Akonix Security Center Publishes IM Threat Watch for June 2006; 111 Total Attacks Through the First Six Months of This Year.SAN DIEGO San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. -- Akonix Systems, the provider of the most deployed instant messaging Exchanging text messages in real time between two or more people logged into a particular instant messaging (IM) service. Instant messaging is more interactive than e-mail because messages are sent immediately, whereas e-mail messages can be queued up in a mail server for seconds or (IM) security and compliance products in the world, today announced its Security Center (www.imsecuritycenter.com) researchers tracked 17 attacks against IM networks in June, and a total of 111 during the first six months of 2006. New worms identified in June include BlackAngel and Gaobot. The most common attacks were Tilebot and Mesoto, which each had three variants. Overall, Akonix security analysts issued a total of five new policy updates, using the industry's only dynamic IM malware, spim and protocol update system. This automatically pushes updates to customers and blocks spyware, worms and viruses in real time at the network perimeter. Akonix customers were secure on day zero from each new threat with the deep protection and containment features of Akonix's 360 degree Security for Real-Time Communications(TM). "With 111 new attacks on IM networks through the first six months of this year, virus writers have continued in their quest to find attractive attack vectors The approach used to assault a computer system or network. A fancy way of saying "method or type of attack," the term may refer to a variety of vulnerabilities. For example, an operating system or Web browser may have a flaw that is exploited by a Web site. other than email to spread malicious content," said Don Montgomery, vice president of marketing at Akonix. "With 360-Degree Security, our customers enjoy the peace of mind delivered by the combination of our early warning system, our patent-pending spyware and malicious code protection and our multi-layer containment features. The benefit to our customers is that this process is automatic and requires no IT resources or system downtime The time during which a computer is not functioning due to hardware, operating system or application program failure. ." The Akonix Security Center is a collaborative effort between Akonix's internal security group, enterprise customer security teams and industry leading partners in IM infrastructure and security. It focuses on the emerging security threats posed by IM and P2P See peer-to-peer and point-to-point. applications in the corporate environment, and is the foundation of the early detection layer of 360 degree Security. Detailed information about the June 2006 IM Threat Report can be found at www.imsecuritycenter.com. For more information on how 360 degree Security from Akonix ensures networks guard against the security risks of unmanaged IM and P2P use, please visit www.akonix.com/360, call 619-615-9415 or email sales@akonix.com. Companies interested in putting Akonix products to work protecting their networks can receive a free 30-day evaluation of A6000 and A1000 IM security appliances Security appliances protect computer networks from unwanted data traffic, intruders, email spam, enforce policies, and may also be used to create and manage VPNs. There are a number of types of security appliances. at www.akonix.com/eval. About Akonix Akonix is the most deployed IM security product in the world, enabling Global 1000 companies to deploy productive, enterprise-wide IM that is secure, compliant and managed. Worldwide, over one million people across hundreds of organizations in the Financial Services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , Telecommunications, Energy, Technology, Healthcare and Entertainment industries use Akonix products. With more than 20 patent applications, Akonix's 360 degree Security provides the industry's only automatically-updated protection to block viruses and malware for both enterprise and public IM systems. Akonix has certified partnerships with all leading IM and presence providers, including America Online See AOL. (R), Microsoft, Yahoo!, Reuters, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Jabber An open standard for instant messaging (IM). There are tens of thousands of Jabber servers on the Internet, most of which are privately run within a company or college campus. There are also hundreds of public Jabber servers that any user can register with, Google Talk being the largest. Inc., Parlano, Antepo and Bloomberg. An IM industry first, the Akonix IM Security Center (http://www.imsecuritycenter.com) provides real-time information about worms, viruses and other vulnerabilities that target IM and P2P networks. The company issues monthly and quarterly IM threat watch reports to track key trends and vulnerabilities. For further information on the company, please visit http://www.akonix.com. |
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