You have already met with that kind of situation when you wanted to change your electric gadgets for new ones and you had to face with the following problem: What can I do with my old phone, television, screen or toaster...so called e-waste?? When you buy new electronic devices you are just over the moon and do not think about that these gadgets are a complex mixture of several hundred materials. A mobile phone, for example, contains 500 to 1000 components. Many of these contain toxic heavy metals such as lead, mercury, cadmium and beryllium and hazardous chemicals. ... [Read More]

Someone ‏just tweeted about funny IT Security company names, and - believe it or not - BalaBit was on the list. No problem, we understand French humor - especially because our French colleagues already explained BalaBit's meaning in French...sometimes it is hard to be a global company ;-)This tweet also made us think: have we ever shared the true story how BalaBit became BalaBit and what does it mean? Now we unveil the mystery...but would like to ask you to chose the story you believe is truth from the 3 options below. We also wanna have fun.First of ... [Read More]

I'm not a big fan of sleeping through the day. Another day lost from my life, which could have been spent on a beach, in a park, with family, or coding away. I've had different sleeping schedules during the past few years, much to the influence of university life, and a couple of weeks ago I started a biphasic sleeping schedule. Turns out, I'm not the only one who's doing it this way.In university, spending several evenings a week in a pub or at someone's place was not unusual and the fact that most of our ... [Read More]

BalaBit IT Security has established a new Research and Development Centre in Veszprém (Hungary) where the special modules of its activity monitoring product called Shell Control Box are going to be developed.BalaBit IT Security, one of the global leaders in developing privileged activity monitoring, trusted logging and proxy-based gateway technologies, has started to substantially extend its development resources supported and partly financed by an European Union R&D fund. The company opened its new Research and Development Centre in the middle of July (Hungary), in order to achieve the goal of 40% increase in revenue and work force as planned at ... [Read More]

Balázs Scheidler, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Engineer of BalaBit IT Security has received the “Info-communications Manager of the Year – Gyurós Tibor Prize”  from the ICT Association of Hungary (IVSZ), established by the ICT industry top managers in 1997, Hungary. Since then, every year an independent jury, consists of senior ICT managers and journalists, select the Info-communications Manager of the Year in Hungary, the person who has highly contributed to the success of his/her company and the development of the domestic IT industry and society. In 2011 IVSZ renewed this award, the jury also considered the winner's results ... [Read More]

The company’s most popular product, Shell Control Box, an activity monitoring tool for privileged access, contributed with a 187 percent revenue growth BalaBit IT Security was selected again to Deloitte Technology Fast 50 in 2010, Central EuropeNew York, June 15, 2011 – BalaBit IT Security, an innovative information security company, one of the global leaders in developing privileged activity monitoring, trusted logging and proxy-based gateway technologies announced an increase of 59 percent on a year-on-year basis in 2010. According to industry and analyst predictions last year there was a slight increase on the IT security market, where the drivers ... [Read More]

I haven't had the time to brag about it last week, but on last Monday I managed to defend my thesis and graduate to finally become a certified software engineer. Having spent, well, quite a bit more time in the programme than originally planned and cca. 5 years working in IT, it was high time it happened. It was a great opportunity to celebrate it at the sales kick-off conference we held at the end of the week. I gave a presentation there about Shell Control Box and held a workshop the next day together with Marton, but the bigger part ... [Read More]

Bugzilla has a rarely used feature called quips. It just displays random quotes on the top of each page from a database to which clever new sentences can be added incredibly easily. Here at BalaBit we love this feature: it contains ~400 entries from the last 5-6 years and serves as a collective memory of the company, saving notable adages from colleagues often no longer working here and unknown by freshmen and which were said during the development of ancient pre-alpha versions of our now mature products. Some of the phrases from the more popular quips have became a ... [Read More]