HR And Social Media – Where Does Your Company Stand? Getting acquainted (and hopefully involved) with social media, social software and tools, and corresponding with best practices is part of a responsibility to ongoing learning. It can also ensure that you are ahead of the curve. Read More
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10-Year Review: Security Better Than In The Past From hacktivist activity from the likes of Anonymous to high-profile exploits like Conficker, you might feel like we're living in an especially dangerous era for computer security. Read More
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You May Want To Think Twice About What You’re “Liking” On Facebook In 2009, six employees of a Sheriff in Virginia were fired after liking a Facebook page supporting his opponent in the election. They took it to court but didn’t have much of a case, because their actions online did not count as “free speech.” Read More
Technology Makeover For Texas School With more technology than ever at their disposal, many schools are taking classroom computing to the next level. Read More
Windows Versus Mac: Who You Gonna Trust? What do you trust more? When it comes to security, most people think Macs take the cake, but the Apple operating system has attracted attention from the scum of the cyber world lately, due to the increased number of devices in people's homes, hands and businesses. Read More
Classroom Computer, Or Computer As Classroom? Charter schools have been important players in the U.S. education system for years, and technology may be putting a new spin on this type of institution, according to The Times Herald of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania Read More
Mac Program May Expose User Passwords Better layered security may be the order of the day for Mac users, who historically haven't had to deal with as much guff from cybercriminals as PC partisans. Read More
Malware Targets Unwitting Bank Customers Downloading free software may result in some unintended consequences. You never know how well the program will work and you never know how easy it will be for hackers to break into the program. Read More
Schools Embrace Bring Your Own Technology For Better Comprehension, Increased Interest Did you like pounding erasers when you were a grade schooler? Today's students might not have the pleasure of making those plumes of chalk dust, thanks to the tech revolution transforming America's classrooms. Read More
How’s Malware Doing? It’s Exploding. Just when you thought malware was on the fence, McAfee reports it's doing the exact opposite. As Q1 came to a close the results are in. Malware is exploding. Read More
Classroom Technology Isn’t Just About Tablets The classroom computer used to be what all the students would gather around every day. Remember gathering around and watching demonstrations or taking turns to play games? Read More
Big Data Could Help In Fight Against Malware While malware has been around for years, the pattern of how a piece of malware makes it way through networks has remained mysterious. Read More
Beyond LinkedIn: Can Social Media Get You A New Job? If you've ever been on a long job search, you know how taxing it is to be constantly sending resumes, writing cover letters and giving out samples of your work. Read More
New Travel Nightmare: Hotel Network Malware Whether you're staying for business or pleasure, hotels will usually have a wireless network set up for your convenience. Read More
Hacker Smashes The Hulk’s Twitter A Twitter hacker recently attempted to make the Hulk angry! Read More
New Malware Locks Up Computers, Demands Ransom Anyone who has been infected with malware knows how much it flat out sucks. Read More
Flashback Still A Problem For Mac Security Here's one for the "no news is good news" file. Initial reports that Flashback malware attacks against Macs were in decline may have been based on a mistake caused by calculation errors, according to a recent CNET article. Read More
Guarding Against Social Engineering Do you know who's reading the information you post on your Facebook page? Read More
Faronics Blog Selected as a Finalist in Info Security’s 2012 Global Excellence Awards Faronics announced today that Info Security Products Guide, the industry’s leading information security research and advisory guide, has named Faronics Blog as a finalist of the 2012 Global Product Excellence Awards in the IT Blog category. These prestigious global awards recognize IT vendors with advanced, ground-breaking products and solutions that are helping set the bar [...] Read More
[Webinar] It’s Risky Business: 2012’s Top Social Media Threats Social media has become a powerful business tool today. With over 800 million Facebook users worldwide, it makes sense that businesses want to join the conversation. Social media has also become big business for cybercrime. One third of all SMB network infections were initiated by malware originating in social media sites. While social networking poses [...] Read More
