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News IT experts warn corporates of malware driven evolution of ransomware

08 May 2012

Commenting on the merging of the Citadel trojan with the Reveton ransomware, Lieberman Software says that this use of multiple attack vectors by cybercriminals is almost certainly the result of rising levels of success by the authorities in their battle against online crime.

News Mimecast Extends Mobile Services to Windows Phone and Android

03 May 2012

Enterprise Mobility Boosted by Archive Search Capability for all Major Smartphone Platforms

Mimecast, the leading supplier of cloud-based email archiving,continuity and security for Microsoft Exchange and Office 365, has today announced that it is extending its mobile services to Windows Phone and Android. The Mobile Access apps – both available to download from today – mean that Mimecast is the first and only cloud email management vendor to offer archive search apps for all major smartphone platforms; Windows Phone, iPhone, BlackBerry and  Android.

News Lieberman Software Enhances Self-Service Password Reset Capabilities for the Windows Enterprise

02 May 2012

Account Reset Console 6.0 Provides Greater Performance and Scalability for User Account Password Management

Lieberman Software Corporation announced the release of Account Reset Console 6.0, the latest version of the company’s self-service password reset solution. The product permits delegated users to reset their own passwords and unlock their own accounts without involving IT staff, helping organizations maintain high productivity levels while simultaneously strengthening security.

News Fake G-Men Attack Hijacks Computers for Ransom

01 May 2012

Trusteer Intelligence researchers have discovered a clever new use of the Citadel malware platform (a descendent of the Zeus Trojan) to deliver code ransomware that poses as the US Department of Justice and highjacks victims’ computers. This ransomware, named Reveton, freezes the compromised machine’s operating system and demands a $100 payment to unlock it. Reveton was observed a few weeks ago being used as a standalone attack, but has now been coupled with the Citadel platform. This is another example of financial malware expanding beyond online banking fraud and being used as a launch pad for other types of cyber-attacks. Citadel is able to target employees to steal enterprise credentials, and in this example targets victims directly to steal money from them, instead of their financial institution.

News Google Drive - a great way of sharing your files: with everyone!

01 May 2012

Data privacy should be paramount in the minds of today’s consumer. According to the Cloud Industry Forum 55 per cent of businesses cite privacy as a major concern when it comes to Cloud deployments. One would therefore think that this would be uppermost in the minds of solution providers.

News Avecto wins Red Herring Top 100 Europe Award 2012

30 Apr 2012

Recognition for the 100 most innovative technology companies in Europe

Avecto, the leader in Windows privilege management, announced today they are winners of Red Herring's Top 100 Europe award, a prestigious award that recognises the top 100 private technology companies from the European business region.

Articles Assessing the "Insider Threat"

27 Apr 2012

BeyondTrust recently conducted a survey among security managers across the EMEA region, to assess current attitudes towards the "insider threat" and what strategies organisations have put in place to mitigate security breaches and data loss.

Videos The Right Approach for BYOD

27 Apr 2012

Cesare Garlati, Snr Director of Mobile Security at Trend Micro gives some thoughts on the best approach for BYOD.

News Courion survey confirms need for managing user access in the cloud

26 Apr 2012

More than 64 percent of companies use cloud based apps in their organization;

37 percent are considering hosting IAM in the cloud

Courion Corporation, the leader in identity and access management (IAM) for access risk, today announced the results of a survey that confirmed cloud computing’s rapidly growing popularity and also uncovered concerns about protecting vital IT data and applications in the cloud.

News Solera Networks Takes Security Out of The Box

25 Apr 2012

Revolutionary New Software Solution Un-Boxes the Power of Security Intelligence and Analytics, Eliminating the Need for Costly, Proprietary Hardware and Storage

Simple and Flexible Solution Brings Cost-Effective, Big Data Security Analytics to Any Enterprise

Solera Networks, the industry's leading advanced Security Intelligence and Analytics provider, today announced a revolutionary new version of its DeepSeer Software solution that helps enterprises of all sizes prepare for the reality of security breaches and attacks. The new software represents the first and only solution to un-box the power of security intelligence and big data analytics technology - eliminating the cost and restrictions of proprietary hardware and storage offerings. With Solera's simple, cost-effective and easy-to-deploy software, any enterprise can now quickly have the answers to difficult post-breach questions like 'who hacked us?', 'how did they do it?', 'what data was compromised?' and 'are we sure it won't happen again?'

News Fortinet Expands Network Security Solution Suite with New Dedicated Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Protection Products

24 Apr 2012

Family of High Performance Appliances Helps Today’s Enterprises to Defend Against DDoS attacks

Fortinet®, a world leader in high-performance network security, today introduced the FortiDDoS product family for enterprises, Web hosting and cloud service providers. The new FortiDDoS-100A, FortiDDoS-200A and FortiDDoS-300A are dedicated appliances that are designed to detect and help protect against today’s most damaging and sophisticated DDoS attacks. The appliances feature custom ASICs that are capable of mitigating DDoS attacks while maintaining incredibly-low latency (less than 26 microseconds), preventing loss of availability to critical systems, servers and applications.

News Wallix launches LogBox 3.0: log collection and analysis in an inexpensive, fast and easy-to-deploy appliance

24 Apr 2012

European leader in Privileged User Management launches the latest version of its log collection and analysis solution. 
Boasting market-leading ROI, through enhanced reporting, improved performance and very attractive pricing.

Wallix, the European leader in Privileged User Management and traceability is pleased to announce the launch of Wallix LogBox 3.0, the latest version of its log collection and analysis solution. Through improved performance and advanced reporting features information is delivered faster to those that need it.

News 19 million cyber attacks blocked by FireHost in Q1 2012 - Web Application Attack Report

24 Apr 2012

Secure cloud hosting company, FireHost, has today revealed details about type and origin of web attacks that it has successfully blocked from causing harm to clients’ web applications and databases hosted at its secure US and European data centres during Q1 2012.

News New Cyber-Ark eBook highlights the cyber-attacker's sweet-spot - privilege

24 Apr 2012

New resources provide organisations with insight into cyber-attacks today, as well as the practices needed to defend against them

At Infosecurity Europe 2012 (London, UK) Cyber-Ark Software, a leading global information security provider for protecting and managing privileged accounts and sessions, critical applications and sensitive information, today announced the launch of its e-Book, “Don’t Give Cyber-Attackers the Privilege”, and Infographic.  These two resources examine the nature of cyber-attacks today, and provide best practice guidance on how to effectively mitigate against this threat. 

News CORE Security Announces Advanced Security Intelligence Solution to Continuously Predict IT Threats and Preempt Business Risk

24 Apr 2012

CORE Insight™ Enterprise 2.0, Industry’s First Solution to Deliver Advanced Threat Simulation and Replication Combined; Reveals Business Implications of a Breach and Connects Identified Risk to Operational Goals

CORE Security®, a leading provider of predictive security intelligence solutions, today announced a major enhancement to CORE Insight™ Enterprise that provides IT security professionals and leaders with the ability to identify critical exposures to their infrastructure and – for the first time – link them to the actual risk to the business. A real-time security intelligence platform, CORE Insight provides unified threat validation and prioritization while feeding key analytics to the security ecosystem. Additionally, CORE Insight enables organizations to improve IT security, optimize budgets, increase efficiency of security operations, and predict threats without disrupting operations.

