Akonix Security Center Publishes IM Threat Watch for May 2006; Highest Number of Spim and Malware Filter Updates Issued 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) team tracked 31 attacks against IM networks in May, the largest number of threats this year. New worms identified in May include Browaf, Kassbot, Nugache and Propmsn. The most common attack was Tilebot, which had five variants of the original virus. Overall, Akonix security analysts issued a total of 14 new security policy updates, using the industry's only dynamic IM malware, spim and protocol update system. This automatically pushes updates to customers and blocks worms and viruses in real-time at the network perimeter. Akonix customers were protected 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 360 Degree Security from Akonix, companies are protected from new worms and spyware immediately. The patent-pending containment features of our products provide multiple layers of defense against threats, both known and unknown," said Don Montgomery, vice president of marketing at Akonix. "Network security professionals can remain focused on serious threats to their organizations, and not have to worry about new viruses or spyware entering or propagating through IM." 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 May 2006 IM Threat Report can be found at www.imsecuritycenter.com. For more information on how Akonix solutions ensure networks are protected against the security risks of unmanaged IM and P2P use, please visit www.akonix.com, call 619-615-9415 or email sales@akonix.com. You can also see Akonix at Microsoft TechEd teched adj. Variant of tetched. at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center The Boston Convention and Exhibition Center (BCEC) is the largest exhibition center in the Northeast United States, with some 1,700,000 square feet (15.8 hectare) of contiguous exhibition space. , Boston, Massachusetts “Boston” redirects here. For other uses, see Boston (disambiguation). Boston is the capital and most populous city of Massachusetts.[3] The largest city in New England, Boston is considered the unofficial economic and cultural center of the entire New , June 11-16. Companies interested in testing out Akonix products can receive a free 30-day evaluation of its A6000 and A1000 IM 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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