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Friday, 29 August 2008

Little Hacks

Thanks to a new group of tools, IT leaders are keeping their schools plugged in while keeping up with the hackers.

By Wayne D'Orio, Scholastic
August 2008

Saturday, 09 August 2008

The Olympics, Part 1: A Test of IT Strength, Endurance and Discipline

The world will be watching this year's Olympic Games, and more than ever before, it will be watching online. This unprecedented demand for video over the Internet will test the limits of enterprise networks and lead to new levels of traffic monitoring by companies, experts predict.

By Andrew K. Burger, Tech News World
August 9, 2008

Thursday, 07 August 2008

Corporations prepare for start of Olympics

With the start of the Olympics hours away, security experts expect companies to see an increase in bandwidth use, as well as an increase in potential securities risks, as employees watch the sporting events via streaming video.

By Sue Marquette Poremba, SC Magazine
August 7, 2008

Friday, 01 August 2008

Brace Yourself for the Beijing Olympics

Enterprises would do well to consider the hits their Internet access will take during the Games and work to prevent this problem.

By Richard Adhikari, InternetNews.com
August 1, 2008

Thursday, 31 July 2008

Safe and Productive

Schools are learning to better negotiate the Internet’s fine line between learning and trouble.

By Karen D. Schwartz, EdTech
July 31, 2008

Friday, 25 July 2008

Internet Filtering: Protect Your Network & Prevent Access To Inappropriate Material

The news points to the importance of enterprises protecting their networks and constituents against the breadth of inappropriate content. Enterprises must determine the appropriateness of all Web material. They must establish and enforce acceptable use/Internet access policies on that basis and educate their employees about that policy.

By David Geer, Processor
July 25, 2008

Wednesday, 23 July 2008

An Internet monitoring upgrade helps keep these western Ohio students safe without restricting their learning

“We didn’t even know how big the problem was until we started transitioning to the new system,” he says. “The other system wasn’t doing a good job at all of blocking secure sites, and students were finding ways to use proxy sites to get around the filtering system. And it was a constant battle; there is always another MySpace unblock site or proxy out there that allows kids to get onto MySpace.”

By Karen D. Schwartz, EdTech
July 23, 2008

Friday, 18 July 2008

Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists overcomes web-filtering challenge

The R3000 web-filtering system from 8e6 Technolgies allows us to block or allow specific content and websites to groups and individual users on an ad hoc basis according to their field of study and changing needs.

By Felipe Varela, RCOG
July 18, 2008

Thursday, 10 July 2008

Ohio's WOCO Rolls Out Internet Filtering

Western Ohio Computer Organization (WOCO) has implemented Internet filtering and reporting software from 8e6 Technologies, one of the 165 new K-12 education customers the company said it signed in the first half of 2008.

By Dian Schaffhauser, The Journal
July 10, 2008

Monday, 09 June 2008

Are bots about to bring down your business?

There’s some good news these days on the IT security front: Cybercriminals don’t want to knock your network offline. The bad news? They want to use it for launching attacks that are more distributed, more profitable and potentially more damaging to your business than ever before.

By George Shih, 8e6 Technologies
June 10, 2008

Wednesday, 21 May 2008

Government agencies deploy Internet monitoring and filtering technologies to oversee employee activity.

Information Systems Director Bruce Munroe began deploying Internet filtering and reporting tools from 8e6 Technologies about two and a half years ago as he saw security threats from the Internet grow.

Caron Carlson
May 21, 2008

Tuesday, 15 April 2008

Vendor claims to nix URL-bypassing sites

Proxy blocking company 8e6 has claimed that its software can now curb the proxy scripts that have recently flooded the Internet as a way of bypassing URL blocking systems.

By John E. Dunn, Techworld
April 16, 2008

Tuesday, 08 April 2008

Interviews Shed Light on Topics of Unique Interest to Banking/Security Executives

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April 9, 2008

Monday, 07 April 2008

RSA 2008 Eric Lundbohm discusses 8e6 Technologies' Internet solutions

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April 8, 2008

Sunday, 06 April 2008

SC Magazine Awards 8e6 "Best Buy" Two Years Back-to-Back!

SC Magazine article

April 6, 2008

Monday, 24 March 2008

Vantage, 8e6 Partner for Safe Search for Schools

Ed tech developer Vantage Learning and security technology provider 8e6 have teamed up to launch a new secure Internet search engine designed specifically for K-12 school districts.

March 24, 2008

Thursday, 20 March 2008

March Madness hoops-watching may drive IT staff mad

With online viewing the only option for many college basketball fans this week, businesses run the risk of employee productivity declines, bandwidth overloads and security threats, experts say.

Friday, March 14, 2008

Thursday, 20 March 2008

8e6 Technologies Expands Partner Program

8e6 Technologies, a Web filtering and insider threat management solutions provider, is growing with a newly expanded partner program.

Friday, March 14, 2008

Tuesday, 11 March 2008

Web Monitoring: Anonymizers vs. Anti-Anonymizers

In the struggle to provide a sure way to surf the Internet anonymously, will anyone ever win?

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Saturday, 08 March 2008

8e6 draws web filtering battle lines

As things hot up in the Web filtering space, 8e6 says VARs are joining its ranks because it can deliver more margin and a more focused approach to the channel.

By Sara Driscoll, 02/29/2008