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KB Home Reports 2013 First Quarter Results
KB Home (NYSE: KBH), one of the nation's largest and most recognized homebuilders, today reported results for its first quarter ended February 28, 2013. Highlights and developments include the following:
Three Months Ended February 28, 2013
- Revenues increased 59% to $405.2 million from $254.6 million for the first quarter of 2012 as a result of an increase in the number of homes delivered and a higher average selling price. Compared to the year-earlier quarter, revenues were up across all of the Company's homebuilding regions.
- The Company delivered 1,485 homes, up 29% from the first quarter of 2012, reflecting increases in three of its four homebuilding regions.
- The overall average selling price of $271,300 was $52,300, or 24%, higher than the year-earlier quarter, marking the Company's 11th consecutive quarter of year-over-year improvement, and its highest first-quarter average selling price since 2006.
- The higher average selling price in the current quarter reflected, among other things, the Company's ongoing strategy of repositioning its operations to serve its core first-time and first move-up homebuyers in higher-performing choice locations in land-constrained growth markets that feature higher household incomes and greater demand for larger homes and more design options, as well as generally rising home prices.
- Average selling prices were higher in all four of the Company's homebuilding regions, with year-over-year increases ranging from 13% in the Central region to 22% in the Southwest region.
- Marking the third consecutive quarter that the Company has generated homebuilding operating income, and the first time it has posted first-quarter operating income since 2007, the Company produced operating income of $.5 million for the current quarter, a $31.6 million improvement from an operating loss of $31.1 million for the year-earlier quarter.
- As a percentage of homebuilding revenues, the Company's homebuilding operating income improved 12.5 percentage points from an operating loss in the first quarter of 2012.
- The housing gross profit margin improved by 680 basis points to 14.8% from 8.0% in the year-earlier quarter. There were no inventory impairment charges in the 2013 first quarter, compared to $6.6 million of such charges a year ago.
- The current quarter housing gross profit margin improved by 420 basis points from the 2012 first quarter housing gross profit margin, excluding the inventory impairment charges, of 10.6%.
- The year-over-year improvement largely reflects the Company's ongoing strategic actions targeting growth and profitability, which helped to drive higher revenues, reduce homebuyer closing cost allowances and generate greater operating efficiencies.
- Reflecting higher homebuilding revenues, the Company's selling, general and administrative expenses increased to $59.1 million in the current quarter from $51.2 million in the same quarter a year ago. However, as a percentage of housing revenues, these expenses improved by 570 basis points to 14.7%.
- The improved selling, general and administrative expense percentage reflected increased delivery volume and higher average selling prices, along with the Company's focus on containing and leveraging its overhead costs.
- The Company's selling, general and administrative expense percentage was at its lowest first-quarter level since 2007.
- The housing gross profit margin improved by 680 basis points to 14.8% from 8.0% in the year-earlier quarter. There were no inventory impairment charges in the 2013 first quarter, compared to $6.6 million of such charges a year ago.
- As a percentage of homebuilding revenues, the Company's homebuilding operating income improved 12.5 percentage points from an operating loss in the first quarter of 2012.
- Interest expense totaled $15.2 million, compared to $16.3 million in the year-earlier quarter. In the first quarter of 2012, interest expense included a $2.0 million loss on the early extinguishment of debt.
- In the first quarter of 2013, the Company's financial services operations generated pretax income of $2.7 million, compared to $2.0 million in the year-earlier quarter. In January, the Company in partnership with Nationstar Mortgage LLC, its preferred mortgage lender, formed a mortgage banking company that is expected to begin offering mortgage banking services to the Company's homebuyers in the latter part of the year.
- The Company's current quarter net loss narrowed by $33.3 million, or 73%, to $12.5 million, compared to a net loss of $45.8 million in first quarter of 2012. On a per share basis, the Company's net loss result also improved significantly to $.16 from $.59 in the year-earlier quarter.
Homebuyer Closing Cost Allowances Reclassification
- Effective December 1, 2012, the Company elected to reclassify closing cost allowances it gives to certain homebuyers from selling, general and administrative expenses to construction and land costs in its consolidated statements of operations in order to be more consistent with the practice of other public homebuilders. This had the effect of decreasing both the Company's housing gross profits and selling, general and administrative expenses by $2.1 million and $4.4 million for the three months ended February 28, 2013 and February 29, 2012, respectively, which represented .5% and 1.7% of housing revenues, respectively. The reclassification had no impact on consolidated operating income (loss) or net income (loss) amounts previously reported. All prior period amounts have been reclassified to conform to the 2013 presentation.
Backlog and Net Orders
- Potential future housing revenues in backlog at February 28, 2013 increased to $703.9 million, up 53% from $460.0 million at February 29, 2012.
- The number of homes in the Company's backlog rose 25% to 2,763 at February 28, 2013 from 2,203 at February 29, 2012.
- The overall value of first quarter net orders was $506.8 million, up 83% from $277.5 million in the year-earlier quarter.
- Each of the Company's four homebuilding regions generated a year-over-year increase in net order value, ranging from 41% in the Central region to 133% in the West Coast region.
- Net orders rose 40% to 1,671 in the first quarter of 2013, up from 1,197 in the year-earlier quarter.
- The year-over-year increase in net orders reflected double-digit growth in each of the Company's homebuilding regions, with increases ranging from 19% in the Central region to 83% in the West Coast region.
- The first quarter cancellation rate as a percentage of gross orders improved to 32% in 2013 from 36% in 2012. As a percentage of beginning backlog, the first quarter cancellation rate was 30% in 2013 and 31% in 2012.
- Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash totaled $668.7 million at February 28, 2013, up $101.6 million from $567.1 million at November 30, 2012.
- The Company's unrestricted cash and cash equivalents increased by $99.2 million to $624.0 million from $524.8 million at November 30, 2012.
- The higher cash balance at February 28, 2013 was primarily due to the capital markets transactions completed in the current quarter, which generated total net proceeds of $332.9 million, as described below.
- In the current quarter, the Company's operating activities used net cash of $211.0 million, up from $109.6 million in the first quarter of 2012, largely due to investments in land and land development that drove inventories higher in the first quarter of 2013 compared to the 2012 year-end level.
- Inventories totaled $1.94 billion at February 28, 2013 and $1.71 billion at November 30, 2012.
- The Company's land and land development investments totaled $344.9 million for the three months ended February 28, 2013, compared to $112.6 million for the prior-year quarter. The Company made strategic investments in each of its homebuilding regions in the current quarter, with the majority made in California, a key driver of the Company's improving results.
- The Company owned or controlled 47,312 lots at February 28, 2013, an increase of 6% from 44,752 lots owned or controlled at November 30, 2012.
- The Company's debt balance of $1.96 billion at February 28, 2013 increased from $1.72 billion at November 30, 2012, reflecting the public issuance of $230 million in aggregate principal amount of 1.375% convertible senior notes due 2019, which generated net cash proceeds of $223.1 million.
- The Company's next scheduled debt maturity is in 2014, when the remaining $76.0 million of its 5 3/4% senior notes become due.
- On March 12, 2013, the Company entered into a new $200 million unsecured revolving credit facility with a syndicate of financial institutions. The facility contains an accordion feature under which the aggregate commitment may be increased to up to $300 million, subject to certain conditions and the availability of additional bank commitments. The new facility supports the Company's capital structure by providing an additional source of readily accessible liquidity. To date, the Company has not made any borrowings under this facility.