News Cryptzone says latest patient data fiasco highlights need for an NHS data protection czar

18 Apr 2012

Commenting on reports that the South London healthcare trust has admitted to losing two unencrypted USB sticks containing the medical details of around 630 adults and children, Cryptzone says that this comes almost two years after the deputy Information Commissioner gave an Infosecurity Show keynote in which he revealed that a third of the 30 major data breaches the ICO handles each month involve the NHS in one shape or another.

News Directors Portal for the iPad makes even the least security savvy board member secure

17 Apr 2012

Cryptzone, Europe’s IT Threat Mitigation specialists, today announced the launch of the Directors Portal. The portal is a state-of-the-art web based, online workspace, devoted exclusively for board level executives. The portal will be demonstrated for the first time at Infosecurity Europe in London from 24^th to 26^th April 2012. The portal is available as an iPad app to make it always available to the Director who is always on the go.

News AlienVault Gives Mimecast Control and Visibility Over its Endpoint Devices

17 Apr 2012

The fully unified security architecture also helps the cloud service organization achieve ISO27001 certification

AlienVault, creator of OSSIM - the de facto standard open source SIEM (Security Information and Event Management), today confirmed how it has helped Mimecast gain valuable insight into the security events occurring on their grid. AlienVault’s OSSIM powered Unified Security Management Platform gives Mimecast an overview, compiled together in a control panel, that delivers visibility of what is happening in all its distributed data centers and remote devices. On top of the basic key service AlienVault’s solution also offers vulnerability scanning, executive reporting and network management.

News Avecto says that admin privileges would have helped prevent the Global Payments 1.5m card credentials data breach

05 Apr 2012

Commenting on the aftermath of the data breach at an Atlanta-based card transaction process, Avecto says that the possibility that the breach was caused by a compromised administrative account that was insufficiently protected shows that governance is a central requirement of modern IT security.

News Buy a corporate password for less than an Easter egg

04 Apr 2012

Third party research commissioned by Ping Identity^®, the Cloud Identity Security leader™, has revealed that nearly 50 per cent of employees (48 per cent) would readily sell their corporate passwords for less than £5, well under the price of a large Easter egg.  30% would do the deed for even less, happily giving up their corporate passwords for under £1. Only 29.55% of respondents felt that they would not sell this information for any price.

News Infosecurity Europe Welcomes Government's 2012 Annual Fraud Indicator Report

04 Apr 2012

With just three weeks to go before the Infosecurity Europe 2012 show opens its doors for a three-day run in London, the event organisers have welcomed the timely release of the Government's Annual Fraud Indicator 2012, which puts the losses to the UK economy from fraud at a hefty £73 billion.

Articles Five Easy Steps To Enhance the Security of Mobile Device Use

02 Apr 2012

Mobile devices are quickly becoming a target rich and high return on investment environment for malicious attackers. Their use is expected to surpass the use of existing laptops and desktop computers by a factor of at least three in the next five years. The rapid innovation that is often associated with these devices also means that in the near future they are expected to have expanded capabilities, including touch less payments, personal data repositories, fully functional local applications, and the ability to simultaneously enable high-speed access to corporate and personal networks and applications. There are numerous behaviors and capabilities that users can adopt to help them mitigate risks and enhance the security of mobile devices without introducing debilitating restrictions or limiting functionality that make them less useful. This article will discuss five of the more useful ones.

News Imperva Deconstructs Local and Remote File Inclusion Attack Vectors

02 Apr 2012

Latest report from Hacker Intelligence Initiative provides detailed overview of widely used but lesser known Internet threat

Imperva, a pioneer and leader of a new category of data security solutions for high-value business data in the data center, today released its latest Hacker Intelligence Initiative report exploring how Local and Remote File Inclusion (RFI/LFI) attacks enable hackers to execute malicious code and steal data through the manipulation of a company’s web server. RFI/LFI attacks made up 21% of all application attacks observed by Imperva in its review of attacks across 40 applications from June – November 2011.

News Banking Just got Safer as Nedbank Collaborates with Entersekt to Strengthen Online Banking

28 Mar 2012

Stellenbosch based Entersekt, a mobile technology company offering banks an innovative solution for secure online and mobile banking, announced that Nedbank has implemented their interactive transaction authentication (“ITA”) system in their recently released “Approve-it^TM” product which will provide greater protection against online fraud for their customers.

News US Researchers Find Flaws in Single Sign-on

19 Mar 2012

Commenting on weekend reports that US security researchers have discovered a number of flaws in single sign-on (SSO) services operated by a number of portals – including Google and PayPal – SecurEnvoy says this highlights the clear need for two-factor authentication (2FA) where financial/personal logins are concerned.

News TelecityGroup France recertified to ISO 27001, 9001, 14001 and OHSAS 18001 standards

16 Mar 2012

Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance audit demonstrates TelecityGroup’s industry-leadership in France

TelecityGroup, Europe's industry-leading provider of premium carrier-neutral data centres, announced today that all its data centres in France have been recertified with the ISO 27001, ISO 14001, ISO 9001, OHSAS 18001 accreditations. The globally recognised certifications - for information security, environmental management, quality management, and occupational health and safety – demonstrate TelecityGroup’s ongoing commitment to provide the optimum environment for its customers to house their telecoms, internet and IT infrastructure.

News Duet Group guarantees FSA compliance with implementation of disaster recovery technology from DataFort

14 Mar 2012

DataFort’s Hi-5 suite of business continuity/disaster recovery services provide security, regulatory compliance and vital time-saving in the event of lost servers to global asset management firm

Duet Group, the London-based global alternative asset management firm, has selected Managed Service Provider (MSP) DataFort to protect its entire server infrastructure with Hi-5, a suite of business continuity and disaster recovery services. The Hi-5 service ensures compliance with FSA data storage guidelines, whilst replacing the indefinite recovery timeframes provided by tape backup with guaranteed SLAs for recovery of data, server failure or loss of access to their business premises.

Articles The RSA Security breach – 12 months down the technology turnpike

14 Mar 2012

It’s been 12 months since the security world woke to the horror that RSA Security’s systems had been compromised and – as the company has reluctantly confirmed – its many tens of millions of SecurID hardware tokens would have to be re-issued to clients. Andy Kemshall, CTO of SecurEnvoy, reviews the IT security fiasco and what could have been done to prevent the fallout…

News The Bunker achieves highest level of PCI DSS certification

13 Mar 2012

The Bunker, provider of Ultra Secure Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Colocation, and Outsourced IT services from within Europe’s most secure data centres, is pleased to announce that it has achieved certification on all 12 of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) requirements at both of its data centres. This makes it one of the few organisations able to offer a full end-to-end PCI DSS service based on pre-certified components.

