SonicWALL Offers Security Expert To Provide Help and Discuss Solutions to the Mutated 'ILOVEYOU' Virus.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 19, 2000 Sreekanth Ravi, the CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of SonicWALL, a leading provider of Internet security ''This article or section is being rewritten at Internet security is the process of protecting data and privacy of devices connected to internet from information robbery, hacking, malware infection and unwanted software. for broadband access See broadband and wireless broadband. customers, will be available to comment and provide help on the current outbreak of the "ILOVEYOU" virus that has mutated and is again sweeping through the world. The Internet has quickly become an integral part of our business and personal lives. But as the virus attacks have shown, reliance on the Internet can also be risky. With thousands of businesses falling victim to the recent epidemic of the "ILOVEYOU" virus, it is clear that there is a direct correlation Noun 1. direct correlation - a correlation in which large values of one variable are associated with large values of the other and small with small; the correlation coefficient is between 0 and +1 positive correlation between lost files and down-time and the loss of millions of dollars in business transactions. It is time for corporations to coordinate their own distributed measures to proactively protect their networks. Security is no longer simply a local phenomenon -- it is a global issue. Available To Discuss Recent Events and Prevention: Sreekanth Ravi, President and CEO SonicWALL Ravi, is a network security expert who founded SonicWALL in 1990 and has led it to profitable year-to-year growth, with the introduction of over 30 unique technologies and shipments of over 1.2 million products. This month, SonicWALL announced the introduction of the SonicWALL Network Ant-Virus who inoculates businesses against virus outbreaks by actively ensuring that virus scanning is in use and up-to-date on every PC within a network. Ravi has pioneered technologies to prevent outbreaks of viruses such as the ILOVEYOU virus where a network's system constantly monitors the version of the virus definition file and automatically triggers download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. and installation of new virus definition files to each user's computer -- with no human intervention A procedure used in a lawsuit by which the court allows a third person who was not originally a party to the suit to become a party, by joining with either the plaintiff or the defendant. necessary to ensure updates. |
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