- Stockholders' equity increased to $473.1 million at February 28, 2013 from $376.8 million at November 30, 2012, largely due to the Company's public issuance of 6,325,000 shares of its common stock on January 29, 2013, which generated net cash proceeds of $109.8 million.
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Rutgers fires basketball coach Mike Rice after video release
PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) — Rutgers has fired basketball coach Mike Rice after a videotape aired showing him shoving, grabbing and throwing balls at players in practice and using gay slurs during practice.
The videotape, broadcast Tuesday on ESPN, has prompted scores of outraged social media comments as well as sharp criticism from Gov. Chris Christie. The head of the New Jersey Assembly called for Rice to be fired.
With mounting criticism on a state and national level, the school decided to take action on Wednesday, relieving Rice of his duties after three largely unsuccessful seasons at the Big East school. There will be a national search to replace him.
Rutgers athletic director Tim Pernetti was given a copy of the video in November. After hiring independent investigators to analyze the tape, he suspended Rice for three games and fined him $50,000.
Three day games
UNDATED (AP) — There are three afternoon games, all in the American League today. The Chicago White Sox host Kansas City, Texas plays at Houston and Detroit visits Minnesota. The rest of the A-L schedule under the lights has Boston at N.Y. Yankees, Cleveland at Toronto, Tampa Bay home to Baltimore and Seattle at Oakland. The Mariners are the only MLB club to win its first two games.
Over in the National League, Miami continues its series at Washington, the Cubs visit Pittsburgh while the Mets host San Diego. Rounding out the schedule: Philadelphia plays at Atlanta, Milwaukee hosts Colorado, St. Louis visits Arizona while the Dodgers and Giants continue their series in Los Angeles.
The lone interleague game has the Los Angeles Angels at Cincinnati.
Five games coming up
UNDATED (AP) — One of five contests on the ice has Pittsburgh at the New York Rangers. The Penguins are looking to bounce back after having their 15-game winning streak snapped against Buffalo last night. Pittsburgh has dominated the season series over the Rangers, winning the first three games by a combined score of 12-3.
The other games have Montreal at Philadelphia, Calgary home to Edmonton, Dallas on the road at Anaheim and Minnesota at San Jose.
Knicks look to stay hot
UNDATED (AP) — One of a dozen NBA games tonight has New York at Atlanta. Carmelo Anthony is coming off a 50-point game as the Knicks look for their tenth straight win. New York's magic number to capture its first Atlantic Division title since 1993-94 is five. The Hawks are in fifth place in the Eastern Conference, sitting one game behind Brooklyn in the race for home-court advantage in the first round of the post-season.
Another key game has Denver at Utah. The Jazz are in a battle with the Lakers and Dallas for the final playoff spot in the West.
The other games tonight have Brooklyn at Cleveland, Philly at Charlotte, Toronto home to Washington, Detroit at Boston, Minnesota at Milwaukee, Orlando at San Antonio, Memphis at Portland, Sacramento hosting Houston, New Orleans at Golden State and Phoenix at the L.A. Clippers.
LPGA first major
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) — The LPGA's first major of the season gets under way in Rancho Mirage, California tomorrow. Sun Young Yoo is the defending champ at the Kraft Nabisco Championship.
Texas Open starts tomorrow
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — This week's PGA stop is the Texas Open in San Antonio. Ben Curtis is the defending champ. The men's first major golf event, The Masters, begins next week at Augusta National.

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So um, I like know no one here. It's kind of peculiar, you know commenting on people's lives when I know relatively nothing about them.
I just thought we could all answer some questions of my design, so you know, we all get to know each other.
1- Gender/Sexuality
2- State/Region of Residency
3- Political Alignment
4- Favorite Food
5- Favorite Genre of Music
6- Favorite artist/band
7- Career/Planned Career
8- Favorite Color
9- Jeff is a Pervert
10- Kylie or Madonna
1- Male/Complete and utter queer
2- Vermont!
3- Democrat/Liberal/Slightly-Socialist
4- Babies... or Spinach (Never together, they clash)
5- Pop/Hip-Hop
6- This week: Snap! | All Time: Kylie
7- Neurology
8- Yellow
9- True.
10- Kylie!
1- Female/lesbian
2- Indiana
3- Democrat/liberal
4- Mashed potatoes
5- Alternative Rock
6- Evanescence
7- Something in Nuclear Medicine
8- Yellow
9- Ya
1- Female/ Lesbian who sometimes crushes on trans men
2- California
3- My voter registration card says independent
4- anything green flavored (green beans, green grapes, green popsicles, green bananas, etc)
5- Jazz (most sub-genres therein except not so much smooth jazz)
6- No way on earth I could pick just one
7- Professional Degree = J.D. M.A. Career = Saving the World
8- Green or Pink
9- Jeff is infinitely awesome
10- Madonna, hands down.
1- Gender/Sexuality-Female,Lesbian most of the time
2- State/Region of Residency-Ireland
3- Political Alignment-Depends on the issues
4- Favorite Food-Chinese
5- Favorite Genre of Music-Punk but it can really vary depending on mood
6- Favorite artist/band Tegan and Sara
7- Career/Planned Career-Computer Programmer
8- Favorite Color-Blue
9- Jeff is a Pervert-Nope,Jeff is awesome
10- Kylie or Madonna-Eugh neither...eugh
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent-Eleanor Roosevelt
1- Gender/Sexuality
2- State/Region of Residency
3- Political Alignment
4- Favorite Food
ever since i've became vegetarian, i've started liking food less and less
5- Favorite Genre of Music
I guess now its rock, or alt rock. idk.
6- Favorite artist/band
my all time favorite is Melanie C, but my most current fav, was Paramore, now idk
7- Career/Planned Career
Criminologist in 8 years
8- Favorite Color
Blue, well either royal blue or turqouise
9- Jeff is a Pervert
just a slight one. lol jkjkjk
10- Kylie or Madonna
um Kylie, Madonna is a hoe
"Duck tape is like the Force. It has a light side and a dark side and it holds the universe together."
"The best way to do is to be." --Lao Tzu
"To do is to be." --Freidrick Neitzche
"To be is to do." --Emanuel Kant
1- Female and Queer
2- Ontario, Canada
3- Liberal I geuss.. dunno not into politics yet.
4- Salad
5- Rock
6- too many to name
7- Music Teacher-elementary school teacher
8- Green, purple, blue, and brown
9- Jeff is a Pervert- I don't think it's nice to call people perverts right in front of their face... and chances are he isn't.. . but what do we mean by pervert?? Like into lil boys?? cuz I don't think he'd make it that obvious pervert as in like sexual/ or whatever... i don't know, i don't know him that well. From what I know he's okay, he gives me free books and movies and edits my reviews.. all making me a better queer person and a better writer.
10- I don't know who Kylie is so Madonna
~~~Fear is only a verb if you let it be.. don't you dare let go of my hand~~~
It was a joke...
Jeff makes some sexually heavy comments a lot of the time.
"Are we supposed to connect the dots between you mentioning this and uploading your new face pic at the same time? :-)" That was after I had posted an entry saying that I liked the song "All On Your Face" by Cazwell.
He's a very sexually charged person.
1- Mostly female/mostly queer
2- California
3- Socialist.
4- Usually pizza. This week, smoothies.
5- Alternative and rock
6- Tough choice. Right now, Taylor Swift.
7- I'm currently a secretary and graphic designer. I plan to be a vet. Or a dancer, if I can make it.
8- Green.
9- Irrelevant. He's awesome.
10- Madonna. Sorry, Azul.