News Masergy’s New Intelligent Internet Management Provides Network-Managed Control of Web Applications and Traffic

13 Mar 2012

Suite of Hosted Services Simplifies Network Security, Optimises Bandwidth
and Reduces Costs for Enterprises on the Masergy Global Network

Masergy today introduced Intelligent Internet Management (IIM), a network-based Internet security and content control solution that provides enterprises on the Masergy global network with detailed application control, proactive Web traffic monitoring and enhanced firewall features.

News Security B-Sides London sells out in a record two minutes!

09 Mar 2012

KPMG confirmed Platinum sponsor, offering delegates a CV analysis

Security B-Sides London, the community-driven event built by and for information security community members, today announces KPMG as a confirmed platinum sponsor, alongside MWR InfoSecurity, Yubico and gold sponsors Qualys, Mimecast and Realex Payments. KPMG will also offer a CV clinic for delegates and run a succession challenge, with an iPad 2 up for grabs!

News GFI Software Launches GFI WebMonitor™ 2012

08 Mar 2012

Intuitive user interface, smart dashboards and action-based alerts among new features that make it even easier for SMBs to strengthen network security

GFI Software continues to solidify GFI WebMonitor™ as one of the industry’s leading web security solutions for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Last fall, the company introduced several innovations to enable SMBs to better defend their networks, including a website safeness rating, stronger blocking of malicious URLs and more robust protection against zero-hour threats. Today, GFI Software announced GFI WebMonitor 2012, with additional enhancements that make it even easier for SMBs to protect networks from malicious threats.

News Imation Expands Scalable Storage Portfolio with New InfiniVault Appliances

07 Mar 2012

New Imation InfiniVault Appliances Provide Tiered Storage Approach for Small and Medium Businesses

Imation Corp, a leading global technology company dedicated to helping people and organisations store, protect and connect their digital world, today announced an expansion to its scalable storage portfolio with a new line of Imation branded InfiniVault® Appliances. Imation’s Appliances are a small-business archive Storage solution that uses elastic vaults of online, nearline and offline storage to automatically retrieve, retain and recover all types of capacity intensive data files. It is compatible with a wide variety of applications and easily connects to your network.

News The Bunker successfully renews IGSoC status

06 Mar 2012

The Bunker delivers Ultra Secure Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Colocation, and Outsourced IT services from within Europe’s most secure data centres, and has successfully completed the IGSoC (Information Government Statement of Compliance) approval process for a further 12 months.

News SecurStore Provides Cloud Backup for Enterprise Customer in Panama, Central America

05 Mar 2012

PanAmerica Capital Group, Inc, a leading financial investment and advisory firm based in Southern Central America has, in collaboration with its IT partner Manzilain Ltd, implemented SecurStore’s Cloud Backup and Recovery service to protect its business critical data.

News SSH Communications Security Unveils SSH User Key Management Solution

05 Mar 2012

SSH Communications Security, known the world over as the inventors of the SSH protocol, unveiled today the first new extension of its SSH Information Integrity Platform, SSH User Key Management. The module will serve to provide enterprises the ability to identify, organize and maintain trust relationships of applications, user and service accounts to their respective target SSH servers through the management of public and private keys.

News Imation Launches DataGuard Backup Appliances Arming SMBs with Multiple Levels of Data Protection

05 Mar 2012

New Scalable Storage Solutions Provide Compelling Method for Cloud Data Protection Integration

Imation Corp., a global scalable storage and data security company, today introduced new purpose-built backup appliances designed to enable small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to safeguard their valuable information with multiple levels of data protection from a single backup infrastructure. The DataGuard™ Model R4 and DataGuard™ Model T5R appliances utilise hard drives, removable RDX® disk cartridges, replication and cloud storage to deliver enterprise-strength data protection at a price point that is affordable for SMBs. This Imation launch offers a practical solution for a common SMB challenge when adding cloud capability as a new tier within a data protection and backup strategy.

News Quarter of security budgets increased due to proposed EU data protection laws

05 Mar 2012

27% of Sample Reporting Security Budgets Have Increased In Response Proposed Changes, Yet Only 11% Automate Compliance Audits

Tufin Technologies, the market-leading provider of Security Policy Management solutions, today announced the results of a survey assessing how the recently announced updates to EU Data Protection legislation will impact IT compliance efforts. 42% of the 100 network security managers sampled by the firewall management software provider said the proposed changes led to increased risk awareness within their organization; 34% stated that their attitude towards Continuous Compliance had changed as a result, and 54% believe that automating audits would reduce the organization’s risk of violating the law.

News Customers Rely on NetApp for the Highest Level of Excellence in Secure Solutions for their Missions

05 Mar 2012

NetApp Data ONTAP 8.0 Earns Internationally Recognised Common Criteria Certification to Meet Stringent Government Standards

NetApp have announced that NetApp Data ONTAP® 8.0.0 operating in 7-Mode and Data ONTAP® 8.0.1 operating in 7-Mode have completed evaluation for an EAL2+ certification under the Communications Security Establishment Canada’s (CSEC) Common Criteria Evaluation and Certification Scheme (CCS).  Government and commercial customers alike receive the best possible security solutions from NetApp as the company continues to commit to achieving the highest calibre in IT government security validations.

Videos Navigating data privacy laws across international borders

01 Mar 2012

Leonora Placks, Head of Professional Services at Guidance Software discusses the minefield of privacy law when carrying your data in the cloud and across international barriers.

News Thales guide helps business to audit their cyber security risk

01 Mar 2012

A report released today by Thales, a global leader in information systems and communications security, highlights the four main areas of cyber security addressed by best practice organisations. The report also warns that businesses may be over-spending on cyber security solutions that over-protect non-sensitive data.

News Popular SANS security training returns to United Arab Emirates

01 Mar 2012

Penetration Testing and Network Forensics courses available from March 31st to April 5th

The SANS Institute is offering two of its popular security training courses in Abu Dhabi this coming March.   SANS Certified Instructor Pieter Danhieux will be teaching the Security 560: Network Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking course to help security professionals build a penetration testing and ethical hacking infrastructure that include the appropriate hardware, software, network infrastructure, and test tools arsenal, with specific low-cost recommendations for maximising effectiveness on a limited budget.

News Avecto offers the solution to RSA 2012 CEO keynoter’s call for better security

01 Mar 2012

Responding to comments made by Enrique Salem, CEO of fellow IT security vendor Symantec, Avecto says that the profound – and potentially negative - changes to employee attitudes towards corporate security identified in his speech can be countered by the use of transparent and minimally obtrusive security.

