M86

M86

Global Secure Systems are an authorised reseller for M86 and are the UK's largest privately owned and most experienced IT security organisation.

Our award-winning solutions (including M86) have been helping businesses secure their data and achieve regulatory compliance since the mid-nineties by providing cutting-edge technology alongside accredited consultancy and testing services. GSS has a single aim; information assurance. delivered.

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About M86

M86 Security provides clients with integrated Web and e-mail threat protection, including the most sophisticated Secure Web Gateway available. Our solutions protect organisations and institutions from inappropriate content, legal liability, compromised data, lost bandwidth and reduced network performance.

M86 Security's customers benefit from our proven Web and e-mail security technology, which correlates real-time intelligence to protect organisations from current and emerging threats. Some - like blended threats - are detected on-the-fly, in real time, via our patented behavioral analysis and content inspection technologies. M86 Security Labs is a specialised team of experts focused on detecting current and emerging threats, and mitigating them by distributing intelligence to the installed base of M86 Web and e-mail security products, worldwide.Our security labs utilise both data feeds pulled from the Internet security community and internal intelligence gathered from our global deployment of products. Combined, this breadth of threat information provides comprehensive and constantly adapting defense against risks associated with Web and e-mail.

M86 Products

M86 Secure Web Gateway

The award-winning M86 Secure Web Gateway (M86 SWG) is a proactive, appliance-based solution that provides real-time Web security, increases productivity, ensures compliance and controls bandwidth. Using patented real-time malware detection technology, URL filtering and anti-virus scanning ,the M86 SWG protects organisations from crimeware, malware and other threats associated with Web 2.0 applications.

M86 SMB Security Suite

M86 SMB Security Suite is a collection of full-featured, enterprise-class Web and email gateway security solutions that is priced for organisations with 500 users or less.

 

M86 Industry News

Is host-based antivirus software losing luster?

Is host-based antivirus software losing luster? Traditional host-based antimalware packages just aren't that useful anymore, according to some companies that find it either doesn't protect against the main dangers they face from the Web or it simply doesn't run well in virtualized computer environments. "We're hovering at 95 percent virtualized," and the move has necessitated a new approach to security, such as deploying virtual-machine-based intrusion detection and protection. But Pri...... [more]

Hackers learn new trick to duck Firefox, Chrome anti-phishing measures

Hackers learn new trick to duck Firefox, Chrome anti-phishing measures A new phishing scam that targets bank and PayPal passwords and other consumer data that criminals use to loot private accounts is designed to beat security built in to Firefox and Chrome Web browsers. As part of their security packages, these browsers receive URLs of known phishing sites and won't go to them unless users specifically permit them to. But a technique discovered by M86 Security Labs gets around this black-li...... [more]

M86 social media scanner takes the worry out of surfing

M86 social media scanner takes the worry out of surfing M86 Security has launched a free plugin to allow users to safely access social media sites and search engine pages without concerns about malicious links. The M86 SecureBrowsing plugin is for PC and Mac and does real-time scans of URLs to alert users to potentially malicious web content embedded in search results, malware-laced advertising and malicious links in Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. URLs are anonymously sent to cloud-based scanne...... [more]

Sudden spam drop leaves experts baffled

Sudden spam drop leaves experts baffled Spam volumes appear to have dropped to averages last seen in 2008 after an expected surge in bogus email over the Christmas period failed to materialise. Estimating real spam volumes is a notoriously difficult exercise thanks to a tendency of spam to naturally ebb and flow over time and the fact that no agency has a single view on the phenomenon. However, figures revealed in recent weeks by a number of companies that have compiled stats make curious readin...... [more]

Human error poor excuse for Telstra email leak

Human error poor excuse for Telstra email leak Telco must work harder to soothe customers and ensure it doesn't leak their details again. Despite being the victim of "human error" Telstra will have its work cut out as it rebuilds customer trust following the leaking of their details this week, an anti-virus company said. M86 vice president Jeremy Hulse said the telco, which accidentally leaked a spreadsheet of customer details, would need safeguards to avoid further such embarrassment....... [more]

U.K. bank hit by massive fraud from ZeuS-based botnet

U.K. bank hit by massive fraud from ZeuS-based botnet Security vendor M86 Security says it's discovered that a U.K.-based bank has suffered almost $900,000 (675,000 Euros) in fraudulent bank-funds transfers due to the ZeuS Trojan malware that has been targeting the institution. Bradley Anstis, vice president of technology strategy at M86 Security, said the security firm uncovered the situation in late July while tracking how one ZeuS botnet had been specifically going after the U.K.-based bank...... [more]

Users still failing on basic security patching

Users still failing on basic security patching A report into the state of internet security has found patching is still woefully poor among computer users. Of the top ten exploited vulnerabilities in M86 Security's analysis of the first half of 2010 only one had been patched this year, while one fix was issued in 2006 and the majority were at least two years old. Half of the flaws were in Microsoft products, namely Internet Explorer, Access Snapshot and in video streaming controls. "The at...... [more]

Asprox botnet causing serious concern

Asprox botnet causing serious concern Security researchers are warning of a rapidly growing number of web sites infected by the Asprox spam botnet. Asprox is capable of launching SQL injection attacks, and has more than doubled its appearance on application service provider (ASP) sites from 5,000 to 11,000 overnight, according to M86 Security. The firm has tagged the botnet with a 'high severity' badge, meaning that it is particularly serious.M86 Security threat analyst Rodel Mendrez said in a...... [more]

The biggest botnets: Is your PC part of one?

The biggest botnets: Is your PC part of one? There are hundreds of botnets, ad hoc networks of Windows PCs that are infected with one or more programs to let them do the bidding of their controllers, some are far more trouble than others. While you can't afford to ignore any botnet threat, here are some of the worst of the worst. "When it comes to botnets, size does matter," said Scott Emo, head of endpoint solutions at Check Point, a network security company. That's because "the...... [more]

Argos buries unencrypted credit card data in email receipts

Argos buries unencrypted credit card data in email receipts Catalogue firm Argos has been criticised for an email security breach that exposed customers' credit card details and CCV security numbers. The exposure came to light after an Argos customer who checked his order confirmation email found that his credit card number and security code was buried in the HTML source of the message. The slip-up meant that any miscreants who intercepted email confirmation messages from Argos would be able to...... [more]

 

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Global Secure Systems supplies security tools (including M86) to protect both the corporate gateway (particularly the Internet, or other external network connections), and the individual PC (including the roaming laptop user and the desktop attached to the corporate network).

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