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Trouble accessing my CA online account

I have been a CA Security customer for over 5 years and have found their on-line account access to be lackluster.  Specifically, I have been unable to access the Threat Manager 8.1 upgrade for my environment and I am currently under value maintenance.  Any help? - IT Director, City of Wyandotte                                         Productive's Take: First, there are different on-line access features based on your maintenance contract, value or enterprise.  Learn more about these on-line features as well as how to upgrade your CA Security product if currently under maintenance.   Read more

Couldn't imagine doing my job without it

There is not much to dislike about Shavlik.  There is no way I could update 70 machines on my own or that's all I would be doing with my time, not to mention it finds updates that windows update does not.  I think Shavlik is an excellent product and I couldn't imagine doing my job without it. - IT Manager, Northland Financial               Productive's Take: It is critical to have a solution that can identify patch level vulnerabilities in your environment for not only Windows applications but all your software applications.  Learn more about what questions you should be addressing regarding the security of your environment when it comes to patching.    Read more

The Latest News

Shavlik secures offline virtual machines

Shavlik Technologies has developed a way to patch all virtual machines, even one that are offline.  This provides organizations with the ability to assess and remediate the patch levels of their physical servers, online virtual machines and offline virtual machines for both VMware and Microsoft virtual environments.    Read more

Point of Sale (POS) system compromised at national restaurant chain

At a Dave and Buster's restaurant three men gained unauthorized access to the point-of-sale server and installed a packet sniffer designed to capture Track 2 data as it moved from the POS servers to the computer system at the restaurant's headquarters and a data processor's network.  The packet sniffer captured data for approximately 5,000 credit and debit cards which was sold to others who used the information to make fraudulent purchases.  Read more