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The Long Goodbye to SSL/Early TLS

If your organization is required to comply with the Payment Card Industry-Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS), particularly Requirement 11, then you are likely familiar with the problems plaguing SSL, early TLS (i.e. TLSv1.0) and their supported ciphers over the past several months. High profile vulnerabilities such as HeartBleed, POODLE, FREAK and LogJam have sent merchants scrambling to patch...
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3 Ways to Protect Your Company Against USB Drops

Recently in Arstechnica.com there was an article bringing light to how Windows computers can be exploited when booby-trapped USB fobs are inserted into the machine that then executes malicious code.Microsoft has acknowledged this and released a security bulletin regarding the issue stating, “To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would have insert a malicious USB device into a target system.”So...
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How to “Time-bomb” a Confidential File with Fortra Secure Collaboration

Self-destructing messages are certainly attention grabbing, but there are many legitimate reasons to limit someone's ability to view or edit a file, by time, by usage, or even by role. We have customers today using this capability to manage job offers and term sheets that expire after a specific date. Some are even managing the lifecycle of business records and classified data types that must be destroyed after a certain number of days, weeks, or months.