"She's a mystery
She's too much for me
But I keep coming back for more
She's just the girl I'm looking for"
-The Click Five "Just the Girl"
1- leaning towards complete androgyne
2- Virginia!
3- Moderate libertarian
4- varies...this week, rice&bean burritos!
5- indie
6- this week, katy perry!
7- something in the arts
8- purple
9- Jeff is a Pervert.....no, he's just more honest with what he's thinking.
10- kylie!
Leave you alone for FIVE MINUTES!
1- Gender/Sexuality - female/lesbian
2- State/Region of Residency - Michigan
3- Political Alignment - democrat but i dont really like politics
4- Favorite Food - i dont really have a favorite but food is definitely one of my hobbies and pizza is in the top 5 along with icecream
5- Favorite Genre of Music - pop/rock/indie. it really depends on the day tho.
6- Favorite artist/band - also depends on the day. right now - the grand archives but my favorite song right now is viva la vida by coldplay
7- Career/Planned Career - high school spanish teacher and yes thats in the future
8- Favorite Color - pink
9- Jeff is a Pervert - i dont really think jeff is a pervert.
10- Kylie or Madonna - im going to have to say niether
If male homosexuals are called "gay," then female homosexuals should be called "ecstatic." ~Shelly Roberts
kay, so here goes nothing!
1- Gender/Sexuality- I'm a dude that likes dudes.
2- State/Region of Residency- Pennsylvania, US
3- Political Alignment- I don't give a shit about politics, but Independent I guess.
4- Favorite Food- Puerto Rican foods/comida criolla <3
5- Favorite Genre of Music- rock/pop
6- Favorite artist/band- Girugamesh, they're a Japanese rock band.
7- Career/Planned Career- I HAVE NO IDEA UGH
8- Favorite Color- blue
9- Jeff is a Pervert- Yeah but not in a creepy way. :P
10- Kylie or Madonna- Madonna, I guess. Kylie's cool too though.
~Ashley and I... we rock the world's socks.~
Me: *gasp* THAT OBVIOUSLY EXPLAINS EVERYTHING
Her: I KNOW I SHOULD BE A SCIENTIST
Me: YES AND DISCOVER THE CURE FOR HICCUPS
Her: OMG I COULD SOOO DO THAT
Me: YEAH YOU COULD LOLROFLMAOWTFBBQ
1- Gender/Sexuality- Female, likes the girls.
2- State/Region of Residency- Richmond Hill, Canada
3- Political Alignment- Liberal, I guess
4- Favorite Food- Various types of ice cream
5- Favorite Genre of Music- Alt rock, electronica
6- Favorite artist/band- AFI
7- Career/Planned Career- musician/ teacher/ counselor
8- Favorite Color- Look up at around...I would say...10PM these days.
9- Jeff is a Pervert- er? he's cool like that?
10- Kylie or Madonna- Madonna!
you mean midnight black or purple?
I'm pretty sure 10 pm sky is too variable to constitute as a color. Maybe a color spectrum, but not a color.
1- Gender/Sexuality- male/gay
2- State/Region of Residency- Most of the time, South America.
3- Political Alignment- Liberal
4- Favorite Food- foie grass
5- Favorite Genre of Music- indie/pop/classical/opera depends on my mood.
6- Favorite artist/band- Death Cab, Julieta Venegas
7- Career/Planned Career- lawyer, counsel, legal practitioner, legal professional, legal representative, member of the bar, advocate, solicitor, barrister, mouthpiece, ambulance chaser.
8- Favorite Color- IKB or the sky near the end of twilight
9- Jeff is a Pervert- Should we know?
10- Kylie or Madonna- Ermmm... depends...
" . . . The sun does not shine upon this fair earth to meet frowning eyes, depend upon it." Charles Dickens
Yay! Death Cab! Definetely one of my favorites. I jsut saw them in concert last month!
Really? I'm so jealous!!!!!
" . . . The sun does not shine upon this fair earth to meet frowning eyes, depend upon it." Charles Dickens
Hey =] I'm Amanda
1] female/bisexual
3] libertarian
4] almonds
5] punk-rock
6] blink-182 (yes i realize they do not fit into the above. still my fave. saved my life)
7] graphic design? CGI? psychology? personal trainer? rockstar! XD
8] grey
9] outspoken, not necessarily a pervert
10] *shrug*
1- Gender/Sexuality: female/bi
2- State/Region of Residency: toronto
3- Political Alignment: meh...
4- Favorite Food: way too many to pick just one
5- Favorite Genre of Music: classic rock, punk-rock, ska-core
6- Favorite artist/band: way too many to pick just one
7- Career/Planned Career: teacher
8- Favorite Color: hot pink
9- Jeff is a Pervert: yes, but so am i
10- Kylie or Madonna: Madonna
1- Gender/Sexuality
2- State/Region of Residency
3- Political Alignment
Liberal. I imagine I'll register democrat.
4- Favorite Food
No real favorite.
5- Favorite Genre of Music
rock. Indie, alternative, etc.
6- Favorite artist/band
a few: Death Cab for Cutie, Incubus, Coheed and Cambria, Chevelle...
7- Career/Planned Career
Ahh I don't know. Writing? Gay Rights? Paranormal Investigation? Can I make a career out of any of those? ... I'll be cashiering the rest of my life.
8- Favorite Color
greenish blues
9- Jeff is a Pervert
nah, I enjoy Jeff.
10- Kylie or Madonna
Uhhh.. I guess Madonna?
1- Gender/Sexuality
Male, gay
2- State/Region of Residency
3- Political Alignment
Libertarian, except I like voting for a viable candidate, so Democrat
4- Favorite Food
Had food poisoning all day, so... nothing right now.
5- Favorite Genre of Music
Guitar-riff rock/Broadway
6- Favorite artist/band
Listening to a lot of Police and Coldplay lately, since I'm seeing both in concert (separately) this week.
7- Career/Planned Career
Writer. Activist.
8- Favorite Color
Purple, orange, red.
9- Jeff is a Pervert
I've seen too much, I have to recuse myself on this one.
10- Kylie or Madonna
Don't know as much about Kylie, so Madge by default.
"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment." - Rumi
1- Gender/Sexuality
Female, Mostly gay, rarely straight
2- State/Region of Residency
3- Political Alignment
I hate stupid people.
4- Favorite Food
5- Favorite Genre of Music
Indie Pop
6- Favorite artist/band
Tegan and Sara. I'm liking a little Mirah now too, her voice is so beautiful.
7- Career/Planned Career
Oh my god not yet.
8- Favorite Color
9- Jeff is a Pervert
I like honest perverts.
10- Kylie or Madonna
1- Gender/Sexuality
Male/ Gay
2- State/Region of Residency
Georgia, USA
3- Political Alignment
Not really interested in politics.
4- Favorite Food
Chicken fettucine.
5- Favorite Genre of Music
6- Favorite artist/band
Fall Out Boy
7- Career/Planned Career
Something in fashion. But on a more realistic level, Journalist.
