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December Newsletter

As the year draws to a close, we ponder about what a journey we have been through in 2009:- recession, natural disasters, swine flu, death of pop stars.... and the list goes on.

When the world got hit by the economic crisis, many corporations were left bruised and battered. It is through hard work and perseverance that we have all survived till the end of 2009. It is also through bad times that brought people together as one to help each other through the course of uncertainty and difficulties. We can now celebrate that the worst may be over and look forward to an inspiring 2010, a year filled with hope and expectations.

From all the staff in Quantiq, we would like to wish each and everyone of you HAPPY NEW YEAR and have a PROSPEROUS 2010!

Recess Time

carA Software Engineer, a Hardware Engineer and a Departmental Manager were on their way to a meeting. They were driving down a steep mountain road when suddenly the brakes on their car failed. The car careened almost out of control down the road, bouncing off the crash barriers, until it miraculously ground to a halt scraping along the mountainside. The car's occupants, shaken but unhurt, now had a problem: they were stuck halfway down a mountain in a car with no brakes. What were they to do?

"I know," said the Departmental Manager, "Let's have a meeting, propose a Vision, formulate a Mission Statement, define some Goals, and by a process of Continuous Improvement find a solution to the Critical Problems, and we can be on our way."

"No, no," said the Hardware Engineer, "That will take far too long, and besides, that method has never worked before. I've got my Swiss Army knife with me, and in no time at all I can strip down the car's braking system, isolate the fault, fix it, and we can be on our way."

"Well," said the Software Engineer, "Before we do anything, I think we should restart by pushing the car back up the road and see if it happens again."

Everyone has his/her own forte and plays a different role in the company, it will not work if we just adopt a single person's solution.

In this issue Beef Up!
Let's Gossip

Cyber-Ark Finds That Many Companies Using Traditional File Transfer Methods Have a False Sense of Security

A Holistic Network Security Approach to Effective Cyber Defense

Sipera Sales Training

Do not underestimate the power in the tone of your voice. How well do you use your voice to express emotion and emphasize the importance of your message? In today's world where more business is done over the telephone rather than in person it's important to realize that a voice can in fact hinder your success.

Five key factors when it comes to having a voice of success include:

  • Your Tone
    What does the tone of your voice sound like? Does it reflect confidence? Strength? Assurance? Perhaps your tone reflects fear? Boredom? Immaturity?
  • Be honest with yourself, do you need to work on your tone? Grab a close friend or co-worker - ask their honest opinion. It's important to find someone who will give you just that. Listen to what they have to say and take their criticism as constructive to help you develop a voice that will get you where you want to be in life.
  • Voice Inflection
    When speaking and thinking about the key points you want to emphasis, make sure the inflections of your voice does just that. Inflection alone can change the meaning of a sentence.
  • Delivery
    Practice, practice, practice. The delivery of your message when training your voice is key. Don't be afraid to rehearse a pitch a proposal or even just a phone call. You won't always have to do this, just long enough to where a good delivery is natural and you can do it with confidence.
  • Sound
    What do you sound like? Have you ever really just listened to your own voice? For example, when you record your outgoing voicemail message what do others hear? A smile? Joy? Authority? Don't be afraid to use a tape record as you train your voice. A tape recorder will allow you to hear exactly what others hear.
  • Energy
    Similar to tone, but different. The energy in your voice allows people to feel like they are in the room with you. Does your energy make them want to be in a room with you? Put it in check. One thing that I have to watch is the speed at which I speak. I can rattle things off faster than most people can keep. I always know when I'm doing this because I often get asked to repeat myself. Breathe, think about what you are going to say and fill it with the right energy for the moment.
Let's Gossip

imageThis year, QUANTIQ have adopted several technologies to serve our customers security requirements and to address the new and evolving threats that could potentially affect our clients. List of products we have add in to our suite of solutions includes:

1. SaaS Web Security - Cloud computing emerged as an important tecnology against constantly evolving malware threats. SaaS, a type of cloud computing delivers a single application through the browser to thousands of customers using multi-tenant architecture. Zscaler, industry-first multi-tenant SaaS Security Service enable any end-user, from any place, using any device a rich Internet experience while enforcing security and business policy.

