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Since the need for better behavior among poker players has become a survival move for the poker community, an Ethics Code has been created for every member of the World Poker Association, which will help not only separate criminal players from serious ones, but also protect the reputation of poker in the future.

From a realistic point of view, there are countless articles and books stressing on the importance of behaving ethically at the table, not only for maintaining good poker effort throughout a game but also to do better in your game and aim to win more money. The phrase “you can catch more bees with honey than with vinegar” could not be truer in this case. However, there are also many articles accounting how players still refuse to apply the basic rules of poker etiquette and continue to annoy fellow players and viewers at the table; an obvious example: Phil Helmuth. Phil has said many times people love to see his brat side when playing, and his sponsors have made sure he always pleases the audience with a classic tantrum. Since being a big baby is Hellmuth’s signature behaviour.

Word first emerged from the Senator’s camp that he was marshaling support for regulation of online poker effort in early December. Analysts viewed it as a payback bill for the large Las Vegas casinos that had supported Reid’s brutal 2010 re-election campaign, speculation that gained additional credibility when AGA head Frank Farenkopf offered his public support for Reid’s bill in mid-December.

Multiple drafts of Reid’s bill circulated in the press, and a fairly consistent pattern emerged: Regulation would be a process that sought to strike a balance between Federal oversight and State choice, a process that would create a market built to favor the major US gambling interests, and a process that would seek to severely limit the ability of unlicensed operators to offer online poker to US players. Reid’s effort was ultimately abandoned in the face of harsh opposition, but that defeat raised a new question for the online poker industry: What now? Reid’s bill wasn’t simply a trial balloon – the drafts of the bill represented a detailed legislative undertaking with various concessions for major stakeholders.

In the past two entries, we looked into the importance of Cloud PBX security in the light of ComputerWorld’s An Interactive Eguide on Enterprise Security. Given the vulnerability of Internet security and common virtual PBX devices such as smartphones, the next question would be what should we do about it?
I don’t belong to the traditional purists who are totally paranoid about virtual services and new technology. I don’t think it’s really practical to tell businesses and individuals to never download smartphone applications or use the cloud. New technology would always have its glitches, but these new tech problems didn’t stop the analogue telephone from going viral in every household right? First things first, we have to take the issue of hosted phone system security seriously.
Portals, security and back-up measures have to be planned carefully. Use your service provider’s security system (make sure they have one). What do you do in case there’s a power outage? Do you have emergency power back-up? Also, consider making a copy of your important data to a secure third party storage. Test and retest your security system periodically and troubleshoot immediately.
Change the default password and make each of them unique. A hack into one of your accounts can lead to a hack of your other accounts if you don’t have a different password for each one. Choose strong passwords, and change them once in a while. This includes passwords to your email, virtual voicemail and smartphones connected to your communication system.
Add the smartphone apps that you only need. Keep only the most necessary apps and be wary of apps that automatically share information unconnected to the app’s features.
While this is not an exhaustive list of how you can secure virtual PBX phone systems, they’re basic and important factors to your cloud security.