April's humongous Microsoft Patch Day is live. As expected, Microsoft released a record-breaking 17 security bulletins today, fixing nine Critical and eight Important flaws in Internet Explorer (IE), Windows, Office, and some development packages. Some highlights from the bulletins include: Updates for Windows' SMB client and server. Trojans, bots, and worms tend to … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2011
The “Privacy Bill of Rights” – A WatchGuard Perspective
“Whenever industry fails to self-regulate, government will fill the void with legislation.” You can quote me on that. Currently, the security industry fights a war on many fronts. On one end of the spectrum, we have industry regulations, such as PCI DSS, which helps mandate how credit card/payment card information is secured. On the other end, we have government … [Read more...]
Prepare for a Record Breaking Microsoft Patch Day Tomorrow
I don't know about you, but I really don't like hearing "record breaking" and "Microsoft Patch Day" in the same sentence. Unfortunately, April's Black Tuesday will be just that -- a record breaking patch day. According to their Advanced Notification page, Microsoft plans to release an unprecedented 17 Security Bulletins tomorrow. The bulletins will fix security flaws in … [Read more...]
Richard Stiennon Interviews WatchGuard’s Aarrestad
Richard Stiennon, chief research analyst with IT-Harvest and industry luminary, talks with WatchGuard VP, Eric Aarrestad about the latest trends in IT security, UTMs, web-based threats, Application Control and more… Interview with Eric Aarrestad, VP Marketing, WatchGuard from Richard Stiennon on Vimeo. If you ever wanted to get an in-depth perspective on … [Read more...]
Security and Voice over IP
Today, WatchGuard announce that it was teaming up with Mitel to provide voice over IP (VoIP) protection for Mitel’s unified communications (UC) solutions. So, why does this matter? Expectations are that half of small-to-medium sized businesses and two-thirds of all enterprise organizations are using VoIP. Because of its ubiquity, VoIP has emerged as a substantive threat … [Read more...]