8- Favorite Color
9- Jeff is a Pervert
10- Kylie or Madonna


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Article brought to you by: Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)Grab a canoe and skidoo! L.A. River is finally open for fun and recreation
By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
June 2nd, 2013 Catholic Online (www.catholic.org) The Los Angeles River is now open for fun in the California sun. For the first time since the Great Depression in the 1930's, the L.A. River is now open for boating by the general public. While the river had been the scene of much clandestine kayaking in the past, water enthusiasts can now go the length of the waterway without fear. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - The river became off limits to the general public in the 1930s after devastating floods prompted officials to close access to the river and pave its banks with concrete to improve storm drainage.In contrast to other rivers in major metropolitan areas, such as New York's Hudson River or the Chicago River, the Los Angeles River is more a seasonal desert waterway. The river is flush with rapids during the rainy season but can become a mere trickle during the hot summer months. Another reason the concrete-lined river was off-limits to the public was because the route was technically an Army Corps of Engineers flood control channel, officials say. Following public outcry, officials at several levels of government created the Los Angeles River Pilot Recreation Zone along a lush segment that features tree-lined islands. Its a beautiful area, full of vistas of the San Gabriel Mountains and abundant wildlife such as herons, egrets, hawks and kingfishers. There is even fish in the river such as carp, catfish and bass. Anglers can drop a line as long as they have a state permit. In this specially cordoned area, the public can launch a kayak, canoe or other non-motorized boat without a permit or cost. The pilot program allows for the open recreation between Memorial Day and Labor Day, a period when local storms are unlikely. Officials expect the program to be renewed in subsequent years. The river has a longstanding bad reputation to overcome. A state legislator in the 1980s wanted to build a highway on it. It's better known as the cinematic home for violence and car chases in films such as "Grease" and "Terminator 2." In the 1990s, the conservation group American Rivers placed it six times on the list of the country's 20 most threatened and endangered rivers. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency declared the river a "traditional navigable water," in 2010, allowing for Clean Water Act protections, officials said. The river ultimately ends in the Pacific Ocean at Long Beach, California. Kayakers from near and far were all eager to dip their crafts into the now rushing water. "People were downright giddy to get into a kayak on the Los Angeles River," Councilman-elect Mitch O'Farrell says. "Even that 2.5-mile has rapids. It takes some concentration. It's a real river. It does take certain risks." Article brought to you by: Catholic Online (www.catholic.org) |


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This tutorial shows how to set recurrences on Outlook 2010 Calendar
It may happen again and again, but that doesn't mean you have to enter it again and again. To tell Outlook that an appointment, meeting, or event occurs over, and over, you use the Recurrence feature.
Setting recurrence is the same for any entry, so for simplicity's sake, we will create a recurrence for an appointment.
NOTE: You may need to create several different recurring calendar entries to achieve the desired pattern for a single activity. For example, if you want to set up a payday event that occurs on the 15th day of the month and also on the last day of the month, you will need to set up two recurring events for that.
To open a recurring calendar entry to see its details or to change it, there are two options:
NOTE: when you change the time of the whole series, any exceptions you've made on a single occurrence for time will be overwritten. This is not true for changing the notes on the occurrence/series.
To delete, click on the entry and hit the Delete key. A dialogue box will open where you can choose to delete just the occurrence vs. deleting the entire series.
TIP: If you schedule too many future recurrences, don't delete the entire series and start over. Simply open the series, click Recurrence from the Options grouping and change the "End by" time. This leaves you with a record of past occurrences.


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Posted: August 27, 2008
American girl
Sen. Hillary Clinton throws her might behind Obama
Rebecca ColeWiith Tom Petty's "American Girl" serenading her entrance, Sen. Hillary Clinton walked onstage to a wild, extended ovation that shook the beyond-capacity crowd at the Pepsi Center last night.
Basking in the bittersweet moment - bitter because she is not the Democratic Party's nominee but sweet for being the first women to ever progress so far in a presidential primary - Clinton appeared tough, calm and poised to deliver the speech that many hoped would unify the fractured party.
And Clinton quickly delivered, voicing her stamp of approval onto the would-be nominee, Sen. Barack Obama.
"I am a proud supporter of Barack Obama," Clinton said as huge cheers greeted her words. "Whether you voted for me or for Barack, the time is now to unite as a single party with a single purpose."
As white "Hillary" signs flew furiously and former president Bill Clinton looked on adoringly from the stands, the senator from New York made it clear that any talk of disgruntled votes for the presumptive Republican nominee, Sen. John McCain, was completely unacceptable.
"No way. No how. No John McCain," she said.
Clinton alluded to her long and grueling campaign, and the support she received along the way from a faithful core of feminists and women's-rights activists by thanking her "sisterhood of the traveling pantsuit." But she made it clear the party must come together to elect Obama the next president, asking the crowd, "Were you in this campaign just for me?"
Speaking on the 88th anniversary of the 19th amendment that enshrined in the constitution a woman's right to vote, Clinton invoked the struggles of those women and how they fought a hard-won battle. And how this year, her daughter Chelsea could vote for her own mother for president of the United States.
Although Clinton called McCain a "colleague and a friend," (amid a smattering of boos) and noted his honorable service to the country, she held nothing back as she laid into the Arizona senator. "We don't need four more years of the last eight years."
Invoking a classic call-and-response, Clinton asked the crowd if they wanted four more years of high gas prices, more jobs being shipped overseas and fewer created here at home, or skyrocketing debt and foreclosures. "No!" was the crowd's heated response.
"It makes perfect sense that George Bush and John McCain will be together next week in the Twin Cities," she said.
Clinton made sure her husband's administration and achievements were recognized, telling the crowd to have faith that Democrats could restore the right leadership to the country. "As I recall, we did it before with President Clinton," she said to another frenzied round of applause and Bill waved to the crowd.
And she gave Obama a subtle challenge to pass her version of the Democrats health care solution, saying she "cannot wait" to watch Obama sign into law a plan that would cover every single American.
After giving a shout-out to Michelle Obama and her well-received speech the previous night, Clinton praised Obama's VP pick Joe Biden, saying of the veteran Delaware senator, "He's pragmatic, he's tough and he's wise."
With a message of "keep going," in the face of adversity, Clinton told the crowd, "We've got to get going by electing Barack Obama.
"We're Americans," she said. "We're not big on quitting."
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Rebecca Cole is the online editor at Rocky Mountain Institute, a non-profit "think-and-do" tank that drives the efficient use of energy and resources. Learn more about RMI's latest initiative, Reinventing Fire, to move the U.S. off fossil fuels by 2050.


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Sam and I would like to send a thank you to everyone who participated in the 6th Annual Easter Celebration. We are especially grateful to Craig Ferguson for opening the Wildflower Pavilion at Planet Bluegrass to us.
Heartfelt thanks to Brian and Erin Schey for their help in orchestrating the music, and to all of the other musicians and performers: Thom Bishop, Eben Grace, Caleb Roberts, Randy Kaplan, Tim Kyer, Wil Masisak, Sally Truitt, Shannon Johnson and Rachel Tallent; as well as to Ashley Johnson for her delightful children's story.
Also, a special thank you to Ed Kean and Steve Rohrbach for engineering the sound.
In gratitude,
Sam and Mindy
The great thing about "urban myths," (i.e. the bloody hook on the car door handle, alligators in the NYC subway tunnels, etc.) is sometimes there is a grain of truth to the tale which makes you want to "believe." Or, how about the unannounced show, for the "fortunate few" at a small club by a legendary band, just yearning to get back to their roots. It could happen. In fact it did happen to Gail Gordon and Ken Feldman of Lyons and fifty of your best friends!


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Wallix unveil their global Channel Strategy for 2015
Paris, 20/01/2015 : WALLIX (www.wallix.com), a vendor of specialized security solutions in traceability and securing privileged access to corporate information systems, unveiled a new global channel program for 2015 at its partner conference in Paris. More than 30 certified partners gathered for the annual event which also saw UNIDEES win the Best International Partner award and BULL, an Atos Company, win for Best Partner in France.
