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Towerwall Heartbleed Vulnerability Alert

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Michelle Drolet

Good Afternoon: The IT infrastructure your organization may use for day-to-day business may be vulnerable because of the Heartbleed vulnerability. Sophos a Towerwall partner has prepared a podcast of the Heartbleed vulnerability, which addresses who is likely affected, workarounds and an offer to help determine if you are vulnerable. http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/04/10/sscc-142-heartbleed-explained-patches-evaluated-apple-chastised-podcast/ If you think you may be affected and don't knowfalse

Successful Breakfast Event: From Zero to Data Governance Hero

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Michelle Drolet

Thanks for all that joined Towerwall at the From Zero to Data Governance Hero breakfast event! Towerwall and Varonis experts gave first-rate information on the importance of pressing data concerns of 2014. Also, Varonis’ speaker gave a great live demonstration on the Data Governance Suite! It was an event well spent!

Patch Tuesday wrap-up, March 2014 - critical fixes from Microsoft and Adobe

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Michelle Drolet

by Paul Ducklin on March 12, 2014 We already wrote about Microsoft's March 2014 patches, noting that, as usually happens, there was an All-Points Bulletin for Internet Explorer coming up. Microsoft doesn't call them APBs, of course - they are Cumulative Security Updates, with one bulletin covering all the numerous versions, bitnesses and CPU flavors of Redmond's IE browser. What we weren't able to tell you in advance was whether the widely-publicized (but fortunately not widely-exploited) false

Stay Secure in the Cloud with Sophos Cloud Endpoint

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Michelle Drolet

Towerwall and Sophos, partnering to protect data integrity in the cloud.

Internet Explorer, .NET, IPv6 and Shockwave top the February 2014 Patch Tuesday list

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Michelle Drolet

For today's Patch Tuesday, Microsoft released seven bulletins (a surprise after only announcing five last week) and Adobe released one. There are four critical advisories, to me the most important of which is MS14-010 affecting Internet Explorer versions 6 through 10. This patch fixes 24 vulnerabilities, one of which has been publicly disclosed. Considering that 22 of these vulnerabilities can lead to remote code execution, this fix is priority one. MS14-007 is a flaw in the Direct2D graphicsfalse

Introducing our Quarterly Newsletter: the Data Security Review

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Michelle Drolet

I am excited to announce the launch of our quarterly newsletter, the Data Security Review.

Please join us at the Information Security Summit 2014

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Michelle Drolet

Please save the date and plan to join us for this timely forum on what you need to know about the latest security issues, threats, and technologies that will help you protect your business!

Establishing Security Goals

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Michelle Drolet

Implementing security practices in your organization’s employees’ daily work habits, and ensuring the integrity and confidentiality of information security, the goals of the Security Awareness Program are:

3 Keys To Keep Enterprise Clouds Secure

3 Keys To Keep Enterprise Clouds Secure

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Michelle Drolet

3 Keys To Keep Enterprise Clouds Secure Outsourcing has won out over ownership, and the rush to the cloud continues to gather pace. Where security is concerned there are two major trends that threaten to expose your company to unnecessary risk. There’s a lack of planning and due diligence when choosing cloud providers, and there’s a murky grey area when it comes to responsibility. They can both be mitigated by building security planning into your system from the start, instead of trying tofalse

How to Expose Cyber-Attacks and Combat Threats

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Michelle Drolet

Published by Michele Drolet, CEO of Towerwall Proper analysis will flag suspicious behavior and allow the IT department to assess the threat and take action to close it down Cybercriminals are employing more sophisticated techniques all the time and far too many companies and organizations still don't have the protection they really need to safeguard their systems. The prevalence of targeted attacks and advanced persistent threats (APTs) is disturbing. The risk is that security is breached,false