Another Virus Bulletin VB100% Award [63rd] for ESET

"ESET continues it's monster unbroken run of VB100 passes" [John Hawes, Virus Bulletin]

• Platform Windows Vista SP2

• 54 products tested, 19 failed including some surprising "BIG" names.

• ESET again had among the lowest memory usage of all products tested

DeviceLock Adds Content Filtering and Network Control to its Endpoint DLP Software

DeviceLock's upcoming version 7.0 [currently in beta] adds content filtering capabilities and control over network communications.  In addition to its best-in-class, full-coverage port/peripheral device access control functionality, DeviceLock 7.0 is comprised of two new separately licensed components: ContentLock, a content monitoring and filtering module and NetworkLock, a network communications control module.

Full details here at Devicelock's website.

Devicelock, and the City of London Police

Safeguarding against the unauthorised electronic copying and transmission of data on to mobile devices and ensuring all potential points for electronic data leakage have been identified and secured is a high priority for the City of London Police. In this video interview, Mr. Gary Brailsford-Hart, Head of Information Services, City of London Police explains how DeviceLock has helped the organization ensure reliable central access control for device management and the auditing of information transferred to and from the organization on to portable devices such as USB memory sticks.

Yes Virginia, Macs can get viruses

An interesting blog post from a self-confessed Mac fan AND security professional.  Read here.

Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific 2009

Chillisoft was ranked the 346th fastest growing technology company in Asia Pacific in 2009.

A record 51 New Zealand companies made the Index this year. Last year, 31 New Zealand-based companies were ranked in the Technology Fast 500.

Interactive online training for resellers

This week we're launching our first online reseller training sessions. Previously we've offered workshop-style training at our Auckland offices which have limited accessibility but this new interactive online [web and voice] format [15 participants per session] should fix that.  Initial interest has been great and we've had to schedule a second one-hour session this week. 

To enquire/register your interest please contact Steve Smith by phone or email.

ESET Smart Security wins CNET Editor's Choice

CNET have awarded ESET Smart Security their Editor's Choice Award.

University of Auckland extends ESET NOD32 deployment to over 12,000 PCs and servers.

December 2008 | NZ's largest IT site, University of Auckland have extended their deployment of ESET's NOD32 security software to over 12,000 PCs and servers and on its Exchange mailservers.