Posts from ‘September, 2008’

NOT using a custom-built email database? Well your business may flop sooner than you think.
Emailing customers is the way of the future.
And If you’re not using a custom-built email database to communicate with your customers, you are running behind, an e-marketing expert says.
Aussie Internet director Colin Cruickshank says collecting customers’ email addresses is a cheap [...]

Recent revelations that a BBC mailing list had been hacked and the users on the list spammed with scams and/or computer viruses, highlighted the dangers that spam poses modern companies. While it is likely that many of the people who signed up to this list were using their personal e-mail addresses, it’s a dead-cert that [...]

In the wake of the recent story about Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s Yahoo! email account being hacked, there has been a heated debate about the use of private e-mail accounts by public officials.
It appears that Sarah Palin used her Yahoo! e-mail account for more than just sending photos of her children to friends [...]

Companies should consider developing an encryption policy. This includes defining the information that should be encrypted and who has permission to send encrypted messages. Not every employee should have access to sending encrypted messages, and unauthorized encrypted e-mails should be treated as a potential security breach.
It’s a rare week when the news doesn’t include a [...]

BorderWare Technologies has introduced BorderWare Security Platform 8.0, describing it as the industry’s first security appliance to provide comprehensive email and Web security with anti-data leakage in a single, consolidated and correlated product and administrative interface.
“Until now, organisations globally were forced to purchase, deploy and manage disparate point products that exposed security gaps and increased [...]