News Imperva Analyzes High-Profile ‘Anonymous’ Attack

27 Feb 2012

Report reveals details on methods employed by hacktivist group to attack high-profile organizations

Imperva, Inc. (NYSE: IMPV), a pioneer and leader of a new category of data security solutions for high-value business data in the data center, released today a report that reveals details on an attack by hacktivist group ‘Anonymous’ against a high-profile unnamed target during a 25-day period in 2011.

Videos Case Study: Bracknell Forest Council use of Osirium

27 Feb 2012

Richard Dawson of Bracknell Forest Council discusses how Osirium helps them meet the UK Government's CoCo compliance requirements in this 2 minute video.

News Varonis announces Partnership with McAfee for Data Loss Prevention

27 Feb 2012

Varonis extends their Metadata Framework™ technology and enterprise context awareness for data loss prevention to McAfee customers

Varonis Systems Inc., a leading provider of comprehensive data governance software, announced it has joined the McAfee® Security Innovation Alliance (SIA) partner program in order to better address the challenges organizations face as they manage growing volumes of unstructured and semi-structured data. The interoperability between the Varonis IDU Classification Framework and McAfee® Data Loss Prevention (DLP) will allow customers to identify sensitive data on their file systems, NAS devices and SharePoint sites, find areas with excessive permissions and abnormal access activity, understand who can access, who is accessing, who shouldn't have access, who owns the data, and remediate risk faster than traditional data protection and classification solutions.

News Imation announces unified security solutions for secure mobile data, identity and workspaces

23 Feb 2012

Unified product set offers encrypted USB storage, strong user authentication, and secure identity management and mobile workspaces through a simple end-user device plug-in to secure and empower the mobile workforce

Imation Corp. (NYSE: IMN), a global scalable storage and data security company, has announced its unified Secure Data, Identity and Mobile Workspace product set, to be  showcased at the 2012 RSA Conference, booth #839.

Blog No skeleton key – protecting your organisation on the web

22 Feb 2012

Mark Knight, Director of Product Management, Thales e-Security, writes: Weaknesses in the SSL protocol (the protocol for encrypting information over the internet) or the public certificate authority (CA) ecosystem that underpin it have received a lot of coverage recently and the last couple of weeks have been no exception.

Articles Will they ever learn on USB flash drives?

21 Feb 2012

Recently various news stories came out relating to the loss of an un-encrypted USB flash drive. The USB flash drive was owned by an employee of the nuclear safety watchdog, the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR). ONR is a subdivision of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) a national independent watchdog for work-related health, safety and illness.

News SANS Institute March SME Webcast helps to manage Network-related Risks

20 Feb 2012

Free webcast series offers practical steps towards protecting against cyber attack

"A network firewall is only the starting point not the end point for network security. There are many additional steps an SME (Small Medium Enterprise) can take to secure their network," says Jim Herbeck, an instructor for the SANS Institute and presenter of an ongoing monthly webcast series helping SME’s better protect themselves from information security threats.

News New ISACA Venice Chapter Kicks Off With Conference Featuring Global Information Technology Experts

17 Feb 2012

Information technology (IT) professionals in Venice, Italy, have formed a new chapter of ISACA, a nonprofit IT audit, security and governance association serving more than 95,000 professionals in 160 countries. ISACA now has 195 chapters worldwide.

News Experts say long-running Chinese hack of Nortel is a wake-up call

17 Feb 2012

AlienVault say long-running Chinese hack of Nortel is a wake-up call on telecoms security

Commenting on reports that a long-term hack of Nortel Network’s systems could result in security issues for users of the firm’s telecom hardware, AlienVault says the businesses have traditionally tended to ignore the telecoms security issue in favour of their Internet security.

News What’s Missing from DLP? Context.

16 Feb 2012

On March 7, 2012 Varonis and an Independent Research Firm will present a new approach to DLP that leverages enterprise context awareness.

Varonis Systems Inc., the leading provider of comprehensive data governance software has identified a critical missing component to traditional DLP processes - enterprise context awareness – i.e., knowledge of who owns the data, who uses the data, and who should and shouldn’t have access to the data. Traditional DLP solutions that focus on endpoint and network protections commonly fail to fully protect critical data because they focus on symptomatic, perimeter-level solutions instead of addressing a much deeper problem — the fact that users have inappropriate or excessive rights to sensitive information. “For DLP technology to be successful, you must inventory and classify all of your sensitive data and understand your information flows,” advises Forrester. “This is hard to do if you have hundreds, possibly thousands, of terabytes of unstructured data[1].

Articles Why are the Hackers Targeting Certificate Authorities and what can you do about it?

14 Feb 2012

As we venture into the brave new world that is 2012, many are looking for where the biggest opportunities for hackers will lie. We all know history has a habit of repeating itself so, with the sweet smell of success still in their nostrils, it is a fair assumption that the black hats will stick to what they’ve proven works. What we need to do is change what we’re doing to stop them. Calum MacLeod, EMEA Director, Venafi, examines 2011’s most disturbing IT security development, how certificate authority (CA) third-party trust providers have become the hacker target of choice. He details how it’s happened and what we have to do to ensure we keep the bad guys out.

News Adaptive Federation from Ping Identity Extends Enterprise Identity Security Policies to the Cloud

14 Feb 2012

New PingFederate 6.6 enables custom user authentication methods and distributed attributes for a personalised, protected and compliant cloud

Ping Identity^®, The Cloud Identity Security Leader™, today announced new adaptive federation capabilities in its PingFederate cloud identity management software that allow businesses to easily extend their existing security policies to the cloud.

News SecurEnvoy Secures Patents, Protecting its IP

13 Feb 2012

Tokenless® two factor authentication is officially a business grade service

SecurEnvoy is delighted today to confirm that it has successfully patented its ‘preload’ technology for SecurAccess and SecurMail. This sanction ensures other organisations cannot ‘copy’ its pioneering solution for reliable, business grade, Tokenless® two factor authentication (2FA).

News DDoS Attack Report Highlights need for Enhanced Security Education

13 Feb 2012

Infosecurity Europe show organisers say Arbor Networks report highlights need for enhanced security education to defend against the IP-borne threats

Commenting on the just-released 7^th annual Infrastructure Security Report from Arbor Networks, the organisers of the Infosecurity Europe show say that the need for education on the latest security defences has never been stronger.

News Security B-Sides London, the UK’s first community-driven infosecurity event is back!

02 Feb 2012

Un-conference aims to bridge the technical and business divide

Security B-Sides, the first and only community-driven event built by and for information security community members, today announces the return of Security B-Sides London , which will take place on April 25th at The Barbican. Currently confirmed platinum and gold sponsors for this year’s un-conference include MWR InfoSecurity and Qualys.

News Record Number of Exhibitors and Visitors for Data Centre World 2012

31 Jan 2012

Over 140 data centre vendors, resellers and equipment suppliers to showcase solutions between 29th February and 1st March 2012

A record number of exhibitors will attend the fifth annual Data Centre World exhibition and conference, taking place at London Olympia between 29th February and 1st March 2012. 

