Welcome to the first edition of GGR Communications Managing Directors Bulletin. In each edition I will comment on issues, advising of the pros and cons based on our experience and expertise. I believe this regular bulletin will provide you with useful information, and keep you up to date with areas of technology. If you have comments or requests on what you would like me to cover in the next bulletin, please email me.

Adrian Clinton – Watkins

The new communication medium

Social Networking is the new communication medium. With the growth of websites like MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter as well as other popular sites such as eBay and Amazon it is no wonder that Managers and businesses are concerned about loss of productivity from Internet usage at work. Web filtering takes serious consideration. Learn more >>

Still using Cisco PIX?

In January 2008 the popular and well established Cisco PIX Firewall and VPN device was announced end of life. If you’re an existing customer you can get hardware support until 2012, however the last date for new software releases and bug fixes on PIX software is July 2009. See how this effects you >>

An IT department’s worst nightmare

A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack aims to disrupt the service of information systems by inundating the processing capacity of machines and creating massive usage of bandwidth. A sudden increase in bandwidth usage on Internet circuits, loss of services, servers falling over are the first indicators that your business is in serious trouble. Learn how to minimise the risk >>

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