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At my 2½ year old son's pre-school, every Friday during morning recess their teacher grabs a guitar and plays a song that goes like this ....“Bless you our God and thank you for the …..”, then the teacher will point at one of the kids. The chosen kid will say what he is thankful for and then the teacher sings about what the kid selected and so on…

It's truly amazing to see how a 2½ year old kid is really thankful for the one little thing that is so important to them: Spiderman, flowers, my dog, my mommy….man I really miss my childhood!

At ANX, we are thankful for the small things like...

• Thank you for all the cloud computing providers that makes computing-power a utility service for the masses.
• Thank you for the architects of those companies who don’t provide...
  
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ANX PositivePro Customers Protected from Recently Discovered SSL Vulnerability

 SSL authentication gap allows a man-in-the-middle attack, affecting the majority of SSL-protected servers

SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (Nov. 24, 2009) - ANXeBusiness Corp., a leading provider of networking and security managed services, today announced that customers of the company’s cloud-based remote access product, ANX PositivePRO, are protected from the recent Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) vulnerability discovered by researchers at PhoneFactor, a leading global provider of two-factor security services. ANX PositivePRO is a hosted, managed VPN solution that quickly allows remote access without the need to buy, install, or configure an appliance within an organization.

According to PhoneFactor, a serious...

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Political momentum is building for a nationalized approach to data breach notification.  I think it's just a question of "when" this will become the law of the land.

Here's a quick summary of the laws under consideration:

The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee recently approved two bills that would require organizations with data breaches to report them to potential victims.

The first bill is called the Data Breach Notification Act and is sponsored by Senator Dianne Feinstein of California.  It would require U.S. agencies and businesses that engage in interstate commerce to report data breaches to victims whose personal information "has been, or is reasonably believed to have been, accessed, or acquired."  Feinstein's bill would also require agencies and businesses...

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Unless you were living in a cave, far from any civilization, chances are you heard about The Cloud. The next big thing! The ultimate solution for all IT business illnesses. Of course, I am exaggerating but cloud initiatives are backed by major players like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, EMC and others.

Cloud means many things to many people: if you take the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) approach the cloud is a hosting solution that will eliminate the need for companies to maintain their own hardware, for others it is a utility service that will allow businesses to consume unlimited computing resources right when they need them and release them back to the cloud when they are done. If you take the Software as a Service (SaaS) approach the cloud provides applications that are...

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There's been much coverage and discussion of recently disclosed SSL vulnerabilities. ANXeBusiness is jumping into the discussion with the help of a special guest blogger, Steve Dispensa.  Marsh Ray, who is on Steve's development team, is credited with discovering this vulnerability.

Steve is currently the CTO of PhoneFactor and is one of the founding partners and original developers of our cloud-based remote access product, PositivePRO.  The idea behind PositivePRO was that remote access provided by the internal IT staff was expensive and cumbersome to maintain.  Steve and his crew were determined to develop a Software-as-a-Service alternative that was simpler and more effective than traditional appliance-based approaches.  One of the key objectives was to make it  even...

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