ITGumbo: spicing IT up

Israeli data leakage protection company, Safend, has released a set of tips for how companies can keep their data safe during the Holiday season and long after. Tips include:

-  Employ a Sound Auditing Process: Portable storage devices such as iPods, PDAs, smart phones and other mobile devices, have become pervasive in the workplace. Allowing your employees to use their iPods at work may be a good way to increase morale but it also poses a security threat. Knowing what devices are connecting to what endpoints will help administrators monitor and avoid these threats. Determining what kind -- and how many -- devices are accessing an organization's network is the first step in developing an effective DLP strategy.

-  Access Control: To make sure that users cannot easily circumvent security policies, it is important to first make sure the policies in place are flexible enough that they don't hinder productivity, but strong enough to prevent data leakage threats. This is accomplished through granular policies that allow administrators to block, allow or restrict access to data from everything from file type, device type and even specific device serial number.

-  Encrypt Everything: Many enterprises feel that they have covered all their security bases with the implementation of security policies, employee training and endpoint protection technology and are reluctant to invest in another product or add another level of security. However, encryption is essential to ensure that unauthorized users cannot access data in the case of loss or theft.

Earlier this month Deloitte listed Safend as one Israel's 50 fastest growing technology companies based on its revenues from the past 5 years. Safend's products include: SafendProtector, SafendEncryptor and SafendReporter.

Another Israeli information security company, Promisec Ltd., was recently covered on Israel Innovation 2.0 for a video it posted on YouTube that also raises these points.


About the author: Lisa Damast is the Membership Manager of ebizQ.net and currently resides in Israel. Any questions or inquiries regarding this blog or ebizQ membership services can be directed to her via email at ldamast (at) ebizq (dot) net. She can also be followed on Twitter, where she covers additional Israeli technology companies and Israel-related headlines and topics.

 

Over the past year, Promisec Ltd., an internal network security solutions company with an office in Israel, has been using YouTube as a tool to explain the benefits and features of its products and the simplicity of how to use them. It's latest promotional video, "Ask Yourself These Questions," successfully caught my attention because of the important security questions regarding laptops, PCs and servers it brings up at the beginning of the video that every network manager should ask himself or herself and know the answers to.

Some of the questions asked include:
1. Could someone be running any file sharing applications?
2. Has any user attached an unauthorized external storage device?
3. Does every endpoint and server have the latest SP or hot fix?
4. Will I face IT and Security budget cuts that will limit visibility to new threats?

Check it out:



Promisec also offers a free Internal Threat Encyclopedia reference guide on its website that is worth taking a look at.
 

About the author: Lisa Damast is the Membership Manager of ebizQ.net and currently resides in Israel. Any questions or inquiries regarding this blog or ebizQ membership services can be directed to her via email at ldamast (at) ebizq (dot) net. She can also be followed on Twitter, where she covers additional Israeli technology companies and Israel-related headlines and topics.

Though there wasn't a lot of technology news coming from Israel during the week of September 28, 2008, the cleantech industry received a significant amount of the coverage that it did receive. The big news in the industry was that the future of cleantech is still promising and that the climate does impact cleantech investment. Widget company, Gigya raised funds and much of SanDisk's value has to do with MSystems, Ltd. For the full stories on these and more, check below for this week's 10 Israel-related technology headlines from the week of September 28, 2008.

Cleantech
1. Clean technologies to create business opportunities, say panelists

2. Accelerated business response to climate change drives cleantech investment

3. Cleantech investment breaks all-time record


Investments
4. JVP Media V holds $100m first closing

5. Gigya Raises $11 Million Series C Round


Information Technology
6. Sandbox security versus the evil Web (Trusteer and Check Point)

7. New Chip Technology Is Crucial to SanDisk's Value (MSystems, Ltd)


Miscellaneous
8. PicScout Continues to Guard Visual Content Copyright

9. Stellar Startups: The spirit of a startup

10. Israel's population in New Year: 7.3 million, 76% Jewish



About the author: Lisa Damast is the Membership Manager of ebizQ.net and currently resides in Israel. Any questions or inquiries regarding this blog or ebizQ membership services can be directed to her via email at ldamast (at) ebizq (dot) net. She can also be followed on Twitter, where she covers additional Israeli technology companies and Israel-related headlines and topics.

*About the Weekly Headlines image: The Star of David in the image was found on Flickr and is used under the Creative Commons license. It was originally uploaded by Flickr member, zeevveez. The overall Weekly Headlines image was designed by Lisa Damast.

If you were at VMWorld 2008, the industry's largest virtualization conference, last week and are wondering what presence Israeli companies had at it, you need look no farther than the winner of “The Desktop Virtualization Best of VMWorld 2008 Award," InstallFree.

InstallFree, a provider of Dynamic Desktop Computing,

"enables organizations to centrally deploy and manage software applications to end-users in a stateless, flexible and cost-efficient manner across a variety of usage scenarios."

InstallFree Bridge, the product that won, allows the lock down of a corporate PC without diminishing the end users’ experience. InstallFree Bridge end-users can access their desktop applications virtually from any computer anywhere and have local application processing and offline availability, all while still under the IT department's control.

According to the website, additional InstallFree benefits include: single package for all platforms, separately package desktop elements, click and deploy, simplify application lifecycle tasks, business continuity on-click and foster end-user mobility.

Here is a demo video of InstallFree that Virtual Strategy Magazine posted on YouTube.

 
 


Company Facts
Founded in 2006.

R&D in Raanana, Israel.

Yori Gabay, Co-Founder and CEO.

Netzer Shlomai, Co-Founder and CTO.

Products: InstallFree MiniBridge, InstallFree Bridge and InstallFree Desktop

Website: www.installfree.com


About the author: Lisa Damast is the Membership Manager of ebizQ.net and currently resides in Israel. Any questions or inquiries regarding this blog or ebizQ membership services can be directed to her via email at ldamast (at) ebizq (dot) net. She can also be followed on Twitter, where she covers additional Israeli technology companies and Israel-related headlines and topics.