Protection against Bad Love
Rainbow Technologies of California is touting a product that's designed to protect corporate email systems from getting plunked by the likes of the now infamous "I Love You" virus. The company says its iKey authentication token, a compact electronic key that's compatible with smart cards and snaps directly into laptops and desktops through USP ports, is an effective tool to prevent "spoofing" attacks like this month's attack of wicked cyber love gone bad. The danger of such attacks lies in the fact that the virus-ridden emails appear to the receiver as if they were knowingly sent by the sender. Thus, the receiver recognizes that the infected email attachment was sent by a trustworthy person and blindly unleashes a whole lot of badness onto his computer. iKey is designed to eliminate this by enabling users to authenticate messages by writing digital signatures to all emails. For more information, visit www.rainbow.com.
A Free Customer Service Tool
ChatSpace, Inc., a provider of online chat services for businesses and consumers, has introduced a free service--GetMeLive.com--that's designed to provide first class online customer interaction via chat for the small business market. The service, a version of iINTERACTTM, a feature rich online customer support system also developed by ChatSpace, enables small businesses to project a professional online support presence. Users implement the service by placing a button on their websites. The button pops up a chat window for the customer that connects them to the business's live help. Both the customer and e-business interfaces work via any standard Web browser, and no software installation is needed. Your staff, their platform. Check it out at www.chatspace.com.
Bargain Hunting for Legal Help
Everyone knows attorneys are ridiculously expensive and everyone knows that competition drives down prices, so the World Wide Web is a dandy vehicle for those in search of affordable counseling. Thankfully for the masses who perpetually reach for the Tums when it comes time to retain legal assistance, there are sites out there where you can shop and bid for attorneys. The Industry Standard recently published an article featuring three such sites: www.elawforum.com, www.examen.com/pro_legalpath.html and www.ibidlaw.com. Likewise, if you're an attorney in search of clients, you can sign up to have your firm listed. On the Internet, there's a marketplace for everything.
An Online Accounting System for Small Businesses
NetLedger, Inc., an application service provider (ASP) that allows millions to run their small businesses totally online and Innovative bank card processor Innovative Merchant Solutions have partnered to develop an Internet-based fully integrated accounting and payment system for small business merchants.
Users of NetLedger 3.0 software can now receive highly secure credit card payments from their customers and have them recorded directly into their online accounting system. The partnership also enables NetLedger to provide small businesses with same-day approval of online merchant credit card applications without paying any set-up fees for their NetLedger enabled merchant account. The accounting system is powered by the payment technology of VeriSign's Payflow Payment Services. Visit www.netledger.com.
More Wisdom for Marketers
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Leaner, Meaner Certificate Management Software by RSA
RSA Security Inc. this week announced the worldwide availability of Keon(R) Certificate Server 5.5, the company's digital certificate management system. The new software is designed to make it easier for organizations to automatically register and maintain their users and integrate the digital certificate solutions into existing IT infrastructures. Included in the package is the new Keon OneStep feature, an automated "bootstrap" process that is intended to expedite issuing new digital certificates during installation by allowing administrators to take advantage of existing authentication systems. The OneStep feature automatically approves and issues certificates to authenticated users, greatly simplifying the time-consuming, multi-step request, verification and approval process found in other PKI offerings. The new feature is also designed to work with RSA SecurID(R) authentication and can be customized to support other authentication techniques. More information of Keon(R) Certificate Server 5.5 is available at www.rsa.com.