Learn how to use Symantec's Online Backup. This is a service that works automatically in the background to make copies of your most critical files and is very easy and economical to use. Online backups have several advantages: -- To aid in recovering files from a lost or stolen laptop -- To provide a simple but effective offsite storage solution for your data -- To keep the costs of backups low and within reach of most businesses Requirements: Windows various versions supported

As enterprises depend more on Internet-based applications, it becomes harder to defend your network against blended exploits and attacks that target your specific applications. You need something like this product which is more than a standard firewall that typically relies on intrusion prevention and signature based defenses. Secure Firewall is a network and application security device with numerous protective features built-in that are especially useful for protecting your critical applicatio

In this segment we discuss secure computer, secure firewalls and secure networks.

Learn how to use Secure Computing's Secure Web Protection service offers a proxy server to protect both malware and not-worksafe Web sites. It is a simple and unbotrusiveway to protect your browsing. It isn't useful for protecting Web servers from inbound attacks, for example, and shouldn't substitute for a fully-featured intrusion appliance, but it can protect individuals and small networks especially with a lot of home-based and remote office users.

Learn how to use Napera's appliance works in conjunction with Microsoft's Network Access Protection (NAP), and will support three different operating systems: XP with Service Pack 3, Vista, and Mac OS X. It allows for guest and identity-based access.

Learn how to use TrustedSource and other sites are used to answer questions such as – is someone sending spam that looks like it is coming from my domain, called spoofing? Has my Web site been compromised recently? Do I have an open relay email server that I don’t know about? The Internet is a nasty place, and the idea that a service can be watching globally for exploits is a good one. TrustedSource.org Secure Computing Inc. 55 Almaden Boulevard, Suite 500 San Jose, CA 95113 408.494.2020

Learn how to There are two parts to the product: The server components (including the relational database and server) and the various agents that run on each endpoint. Among other things, the agent contains a host-based firewall and policy engine that can be customized to control applications and particular endpoint device features such as USB peripherals and registry entries. SkyRecon Systems Inc., 1440 Broadway, 23rd floor, New York, NY 10018 Tel: (877) 239 3057 | www.skyrecon.com

Learn how to build portable Java apps. Servoy has a lot to offer Java developers and a nice way to deploy multiuser Web 2.0 applications from a single code base. Pros: • All open source tools and methods here. • A very rich visual programming environment that can quickly build apps. Cons: There is a lot to get used to and the user interface is a bit hard to navigate. Servoy USA, 299 W. Hillcrest Drive Suite 115, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (805) 624-4959, http://www.servoy.com

Learn how to use Secure Computing's Secure Mail email security appliance combines several different but complementary protection technologies for both inbound and outbound emails in one easy-to-setup box. Secure Computing www.securecomputing.com 1-800-379-4944 55 Almaden Boulevard, Suite 500, San Jose, CA 95113

Learn how to use eEye Digital Security's integrated endpoint security agent Blink offers a wide variety of protective measures, including personal firewall, anti-virus and anti-spyware, host intrusion prevention, and overall system registry and executable file protection. go to blinkfree.com

Learn how to Symantec's Altiris Workflow Solution v 6.0 is a series of products that were acquired from LogicBase called TLogic. Used together, they can help you automate virtually any IT process or workflow and imbed business logic into the processes too. The product can be useful for something that requires repetitive human interaction, such as designed an automated system for gambler's comp packages at a casino to keeping track of cleaned rooms at a hospital.

Learn how to use VSN, a plug-in for Outlook/Outlook Express that makes for sending and receiving encrypted emails literally a snap. There is a Web portal for users outside the enterprise, and a secure file transfer application add-on to Windows Explorer as well. http://voltage.com/products/vsn.htm