cherry-picked smaller ones to add data leakage to their own product portfolios.
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    The season of spam: record growth, record irritation 17/08/2007 08:41:39

    There is 17% more spam heading for in-boxes today than there was yesterday, and spam watchers say it could get even worse before the summer is over.
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    Proofpoint jumps into security services fray 09/08/2007 10:26:57

    Joining the trend of providing security technology as a service, Proofpoint on Tuesday announced a hosted version of its messaging-security offering.
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    IBM's ISS announces virtual e-mail security appliance 02/08/2007 08:28:47

    IBM's Internet Security Systems (ISS) on Wednesday announced a virtual e-mail security appliance that runs alongside other applications on a single piece of hardware, instead of requiring a dedicated device.
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    Proofpoint upgrades, integrates e-mail security 05/06/2007 08:21:49

    Proofpoint on Monday announced a version of its security offering that offers e-mail threat protection, data-leak prevention, and messaging encryption in one box.
 
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