WALLIX aggressive channel strategy for 2015 will accelerate business for partners offering Wallix AdminBastion (WAB). Dominique Meurisse, WALLIX COO said, "It's our ambition to grow faster than a market growing at more than 20 % per year, this objective relies exclusively on our partners." To achieve this goal, WALLIX has launched a partner program that focuses investment on two complementary levels of integration partners as well as opening opportunities for Managed Service Providers and Consulting companies to leverage its growth.
The launch of this program follows the arrival of Marc Gueroult, Channel Manager, who joined WALLIX in 2014 to develop this new strategy. Through this program available in France and globally, WALLIX will recognise the loyalty of its existing partners and expand its network, which currently includes over 50 companies in over 20 countries.
Specifically, the WAB Global Partner Program is structured around 4 levels designed to reward partners their commitment to WALLIX and its customers:
- Elite and Premier levels for integrators
- Consulting Program for Consulting Firms
- MSSP Program for Managed Services Providers
Marc Gueroult concluded, "The launch of our program is a strategic announcement for WALLIX which has invested heavily to create value-added packages. The contribution of our partners to our growth is key to our continuing development. We will continue to invest to create lasting relationships based on mutual trust and honesty with our network and giving us the platform to stand out in this high-growth market."
Wallix AdminBastion's compatibility now extends to the main hypervisors on the market
The vendor now covers Microsoft Hyper-V, KVM and VMWare in particular.
Paris, April 15th 2014:WALLIX, European vendor specializing in the traceability and control of privileged accounts announced today the compatibility of Wallix AdminBastion 4.0 (WAB) with virtualization infrastructures Microsoft Hyper-V and KVM. Last year, the vendor had announced the compatibility of its Privileged User Management solution with VMware ESX Server.
For the specialist in the traceability and control of privileged accounts, compatibility with these new hypervisors means that WAB is available not only in the form of hardware appliances, but integrates in the market's main virtualization environments as well. Businesses can thus deploy the privileged user management solution in the technical architecture of their choice. This gives the solution high operational flexibility and unmatched versatility on the market.
For example, compatibility with KVM now allows installing WAB in OpenStack architectures which have been adopted by many public, hybrid and private cloud providers, thereby providing "cloud" infrastructures with a level of security similar to the levels found in internal corporate infrastructures.
Likewise, WAB's compatibility with Microsoft Hyper-V allows many clients, such as administrations or hospitals that have opted for this technology, to deploy Wallix AdminBastion while benefiting from the ecosystem existing around Microsoft Hyper-V.
Jean-Noël de Galzain, CEO and founder of WALLIX commented, "We have been increasingly successful on the market, in France as well as abroad. Extending Wallix AdminBastion's compatibility to other hypervisors was naturally the next step to a trend that began with VMware ESX coverage and WAB's VMWare Ready certification. As virtual environments are becoming more widespread due to the advantages for which they are known, it has become strategic for WALLIX to be able to offer these infrastructures a solution that can further strengthen their security, especially in terms of privileged user management. Eventually, it will be possible to integrate Wallix AdminBastion into any type of virtual infrastructure."
In order to complement support for these virtualization infrastructures, WALLIX has issued a new type of "corporate" license, that will enable the deployment of as many WABs as necessary to protect a defined number of resources. As such, any WALLIX client with a corporate license can accurately adapt his WAB infrastructure to his technical requirements, without having to acquire additional licenses.
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WAB as a Service: WALLIX launches AdminBastion in MSSP mode
The French vendor now offers its clients the possibility of installing Wallix AdminBastion, its privileged user traceability and control solution, in their infrastructures while delegating the administration and daily operation of the product to a trusted third party
Paris, April 1st, 2014: WALLIX, European leader in the traceability of access and management of privileged accounts announced today the launch of its WAB As A Service (WaaS) range, which now makes it possible to own a privileged user traceability and control solution in an information system administered by a trusted third party.
This range is aimed especially at CIOs and CISOs who are convinced of the helpfulness of Privileged User Management solutions such as Wallix AdminBastion, but whose resources for operating one are limited.
For Jean-Noël de Galzain, CEO and founder of WALLIX, "The challenges of controlling privileged users keep growing. The number of incidents – whether voluntary or involuntary – relating to these internal or external user populations increases every single day. Most of the incidents have huge financial repercussions arising from the increase in privileges granted on a database or sensitive system. This would be a hacker's logical approach after having managed to penetrate a network. However, we noticed that certain decision makers are restricted in the way they use PUM solutions due to a lack of human resources dedicated to the daily operation of the solution. In this context, WALLIX provides a solution in a fully administered service mode and transforms the initial investment into a rental that includes the solution as well as its operation."
The principle of this range is very simple: a Wallix AdminBastion solution, scaled to the requirements of the company, is installed in the premises then managed by a trusted third party who takes charge of the day-to-day administration and operation of the solution, specifically: installation of WAB, remote monitoring, operation (adding/deleting users, modifying resources or administrators and maintenance).
The range also includes the generation of a monthly report summarizing the overall activity on Wallix AdminBastion.
There are many advantages to WAB as a Service:
Full delegation of the project to a trusted third party:
- From the installation stage to day-to-day management, PUM becomes a solution. The availability of teams is no longer an issue, and they can as such focus on the information produced by a neutral third party instead of on the production of information
Financial flexibility of the implementation:
- There is no investment in terms of licenses or maintenance, and actual cost can be planned, as WaaS is based on a flat rate in the form of a monthly fee that includes the cost of human intervention.
Jean-Noël de Galzain added "This new range follows a trend that is already strong on the IT market. There is indeed a considerable divide between the diversity or even the number of solutions on the market, and the available resources for administering them in a company. In this context, the service mode makes perfect sense. Offering WAB As A Service means giving our clients the opportunity to benefit from the best in the innovation of protection from internal threats, governance of the access granted to external service providers, and password management, while keeping investment costs low, without the deployment constraints and without having to form internal teams. In short, it's protection with an immediate return on investment."
WAB as a Service is already available. Quotes will be given upon request.
The free trial version of Wallix AdminBastion 4.0 is now available
Having been tested by clients and resellers during a beta testing campaign,
Wallix AdminBastion is now available in a free trial version on the website of the French vendor
of privileged user traceability and control solutions.
Paris, February 25th 2014: WALLIX, European vendor specializing in the traceability and access control of privileged accounts has announced that its WAB 4.0 solution, the latest major version of its solution, is now available in a free trial version.
This new version of Wallix AdminBastion 4.0 focuses on two major areas: productivity and the extension of traceability to applications and databases. Extending traceability to business applications makes the monitoring of privileged accounts accessible and fully adaptable to the production restrictions of information systems with regard to the management of IT risks.
Traceability of privileged access to applications
Wallix AdminBastion 4.0 allows providing users with single sign-on authentication (SSO) when they access information systems, then logging access to sensitive data and saving operations performed. These features cover the business applications that are essential to the proper running of the business (finance, R&D, CRM, business applications, etc) as much as they cover the infrastructure's management applications (hypervisors, databases, etc). The CISO or auditor will therefore gain access to data saved in real time or in deferred time, which enables avoiding certain deliberate or involuntary incidents, and having increased visibility over the activity of all users who have access and administration privileges on applications such as VMware ESX, Oracle, MySQL etc. that may prove critical to the business.
Transparent integration into directories: easier provisioning, integration into the IS and lower TCO
WALLIX has developed a new provisioning system that meets the operating restrictions encountered by IT teams which manage one or several directories that are sometimes voluminous and often require regular updates. This new feature added to Wallix AdminBastion 4.0 enables seamless integration into an Active Directory Server or LDAP infrastructure to manage users and their privileges. Thanks to this new feature, provisioning becomes easier, less time is taken for the integration process and as a consequence, the total cost of ownership Wallix AdminBastion greatly decreases.