Articles Your mobile can do more than call the emergency services

23 Jan 2012

SecurEnvoy walks you through a business continuity plan - so you’re ready for anything

There are few that will forget the last couple of winters. Freezing conditions saw chaos in most parts of the country, as our travel system ground to a halt, and flu epidemics threatened to close offices. But it’s not just wintry conditions that can cause chaos for organisations. The Icelandic ash clouds proved that - with employees either stuck in the wrong place or having to cancel important business trips. 

News Alcatel-Lucent and Arbor Networks team up in the fight against ‘denial-of-service’ attacks by hackers

18 Jan 2012

Integration of Arbor’s Threat Management System into Alcatel-Lucent IP routers helps service providers counter the growing threat of attacks and ensures the integrity of their networks and cloud services

Alcatel-Lucent and Arbor Networks, a leader in network monitoring and security solutions, have joined forces to tackle the growing threat of ‘distributed denial-of-service’ (DDoS) attacks by hackers.

News Taking security seriously; how many wake up calls do organisations need?

18 Jan 2012

Hacktivist group, TeaMp0isoN, has revealed it was able to exploit fundamental human errors and digital security failures in publishing the personal information of 80 T-Mobile employees online.

News Varonis Systems says latest NHS data leak highlights need for security automation

17 Jan 2012

Following the news that a former NHS care assistant has been convicted of obtaining the medical records of five members of her ex-husband's family in order to obtain their new phone numbers, Varonis Systems says this rogue employee incident shows why the automation of IT security enforcement is critical to organisations with large databases.

News AlienVault Hires Leadership Team from HP Fortify

17 Jan 2012

Creator of OSSIM taps senior HP executives, names Barmak Meftah CEO, Roger Thornton CTO

AlienVault, creator of OSSIM, the de-facto standard open source SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) solution, announced today the appointments of Barmak Meftah as president and chief executive officer and Roger Thornton as chief technology officer. Meftah previously served as chief products officer at Fortify Software. Thornton incubated and founded Fortify at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, serving as its chief technology officer and member of the board of directors.

News SecurEnvoy expresses astonishment on lack of authentication on Israeli SCADA systems

16 Jan 2012

Commenting on reports that Anonymous has apparently published the credentials of several Israeli SCADA system users, SecurEnvoy has expressed surprise that the systems concerned were not also protected by authentication technology.

News FAST Legal Advisory Group (FLAG) leads debate on the future of IP law and enforcement

16 Jan 2012

Event organised to debate the future of IP law following the Hargreaves Review, 18^th January 2012, Bird & Bird, London

FLAG, the Federation Against Software Theft’s (FAST) Legal Advisory Group, has organised a unique event at Bird & Bird, London on January 18^th 2012 to discuss hot topics including the future of the software business and the government’s progress on reform following the Hargreaves review into intellectual property.

Blog Safer digital identities in 2012?

13 Jan 2012

Mark Knight, Director of Product Management at Thales e-Security writes: Sometimes it takes a very public breach for the shockwaves to force an industry to tighten up security. I welcome the news that the Certificate Authority (CA) industry body that initially specified the standard for Extended Validation (EV) certificates has now published requirements (or standards of due care), for the issuance of publically trusted certificates. Certificate authorities that have signed up to the new requirements have 6 months to comply.

News As the one-terabyte Swiss Army Knife arrives, Varonis Systems says - defend your data

11 Jan 2012

Commenting on the launch of the Victorinox one-terabyte Swiss Army Knife - unveiled on Monday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas - Varonis Systems says that, with these levels of data storage hidden in a humble pocket knife, organisations need to take extra care when defending their corporate data.

News Ping Identity Soars into 2012 on Cloud Identity Security Demand

11 Jan 2012

Sales Surpass $100 Million Since Company Inception

Ping Identity^®, The Cloud Identity Security Leader™, today announced that demand for cloud identity security pushed annual revenue growth over 50% for the second consecutive year and enabled the company to surpass the $100 million mark in sales since its inception.  Nearly 800 enterprises, including 42 of the Fortune 100, and hundreds of millions of users now depend on Ping Identity’s standards-based cloud identity management solutions for both private and public cloud environments.

Articles Cost-effectively dealing with the growing security compliance issue

11 Jan 2012

Michael Hamelin, Chief Security Architect with security lifecycle specialists Tufin Technologies explains how to extract maximum value from automated compliance audit software – and improve your organisation’s security posture in the process…

In these IT cost-conscious times, most budgets – yes, even in the IT security department – are always under review, and usually in a downwards direction. At the same time – and just to make life interesting - the volume of regulatory and compliance requirements are heading in the opposite direction.

News Thales and Infoblox Help Protect Internet Integrity

10 Jan 2012

Leading Vendors Provide Integrated, Best-in-Class IP Address Management and Highly Secure DNSSEC Key Management

Thales, leader in information systems and communications security, announces that the Thales nShield hardware security module (HSM) is now integrated with the Infoblox DNS platform to enable the simple and secure deployment of Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC). This joint solution addresses common DNSSEC deployment challenges and enables service providers, government departments, financial institutions and other organizations to secure their online identities more easily and protect critical services against cyber threats.

News Cryptzone partners with B2B Secure to cope with explosive growth in Benelux region

10 Jan 2012

Cryptzone the innovators in mitigating IT security risk have joined forces with Dutch Information Security specialist B2B Secure to manage the huge spike in demand that they’ve seen across the Benelux region. It comes as more and more companies have to address their security strategies in the wake of latest compliance rules and increasing breaches such as Diginotar which had a knock on effect especially on businesses in this region.  The two companies will work closely to promote Cryptzone’s award winning information security solutions addressing policy compliance, content security, secure access and endpoint encryption.

News SecurEnvoy says Stratfor user credential analysis shows that password security is now dead in the water

06 Jan 2012

Commenting on reports that Utah Valley University researchers have analysed the many hundreds of thousands of Stratfor user account credentials which were  hacked by Anonymous late last year due to weak passwords, SecurEnvoy says this proves the fact that the human element in security is now the weakest link.

News World Lottery Association Accreditation Criteria includes ISACA Certifications

05 Jan 2012

ISACA Certifications included in World Lottery Association Accreditation Criteria

The World Lottery Association (WLA) has added two certifications from the nonprofit global IT association ISACA to its list of recognised qualifications. In its Guide to Certification for the WLA Security Control Standard 2010/2011, this international trade organisation included the Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) certifications as acceptable criteria for certified auditors seeking accreditation from the WLA Security and Risk Management Committee (SRMC) to conduct WLA Security Control Standard certification audits. The World Lottery Association represents the interests of over 140 government-sanctioned lotteries from more than 80 countries with combined annual revenues in excess of US $200 billion.

News Israeli Credit Card hack creates more opportunities for hackers

04 Jan 2012

In a recent data breach incident, a Saudi hacker defaced a prominent sports news web site in Israel and linked its front page to a file exposing the details of many credit card numbers of Israeli citizens.

