**excerpt from Globe & Mail Article. Original can be found here.
Marco Bonanni of Optrics Engineering, a diamond partner of Barracuda Networks, which specializes in e-mail and web security, said workers should be aware everything they’re doing is marked and logged — even things they might think are innocent.
“The equipment that most organizations install nowadays have months and months of logged data and information about every single message that goes in and out of the company, or every single URL or website that’s been visited” he said from Edmonton.
What’s more, some filters are set or configured to display a message notifying users that a particular website they’re trying to visit has been blocked.
“Even though it is blocked, it still logs the fact that they attempted to go to it” he said.
In most cases, Bonanni said companies are trying to protect themselves against virus infection, but in some instances they’re looking for something specifically to prevent abuse.
**excerpt from Globe & Mail Article. Original can be found here.
Network Instruments has announced their “Destination Performance” tour. Here’s their announcement:
Destination: Performance
Network Instruments’ game-changing approach to network monitoring, troubleshooting, and analysis is so solid you’ve got to see it for yourself.
Avoid the roadside breakdowns that leave businesses and their clients stranded. From company-wide reports to deep packet analysis, we’ll show you the smooth road to an efficient network and a healthy business.
Join us for lunch and tips from the experts.
We’ll discuss:
Application performance monitoring
VoIP and UC analysis
Device and route monitoring
Back-in-time troubleshooting
Enterprise-wide reporting
Plus, get a first look at our newly released Observer 13 analysis solution.
The Destination: Performance tour is scheduled to stop in the following cities:
Network Instruments, a leading provider of innovative analysis solutions, helps organizations and enterprises ensure the delivery of business-critical applications on their networks. The company’s monitoring and reporting products provide comprehensive visibility into networks and applications to optimize network performance, speed troubleshooting, and assist long-term capacity planning. Network Instruments solutions provide integrated enterprise-wide reporting and back-in-time investigation capabilities for troubleshooting networks. The company is headquartered in Minneapolis with sales offices worldwide and distributors in over 50 countries.
To see Network Instruments products, visit http://www.packetsniffers.com, operated by Optrics Engineering, a Network Instruments partner.
With over 50,000 corporate users in more than 100 countries, PacketTrap provides affordable enterprise class network and application management software that improves performance across their customer’s most complex networks.
PacketTrap’s flagship solution, PacketTrap Perspective, provides IT professionals with a 360 degree view of their single and multi-site networks and allows them to manage and maintain their infrastructure from a single interface.
PacketTrap Perspective is a comprehensive and affordable network management and application monitoring solution for single and multi-site networks. It solves the problems associated with bandwidth, performance, and connectivity and allows you to take back control of your network.
The PacketTrap pt360 Tool Suite consolidates dozens of network management and monitoring tools into a single, integrated interface.
PacketTrap pt360 Tool Suite's Dashboard
It also works well with virtual networks. You can easily monitor your virtual environment. Automatically discover your host ESX servers and associated guest VMs. Gather key statistics like status, CPU, memory, disk and interface traffic.
All of the PacketTrap products can be downloaded for trial, and evaluation from the evaluation page.
Barracuda Web Filter firmware release 4.0 is now generally available to all customers. This major release includes powerful new features and enhancements, including:
Support for Cisco WCCP v1 and v2 enabled routers/switches; allows forwarding of HTTP traffic via a single WCCP-enabled router.
Integration with the Barracuda Control Center (BCC); enables administrators to control multiple units from a single location.
Expanded Reporting Capabilities; offers 8 new time-based reports including “Top Users by Session Time” and “Top Domains by Session Time.”
To view detailed firmware release notes, click here.
Smartphones are our most personal computers in today’s increasingly connected life. They have also become an integral part of corporate networks through common usage of VPN and push-email solutions. Smartphones need to be secured as part of the company’s IT infrastructure. Recognition of this is at the core of F-Secure Mobile Security 5, a new version of the powerful smartphone security solution by F-Secure, the global leader in protecting mobile devices.
Smartphones often contain highly confidential information, including messages and pictures of our loved-ones, banking details, emails, business projects and other valuable data. F-Secure Mobile Security enables smartphone users to enjoy the full potential of their devices without worrying about threats to their own or their company’s privacy, safeguarding the privacy of data even in the unfortunate event that the phone is lost or stolen.
Samu Konttinen, Vice President of F-Secure’s Mobile Solutions Business Unit, says: “This launch is the first step in augmenting our leading anti-virus and firewall capabilities by introducing the anti-theft feature. Smartphone users want peace of mind when browsing the Internet and making financial transactions. They also need protection for their confidential data in case the mobile device is lost. F-Secure Mobile Security provides all this, with unrivaled ease-of-use.”
F-Secure Mobile Security introduces the new advanced anti-theft feature with remote lock, remote wipe and theft control functionalities. Remote lock can be used to lock the device to protect confidential information quickly and easily with a single SMS message. The theft control feature activates when the SIM card is changed by locking the device and sending the new SIM information to the owner. As an ultimate safety measure to prevent misuse, it is possible to erase all the data on the phone with remote wipe by sending an SMS message.
