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Check Point Announces New Security Technologies for Advanced Threats
- 30 Apr 2012 12:15
- by Chris Rodriguez
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2011 ushered in a new breed of cyber threats that brought major organizations including Google, RSA, and Lockheed Martin to their knees and left many others searching for answers. These attacks were alarmingly sophisticated, effective, and elusive. Furthermore, the sophistication of these attacks indicates well organized crime syndicates and nation...
Dell's Acquisition of SonicWALL Foreshadows the Security Industry's Fate
- 13 Mar 2012 17:10
- by Chris Rodriguez
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“Dude, you’re getting a SonicWALL!” On Tuesday, March 13, 2012, Dell announced its plan to acquire a leading vendor in the Unified Threat Management (UTM) market, SonicWALL. This will allow Dell to rapidly advance its security portfolio with the addition of next generation firewall, intrusion prevention (IPS) capabilities, SSL VPN, gateway anti-vi...
Vendors at RSA tout BYOD solutions - RIM already solved that problem
- 02 Mar 2012 15:42
- by Rufus Connell
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I just spent the week in San Francisco at the RSA 2012 security event. All the usual suspects in the security arena were in attendance. It seemed to me that the #1 theme of the show was the issues around bring your own device (BYOD). Enterprise end users are doing everything they can to be productive, and that has lead to buying their own phones, t...
Cybersecurity to be the hottest topic at RSA 2012
- 26 Feb 2012 18:35
- by Jarad Carleton
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ICT Cybersecurity from Frost & Sullivan on Vimeo. In over 11 years of working with the Global 1000, Fortune 500, and SMB’s to develop custom market intelligence for strategic business planning, there are only a handful of issues that have been as critical for global business as the issue of cybersecurity. For some organizations, there is the...
Websense -Allowing organizations to experience a safe move into social networking sites
- 22 Feb 2012 11:48
- by Martha Vazquez
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The demand for web security has increased over time due to the emergence of Web 2.0 threats. The use of these social networking sites continues to be widely more accepting to organizations as a means to boost business communication. Enterprises increasingly utilize social networking sites for marketing its products or services. While the use of all...
DMARC: End of Spam and Phishing for Good? Maybe, But Proof-of-Concept Still Needed
- 09 Feb 2012 15:04
- by Ben Ramirez
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It was recently announced back in March of 2011 that the DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance) organization, consisting of AOL, Facebook, Cloudmark, Linkedin, Band of America, PayPal and other leading organizations, proposed a new operational specification for the current email authentication infrastructure. In short,...
FIPS 140-2 Certification Reinforces RIM Commitment to Security
- 06 Feb 2012 23:15
- by Brent Iadarola
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BlackBerry smartphones with 7.0 and 7.1 operating systems were recently awarded FIPS 140-2 certification by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC). While the FIPS 140-2 and Common Criteria certification were expected deliverables from RIM, there are some important takeaw...
Vulnerability Bounty Hunters
- 03 Feb 2012 15:45
- by Chris Rodriguez
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Bounty hunter. The term conjures up images of anti-heroes and rogues with awesome weapons and tactics in pursuit of the most dangerous criminals (or maybe just mullets). So it may be a surprise that the network security industry has its own version of these vigilantes for hire. Only, instead of searching out dangerous criminals, independent researc...
Forget Your Password? Social Login Is There to Help
- 01 Feb 2012 14:38
- by Jake Wengroff
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This blogpost first appeared on Social Media Today. ======================= Janrain and Gigya Ease the Pain of Password Amnesia with Social Login, While Providing Rich Profile Data to Publishers and Brands No doubt you’ve visited some of your favorite websites and forgot your password. And we all know that the ‘Forgot your password?’ is still an...
Sourcefire FireAMP- Blocking Malware through better Visibility and Controls
- 25 Jan 2012 14:18
- by Martha Vazquez
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Endpoint security is a market that continues to be competitive despite the perception of endpoint security products as a commodity product for enterprises. While endpoint security has become a necessity for businesses, endpoint security vendors struggle to offer competitive pricing models while staying ahead of the newest and most advanced threats ...
The North America Managed Security Service Providers Market (MSSP)" Experiencing Strong Growth during Economic Uncertainties
- 25 Jan 2012 13:19
- by Martha Vazquez
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I recently published Frost & Sullivan’s 2011 Analysis of the Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) Market: Experiencing Strong Growth during Economic Uncertainties. The study http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/report-toc.pag?repid=NA04-01-00-00-00&ctxixpLink=FcmCtx5&ctxixpLabel=FcmCtx6 is already available on Frost.com for our Information Secur...
Operation Megaupload: Are Companies and Organizations Negligent with Today's Cyber Threats?
- 25 Jan 2012 12:27
- by Ben Ramirez
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Recently, an online retail store called Zappos experienced an enormous cyber attack on January 16, 2012. A data breach occurred resulting in loss (or compromise) of twenty-four million customer names, e-mails, physical addresses, phone numbers and the last four digits of credit card numbers. Although the incident only caused minimum monetary damage...
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