Amichai Shulman, CTO and Co-founder of Imperva comments...

Articles Can business harness the benefits of the hybrid cloud without losing data privacy?

03 Jan 2012

Gary Sumner, CTO and founder of Datacastle, argues that businesses must centrally manage and enforce their data-security policies to cope with a growing panoply of cloud-services and endpoints

Radical changes in the way business stores its data are looming, with massive implications for data-security.

New Forrester research shows 66% of enterprises are moving their desktops, servers and data into the relatively uncharted territory of the hybrid cloud.

News WPS security issues are just the tip of the insecurity iceberg, says Cryptzone

03 Jan 2012

Commenting on reports that a researcher has discovered a gaping hole in the security of the WiFi Protection Setup (WPS) method of simplifying the pairing of a device with several brands of wireless access point, Cryptzone says that WiFi users should be more concerned with the fact that wireless passwords have been inherently insecure for some time.

News CertiVox acquires crypto tools developer Shamus Software Limited

15 Dec 2011

Well known cryptographer Dr. Michael Scott to lead CertiVox Laboratories

CertiVox, an information security company, announced today that it has acquired Shamus Software Limited, creator of the renowned MIRACL cryptographic library.

News Trusteer says student loan phishing arrests highlight the dangers of targeted attacks

12 Dec 2011

Trusteer has welcomed news that six people have been arrested in connection with a £1 million phishing scam that saw students fooled into revealing their bank details to supposed representatives of the government student loans scheme.

News Tufin unveils its top security predictions for 2012

08 Dec 2011

As December rolls in and 2012 looms on the IT security horizon, Tufin Technologies – the security lifecycle management specialist – has come up with its top five security predictions for the year ahead.

News Imation Mobile Security launches dedicated EMEA Partner Programme

08 Dec 2011

Programme designed to accelerate partner businesses through industry’s most comprehensive security solutions portfolio in combination with dedicated, responsive sales, marketing and support teams

Imation Corp. (NYSE: IMN), a leading global technology company dedicated to helping people and organisations store, protect and connect their digital world, today launches the Imation Mobile Security EMEA Partner Programme. The new partner programme underlines Imation’s commitment to the channel, offering partners in the Europe, Middle East and Africa markets attractive prices and recurring revenue streams, competitive advantage, and a high level of customer satisfaction and loyalty.

Articles Cybercrime: protecting against the growing threat - Global Economic Crime Survey

05 Dec 2011

Economic crime does not discriminate. It is truly global. No industry or organisation is immune. We have seen a 13% rise since our last survey and organisations see more fraud ahead.

News Varonis welcomes PwC economic crime report, but cautions on data awareness issues

05 Dec 2011

Varonis Systems Inc. the leading provider of comprehensive data governance software has welcomed the publication of PricewaterhouseCooper’s global economic crime survey 2011, but cautions that - in order to report economic fraud to the relevant authorities - companies must be aware that a fraud has taken place.

Videos 3 Powerhouses in one for Enterprise Security

01 Dec 2011

Raf Los, HPSW Strategy and Cloud Strategist, discuss the combination of Tipping Point, Fortify and ArcSight to bring together under one banner a powerhouse of enterprise security solutions.

News Varonis gives its top predictions for Data Governance in 2012

30 Nov 2011

Varonis Systems Inc., the leading provider of comprehensive data governance software announced its top-level predictions for the Data Governance field in 2012. David Gibson, Director of Technical Marketing and Strategic Sales at Varonis said: “We have just been through a turbulent year for data owners and next year will be no different. To try and cut through the data jungle we are concentrating on the four major areas that will be problems in 2012.”

News Cryptzone believes ICO financial penalties against two councils are unnecessary

29 Nov 2011

Cryptzone understands why the Information Commissioners Office deems it necessary to impose fines against North Somerset Council and Worcestershire County Council after staff at both authorities sent highly sensitive personal information to the wrong recipients. However, says Cryptzone, this action would be unnecessary if councils were putting the right security controls in place and taking action when policy violations take place.

Articles How to Detect and Stop Corporate Cyber Espionage

29 Nov 2011

You’ve spent months fixing the red items on an internal audit report and just passed a regulatory exam. You’ve performed a network vulnerability assessment and network pen test within the last year and have fixes in place. You’ve tightened up your information security policy and recently invested in a security information and event management (SIEM) solution. You’re secure, right?

News Infosecurity Europe calls for end-of-life data wiping

29 Nov 2011

Commenting on research that large numbers of UK firms are failing to ensure that confidential data is destroyed when their IT equipment reaches the end of its working life - placing their own staff, customers or partners at risk of fraud, or further serious security breaches - the organisers of the Infosecurity Europe show say that better education on security policies is central to solving the problem.

News Lieberman Software says AT&T hacking link to terrorists must shake up IT security professionals

28 Nov 2011

Commenting on reports that AT&T’s accounts system has been hacked - and the data used to make $2 million-worth of calls to premium rate numbers - Lieberman Software says the saga should act as a wake-up call for IT security professionals everywhere.

Blog UK Cyber Security Strategy

28 Nov 2011

Mike Smart, Product and Solutions Director, EMEA at SafeNet comments on how this new strategy will affect small enterprises and refers to the government initiatives to improve online safety and establish ‘kitemarks’ for cyber security software to help consumers and businesses better understand the cyber security solutions available and allow them to make more informed choices.

News Tufin research reveals change management leads to security breaches

16 Nov 2011

93% of the Respondents Conduct Firewall Audits Manually; 60% Cited Lack of Time is the Weakest Link in Network Security; Reported Cheating on Audits Has Doubled Since 2010

Tufin Technologies, the market-leading provider of Security Lifecycle Management solutions, has found that 75% of organizations believe their current change management processes could put them at risk of a security breach.  Having sampled 100 network security professionals directly involved in firewall management and auditing, this year’s survey reveals that manual processes - and the time constraints they create - are the biggest challenge facing today’s network security professionals.  

News Thales payShield 9000 achieves PCI HSM compliance

16 Nov 2011

Acquirers and Issuers can meet card scheme requirements with certified HSM

Thales, leader in information systems and communications security, announces that its award-winning payShield 9000 Hardware Security Module (HSM) has achieved PCI HSM compliance.

Blog Stolen government certificate signed malware is an upcoming trend, says Imperva

15 Nov 2011

Tal Be’ery, Imperva’s Web Security Research Team Leader on how a governmental digital certificate has been used to sign malware: According to a report by F-Secure, the certificate was used to sign a piece of malware which has been spread through malicious PDF files, dropped after an Acrobat Reader 8 exploit had taken place.

News IT security research highlights need for IT security safety net

14 Nov 2011

Latest IT security survey highlights the need for an IT security safety net

Commenting on a survey that found barely 39 per cent of workers follow IT security policies in the workplace, Avecto says that this proves the need for privilege identity management technology on company computer systems.

