Akonix in the News – 2006 Archives
Instant Messaging, Instant Headaches
But unlike the past, IM hacking has gone from annoying to downright criminal, with attacks that attempt to steal data and money, often by tracking usernames and passwords with keylogging programs that come alive when users visit a banking Web site.
Processor | 12 29 06
Roundup 2006: Doing their homework
With that demand for undisturbed IM access comes the need for the university's IT team to secure a communications means that is quickly becoming a preferred attack vector. In fact, solutions provider Akonix Systems recently reported that it tracked more IM attacks in October than any month of the year — and the upward tick is expected to continue. "The bad guys are looking for a new way in," Shestack says.
SC Magazine | 12 14 06
Electronic documents used in legal proceedings could boost stature of IT professionals
"I think where this hits hardest is in the midrange companies, smaller companies that are busy running their businesses and just haven't had time to think about it and don't have the money to implement this," said Peter Shaw of Akonix.
SC Magazine | 12 06 06
Organizations Unprepared for Widespread Use of Skype: Akonix Systems Survey
As a response to the growing risk to corporations, Akonix introduced the L7 Skype Manager in October 2006. This cost-effective security appliance provides corporate IT departments the ability to re-gain control of their networks and minimize the risk and liability that Skype introduces into workplace.
Web Know How | 11 27 06
Is AOL Instant Messaging Good for Business Use?
An offline messaging feature that enables users to receive messages when they're not online, then pick up those messages when they log on.
CIO Today | 11 17 06
Manage Skype Use In Your SME
In addition to detecting and blocking the usual cyber attacks, IT directors are growing aware that they must also now guard against the vulnerabilities surrounding Skype technology as employees bring it into the workplace.
Processor | 11 10 06
Enterprises beware: IM attacks break record, again
Dangers Of Instant Messaging
The prevalence of instant messenger (IM) attacks has reached record numbers for the second consecutive month, an IM security firm announced this week.
SC Magazine | 10 31 06
IMs Being Monitored At Home, Work
Dangers Of Instant Messaging
More businesses and parents are monitoring instant messages. Susan McGinnis discusses the dangers of virtual chats with Rene Syler.
CBS News | 10 30 06
Block that Skype!
Akonix Systems recently released a new appliance that lets IT departments impose some basic controls on the use of Skype.
Enterprise VOIP Planet | 10 26 06
Foley scandal reminds that IMs stick around
The instant messaging scandal that took down Rep. Mark Foley stands as a reminder that online communications never just disappear into the ether.
ZDNet | 10 09 06
"Do I Make You *****?"
Pity the House Ethics committee tracking down the unsavory history of Mark Foley's X-rated online communications. The committee's job might be easier if the government invested in one of San Diego-based Akonix' security appliances to control, log and archive electronic messages.
Voxilla | 10 06 06
Instant Messages, Lingering Paper Trail
HP, Foley Cases Illustrate Risk
Washington Post | 10 06 06
Akonix Offers Skype Traffic Management
Enterprise IT Planet | 10 05 06
Akonix Releases Skype Traffic Management Appliance
SDA Asia | 10 05 06
Vericept and Akonix Form Strategic Alliance to Maximize Corporate Data Security
Alliance Provides Vericept Customers With Best-of-Breed Instant Messaging Security and Compliance and Content Control
Vericept Corporation | 10 04 06
Akonix looks to control Skype
Tech World | 10 04 06
Akonix appliance aims to give IT Skype controls
Network World | 10 04 06
IM Trends & Product Watch
Instant Messaging Planet | 10 04 06
Those IMs Aren't as Private as You Think
Some companies are also purchasing separate hardware that can trace and block IM conversations companywide or set rules for particular employees. One appliance, offered by San Diego-based Akonix Systems Inc., tracks the traffic that goes through a company's firewall, scans it and logs it for compliance and liability issues
Wall Street Journal | 10 04 06
Akonix Offers Skype Traffic Management
Enterprise Networking Planet | 10 03 06
Attacks on IM networks continue to rise
Researchers with Akonix Systems' Security Center said that they tracked the highest number of attacks on instant messenger (IM) networks in September than in any month of the year.
SC Magazine | 09 29 06
New Akonix Release Intros "Ethical Boundaries"
In addition to introducing ethical boundaries, the new version includes a Smart Tagging feature that allows systems administrators to annotate conversations. It also includes additional support for archiving and reporting file transfers.
Instant Messaging Planet | 08 27 06
Akonix Tracks 47 Attacks Against IM Networks in August
Akonix Systems, a provider of instant messaging (IM) security and compliance products, announced that its Security Center researchers tracked 47 attacks against IM networks in August, a rise of 194% since July 2006.
IT News Online | 08 28 06
The Future of Presence
The result will be "intelligent applications" that interact with a highly dynamic workforce using many communications methods, where team members constantly shift in and out of availability contexts and quickly switch access devices and platforms.