2. Endpoint Security - We heard from our customers on their growing pain resulted from rapidly evolving set of security threats including data breaches in endpoints. Lumension is our natural choice because of their award winning solution portfolio that includes Vulnerability Management, Endpoint Protection, Data Protection and Reporting and Compliance offerings. There plans on creating a single agent to battle against "agent pollution".

3. VoIP and Unified Communications Security - VoIP and Unified communications promises many benefits, however moving the phone service to an IP network exposes services to a number of threats. Sipera, leader in Unified Communications security has spent over five years defining UC security through its extensive knowledge and expertise of security, VoIP, call control and telephony protocols Sipera's purpose-built UC security appliance protects against signaling and media vulnerabilities while maintaining the highest quality of service (QoS).

4. Event Data Warehouse - Traditional data management systems were built for transactional data not event data. Event data is the fastest growing data which includes network, security and database logs, physical access systems, enterprise applications, bank transactions, telco call records, internet traffic detail, and manufacturing sensor data. Attempts to use traditional data management systems to manage event data often lead to dramatically higher costs and complexity. More than 400 customers have deployed SenSage solutions to reduce security, fraud and compliance risks at a fraction of the cost of traditional data warehouse and log management solutions.

5. Managed DDoS Protection - Several politically motivated DDoS Attacks happened this year in social medias, DNS and web service providers. With over 50, 000 distinct attacks per week, denial of service has become the most costly form of cyber-crime business face today. This became the driving force for us to bring the world class DDoS mitigation service by Prolexic in our line of solutions. Prolexic was the first company to establish global scubbing centers to stop DDoS attacks in the clouds with unique filtering techniques and powerful DDoS detection and protection system.

6. Access Control and Audit for High Risk Users - The need for companies to manage and audit the activities of vendors, IT administrators, application developers and technical contractors to secure business-critical assets marks the birth of Xceedium. Gatekeeper, Xceediums award winning appliance controls, contains, tracks user access, reduce outsourcing risks and comply with industry standards and internal policy requirements.

7. Smartphone Protection - Mobile threats and vulnerabilities grew along with the popularity of Blackberry, iPhones, and other smartphones. Full-time connections via email, VPN and enterprise applications combined with local storage of data on smartphones increase the potential for exposure of sensitive, confidential and legally protected data. GuardianEdge Smartphone Protection safeguards organizations from the risks of exposure of legally protected data, loss of critical intellectual property and non-compliance with business critical regulations with an enterprise solution to both data protection and device security.

The Fish Market

Cyber-Ark Finds That Many Companies Using Traditional File Transfer Methods Have a False Sense of Security

Despite Continued Data Breach Incidents, Many Companies Still Use Unsecure Technologies Including Email, Courier, Postal Service and FTP to Exchange Highly-Sensitive Data

With global organizations depending on the sharing of sensitive information to support everything from financial transactions to patient care records, many believe they are relying on secure methods to exchange data with trusted partners. But are they? Cyber-Ark®, the leading global software provider for protecting critical applications, identities and information, conducted research to better understand how organizations transfer sensitive documents with external partners.

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Geeky's Stuff

A Holistic Network Security Approach to Effective Cyber Defense

The 20 Critical Security Controls, as defined by a number of federal CIOs and CISOs, provides a comprehensive and robust set of guidelines for security control implementation. They are not the end-all nor a proving ground for disparate security applications requiring integration, but a focal point for introducing effective security initiatives that are minimally intrusive while effectively maintaining applications and business continuity. If we analyze the controls in terms of how they impact decision making, then we have a framework for network security governance and intelligence. For controls that participate in the transparency of business transactions, we create a mechanism for network security automation. Finally we will need a fundamental set of applications and services that are industry-proven and effective for meeting the network security infrastructure component. SSH Tectia provides a comprehensive solution to address these needs. We’ll take a look at how these components effectively meet the requirements for these aforementioned critical security controls.


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Back to School

Sipera Sales Training

On the 29th January in the coming new year, Quantiq will be organising a Sipera Sales Training which we strongly urge you to sign up! Interested parties can drop us an email and we will furnish you with further details at a later date!

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