September Newswire

Welcome to our September newswire! In this edition we have news about recent software development and web projects. We also have information about some very interesting security products – BackStopp and FortiGate - which could provide significant benefits for your business at a very reasonable price. Amazingly, it is more than a year since our merger with Virtronix and we have now integrated the businesses very successfully within the Refractiv Group (www.refractiv.co.uk).

Rock and Roll is here to stay - Snap Galleries launches new site

Snap Galleries has recently launched its new website (www.snapgalleries.com) with online sales of Rock and Roll photographs. Snap Galleries also has a shop and gallery in Birmingham. The website is rich in images and enables site visitors to view photographs on virtual gallery walls.

Snap Galleries commissioned a new website from Leap Frog in order to freshen the design and to sell high-quality Rock and Roll photographs online. Also, it was important to have full editorial control of the website content and be able to upload images to the site.

Design is fundamental to Snap Galleries and so the new site needed to make a strong impact with existing and prospective clients. Snap galleries wanted to give visitors something that was nice and shiny, easy to navigate, packed with new features, great images and the stories behind them. The site was designed to make the viewing and buying experience as pleasurable as possible.

The project was completed on schedule and the site achieved its first online sale within a week of launch.

"I want to say what a fantastic job you've done for me on the new site. It's everything I was hoping for, and I've really appreciated your complete attention to detail and response times. You did exactly what you said on the tin and I've been really delighted with everything." Guy White, Gallery Director.

CISSP qualification gained by security guru at Virtronix

Jay George, Head of Information Security, has qualified as a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP®), bringing clear benefits to Virtronix and our clients.

The CISSP® was the first credential in the field of information security, accredited by the ANSI (American National Standards Institute) to ISO (International Standards Organization) Standard 17024:2003.

CISSP® is achieved by passing a demanding examination, and requires the practitioner to prove they posses several years of experience in Information Security.

Jay says:
"I am very proud of achieving the CISSP® qualification which is recognised internationally. There was a lot of work required to pass the exam but much of the knowledge is very practical and can be applied to everyday situations as well as the longer-term security projects. As a result of participating in the CISSP® program I have access to a wealth of information, support and best practice in this field. I am able to provide our clients with the highest standard of advice and implementation experience and also raise the bar with our own security team."

BackStopp kills lost or stolen laptops to prevent data loss

Have you lost or had a computer stolen? Have you ever worried about what happened to your stolen device or the data that was on it? BackStopp is a powerful programme that will delete all the data from your stolen laptop and will give you the peace of mind in a simple report delivered back to you or your IT helpdesk. BackStopp enables you to manage PR issues around data loss very effectively and to handle the questions that arise from such losses.

BackStopp is a powerful and effective tool that securely eradicates computer data which may be at risk of passing into unauthorised possession.

Remote Data Decommission is BackStopp's primary function. BackStopp deletes all pre-specified data files including cookies and e-mail that are stored on a compromised device, encrypted or not, leaving a clean device. BackStopp ensures that once the data has been deleted it is gone for good. It uses deletion patterns as detailed in the US Department of Defence's National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual (US DoD 5220-22.M) and Peter Gutmann's paper Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory, ensuring decommission data cannot be retrieved.

BackStopp exists to quickly wipe out information at risk. At the same time as it deletes the data BackStopp logs what it destroyed, recording the name and type of EVERY deleted file and even the time and date it was last accessed. The problem goes away and BackStopp proves it.

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FortiGate offers cost-effective and versatile protection for all customers

In the current economic climate many businesses are reviewing their choice of security infrastructure products. FortiGate provides a feature-rich alternative at an attractive price point - the family of appliance-based security products includes a firewall, AV Gateway, IPS, web filtering and VPN and allows the user to opt for a wide range of functionality from a single appliance. FortiGate delivers the highest level of network, content, and application security for enterprises of all sizes, reduces total cost of ownership and provides a flexible, scalable path for expansion.

A growing percentage of attacks, such as viruses, worms and Trojans, are being introduced into organizations via activities such as Web browsing or remote wireless network access. This trend will continue as organizations turn increasingly to real-time communications, like Web-enabled applications, Voice over IP and instant messaging, as the means to remain responsive and competitive. Unfortunately, conventional network protection systems,such as firewalls and host-based AV software, are limited. They lack the dedicated hardware processing required to perform the deep packet analysis, content reassembly, and application-level screening. These are unnecessary to detect these threats without imposing delays on real-time traffic. As a result, most organizations are dangerously exposed to content-based attacks from real-time Web, email and peer-to-peer traffic.

Fortinet's FortiGate™ Multi-Threat Security Systems for the first time provide cost-effective network-level and content-level protection at the network core and edge with real-time performance. Each member of the FortiGate family is a dedicated, easily managed system that delivers a full suite of best in class capabilities. Each system's capabilities are supported by an industry leading eight ICSA-certifications including virus protection and content filtering, along with network-level services including firewall, IPS, VPN and traffic shaping functions. Fortinet's FortiClient software has ICSA-certifications for desktop antivirus detection, antivirus cleaning, antispyware detection.

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Regional Migration Partnership

A new website was designed and developed several months ago for Yorkshire & Humberside Regional Migration Partnership and we are now adding new functionality to the site. Alli Spence, Website and Information Manager, says: “We're really pleased with how the website looks, and we've had some good feedback. Thanks to everyone at Leap Frog for your work. We're looking forward to developing the website with you in the future."

Yorkshire and Humber Regional Migration Partnership (YHRMP) were looking for a new website to promote the work of their organisation and give online access to migration information for the Yorkshire and Humberside region. They wanted a website that visitors found easy to use and accessible, that flagged news items effectively and was cost-effective to run.

The website does what was wanted - it has a simple, attractive design and meets WAI Priority AA web accessibility guidelines. People can find news items easily, through headline features on the home page.

Alli Spence says:
"We're particularly pleased with our searchable directory of organisations, which allows participating organisations to add and edit their entries online. We also like the flexibility and scope of the content management system - this allows us to create and edit online forms, and to alter the structure of the website very easily and quickly, at low cost....."