AlwaysOn | 08 10 06
Akonix: Most send business messages via IM
According to new survey results released by Akonix Systems today, more than half of business people today are using instant messaging (IM) as a supplement to email communications.
SC Magazine | 08 09 06
Employees Using Instant Messaging Put Companies at Risk
The free consumer IM clients that are currently being adopted in organizations do not have the security or management technology in place to monitor what type of information is being shared, or with whom, warned Akonix.
IT News Online | 08 08 06
Akonix A-Series offers complex, best-of-breed IM security
In our lab, we set policies that effectively managed traffic from permitted public networks as well as blocked traffic from those that were denied via policy. The AV functionality is supported by Sophos, making it as robust as anything available in terms of stopping malware spread via IM file transfers and malicious URLs. For message capture and archive purposes, Akonix provides superior filtering capabilities for retaining only those messages related to compliance--that way, you're not saving a inconsequential chat.
Information Security Magazine | 08 04 06
IM Threat Watch for June 2006
Akonix Systems, the provider of the most deployed instant messaging (IM) security and compliance products in the world, today announced its Security Center researchers tracked 17 attacks against IM networks in June, and a total of 111 during the first six months of 2006.
IT Observer | 06 28 06
Are you worried about SIP? IM.
Yesterday I had a chance to talk to Peter Shaw, CEO of Akonix. Evidently Instant Messaging is becoming a useful vector for hackers.
ZD Net | 06 20 06
Akonix Tracks 31 Attacks Against IM Networks in May
Akonix Systems, a provider of instant messaging (IM) security and compliance products, announced that its Security Center team tracked 31 attacks against IM networks in May, the largest number of threats this year.
IT News Online | 05 31 06
Now Create Robots with Microsoft
According to company sources, the "Invasion of the Robots Contest" reflects how Microsoft is ensuring that its platforms have an appeal on Web 2.0. The Robots or BOTs are amazing software programs that enhance user-experience in a messenger application.
TechTree | 05 29 06
Enterprises Need to Wake Up to IM Threat
What happens if you ignore IM on your network? Viruses and worms are increasingly using IM as a vector for their transmission, so realistically it is only a matter of time before one infects the network, possibly causing data loss, unusable machines, network slowdowns, severe corporate embarrassment, and a loss of business if customers' networks are infected with worms propagated from the network. The potential costs are enormous.
Instant Messaging Planet | 05 25 06
CIOs Push for IM Security
Denial is a huge part of the problem, Flynn said. IT managers -- even human resources managers and compliance officers -- say there's a real disconnect between senior management's perception of IM and other emerging technologies and the use of those technologies by employees.
SearchCIO.com | 05 09 06
Akonix Security Center Tracks 26 Attacks Against IM Networks in April
"There was a lull in IM attacks during the first few months of this year, but our security researchers are finding that virus writers are at it again," said Don Montgomery, vice president of marketing at Akonix Systems.
IT News Online | 04 26 06
Akonix updates its instant messaging security tools
Instant messaging (IM) security specialist Akonix has launched a major new range of hardware and software, plus a new appliance operating system designed to offer greater protection against IM-based threats and increased manageability for IT administrators.
IT Week | 04 26 06
Akonix Adds "Virtual Buddy" to Boost IM Security
L7 IM Sentry acts as an integral part of L7 Enterprise. When IM users log in through their IM clients, IM Sentry is added to their buddy lists. The software then listens for messages from monitored users, inspecting those that have URLs in them.
Instant Messaging Planet | 04 25 06
Akonix Releases Bot Development Platform
Two APIs, one for bots and one for presence, are provided. The former will allow for one or more users to converse with a bot, or to create bots "made up of multiple applications." The latter will allow developers to test for presence and build it into decision-making loops.
Instant Messaging Planet | 04 19 06
Akonix Announces Availability of Akonix L7 Builder v5
Akonix Systems Inc. has announced the availability of Akonix L7 Builder v5, an enhanced system for integrating presence and instant messaging (IM) into enterprise applications in order to improve productivity and create robust real-time communications applications.
IT News Online | 04 17 06
IM Attacks Present Growing Threat to Enterprises
More and more enterprises are embracing the benefits of instant messaging as a corporate application. But many are leaving such applications uncontrolled and vulnerable, and the potential for attack is sending shivers down the spines of network administrators.
IT Observer | 04 13 06
Akonix Identifies Pretty Girl Virus
The Akonix Security Center immediately used the industry's only real-time IM malware, spim and protocol update system to automatically push updates to customers for protection against this threat.
IT Observer | 04 12 06
Akonix Launches New IM Security For SMBs
Instant messaging security company Akonix Systems unveiled a new line of IM security appliances aimed at the small to medium sized business (SMB) sector, along with a couple of other appliances for IM management and file sharing protection.
Security Pro News | 04 06 06
Akonix Unveils New Appliances, Hardened OS
New security features include a challenge-response system to ensure that 'poisoned Web addresses' can't be sent to end users, message rate throttling, and built-in allow/disallow lists to let safe URLs through while blocking known malicious URLs.