Signing and encrypting saved data: strengthening proof
The probative value of security solutions is essential when fraud occurs or an incident arises and there is a need to determine liability, the source of a problem and the amends to be made.
Wallix AdminBastion 4.0 encrypts and signs all saved sessions to guarantee their non-repudiation, validity and confidentiality. These saving and encryption features allow in particular assigning a legal value to the logs gathered by WAB, which may then be used as evidence in the event of a security incident or an audit. The CISO or CIO can then monitor the activity of its external or internal service providers and find a solution to the requirements for producing evidence or accountability or even enforcing compliance with local and international standards of managing IT risk.
Marc Balasko, Product Manager at WALLIX, commented, "Thanks to WAB's new traceability features, our clients can finally monitor and secure the administration of their critical applications, and thereby meet increasingly tighter regulatory restrictions. WAB now allows you to know exactly what privileged users are doing and keep control over their activity regardless of their scope of intervention."
"The increase in pressure on IT budgets has pushed a growing number of companies to outsource and use applications in the cloud, despite the potential risks that these choices expose them to. With Wallix AdminBastion 4.0, we offer a major version that not only allows monitoring users' access to the infrastructure, but to applications as well as to the Company's sensitive data. In a context of omnipresent risk, extending the vision from an application point of view to an infrastructure point of view allows integrating risk management into the governance of the information system and greatly raising the level of security to meet business compliance needs (healthcare data, PCI-DCCS, MSSP, SOX, etc) without holding back the capacity of our clients' IS to adapt to the needs of the market," emphasized Jean-Noël de Galzain, CEO and Founder of WALLIX. "Thanks to our users' feedback, this major version of WAB also provides innovations in user experience and in the installation of the solution in its IT context. With these innovations and more maturity, we are better equipped today to keep up with the need for traceability in our client's information systems, raise their level of digital trust and step up to the position of leader on the Privileged Account Management market."
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Wallix AdminBastion is now certified VMware Ready
Paris, February 26th 2014: The virtualization of servers is increasingly transforming the relationship that corporations have with IT every single day. Virtualization provides currently operational information systems with unequalled levels of flexibility, speed and automation for their applications. Nonetheless, the need to secure access to these poorly monitored environments is becoming more and more pressing.
WALLIX, European leader specializing in the traceability, monitoring and securing of privileged accounts, has announced that its solution Wallix AdminBastion is now certified VMware Ready™. This certification indicates that the solution was evaluated and had gone through a battery of detailed tests conducted by VMware and is now included as a virtual appliance solution in the product catalogue of VMware partners.
Passing the intensive VMware-specific tests adds to the guarantee that the Wallix AdminBastion solution is extremely compatible with VMware's technology and that it can readily be deployed in clients' production environments.
The VMware Ready program is a VMware co-branding program for certified partner products, which is an advantage of VMware's Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program. With more than 1 800 members worldwide, VMware's TAP program unites leading technological partners to provide them with a full set of VMware commercial and technical services, assistance, tools and expertise so that collective clients enjoy the best advantages.
When asked about this certification, Jean-Noël de Galzain, CEO and founder of WALLIX enthused, "Seeing the Wallix AdminBastion solution enter the VMware Ready™ program is a new breakthrough. Our clients can now be reassured of our product satisfying VMware's specific interoperability criteria and of the fact that the solution we are offering can readily be run in demanding production environments. It's an additional guarantee of quality that will raise our solutions' level of reliability."
Serge Adda, Product Vice-President at WALLIX, explains "This certification is a great source of pride for us. It falls in line with a process of continuous improvement that aims to adapt Wallix AdminBastion in the best way possible to our clients' needs and environments, both by simplifying its use and reducing its operating cost."
Wallix AdminBastion obtains ANSSI First Level Security Certification (CSPN)
Wallix AdminBastion is the first traceability and privileged user management solution to be certified by France's Network and Information Security Agency (ANSSI).
Paris, 26 November 2013: WALLIX, the software vendor specialising in traceability and privileged user management, has announced that its Wallix AdminBastion (WAB) solution has obtained First Level Security Certification (CSPN) in the "Identification, certification and access control" category defined by France's Network and Information Security Agency (Agence Nationale de la Sécurité des Systèmes d'Information, or ANSSI).
ANSSI awards CSPN certification, following an audit by an approved assessment centre, solely to solutions that pass its vulnerability tests and whose cryptographic modules comply with ANSII's General Security Framework (RGS), which is rapidly becoming an essential criterion for public authorities and public companies.
CSPN is a useful benchmark for IT Directors, Information Security Managers and Risk & Compliance Managers who must chose from the many commercially-available solutions and so need information on the products' security and compliance with the standards defined by the manufacturers' independent governing bodies.
The increasing number and sophistication of cybercrime attacks, some of which involve inside help, oblige companies and organisations to strengthen their management and control of all privileged users connecting to their information systems. These privileged users may be system administrators (internal or external service providers), database administrators, developers, project managers or operators providing remote facilities management and IT maintenance (networks, security hardware, applications such as SAP, Oracle, HRIS, CRM and financial packages, and cloud solutions such as VMWare and VSphere).
Their role requires them to work on critical corporate IT infrastructures, involving risks affecting access to sensitive and confidential data (system failures, data loss or theft, and fraud). Regulatory standards such as ARJEL, Basel, SOX and PCI DSS and legislation on the hosting of personal health data, such as France's Act no. 2002-303 for example, are growing as a result, requiring companies to protect themselves and access to the data entrusted to them.
In this context, companies should set up appropriate solutions, giving those certified by information system security benchmarking bodies such as France's ANSSI their highest priority.
WALLIX has responded to these issues by creating Wallix AdminBastion, its agentless Privileged User Management traceability solution, which is available as a software package or as an appliance and is easy to deploy and manage on a daily basis. Wallix AdminBastion is essential whenever internal or external service provider access must be monitored and traced. Its functions for recording all privileged users' sessions for examination in real time or in logs can also be used to review all actions performed on the information system as and when needed (audit, unexplained security incident, failure or forensics). WAB then serves as a form of CCTV monitoring the information system.
"We are particularly proud to announce WAB's First Level Security Certification. This required us to enhance our product's security functions so that it complies with ANSSI's recommendations, and this certification recognising WAB's quality and reliability confirms to our existing customers that they have made the right decision and should encourage those looking for a trustworthy solution to choose Wallix," says Wallix CEO Jean-Noël de Galzain. "In addition to the technical criteria, by taking this step we are showing our desire to build an ecosystem of trust with our customers and partners, in which WAB's added value is clear: regaining control of privileged user accounts and tracing all privileged user activities in information systems and in the cloud."
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WAB 4.0: WALLIX extends privileged account management to cover business applications
The new version of Wallix AdminBastion (WAB), WAB 4.0, focuses on two major areas:
improving productivity, and extending traceability to cover applications and databases
Paris, 3 October 2013: WALLIX, the European software editor specialising in providing traceability and privileged user access control solutions, announces the release of WAB 4.0, the new major version of its Wallix AdminBastion solution. In response to customer feedback and the growing number of WAB users, Wallix has extended its traceability to cover business applications, thereby making privileged user access control control fully accessible and adaptable to the production constraints of information system risk management.