F-Secure Mobile Security also protects against spyware that may monitor and record all the actions on a mobile phone, including voice calls, SMS, multimedia and email messages. It seamlessly combines real-time antivirus protection with a customizable firewall to make the phone completely safe against mobile malware.
An advanced 2-layer update mechanism automatically retrieves the newest malware definitions and updates, whenever any data connection is used. The unique SMS update mechanism – patented by
F-Secure – ensures that critical updates are received even when a data connection is not available. F-Secure Mobile Security lives up to F-Secure’s track record of providing the fastest protection in the online world.
New F-Secure Mobile Security 5 will be available in December for smartphones using the S60 3rd edition through the F-Secure eStore (www.f-secure.com/estore), as well as many F-Secure partners. The software will also be available for the Windows Mobile platform in early 2009.
Don’t believe that smartphone security is an issue? This video might change your mind!
F-Secure Mobile Security allows smartphone users to experience the full potential of their devices without the fear of mobile threats. The application combines real-time antivirus functionality with a firewall making the device completely safe in today’s connected lives. Technical savvy is not required when installing nor running F-Secure Mobile Security.
XRoads Networks recently launched it’s ZeroOutages service, which combines your existing Internet connection with a secondary broadband link.
This new service promises to deliver:
More Bandwidth
ZO provides you with the ability to leverage multiple broadband connections for faster connectivity which enables greater productivity and reduced wait time for your end-users.
More Availability
ZO ensures that you have redundancy in the event of a network failure, thus providing significant cost savings by prevent an outage and the lost of productivity and sales which can occur when a outage happens.
More Responsiveness
ZO delivers the low latency required for today’s real-time applications like VoIP, CRM and SaaS. By improving responsiveness you will get a better experience and your network administrator gets peace of mind.
Competitive Advantages
The Market Leader – ZeroOutages is the first to offer high-speed broadband load balancing and redundancy solutions specifically for small and medium-sized businesses with no ISP coordination or complex routing protocols required.
Unbeatable Price v. Performance - ZO has the market leading price for nation-wide 10Mbps service, period. At $499/mo. no other service offers the benefits and extensive feature set that is delivered by ZeroOutages. Even their base $99/mo. service provides true value in that it offers both increased web-based download speeds and at the same time ensures full network redundancy in the event of a WAN outage.
Multi-Link Multihoming (without BGP) – Ease of installation is one of the reasons so many of their customer have choosen ZeroOutages. Unlike BGP and other methods for connecting two links, there is no complex protocol setup, no coordination with each ISP, no need to go through the process of obtaining AS numbers or working with Internet working groups to allow you to configure multihoming. ZeroOutages requires none of these things, and so it is much easuer to setup and provides much more flexibility.
Industry Leading Best Practices – Due to their extensive experience in delivering load balancing and redundancy solutions thy have developed a list of best practices for handling multi-homed connectivity.
Commitment to Enterprise Class Services – Even though ZeroOutages typically caters to the small to mid-sized business market they treat every customer like they are their largest customer. This level of customer service is what keeps their customers coming back, and why they get such good word of word advertising. They remain dedicated to serving their customers so well that they would continue to recommend them to others.
Internet Connectivity Insurance for as little as $99/mo.
Their services include:
1) A secondary backup broadband connection (can also be used for load balancing traffic for increased throughput).
2) Their unique Internet redundancy switching appliance which requires no IP address changes and will automatically switch over your Internet connection in the event of a network outage.
3) 24/7/365 monitoring of each WAN link by our network operations center (NOC) with instant responsiveness in the event of a network failure. Let ZeroOutages the troubleshooting process.
Contact us today at 1-877-386-3763 and see if we can provide you with some peace of mind, and ensure that you never get those late night calls!
This version applies to the WhatsUp Gold product family:
WhatsUp Gold Standard Edition
WhatsUp Gold Premium Edition
WhatsUp Gold Distributed Edition
WhatsUp Gold MSP Edition
New Features Include:
WhatsUp® Gold WhatsConnected™ is a comprehensive Layer 2 and 3 discovery and visualization solution that provides insight into physical network topology and how devices are interconnected. Its unique technology goes far beyond typical IP discovery and mapping solutions by providing detailed hardware inventory and configuration information. WhatsConnected discovers, maps and documents the network down to the individual port. WhatsUp Gold WhatsConnected requires WhatsUp Gold version 12.3.1.
Barracuda Backup Combines Local and Offsite Data Backup for Affordable Disaster Recovery Solution
Barracuda Networks Inc. today announced it has completed the acquisition of BitLeap, an innovative provider of local and offsite data backup and disaster recovery solutions. As part of the acquisition Barracuda Networks will now offer Barracuda Backup, a complete and affordable data backup and disaster recovery solution, to customers of all sizes and business types.
“BitLeap developed a compelling technology and services platform for delivering a unique backup solution to the market,” said Dean Drako, president and CEO of Barracuda Networks. “We believe that the combination of the trusted Barracuda Networks brand, our customer-centric business approach, as well as our extensive worldwide channel reach will enable us to offer an affordable backup solution to our current customers and to mainstream businesses of all sizes.”