Server Watch | 04 06 06
Growing IM Attacks Threaten the Enterprise
More and more companies are embracing the benefits of instant messaging as a corporate application. But many are leaving such applications uncontrolled and vulnerable, and the potential for attack is sending shivers down the spines of network administrators.
Jupitermedia | 04 05 06
Portal Will Ease Bot-Building for .NET Devs
L7 Builder includes a Microsoft .NET SDK along with APIs and an IM markup language. Microsoft also provides Activity API extension for the MSN Messenger Network, which allows for the addition of interactive content within an IM session.
Instant Messaging Planet | 03 21 06
IMI, Akonix Launch IMProv Center, Development Portal for IM Bots
The online portal will enable developers to quickly and easily create new bots using Akonix L7 Builder's IM and presence technologies. Bots developed through the IMProv Center are licensed to be deployed over the MSN Messenger Network.
IT News Online | 03 20 06
Akonix introduces 360 Degree Security for Real-Time Communications
360 Degree Security is comprised of seven layers of integrated security. It detects through a Global Early Warning Center made up of passive monitoring devices that identify new worms, trojans and other day zero threats, and through the Akonix IM Security Center, whose engineers create and push out new protective filters as quickly as the Early Warning System identifies new threats.
eChannel Line | 03 14 06
IM Management: Akonix Covers Messaging and P2P
Akonix was founded six years ago in San Diego, CAL, to develop products that would tame instant messaging so its use could be easily managed and controlled, with minimal security risks, in an enterprise environment.
Enterprise Networking Planet | 03 14 06
Bot Networks Hurl More Trojan Code
Perhaps more troubling, then, is the increase in the maliciousness of Trojan code found in the wild, the activities of which rootkits can disguise. For example, comparing 2004 to 2005, Kaspersky found the incidence of malicious software which contains backdoors doubled, Trojan droppers (programs which deposit Trojan software or backdoors onto PCs) more than doubled, and Trojan downloaders (which download and run files onto a compromised computer from an external FTP or Web site) tripled.
Enterprise Systems | 03 14 06
MTI Technology Corporation Delivers Complete Messaging Compliance Solution
By combining EMC's EmailXtender and Akonix L7 Enterprise technologies, MTI provides a best-of-breed compliance solution to log, archive and audit all enterprise-wide email and instant messaging (IM) communications.
PR Newswire | 03 13 06
IntelliReach's mx2020 Features Akonix's IM Security Solutions
IntelliReach Corp., an integrated messaging management company, and Akonix Systems Inc., a provider of instant messaging (IM) security solutions, have partnered to provide a single index for archived email and instant messages as part of IntelliReach's next-generation integrated messaging management solution, mx2020.
IT News Online | 02 27 06
Antepo and Akonix Pair Up for Security
Compliance-oriented features will include real-time conversation monitoring, Web-based audit and review, plug-ins for a collection of e-mail archiving systems.
Instant Messaging Planet | 02 21 06
Manage & Secure Instant Messaging
Akonix Systems' Akonix L7 Enterprise 4.3 can help companies leverage the convenience and efficiency of instant messaging as a communications tool, protect the internal network from attacks through instant messaging, and provide a central means of capturing and storing instant message communications.
Processor | 02 10 06
Gartner: tread carefully as IM doors swing open
The analyst firm has said that businesses should deploy 'hygene services' in order to protect their users from public messaging networks
ZDnet | 02 08 06
Take Precautions When Using Lotus Sametime for Public IM
Before linking Sametime users to public services, ensure spam and virus protection is in place.
Gartner | 01 30 06
Akonix Poll Finds IM Security Protection Lacking in Organizations
The poll, which surveyed more than 100 organizations, found that only 11% have IM hygiene solutions in place, compared to 73% with email hygiene. Almost 50% of respondents replied that "an IM hygiene solution never crossed my mind".
IT News Online | 01 18 06
Instant Messaging Security Still Lags Behind Email
The results of the survey and the rise in IM viruses may indicate that organizations are still vulnerable to serious IM security risks if they don't take action. Instant messaging delivers huge productivity benefits, but unlike email, businesses are not protecting their network from its potential dangers.
IT-Observer | 01 17 06
Attempts to exploit WMF vulnerability by IM multiply
Although these early attacks all used the same file name to lure IM users, attackers have now diversified their methods.
ComputerWorld | 01 04 06
IM-Worm.Win32.Kelvir.WMF.A Spreading Over MSN IM Network
The Akonix Security Center classified the worm as medium risk and is working with its IM network partner to immediately protect customers against this threat.
IT News Online | 01 04 06
IM Threats Getting Out Of Hand
IM security company Akonix Systems announced that December 2005 had the most new parent worms in any given month since its Security Center team began tracking in early 2000.
SecurityProNews | 01 03 06