News Imation Establish Mobile Data Security Leadership Position in Europe, Middle East and Africa with Broadest Portfolio of Secure Mobile Data and Secure Mobile Workspaces Solutions

07 Nov 2011

Imation Now Offers Leading Security Brands with MXI, IronKey and Defender Products.

Imation Corp. (NYSE: IMN), a leading global technology company dedicated to helping people and organisations store, protect and connect their digital world, now offers the broadest range of Mobile Security products  to organisations across  Europe, Middle East and Africa, highlighting the company’s position as a global leader in the high-security data storage and device management market. Following strategic acquisitions and technology investments, Imation’s mobile security portfolio now consists of the MXI, Defender and IronKey brands, providing  the European market the industry’s broadest portfolio of secure mobile storage offerings. 

News Lieberman Software says chemical company hacker attacks could have been prevented

03 Nov 2011

Commenting on reports from Symantec that hackers targeted nearly 30 companies in the chemical industry this summer with the intent of stealing sensitive IP (intellectual property), Lieberman Software says that this latest cyber crime wave cries out for privileged identity management technology.

Blog SSL, the protocol for protecting the internet

03 Nov 2011

Mark Knight, Director, Product Management, at Thales e-Security writes: It's good news that Google have announced their continued expansion of the use of SSL which means that certain Google searches (and the results) will be encrypted. There's already been pressure to turn on encryption at corporate and domestic WiFi hotspots to prevent theft of passwords and other information by sniffers on the local hotspot but it must be remembered that this still only protects communication between the user's computer or phone and WiFi access point. Traffic flowing on the wired network across the various hops and interconnection points that make up the internet to get to websites such as Google is typically unencrypted. The solution is for web site operators to deploy technologies like SSL to provide end to end encryption from the consumer all the way back to their site. It's good to see that https (aka SSL), is now gradually replacing http, even for free services like Google search.

Videos Achieving Regulatory Compliance with IBM Business Analytics

31 Oct 2011

See how IBM Cognos Financial Statement Reporting (FSR) enabled Southwest Airlines, Ultra Petroleum, Cash America and Entercom Communications to automate their financial reporting processes, including XBRL tagging.

News SafeNet Enables Software Publishers to Quickly and Easily Transition From Hardware Keys to Software-based Licensing Solutio

26 Oct 2011

TechSmith, DIP Tech, Key Traffic Systems, Orbograph, and Tiltan Team with SafeNet to Protect Intellectual Property from Piracy and Improve Licensing Process for Legitimate Users

SafeNet, Inc., a worldwide leader in data protection, today announced the successful expansion of several customer implementations of its award-winning Sentinel HASP licensing solution to include both hardware- and software-based license enforcement keys to enhance the end-user experience. The transition to software keys provides flexible, easy-to-use licensing solutions that still protect software developers from software piracy and IP theft.

Articles 2011 is Proving that PCI DSS is working; however there are challenges to be overcome

26 Oct 2011

Recent figures from the UK Cards Association showed that banking industry initiatives, including PCI have been successful in decreasing the volume of card and bank account fraud. Payment card fraud losses in 2010 reached their lowest levels since 2000, and have made significant improvement from their all-time high just three years ago in 2008. Overall, they suggested that total fraud losses on UK cards fell by 17 percent alone over the preceding year.  Data protection laws in Europe are getting tougher, with Spain, Italy and Germany now requiring companies to notify customers of a privacy breach. Additionally, as companies take a broader look at business processes in the data-security context, PCI DSS is proving successful as a strong foundation for overall data security, with research pointing to the PCI Standards as effective in efforts to satisfy the European Data Protection Directive. 

News Gulf International Bank selects Assuria Log Manager

20 Oct 2011

Assuria Ltd is pleased to announce that Gulf International Bank, B.S.C. based in the Kingdom of Bahrain selected Assuria Log Manager (“ALM”), Assuria’s forensic log management, security intelligence and protective monitoring solution to help meet its internal IT governance requirements.

News 'Hackerazzi' case highlights advantages of secure email - even for non-celebrities

20 Oct 2011

Commenting on the conviction of an alleged hacker who has reportedly cracked into the mailboxes of several celebrities, Lieberman Software says that the ‘hackerazzi' case is interesting as the majority of celebrities concerned were using Apple as their email service provider.

News Email ransom case highlights need for better security education says Infosecurity Europe

20 Oct 2011

Commenting on a weekend report in the Guardian newspaper about a journalist whose email account was held to ransom, the organisers of the Infosecurity Europe show say that the case highlights the need for better education on the IT security front for members of staff in organisations of all sizes.

Videos 2011 IT Capabilities & Needs Survey Results

20 Oct 2011

Protiviti's 2011 IT Capabilities and Needs Survey identifies top areas of concern for CIOs and their teams. This video offers a snippet of some of the notable findings of this survey which include virtualization and cloud computing, social media, security and privacy, regulatory change, and data classification and management are among their highest priorities.

Articles 2011 Information Technology Capabilities and Needs Survey

20 Oct 2011

More than 200 respondents, including CIOs, chief technology officers, chief security officers, and IT vice presidents and directors, participated in the study. Respondents answered more than 100 questions in three general categories: Technical Knowledge, Process Capabilities and Organizational Capabilities.

News The Bunker adds Anderson Zaks to growing Financial Services customer roster

20 Oct 2011

Innovative international card payment provider moves to The Bunker for increased security, business continuity and PCI DSS compliance

The Bunker, providers of ultra secure Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Colocation, and Outsourced IT from within Europe’s most secure data centres, is pleased to announce that Anderson Zaks, one of the leading suppliers of international card payment processing software and services has moved its credit card transaction processing to The Bunker. Anderson Zaks has chosen The Bunker for increased security, business continuity and PCI DSS compliance.

News Doyenz Launches rCloud Disaster Recovery Service for Virtual Environments

20 Oct 2011

rCloud Provides SMBs with the Fastest Speed to Recovery in the Industry

Doyenz Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based recovery services for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), today announced rCloud, a disaster recovery solution for SMBs that offers recovery for virtual environments in minutes instead of days.  Based on a deep level of automation, rCloud is the only cloud recovery solution that restores virtual production server environments in less than fifteen minutes, providing access to critical business applications.

News ActivIdentity Launches New Fraud Detection and Cloud Security Capabilities

18 Oct 2011

4TRESS Authentication Appliance Enables Enterprise and Banking Customers to Deploy a New Level of Multi-Layered Strong Authentication More Quickly and Affordably

ActivIdentity Corporation, a global leader in secure identity solutions, part of HID Global today introduced 4TRESS Authentication Appliance  that offers a complete multi-layered strong authentication, fraud detection and cloud security capabilities to enterprises, banks and ecommerce sites. The new 4TRESS Authentication Appliance FT2011 model provides more than 15 versatile strong authentication methods that can be used in conjunction with transparent new adaptive authentication and fraud detection techniques to achieve more security, more conveniently for end-users, and more affordably. 