Complete Data Backup Solution
Barracuda Backup is an affordable, integrated local and offsite data backup solution that combines the Barracuda Backup Server for rapid restoration on the local network with the Barracuda Backup Service, a secure cloud-based backup service to two geographically dispersed data centers for redundancy.
“No other backup solution provides an affordable means of combining local, appliance-based backup with two offsite replicas,” said Stephen Pao, vice president of product management for Barracuda Networks. “By maintaining three copies of each customer’s data, Barracuda Backup offers superior levels of disaster tolerance through hardware redundancy, geographically dispersed data centers, elimination of single points of failure, and distance solutions.”
Barracuda Backup copies primary data from any operating system or storage platform and provides fast local storage and restorations, secure data transfers to offsite data centers and leverages industry-leading policy management for data retention. Barracuda Backup safely maintains backup data offsite using efficient replication techniques designed by Barracuda Networks to conserve bandwidth and minimize the cost of disaster recovery. Other capabilities include:
Automatic backups. Administrators set the schedule for how often backups should run throughout the day. This eliminates the risks associated with manual backup techniques.
Full Local Backup. The Barracuda Backup Server offers sufficient storage for a complete copy of an organization’s current and historical data.
Fast Local Restore. Administrators can restore data directly from the Barracuda Backup Server at local network speeds. This is the quickest way to recover lost data or recreate historical data from local backups.
Secure, Redundant Replication. Multiple layers of encryption, including AES 256-bit, protect the integrity of data transferred offsite using Barracuda Backup. Barracuda Networks’ two offsite data centers use highly redundant disk-based hardware in a fully encrypted and secure format.
Data De-Duplication. Using advanced technology, Barracuda Backup reduces the storage and transfer requirements for backups by analyzing each file at the bit level and only copying, transferring and archiving new bit sequences. This advanced de-duplication technology is applied within a single file’s revision history as well as across the entire backup volume. De-duplication is also applied between data sets from multiple locations.
Alert Notifications. Barracuda Backup automatically provides email alerts to administrators when service issues are detected, including when the Barracuda Backup Server goes offline. Other notifications are sent when errors or file warnings are detected in backups, or when, expected files for backup are missing.
Regulatory Compliance. Barracuda Backup encompasses the security requirements to cover a wide range of industry-specific regulations such as HIPAA, for the healthcare industry, and Gramm-Leach-Bliley for financial organizations.
“Barracuda Backup eliminates the complexity and expense associated with most data backup solutions available for businesses today,” said Pao.
Automatic Health Monitoring and Provisioning
The Barracuda Backup user interface makes it easy to manage and back up data on the Barracuda Backup Server and to schedule reoccurring offsite data backups in the cloud. The Web user interface provides access and control of settings, reports, restores, statistics and account information in order to manage deployed Barracuda Backup Servers even across multiple locations. In addition, Barracuda Central, an advanced operations center, provisions and monitors the health of the Barracuda Backup Service and provides 24×7 technical support and emergency restoration assistance in the event of disaster or local backup system failure.
Continued Support for Current Customers and Partners
As part of the acquisition, Barracuda Networks plans to increase investment in product development in backup services and solutions. In addition, all of BitLeap’s employees have joined the Barracuda Networks team. Barracuda Networks will continue to work with all BitLeap sales channel partners, expanding the depth of its worldwide sales reach, and enabling them to provide better service and support to all existing and future customers.
Pricing and Availability
Barracuda Backup pricing includes a one-time hardware fee for the Barracuda Backup Server and a monthly subscription to the Barracuda Backup Service plans. Barracuda Backup Server pricing starts at $999 depending on model and Barracuda Backup Service plans start at $99 for 50GB of storage per month and varies according to how much storage is needed. Barracuda Backup is currently available in North America only. For more information, please visit http://www.BarracudaNetworks.ca/backup-server.aspx.
A10 Networks’ AX Series is the industry’s best price/performance advanced traffic manager – helping enterprises and ISPs maximize application availability through a high-performance and scalable Web Application Delivery Platform.
The AX’s Advanced Core Operating System (ACOS) architecture has garnered the company numerous awards and is revolutionary by market standards due to native multi-systems support. ACOS includes an optimized multi-CPU architecture built from the ground up that leaps the competition in terms of performance, scalability and reliability.
As the provider of end-to-end services for mobile carriers and millions of wireless handsets around the world, our network must always be fast and reliable. We chose A10 Networks’ AX Series new generation server load balancers to enhance our carrier-grade network because they provide a new industry price/performance milestone that leaps ahead of incumbents’ offerings in this market – which allows our service to be more competitive.
-Willy Lee, senior director of operations for Core Mobility
- Industry’s best throughput, SSL, RAM Cache and Layer 4-7 price/performance – never sacrificing features for performance
- aRule policy editor for flexible script-based customization of traffic management and security
- Unparalleled energy efficiency increases transactions per watt thus reducing power requirements for the lowest cost of ownership and greenest solution
A10 Networks’ AX Series
