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Guardian Digital takes active role in response to CISA Director Easterly calls for Microsoft, others, to design more secure applications with their purpose-built software designed to protect their users from the most advanced email threats.

The Apache SpamAssassin project has released version 4.0.0 of its renowned open-source anti-spam platform with numerous tweaks and bug fixes and improved classification, performance and handling of text in international language. This release is an important milestone in the open source world, as Apache SpamAssassin has emerged as a testament to the security benefits of leveraging the open-source development model to combat the universal threat of spam email over the past two decades.

CISA, FBI Urge Small Businesses to Increase Protection Against Email Cyber Threats This Holiday Season The United States government security apparatus is recommending shoppers and businesses be extra vigilant online during this holiday season, implement additional protection measures against fraud where necessary, and follow security best practices to avoid becoming a target.

Guardian Digital surpasses traditional email protection methods that have been proven insufficient at preventing cyberattacks and breaches, securing businesses against phishing, ransomware, and other malicious threats with comprehensive, fully-managed email security services.

Guardian Digital is celebrating Cybersecurity Awareness Month with a series of educational and practical initiatives in October, designed to inform businesses on how to better protect their users from the most advanced email security threats.

Open-source software is one of the most innovative developments of the past few decades. Open-source is code that is publicly available and editable. While this sounds dangerous for security, it can actually significantly improve it by allowing anyone to fix errors. Applying the open-source methodology of collaboration to cybersecurity can greatly affect everyone’s security.

Guardian Digital addresses the limitations of endpoint security solutions in fortifying business email against advanced and emerging threats with a proactive, fully supported email security suite.

Guardian Digital goes beyond traditional methods of email protection which have proven inadequate to defend against cyberattacks and breaches, securing businesses against phishing, ransomware, and other malicious threats with comprehensive, fully-managed email security services.

Guardian Digital addresses critical concerns raised by CISA for organizations to protect against an increase in data-wiping malware and other malicious cyber threats with a fully-managed email security solution that maximizes cyber resilience, adding critical additional layers of defenses against these damaging threats.

Guardian Digital protects organizations against the advanced and emerging phishing and ransomware attacks expected to dominate the threat landscape in 2022 with adaptive, multi-layered security defenses and comprehensive support.

Phishing has been one of the most popular threat vectors for malicious hackers. This type of attack is often carried out through email and allows to execute malicious programs, steal personal information, or lure people into giving money.

Guardian Digital protects businesses of all sizes against dangerous phishing and ransomware attacks exploiting the holiday season with a unique multi-layered email security solution that also includes expert support and management.

Guardian Digital, the premier open-source email security company, innovates ransomware protection using a unique combination of advanced multi-layered technology and expert ongoing support to secure business email from this pervasive, costly threat.

Guardian Digital the premier open-source email security company, is using a unique combination of transparent, community-powered open-source development, expert ongoing system management and support services and real-time cybersecurity business insights to address increasingly sophisticated, ever-evolving email threats like spear phishing, ransomware and zero-day attacks.

Guardian Digital is celebrating Cybersecurity Awareness Month with a series of educational and practical initiatives in October, designed to inform businesses on how to better protect their users from the most advanced email security threats.

Through the use of collaborative open-source development, expert ongoing system management and real-time cybersecurity business insights, Guardian Digital is uniquely able to close critical security gaps in native Microsoft 365 email security to safeguard users and sensitive data against credential phishing, account takeovers and other malicious cyberattacks that are rampant in the Microsoft 365 environment.

In this interview with Help Net Security, Dave Wreski, CEO at Guardian Digital, talks about modern email threats and offers protection advice for organizations.

Guardian Digital addresses the limitations of endpoint security solutions in fortifying business email against advanced and emerging threats with a proactive, fully supported email security suite.

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought numerous changes to the workplace, including challenges related to cybersecurity.

One on-going question for the Open Source community remains, can companies make a business go of Open Source-based products and services? One company able to answer yes is Guardian Digital, Inc., which, according to its Web site, is a “full-service Open Source security company …focused on the intelligent growth of Open Source security solutions for Linux, including the Guardian Digital Linux Lockbox, a secure turnkey e-business server and the secure Linux distribution EnGarde.”

Guardian Digital protects against email threats like phishing, ransomware and zero-day attacks that initiate the cyberattacks, breaches and data loss that define the modern threat landscape. Unlike any other vendor, Guardian Digital recognizes that effective email security is a combination of purpose-driven technology, expert ongoing system management and accessible, real-time business intelligence.

This LinuxSecurity.com article featured on the frontpage of Slashdot examines the concept of geo filtering and how it could add a valuable layer of security to your firewall, and explores how the Geolocation for nftables project is leveraging Open Source to provide intuitive, customizable geo filtering on Linux.

