The time has come to put the proverbial foot down: those who send file attachments in e-mail must take it upon themselves to also send any information a recipient may need to protect themselves from viruses.
Nearly 90 per cent of companies with multiple locations will begin switching from their conventional telephone systems to IP telephony over their LANs within the next five years, according to The Phillips Group - InfoTech, a Parsippany, NJ-based research firm.
The Secure Virtual Network (SVN) architecture from Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. seeks to obliterate the notion of a secured perimeter with holes poked through to allow VPN connectivity.