Traceability of privileged access to applications
Wallix AdminBastion 4.0 provides a single sign-on (SSO) for users when they connect to the information system and then traces all access to sensitive data, recording all operations performed. These functionalities cover both the business applications that the enterprise needs in order to operate properly (finance, R&D, CRM, specialised applications, etc.) and its infrastructure management applications (hypervisors, databases, etc.). As a result, the CISO or auditor can see details of all operations in real time or logs, enabling the enterprise to avoid accidental or malicious incidents and providing greater visibility of all actions performed by users holding access and administrator rights for critical applications such as VMware ESX, Oracle, MySQL, etc.
Transparent directory integration, simplifying provisioning and IS integration and reducing TCO
WALLIX has developed a new provisioning system that meets the operational constraints of IT teams responsible for managing sometimes huge and often regularly updated directories. This new functionality introduced in Wallix AdminBastion 4.0 enables transparent WAB integration into Active Directory Server or LDAP infrastructures providing user account/rights management. This ensures simplified provisioning and quicker integration, considerably reducing Wallix AdminBastion's TCO.
Signing and encryption of recordings: strengthened proof
In the event of an incident or fraud, it is essential that security solutions provide legally-recognised proof in determining responsibility, the problem's origin and then obtaining compensation.
Wallix AdminBastion 4.0 encrypts and signs all recorded sessions in order to guarantee their non-repudiation, validity and confidentiality. These recording and encryption functionalities give probative value to the IT traces collected by the WAB, so that they can then be used as proof in the event of a security incident or audit. As a result, CISOs or IT department managers can examine their internal or external service providers' work and provide proof of actions or accountability when required, as well as ensuring that the enterprise complies with local and international IT risk management standards.
Marc Balasko, Product Manager at Wallix, says: "Thanks to WAB's new traceability functionalities, our customers can now control and secure their critical applications' administration, and so meet the increasingly stringent regulatory constraints. WAB enables them to know exactly what their privileged users do and to keep control of their actions, regardless of their users' scope of responsibility."
"IT budget restrictions are driving increasing numbers of enterprises to outsource and use cloud applications, despite the potential risks that this involves. With Wallix AdminBastion 4.0, we are releasing a main version that provides user access control not only for the enterprise's network infrastructure, but also for its applications and sensitive data. In view of the risks involved in all areas of IT, extending WAB's scope to cover applications as well as the network infrastructure means that risk management can now be integrated into information system governance and the level of security can be greatly increased in line with industry-specific compliance requirements (health-related data, PCI-DCCS, MSSP, SOX, etc.) without hampering our customers' ability to adapt their information systems to market demands," stresses Jean-Noël de Galzain, the CEO and founder of Wallix. "In response to user feedback, this major new version of WAB also includes innovations that improve the solution's usability and ease of installation in information systems. Thanks to these innovations and greater product maturity, we are now better equipped to assist our customers in meeting their information system traceability needs and raise their digital trust level, and so assume our rightful position as a leading player in the Privileged Account Management market."
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WALLIX and Lieberman Software form strategic partnership to control and audit privileged access activity
Lieberman Software Corporation, a US-based leader in enterprise privileged identity management, and WALLIX, the European leader in Traceability and Session Recording, today announced a strategic partnership aimed at reinforcing and extending their mutual offer to the market.
Lieberman Software's Enterprise Random Password Manager™ secures privileged accounts present in the cross-platform enterprise. This includes the "super user" credentials utilized by IT Administrators, as well as privileged account passwords found in services and application tiers.
WALLIX, with its flagship solution Wallix AdminBastion (WAB), provides a privileged account management system with traceability and session recordings of users' sessions, delivering a new level of visibility and security to manage insider threats.
By joining forces, WALLIX and Lieberman Software provide a solution that brings together the best elements of Privileged Identity Management and Privileged Account Management. Customers will benefit from the best implementation of a Privileged User Management solution with a common concept: an agentless technology that is easy to deploy and delivers a quick return on investment.
According to Jean-Noël de Galzain, Chief Executive Officer at WALLIX : "Nowadays, more and more companies are facing challenges, notably in terms of business organization, cloud infrastructures and services-oriented usage. Companies are seeking solutions to improve their IT security governance and reduce insider threats, while wishing to avoid the complexity of agent-based solutions or multi-year projects. Lieberman Software and WALLIX work totally complementary to manage the full scope or requirements, including privileged account management, privileged password management, and traceability through session recordings. This approach has already secured large enterprises in Europe and Middle East. "
"Controlling access to powerful privileged accounts, and then monitoring and documenting the actions taken by users who are granted privileged access, are crucial to maintaining a secure enterprise," said Calum MacLeod, VP of EMEA at Lieberman Software. "By combining privileged credential management with in-depth session recording, Lieberman Software and Wallix are ensuring that all authorized users are complying with security best practices and regulatory compliance requirements."
About Lieberman Software Corporation
Lieberman Software provides privileged identity management and security management products to more than 1200 customers worldwide, including nearly half of the Fortune 50. By automatically discovering and managing privileged accounts throughout the network, Lieberman Software helps secure access to sensitive data, thereby reducing internal and external security vulnerabilities, improving IT productivity and helping ensure regulatory compliance. The company developed the first solution for the privileged account management space, and its products continue to lead the market. Lieberman Software is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA with an office in Austin, TX and channel partners throughout the world. For more information, visit www.liebsoft.com.
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MIG Bank selects Wallix AdminBastion to control access to its trading servers
WALLIX, French publisher specialized in traceability and Privileged User Management solutions
strengthens his expertise in banking sector.
Paris, 18/9/2013:MIG Bank, formerly known as MIG Investments, was established in Neuchatel, Switzerland as an online Forex broker. In 2009, it was the first Forex broker to obtain a Swiss banking licence. Since its foundation ten years ago, it has expanded its online trading offering and is now Switzerland's largest bank specialised in online Forex and CFD trading, with clients in more than 120 countries.
The MIG Bank IT team consists of 19 people responsible for its network, helpdesk, development, project managers, architects and trading IT system. The team is reinforced by a security officer.
Initial needs
To cover itself against the risks of human error, malice and privileged access to its critical data, MIG Bank installed a privileged user management solution for its trading platform stakeholders. The existing solution was user-unfriendly and difficult to use on a day-to-day basis. The teams' reluctance to use the solution left the MIG Bank exposed to internal risks. As a result, MIG bank decided to replace it and set out to find a solution that not only eliminated these shortcomings but also offered a wider range of features.
In September 2012, MIG bank began its search via the Swiss system integrator SCRT, which demonstrated that the Wallix AdminBastion (WAB) solution provided the perfect answer to MIG Bank's two problems of user ergonomics and functionality. MIG Bank's e-trading team then tested AdminBastion, the privileged user control and traceability solution, which met their expectations perfectly. In February 2013, MIG Bank installed the WAB in its IT system.
Wallix AdminBastion is deployed within a dedicated DMZ, and it is used by approximately fifteen people employed by or linked with MIG Bank. The main use of Wallix AdminBastion consists in managing all trading server access and all actions performed. This provides security and traceability for all activities on the servers.
All helpdesk staff needing to access these trading applications must also log on via the WAB, both so that every maintenance or support operation carried out on the applications is recorded, and to allow reverse engineering.
Ultimately, Wallix AdminBastion will also be set up to authenticate and monitor all external service provider actions on MIG Bank's servers, with the aim of avoiding the risks posed by these privileged external users who equally have extended permissions for the Swiss bank's critical servers.
Trading server supervision
MIG Bank now has a more ergonomic and easy-to-use privileged user control and traceability solution for managing the risks posed by the users of the Bank's critical data. All activities recorded on the trading servers are now supervised, thereby ensuring that all trading activities are secure and can be traced.
