Briefs
Australian email security company MailGuard has launched a cloud-hosted email service it says will take on Google's Gmail and Microsoft's Outlook, while generating 100 ICT jobs in Melbourne. Trying to capitalise on recent news of US snooping of private citizen data, CEO Craig McDonald said: "Multinationals not only pose a risk to the local ICT job market but also to the security of the information being transferred internally and outbound from Australian businesses."
Migration slow
A survey has found enterprises are in constant migration, with the move from Windows XP to Windows 7 still holding companies up. The survey, by IDC for Flexera, found 28 per cent of respondents were yet to migrate more than half of their applications from Windows XP to Windows 7, ahead of the April8, 2014, end-of-support date for the older operating system. Only 3.7 per cent planned on migrating directly to Windows8.
Insider threat
Insider threat expert Randall Trzeciak from the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, is speaking at the ISACA's Oceania conference at the Adelaide Convention Centre, which finishes on Friday. The annual event for IT professionals will focus on navigating security, audit and governance. Mr Trzeciak has studied 850 insider threat cases since 2001, including 80 US high-profile prosecuted cases. bit.ly/1bAxOLN
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MailGuard, an Australian email security company, has launched a cloud-hosted email service it says will take on Google’s Gmail and Microsoft’s Outlook, positioning itself as a local alternative focused on email security for Australian businesses.
MailGuard says the new cloud-hosted email service will generate 100 ICT jobs in Melbourne.
MailGuard’s CEO Craig McDonald highlighted concerns that multinationals can pose risks to the local ICT job market and to the security of information transferred internally and outbound from Australian businesses, a point the company is using to promote a local email alternative.
The IDC survey for Flexera found enterprises are in constant migration, with 28% of respondents yet to migrate more than half of their applications from Windows XP to Windows 7 ahead of the April 8, 2014 end-of-support date.
No — the survey reported only 3.7% of respondents planned to migrate directly from Windows XP to Windows 8, indicating most organisations were not skipping Windows 7.
Randall Trzeciak is an insider threat expert from the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University; he has studied 850 insider threat cases since 2001, including 80 high-profile prosecuted US cases, and was speaking at the ISACA Oceania conference in Adelaide.
The annual ISACA Oceania conference, held at the Adelaide Convention Centre, focuses on navigating security, audit and governance and is an event aimed at IT professionals.
According to the IDC/Flexera survey, migration delays are ‘holding companies up’ — with the April 8, 2014 end-of-support deadline looming, businesses that haven’t migrated more than half of their applications may face operational and planning challenges as they work to meet that deadline.
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