[Webinar] 5 Things Your AV Won’t Stop Every day the news is filled with headlines of malware, data loss and breaches. It’s obvious the trend is on the rise. With over 60,000 unique malware samples discovered each day blacklisting technology like your Anti-Virus can’t keep up. Read More
[Webinar] Managing Insider Threats: 4 Risks You Need to Mitigate Event Date: Thursday, November 3rd at 10am PT / 1pm ET Organizations are investing in IT security solutions to protect their networks. CIOs are creating organization-wide policies to protect workstations and company data alike. And within these policies lies a usage component for acceptable employee behaviors. It’s always a struggle to strike a balance between [...] Read More
Faronics Earns Energy Savings Award, Helps Customers Trim Costs and Protect the Environment Faronics earned top honors from PG&E in the schools market category for saving its education customers more than 1.3 million kilowatt hours of electricity last year. Read More
HR And Social Media – Where Does Your Company Stand? Getting acquainted (and hopefully involved) with social media, social software and tools, and corresponding with best practices is part of a responsibility to ongoing learning. It can also ensure that you are ahead of the curve. Read More
10-Year Review: Security Better Than In The Past From hacktivist activity from the likes of Anonymous to high-profile exploits like Conficker, you might feel like we're living in an especially dangerous era for computer security. Read More
Has The Web Made Us Too Afraid To Mingle? LikeALittle - a website that helps you connect with people near you - tells you exactly what it's purpose is in the tagline...it allows students to flirt anonymously. Read More
Apple Issues Security Update For Five-Year-Old Program They may be getting up there in years, but older Macs that are still kicking just got a shot in the arm - if you don't mind the mixed metaphor. Read More
You May Want To Think Twice About What You’re “Liking” On Facebook In 2009, six employees of a Sheriff in Virginia were fired after liking a Facebook page supporting his opponent in the election. They took it to court but didn’t have much of a case, because their actions online did not count as “free speech.” Read More
EDUCAUSE 2012 Join Faronics at EDUCAUSE 2012 for the best thinking in higher education IT. Representatives from all 50 states and over 51 different countries participated either online or at the face-to-face [...]
ISTE 2012 ISTE's 33rd annual conference and exposition will return to "America’s Finest City," and Faronics will be there once again. The event provides professional development and networking [...]
Faronics Blog Selected as a Finalist in Info Security’s 2012 Global Excellence Awards SAN RAMON, CA, January 20, 2011 — Faronics announced today that Info Security Products Guide, the industry’s leading information security research and advisory guide, has named Faronics Blog as a finalist of the 2012 Global Product Excellence Awards in the IT Blog category. These prestigious global awards recognize IT vendors with advanced, ground-breaking products and [...]
Faronics Earns Energy Savings Award, Helps Customers Trim Costs and Protect the Environment SAN RAMON, CA, September 30th, 2011 — Faronics, a global leader in PC power management software, has received a 2010 Energy Savings award from Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) for its innovative solution that allow end users to manage PC energy consumption and pare costs. Faronics Power Save software significantly reduces workstation power usage [...]
Classroom Collaboration Has Never Been Easier Thanks to Faronics Insight 7.6 SAN RAMON, CA, August 30th, 2011 — Faronics announced today the release of Faronics Insight 7.6. The latest version of the popular classroom management software features strengthened teacher control and administration, enhanced student monitoring, and improved support for assorted technology platforms including Ubuntu Linux, Multipoint Server 2011, and Vernier LabQuest. Instructors can now monitor students [...]
Faronics Innovative Solutions Solve Ever-Evolving Security Issues Others Don’t SAN RAMON, CA, August 16th, 2011 — Research shows the world’s top five security software vendors are losing significant market share to other industry players, including Faronics, whose innovative solutions target ever-changing threats that some security software might miss. Market share for the top five vendors dropped to 44.3 percent in 2010 from 60 percent [...]
Faronics’ Deep Freeze Selected as Finalist for the 2010 CODiE Awards SAN RAMON, CA, March 9th, 2010 — The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) has announced that Faronics Deep Freeze has been selected as a finalist for the prestigious CODiE Awards in the Best Security Solution category. Deep Freeze automatically restores workstation configurations with every reboot, reducing support incidents up to 63%. All products that [...]