Compliance with bank regulatory standards
Wallix AdminBastion also enables MIG Bank to comply with FINMA* regulatory requirements, which demand the traceability of all movements on trading servers.
Consistent, reinforced security
WAB improves MIG Bank's supervision of all actions performed by privileged users and mitigates the risks relating to insider threats (errors or malicious acts by users with access to corporate IT systems).
"Bank security faces many risks. Banks should, of course, protect themselves against external attacks, but the risks of human error or malicious acts by users with extended permissions, such as traders, external service providers or administrators, must also be considered. Wallix AdminBastion has enabled us to set up this additional level of security, meaning that we now know exactly what our external service providers do on our critical data servers. As well as providing traceability, Wallix AdminBastion also ensures that we comply with the banking regulatory standards and enables us to respond more rapidly in the event of an IT system incident." Yoann Bourdin, IT system manager"
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Jean-Noël de Galzain, WALLIX: "A comprehensive, consistent security policy must include privileged user management"
In recent years, businesses and individuals alike have needed to devote considerable time to cyber defence and cyber security. The more time passes, the greater the number of attacks. These attacks are becoming increasingly targeted, diverse and extensive, and cybercrime is now part of our daily life.
Historically, the antivirus and firewall vendors have dominated the market. Paradoxically, however, they address only part of the issues, resulting in the number of incidents and their seriousness increasing despite IT security budgets also increasing. This is because they overlook an entire aspect of IT security: the management of privileged users, which is known as insider threat management.
WALLIX, however, the European vendor specializing in privileged user management and traceability, believes that a comprehensive and consistent security strategy must, of course, protect companies concerned not only from external threats but also from the risks resulting from the absolute freedom enjoyed by privileged users.
What is a privileged user?
By definition, a privileged user is someone who has been given greater or more wide-ranging rights on the IT network: access rights, authorisation management, device and application administration, file editing, deletion or transfer, etc. Privileged users may, furthermore, be either inside or outside the company. His or her rights are assigned by the company's legal representative, who is often not even aware of the risks involved by such level of rights. Privileged users naturally have access to the company's critical and strategic data as well as to the confidential information of the company and its employees. He or she effectively has the power of life and death over the company's IT infrastructure.
Is a privileged user always an internal employee of the company?
Whenever a company outsources the management of all or part of its IT , the service providers who remotely control or work on the internal network in order to provide support or maintenance become privileged users although they are not employees of the company in itself. Do you know, for example, what are the access rights of a technician who comes to repair the IP photocopier or the network connection?
In other words, outsourcing, for a company, can be similar to entrusting the "office keys" to a stranger, who could then enter every room and open all of the cupboards, search them and take and put back whatever he or she finds there by managing the access permissions. If anything is damaged, disappears or is simply stolen as a result, what is to be done? How do I know what was done? Where was there a problem? When? How did it occur? Who will pay for the damage? How can I justify the incident or theft to my insurance company?
What are the risks relating to privileged users?
Due to their status, privileged users, like "standard" users, pose risks to the business network. These risks fall into the following categories:
- Risks relating to human error: like any other user, privileged users are only human and can make mistakes on a network for whatever reason; these errors can have serious consequences for the productivity, reputation and turnover of the company concerned, however.
Imagine, for example, that an external service provider makes a mistake while performing remote maintenance on an e-commerce website server, causing it to fail. As a result, the e-merchant loses turnover until the fault is repaired — once its cause has been found. This may take some time, not only causing even more harm but also permanently damaging the e-Merchant's reputation. In the meantime, its customers will go elsewhere.
As a result of the latest regulations, business must report any incidents and risk being fined for the loss of any customer information (customer data, credit/debit card numbers, or health-related data).
In a recent case, hundreds of patients' records were published on the Internet. This only came to light when a person happened to enter their name into a search engine and found that their entire medical file could be consulted by anyone. This type of data leakage can be caused either by human error (an external service provider incorrectly follows the process, allowing the data to escape) or by a malicious act highlighting the risks relating to privileged users.
Risks relating to disgruntled staff: privileged users are only human. A privileged user who leaves a company on bad terms may therefore be tempted to use his or her rights to harm the company or to steal critical information (client files, credit/debit card details, secrets, etc.).
In 2012, for example, a Toyota company subcontractor whose contract had been terminated stole information on the Japanese manufacturer's industrial patents. How many customer database records have been stolen, or messages disclosed? How much information has been obtained from illicitly-downloaded IT files? Here too, there is the problem of finding the data leakage source. Who did that? When and how? Why did this person have access to this data in particular? Can we prevent or log such acts and, if so, how? How can this be managed internally and with my external service providers?
According to a Forrester survey, 50 per cent of all privileged users leave their company or facilities management assignment with sensitive data. How can we therefore assess or, better still, talk of risk management without dealing with this subject?
Fortunately, more and more IT departments and CISOs meet their companies' internal audit or general management requirements by using a solution that addresses the problem of managing both internal threats and those of external service providers. They have done so by providing for the integration of a Privileged User Management (PUM) solution in their security policies.
Despite the problem's urgency, the awareness around PUM market is still in very light .
WALLIX, the pioneer in Privileged User Management thanks to its solution Wallix AdminBastion, naturally recommends that companies protect themselves against threats from outside their network. These threats are well-known and now well-countered by means of solutions such as antiviruses, firewalls, IPS, IDS etc. However, WALLIX emphasizes the urgent need to supplement these measures by internal privileged user control solutions.
These solutions have a bad reputation, however: in all too many cases, they are perceived as products that are purely and simply intended to monitor privileged users. Contrary to expectations, they often also exonerate these users by providing tangible, concrete proof of the actual cause of the incident.
In the words of Jean-Noël de Galzain, founder of WALLIX, the pioneering privileged user management solution vendor: "A consistent, end-to-end security policy can no longer do without privileged user management solutions. Every day, privileged users access data that is essential and strategic for the company's survival and profitability. Although, of course, malice is not usually the major cause of data loss, the problem of human error on a network is very real and can assume catastrophic proportions on the Internet level. We must stress to the IT departments, CISOs and the IT security departments the risks involved in terms of productivity, reputation and compliance for public and private enterprises. Internal risk management is just as important as external threat management."
WALLIX provides innovative IT access control and traceability solutions. Its Wallix AdminBastion product provides a privileged user access control and traceability solution. Wallix AdminBastion serves as an authentication "safety lock" for all privileged users and logs their actions for later viewing, thereby simplifying the search for an incident's cause. By assisting in traceability, Wallix AdminBastion also allows enterprises to improve their compliance with the current IT security standards such as PCI DSS, SOX, Basel II, etc. The Wallix AdminBastion solution is simple to use and does not require an agent. In a matter of hours, it can be deployed and monitoring all privileged accounts' activities.
Jean-Noël de Galzain, WALLIX CEO


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How to Trade Gold ETFs
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The haven trade is a popular one during recessions as investors look to carve out a nook for money until the storm passes. In the recent economic downturn, gold stood out along with the US dollar and Japanese Yen. Currencies that have traditionally low interest rates have often been popular for risk-adverse traders. However, the combined weight of environmental issues following Japan's earthquake and nuclear disaster undermined the Yen and Japan's economy. In the United States, a critical debt issue and spending problem coupled with a credit downgrade from one of the leading credit agencies tarnished a currency already weakened by economic policy. That left gold as one of the leading alternatives for investors. These same mechanics helped bring Gold ETFs into the limelight.
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