Information Security Is Everyone’s Personal Business
It seems that every day another company’s customer database has been compromised, and we have to wonder how many more there are that haven’t been reported. Scott McNealy, past chairman of Sun Microsystems, pointed out some time ago that no one’s information is absolutely secure, and he suggested that we should, in effect, get used to it.
Protecting More Than Identities
We can make it increasingly difficult for the professional bad guys, and defeat the casual info-criminals, by adding barriers beyond commercially available security features that will always be tempting targets in their own right. Whether you want to secure your logon credentials, catch hackers in the act, or block email before bringing it in to your network, taking specific action to protect business and personal data is very powerful insurance against damaged reputations and increasing peace of mind.
Making Software That Works!
We use every one of the products listed here on a daily basis, some (like
KeyRing) many times throughout the day. This is called
eating your own dog food in the software business. Each product was developed to handle the respective functionality for our own internal use, when we couldn’t find a commercial version that would do the job. Knowing that we use our own products is, we hope, a good thing, very much like noticing that the auto dealer’s service manager drives the same car as yours, when he can drive any car he wants to.
FutureWare’s Personal Information Security Product Summary
Listed in alphabetical order by product name, each with link and a short description, all of our personal information security products have won awards from our peers. The best award is the increasing number of customers who are using them to protect their personal information. And, like all of our products, you can download and test drive fully functional copies of them, without cost or obligation, so you can make sure they work for you.
ePAL Email security is an ever-increasing concern, not only because emails can contain dangerous viruses, but also because there's no real authentication of senders, whose email addresses can be "hijacked" with ease. Our ePAL program stops them at your ISP's mail server, providing a security barrier between the outside world and your regular email program on your desktop or laptop PC For Windows NT/2K/XP/Vista |
HackerTracker Scans a Web server's W3C Extended Format log files for identification of hacker attacks, including source IP Address capture, attack signature collection, buffer overflow detection, and ordinary website errors, that can be used to generate built-in reports, and source data for IP Address blocking at the server or firewall. Can operate either interactively or with a scheduled command script generated by HackerTracker itself For Windows NT/2K/XP/Vista |
ii100 Internet Metering Captures, documents, reports, archives, and retrieves Internet usage statistics and details with the Nortel Contevity 100/400 Series and BayStack Instant Internet 100. Our Internet Metering application can answer these questions so that broadband access costs and usage patterns can be fairly metered and determined, usage can be documented and reported, and archiving and retrieval of historical log data. Can operate either interactively or with a scheduled command script generated directly by the program For Windows NT/2K/XP/Vista |
KeyRing Secures logon IDs, passwords and authentication challanges for desktop/laptop applications, secured document files and website access, and quick form-filling. Defeats keyloggers and cookie intercepts, handles random challenges and multiple security questions, and includes enhanced TravelGuard security for U3 SmartDrives. Multiple cascading encryption for maximized security, exceeding US' HIPPA and GLBA requirements. Generates completely random long-key and Sarbanes-Oxley compliant IDs and passwords For Windows NT/2K/XP/Vista |
LockBox Secure repository for other application programs' installation keys and serial numbers, used when these applications are installed. Every entry in the Lockbox is encrypted and contains a description of the software, the installation key, and serial number. These can be entered during a new installation with a simple Copy and Paste operation, either manually or with the right-click speedkeys For Windows NT/2K/XP/Vista |
Random Sequence Generator Generating random character sequences for logon IDs, passwords, or other character-based credential authentication methods can be difficult, particularly when the number of required characters goes much beyond seven. Even the CRC SMT Handbook's random number tables have only have five digits and don't include alpha characters. Generates long-key, as well as Sarbanes-Oxley compliant, character sequences, from six to forty characters, either singly or in groups that can be saved to a file For Windows NT/2K/XP/Vista |