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Like Cars before Seatbelts: Live Internet video event exposes the current state of online security
2009-02-06
Jersey City, NJ, February 05, 2009 - The Internet Today: Like Cars before
Seatbelts, a live, Internet video event, will expose the facts underlying the
current deterioration of security and trust on the Internet and discuss
strategies Internet users should adopt to avoid resulting problems ranging from
identity theft to sluggish PC performance. Any Internet user can access the
event featuring Melih Abdulhayoglu, CEO and Chief Security Architect of Comodo,
and Henry Blodgett, CEO of Silicon Alley Insider, on Tuesday, February 10 at 3
p.m. EST. It is part of the Paltalk TechNow network, where new ideas about
technology will be presented in live, interactive, Internet events. Abdulhayoglu
and Blodgett will also take live questions from the Internet audience.
The program's title refers to similarities between consumer's rapid adoption of
automobiles, after World War II and their adoption of the Internet today – in
both cases safety and security were secondary considerations. As unacceptable
death and injury rates uncovered in books like Unsafe at Any Speed helped
trigger a significant upgrade in auto safety technology and practice,
Abdulhayoglu and Blodgett will discuss the current triggers for a similar
movement in Internet safety, and what measures could or should be adopted. Like
passengers without seatbelts, Internet consumers are under-protected, not from
collisions, but from organized criminals using the Internet as a vehicle for
fraud and theft. Three factors combine to make Internet crime increasingly
prevalent:
- increase in consumer Internet dependence, particularly for applications
involving financial and other information potentially valuable to criminals,
- growing number and recruitment of highly skilled software hackers, primarily
in eastern Europe and China,
- an exponential rise in malware code created – as many as 30,000 new threats
per day is overwhelming traditional defenses from user PC's through the entire
Internet infrastructure
The Internet Today: Like Cars before Seatbelts is the first of a three-part
series presenting Abdulhayoglu and Blodgett exchanging views with one another
and a live Internet audience. The second program, Tuesday, March 3 at 3 pm (EST)
is entitled Digital Identity, Establish and Manage it (or Someone Else Will).
The third, Transforming The Web into Your Web, is scheduled for Thursday, March
19.
Melih Abdulhayoglu, Comodo CEO said: "Other than the health of ourselves and our
families, there aren't more important things to be thinking and talking about.
Future human potential will be increasingly dependent on the Internet – we need
to secure our future."
For more information or to participate in this live event, go to
http://www.comodo.com/webinars/comodolive210.html on or before Tuesday,
February 10 at 3 p.m. US Eastern time.
About Comodo
The Comodo companies provide the infrastructure that is essential in enabling
e-merchants, other Internet-connected companies, software companies, and
individual consumers to interact and conduct business via the Internet safely
and securely. The Comodo companies offer PKI SSL, Code Signing, Content
Verification and E-Mail Certificates; award winning PC security software;
vulnerability scanning services for PCI Compliance; secure e-mail and fax
services.
Continual innovation, a core competence in PKI, and a commitment to reversing
the growth of Internet-crime distinguish the Comodo companies as vital players
in the Internet's ongoing development. Comodo secures and authenticates online
transactions and communications for over 200,000 business customers and has over
10,000,000 installations of desktop security products.
For additional information on Comodo - Creating Trust Online™ visit our website.
For more information, reporters and analysts may contact:
Katharine Hadow
Comodo--Creating Trust Online
+1 (201) 963 0004 x4073
Email: media-relations@comodo.com
Click here for more information
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