BOSTON, MA – May 21, 2012 – Axceler, the leader in Microsoft SharePoint governance, administration and migration solutions, today announced that UK insurer Equity Insurance Group (EIG) is using Axceler’s ControlPoint, an award-winning SharePoint governance and administration solution, to provide better security and full visibility into EIG’s SharePoint 2010 environment. EIG will also use ControlPoint
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Managing Security and Permissions in SharePoint, The Hard Way
With SharePoint, you can implement effective security, but managing it with the tools you get out of the box isn’t the easiest. Here we look at the challenges you will face managing security and permissions within SharePoint and discuss why you should make it a key element of your Information Architecture plan.
Axceler, ECS Announce Partnership in Microsoft SharePoint Solutions Market
WOBURN, MA and GREENWOOD VILLAGE, CO – April 9, 2012 – Axceler, the leader in Microsoft SharePoint governance, administration and migration, and SharePoint consulting firm ECS, today announced that they have partnered to offer top-quality professional services and software solutions to support and optimize customers’ SharePoint investments. Under the partnership agreement, ECS will recommend and resell Axceler’s popular solutions for SharePoint governance, SharePoint administration and SharePoint migration – ControlPoint, Davinci Migrator and FileLoader. Axceler will recommend ECS’s SharePoint experts for services including pre-sales consulting, deployment and overall solution implementation opportunities. The two companies also will participate in joint webcasts and other cooperative marketing ventures.
Thales guide helps business to audit their cyber security risk
London, UK – 1 March 2012 – A report released today by Thales, a global leader in information systems and communications security, highlights the four main areas of cyber security addressed by best practice organizations. The report also warns that businesses may be over-spending on cyber security solutions that over-protect non-sensitive data.
Aimed at helping businesses to audit and improve their cyber security, the report, ‘A practical guide to assessing your cyber security strategy’ provides organizations with a framework to assess their level of risk, identify gaps in their approach and tighten their cyber security measures.
Axceler Enhances Security Expertise with Appointment of Michael X. Burns
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – February 28, 2012 – Axceler®,the leader in Microsoft SharePoint governance, administration and migration, today enhanced its security expertise with the appointment of veteran sales executive Michael X. Burns as Regional Vice President of Sales for Western North America. Axceler is announcing the appointment at SPTechCon – the SharePoint Technology Conference being held in San Francisco this week – where Gold Sponsor Axceler is exhibiting (booth # 608) and participating in the speaking program.
Axceler Launches SharePoint Governance Best Practices Initiative
WOBURN, MA– September 19, 2011 – Axceler,the leader in Microsoft SharePoint governance software, today launched a program to help the SharePoint community develop a set of best practices for SharePoint governance. Axceler will kick off this initiative by conducting a survey of SharePoint managers starting in Q4. The survey, which will be administered to organizations of all sizes and in a wide range of industries, will help determine existing levels of SharePoint governance planning, as well as the challenges of preventing exploitation of governance policies.
Axceler Will Address Largest Ever D.C.-Area SharePoint Event
WASHINGTON, D.C. –Axceler, the leader in Microsoft SharePoint administration and migration, will share its expertise in SharePoint governance, security and management for government and other public agencies as lead sponsor of the first “SharePoint Saturday The Conference ” (www.spstc.org) in the Washington, D.C.
eSignature Approval for Electronic Documents
As environmental and financial pressures are increasing day by day, enterprises are looking out for a long term solution which includes cost-cutting methods and ideas. The best way is to save money and reduce impact on the environment is to use the paperless technology. Nowadays enterprises are being driven to minimize their reliance on paperwork.
Axceler SharePoint Governance Products Now Available On GSA Schedule 70
WOBURN, MA – June 13, 2011 – Axceler, the leader in Microsoft SharePoint administrationand migrationsoftware, today announced its continued expansion into the federal government market through its partnership with IT Federal Salesand the addition of Axceler products to its General Services Administration (GSA) schedule (under contract #GSA is GS-35F-0494T). Now, government agencies can significantly improve their SharePoint security and governanceby using Axceler’s ControlPointor migrate their old deployments to the latest SharePoint version using DavinciMigrator for SharePoint 2010.
SharePoint users are increasingly putting sensitive, highly regulated data in the collaboration platform without considering the security implications. In addition, the native management tools in some versions of SharePoint are difficult to use for some types of deployments. Nowhere is this more important than in the government space, with strict regulatory requirements, big defense initiatives, and evolving security threats. The recent appearance of sites like “Wikileaks” that exploit security breaches demonstrates how important SharePoint security is to government agencies.
To fill this gap, many government organizations turn to Axceler’s ControlPoint, the award-winning SharePoint governance and administration product. The latest release 4.2 of ControlPoint, the award-winning administration product for SharePoint, offers interactive and powerful analysis and reporting, expanded SharePoint policy enforcementcapabilities for better SharePoint governance, and new permission and security features. Now, through the partnership with IT Federal Sales, all Axceler products including ControlPoint are accessible on the GSA Schedule.
“ControlPoint, a leader in SharePoint administration and control, will definitely enhance any SharePoint installation,” said Paul Cino, President of IT Federal Sales. “Our clients, especially in DOD, are looking for this solution. We’re excited to add Axceler products to our growing list of unique products available to US Government buyers.”
"We’re pleased to make Microsoft SharePoint solutions, and our firm's unique professional, training and maintenance services, available through the GSA program,” said Michael Alden, President and CEO, Axceler. “Being accessible on the GSA Schedule 70 reduces the procurement challenges our government clients face, and gives them the ability to resolve critical SharePoint security challenges quickly, efficiently and economically. This reflects our long history of successful collaboration with government entities."
WordPress 3.1.3 brings security fixes and enhancements
WordPress 3.1.3 was made available to the public yesterday. This release is not only a security update for all previous versions but also offers some new features.
WordPress 3.1.3 contains the following security fixes and enhancements:
- Various security hardening.
- Taxonomy query hardening.
- Prevents sniffing out user names of non-authors by using canonical redirects.
- Media security fixes.
- Improved file upload security on hosts with dangerous security settings.
- Cleans up old WordPress import files if the import does not finish.
- Introduces “clickjacking” protection in modern browsers on admin and login pages.
For details, feel free to check out the change log. Download WordPress 3.1.3 or update automatically from the Dashboard → Updates menu in your site’s admin area.
Also, you may be curious enough and want to take a look at the original release announcement that not only talks about WordPress 3.1.3 but also talks about the availability of WordPress 3.2 Beta 2. We'll talk more about WordPress 3.2 later.
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