Messaging News - February 2009 - (Page 15)

Microsoft and SaaS “There will be a great upsurge of interest among businesses in hosted messaging offerings. This will be stimulated by Microsoft’s SaaS versions of its messaging and collaboration offerings. There will also be strong interest in third-party offerings, especially those of Google and Cisco. As a result, Microsoft will start to experience more competition in the messaging space.” —Ferris Research President and Senior Analyst David Ferris Web Malware Poisons Trusted Online Brands “Anyone who reads email or uses IM has already been attacked. Now, social networking users and even casual Web browsers are increasingly at risk. Cyber criminals are poisoning ‘trusted’ Web sites to spread Web-based malware using techniques like obfuscated JavaScript that exploit browser vulnerabilities. Facebook, Blogger, and the Google AdWords platform have all been hijacked to deliver malware. Dynamic, real-time detection of inbound Web attacks and outbound ‘callbacks’ to criminal servers is key to halting the spread of Web malware.” —FireEye Founder and CEO Ashar Aziz True Unified Communications “2009 will be the year of convergence for the world of hosted messaging and collaboration. Microsoft’s release of Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 R2, which includes an integrated IP PBX system, greatly narrows the gap between the email/IM and the telephony stacks, creating opportunities for true unified communications (UC) solutions. However, achieving true UC on-premise will continue to be challenging for most SMBs. Like Exchange 2007, OCS 2007 R2 runs exclusively on x64 hardware, and is both expensive and complex for SMBs to install, configure and manage on an ongoing basis. The same is true for modern IP-based PBX systems. This offers a great opportunity for hosted Exchange providers to build turnkey, unified communications SaaS offerings. They can combine email, instant messaging/presence, collaboration, voice and mobility to create simple, powerful and affordable integrated solutions that small businesses can use, without installing any complex hardware or software.” —Intermedia Chief Operating Officer Jonathan McCormack Secure Smartphones “Smartphones today are accessing and storing the same amount of sensitive data as corporate laptops. Organizations must apply the same security principles to them as they do to desktops and laptops. Device encryption should be used to protect against device theft and/ or loss, and end-to-end email encryption should be employed to ensure that only the intended recipient of an email can read it. With increasing privacy regulations, companies must consider their smartphones another endpoint, and secure them accordingly.” —PGP Corporation Product Manager Doris Yang DKIM and Domain Reputation “We think that more ISPs will use DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) in their filtering systems in 2009. However, they still won’t be using it as a binary measure—either whitelisting all signed mail, or rejecting all unsigned mail—because bad mailers can authenticate their mail. With the increased use of DKIM, more ISPs will start to develop reputations for authenticated domains to start to separate good from bad mail streams. This will be particularly useful on shared IP addresses.” —Return Path President George Bilbrey Socially-Engineered Phishing Attacks “2009 is going to be known as the ‘Year of the Social Networking Scam’. As more people publish details about themselves on social networking sites, this information will be used to generate ever more sophisticated socially-engineered phishing attacks. Driven by the difficult economy and increasing unemployment, Internet-based crime will also increase. Because of this, businesses will continue to make security a high IT priority in order to protect their brand from the fallout of online identity theft, forgery, and impersonation.” —Sendio Founder and CTO Tal Golan messagingnews.com 15 http://www.messagingnews.com

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Messaging News - February 2009

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