This once unimaginable segment continues to gain credibility, venture-capital backing, and sales.

At the time, Wreski was bucking conventional wisdom: After all, who builds a security system from free software, when proprietary systems are seemingly safer? Today, however, Wreski's dream doesn't seem so ridiculous. Guardian Digital now employs more than 20 people and boasts more than 5,000 customers for its hardware, software updates, and support.

Internet security company Guardian Digital utilizes the best-of-breed technology available in SpamAssassin to build enterprise security solutions for some of the largest companies in the world. "Using Apache SpamAssassin as a framework, our email protection system helps the most successful organizations protect their data from all forms of email attacks," stated Dave Wreski, President and CEO of Guardian Digital.

“There are hundreds of packages that use the GnuTLS encryption libraries, so virtually every Linux user is affected,” warned Dave Wreski, CEO of open source security firm Guardian Digital as well as founder and lead developer at linuxsecurity.com. In fact, the bug appears to be more than 10 years old, “so it probably affects every Linux system currently in operation that utilizes the GnuTLS library,” he told me.

Wreski says one of the best ways to leverage least privilege is to find vendors that have used this development in the past. He comments, 'For this, it helps significantly to have both the OS and the application come from secure, unified development. Unified development from security vendors is one of the best ways to ensure that both applications and the platform are engineered with least privilege…

The analysis made a specific point that companies had "deployed open-source technology primarily to ensure protection from security threats." Guardian Digital has known the value Open Source has for security and has been using the Open Source model for almost a decade to provide comprehensive protection.

Our customers come to us because we have the solution to their specific business problem — the fact that it’s open source is seen as a benefit, knowing that typically no security or programming expertise is required.

Computer Business Review Online interview's CEO Dave Wreski about the particulars of existing in one of the most competitive markets in any industry today. With probing insight into the status, strategies and goals of one of the most prominent security vendors in the open source community, this interview provides a quick and effective synopsis on some of the most pressing business challenges facing security providers.

Step by step, task by task, the security experts at Guardian Digital show you how to lock-down your Linux server with an in-depth view of what you need, when you need it and how to use it. Don't miss this!

The personal trek of how Guardian Digital's CEO, Dave Wreski, created a compelling business model on his own, to create a thriving open source company. Veteran journalist Bruce Byfield gets to the heart of its start as an aspiration that open source would provide "a superior vehicle" to provide Internet Security: A probing expose on how to take a bold idea into a successful reality.

Wreski says Guardian Digital turned profitable eight months ago and is growing by 10% each quarter, much faster than the low single-digit growth for the overall security sector, according to tech consultancy Gartner.

Dave Wreski, CEO of Guardian Digital, told NewsFactor that the average Linux distribution "tries to be all things to all people," which makes it difficult to secure the system.

The security improvements [over standard distribution packages] in Guardian Digital's products not only reduce the risk of cracker attacks, but also the financial risk and business downtime.

Wreski, director at Guardian Digital Inc., an open-source security company in Saddle River, New Jersey, said zlib is also used in embedded applications, so the effects of any security flaw would be wide-reaching.

Rainbow’s CryptoSwift is the market’s leading SSL acceleration solution, which not only provides high levels of security for each transaction, but optimizes performance of Web servers to prevent transactional bottlenecks and poor server performance, said Dave Wreski, president, Guardian Digital.

Guardian Digital Chief Executive Officer, Dave Wreski, sits down with Paul Roberts of IDG News to discuss the recent Linux kernel vulnerability warning.

[Guardian Digital Platform] is designed as a platform for secure Internet applications. It includes integrated intrusion detection, cryptography, improved authentication and access control, and protection from buffer overruns, denial of service attacks and other intrusion techniques.

The security improvements [over standard distribution packages] in Guardian Digital's products not only reduce the risk of cracker attacks, but also the financial risk and business downtime.

Start-up Guardian Digital has launched an effort to sell a version of Linux that's less vulnerable to attack, a niche the company hopes will gain it a foothold in the market for the Unix-like operating system.

The software bug--known as a double-free vulnerability--causes key memory-management functions in the zlib compression library to fail, a condition that could allow a smart attacker to compromise computers over the Internet, said Dave Wreski, director for open-source security company Guardian Digital.

A hurdle for would-be attackers is that administrative utilities such as the one that controls printers typically can't open a shell for issuing commands to the computer, said Dave Wreski, chief technology officer of Guardian Digital.

The rise in such incidents can be attributed to Linux's growing popularity, which makes it a more attractive target for malicious attackers, said David Wreski, CEO of Linux security vendor Guardian Digital Inc. in Allendale, N.J.