Much has been written recently about proposed changes to the European Union’s Data Retention Directive. In January of last year, the EU Commission proposed reforms to the existing Data Protection Act which became law way back in 1995. Earlier this year, Jan Phillip Albrecht, a German MEP and member of EU's Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee (LIBE) published a report recommending more than 350 amendments to the Commission’s proposed legislation. His report sparked a public debate between U.S. technology companies and the EU as reported in the New York Times.What are some of the proposed changes?• Individual ... [Read More]

The next long-time-supported release of SSB version 3 LTS is just around the corner; we're just committing our final patches and performing the final release testing right now. This release includes a switch to 64-bit architecture, a huge performance improvement in the indexing/searching feature for a large number of message and search patterns and a couple of new features, too. In the following posts I plan to introduce those new features to you. The updated User's Manual will contain a detailed description of them -- these posts are written more to serve as teasers and to highlight some of the ... [Read More]

BalaBit IT Security surveyed IT professionals and found that in spite of the fact that 74% of them have already misused the company’s IT system, and could have lost his/her job, if a video recording could have proven wrongdoing, 92% of the surveyed would not object to being observed by an activity monitoring tool.New York, November 15, 2011 – BalaBit IT Security, one of the global leaders in developing privileged activity monitoring, trusted logging, and proxy-based gateway technologies, announced the “Top 6 list of the most popular prohibited activities in the workplace among IT staff” as a results of its ... [Read More]

BalaBit IT Security, one of the global leaders in developing privileged activity monitoring, trusted logging and proxy-based gateway technologies, announced that two of its products have been reviewed by West Coast Labs, an independent product test lab, under its Performance Validated program. BalaBit’s Shell Control Box 3.0 (SCB), an activity-monitoring tool for privileged users, and syslog-ng Store Box 2.0 (SSB), a high-reliability and high-performance log management solution, were among the products that West Coast Labs evaluated and tested in its latest Technology Report (01/2011). The testers found that both BalaBit products met benchmark criteria: the appliances are easily integrated, ... [Read More]