Security

Employees don’t give two hoots about security or security policies. They share passwords with colleagues; they share work devices with others without supervision; they transfer files from their laptop to home computer; they use their corporate email address to subscribe to non-work related newsletters / sites; and if their boss says they can’t do something, […]

On the 22nd June I posted about the importance of securing the human element in an organization, and in that same week, the universe, or more correctly cyberspace, decided to provide a real world example of some of the points that I raised. There was an email being circulated about an update released by Microsoft for […]

Email archiving is important for organizations that have to comply with legislation and regulations regarding the archiving of electronic mail for eDiscovery reasons and other legal issues. Therefore deciding which email archiving technology to implement is a significant financial decision for any company. Email archiving helps to: manage email server resources efficiently allow virtually unlimited […]

David Kelleher, communications and research analyst at GFI Software discusses how GFI are helping SMBs to recognize the importance of investing further in their security. The main cause of the problem lies in the attitude that SMBs have towards security, because they believe that cybercrime only affects large enterprises. Most SMBs install anti-spam and anti-virus […]

In Part 1 of this post we examined how SPF works. Now we’ll go into how to create and publish SPF records. Creating an SPF record for your domain The procedure outlined below can be divided into several stages: Determine domain name which is used to send emails to the internet Determine the public IP […]

The Sender Policy Framework (SPF) is a community-based effort that requires senders to publish their mail server in an SPF record. This record is used to detect forged senders. How does SPF work? The basic idea behind Sender Policy Framework (SPF) is simple: whenever an email is received a check is made to see if […]

It’s not always easy for a business to survive in a cutthroat market, especially one that is going through an economic downturn. Therefore, when already hard on cash, and striving to maintain revenues and profits, the last thing that a business wants to worry about is security issues. It is therefore imperative that one safeguards […]

In today’s world one can claim that nearly any organization to operate needs an IT infrastructure. It can be a simple system such as a basic point of sale for a small corner shop to a full fledged IT infrastructure working across continents joining international organizations into one cohesive structure. All systems, be it the smallest up to the largest have one thing in common, they all want to simply get the job done.

Welcome to the brand new GFI Software Blog, Talk Tech To Me, which we are launching today. Throughout 2009, we have been focusing heavily on further enhancing our communications with our customers, partners and the community in which we operate – and this is another exciting step in that process, with the goal of becoming a […]