News Survey finds password misuse could be the root cause of hacking spike

18 Oct 2011

48% of IT security professionals surveyed have worked in organisations that have been hacked

Lieberman Software Corporation, the Pioneers of Privileged Identity ManagementSM (PIM) and leading information security specialists, today announced the result of their Password 2011 survey which revealed that 48 percent of IT security professionals surveyed have worked for organisations whose network has been breached by a hacker. The survey paints a vivid picture of password chaos amongst IT staff and apathy about password security amongst their senior management.

Articles Perimeter Security with Security Event Information Management Whitepaper

17 Oct 2011

Security Event Information Management (SEIM) can provide the security leap-frog in a world of point solutions – to ensure there are no blind spots in your network security architecture

The Growing Need for a Consolidated or “Context Aware” View into Enterprise Security

Even with dedicated security personnel, it’s tough to monitor the millions of messages and log records generated by various security edge devices such as intrusion detection systems, firewalls, anti-DoS and application firewalls. Even more difficult is identifying patterns occurring over time and across separate devices, but an SEIM system can build a centralized architecture that makes such tasks more feasible and allows for speedy compliance reports, audits and is absolutely required when prosecution of a perpetrator is needed.

News Ipswitch Network Management Division Survey Highlights Importance of Forensic Log Management Witihn a Wider Compliance Initiative

17 Oct 2011

Regulatory Compliance Issues Paramount to Network Administrators

Ipswitch Inc.’s Network Management Division, developer of the WhatsUp Gold suite of innovative IT management solutions, today released the results of a survey of some of its 100,000 customers on how necessary forensic event log management capabilities are to network security initiatives. The survey found that almost two thirds (65.4%) of respondents said that log management is very helpful when it comes to maintaining and managing Event Log and Syslog activity in line with increasingly stringent compliance standards.

Articles Six Steps to Policy Excellence

17 Oct 2011

Dominic Saunders Senior Vice President at Cryptzone gives an IT security experts view on best practice policy management

Striking the right balance between risk mitigation and the commercial demands of the business is an essential skill, which must be adapted according to the nature of your industry and the size, culture and risk appetite of your organisation. This role needs to have clear ownership at senior management level.

Blog Six golden rules for secure authentication

17 Oct 2011

Alan Davies,Vice President of ActivIdentity EMEA writes: 

There are thousands and thousands of passwords written down on yellow post-it notes stuck to computer monitors. This is a nightmare for any security administrator whose job is to protect valuable data. Against a background of growing risks, access to networks must be protected using multi-layered security measures. Experts at ActivIdentity£part of HID Global, one of the world’s leading providers of identity assurance products and services, have put together six requirements for ensuring secure access to corporate networks.

News Ovum Warns of “Critical Issue” in Storing and Retrieving Mobile and Data Recordings

17 Oct 2011

Predicted regulation changes to prove difficult for the financial services industry

Ovum, a leading independent research company, has today launched a report that highlights the difficulties that the financial services industry faces in managing sheer volumes of data, linked to the Financial Services Authority (FSA) mobile and data recording regulations, coming into force on Monday 14^th November 2011.

News McAfee and RSA announce joint compliance and risk management solution

17 Oct 2011

New Solution Designed to Correlate Device-level Security Risks with Overall Impacts on Business Performance

McAfee and RSA, The Security Division of EMC (NYSE: EMC) today announced a new joint solution based on their existingtechnology partnership.  This joint solution integrates security data from the McAfee® ePolicy Orchestrator® platform (McAfee ePO™) with business infrastructure and compliance data in the RSA^® Archer^TM eGRC Platform and the RSA Archer Enterprise Management solution.  By connecting this data, customers can better leverage business information together with security data to gain a deeper understanding of risk and compliance issues.

News The Bunker and The ECA Group form Security and Business Assurance partnership

12 Oct 2011

The Bunker, providers of ultra secure Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Colocation, and Outsourced IT from within Europe’s most secure data centres, is pleased to announce a new partnership with The ECA Group, providing an unmatched level of advice and delivery for secure information management solutions.

Articles Security and access issues in cloud need to be addressed

10 Oct 2011

Robert Rutherford, managing director of QuoStar Solutions, makes some very valid points about the rise of cloud computing, but there are two crucial considerations that also need to be considered by any company looking to make the switch, namely around security and access.

News Low-cost kit for sale on eBay could hand national infrastructure secrets to terrorists says Lieberman Software

10 Oct 2011

Phillip Lieberman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Lieberman Software, explains why the most basic security precautions could help save your bacon – especially when a piece of your firm's old kit surfaces on eBay...

Reports that air traffic control data has been found on network kit sold on the eBay Internet auction site comes as no surprise, says Philip Lieberman.

News Imation completes acquisition of Ironkey's security hardware business

06 Oct 2011

Offers Industry’s Most Complete Solutions for Secure Mobile Data and Secure Mobile Workspaces; Continuing Strategic Transformation as Technology Leader in Secure and Scalable Storage

Imation Corp. (NYSE: IMN), a leading global technology company dedicated to helping people and organizations store, protect and connect their digital world today announced that it has completed its acquisition of the assets of IronKey’s secure data storage hardware business. Imation and IronKey have also entered a strategic partnership whereby Imation receives an exclusive license from IronKey for its secure storage management software and service, and a license to use the IronKey brand for secure storage products. IronKey will partner with Imation to provide its online cloud-based security services.

News Imperva Introduces Data Security for Microsoft SharePoint

04 Oct 2011

SecureSphere for SharePoint protects sensitive information from data leaks, security threats

Imperva, a pioneer and leader of a new category of data security solutions for high-value business data in the data center, announced today the availability of SecureSphere for SharePoint, its new data security solution to help businesses protect sensitive data stored in Microsoft SharePoint. As part of Imperva’s cornerstone data security suite, SecureSphere for SharePoint addresses the unique security requirements of SharePoint’s file, web and database infrastructure, giving businesses visibility and analysis of data access and safeguarding that only users with a legitimate business need have access to data.

News GPUs Giving Hackers Yet More Ammunition

04 Oct 2011

Most complex passwords cracked by cheap consumer hardware

A £30 high street graphics card is allowing cybercriminals to crack passwords in as little as 12 seconds. 

Articles Back to the Future: Why IT Managers should care about Firewall Management

04 Oct 2011

A number of classic scenes in film and literature involved a group approaching a walled city or castle only to be stopped by a gatekeeper and asked, “Halt, who goes there?” Depending on the answer, be it Arthur, son of Uther Pendragon or Dorothy and the Tin Man, the gatekeeper makes the call on whether or not the group can pass or is turned away.

News Payment Card Security Compliance Remains Problematic, Putting Confidential Consumer Information at Risk, Verizon Report Says

28 Sep 2011

Noncompliance Is Linked to Increased Breach Risk

For the second year in a row, a Verizon report has found that too many businesses are struggling to comply with payment card security standards, putting consumers’ confidential information at risk.

News Keynote Speaker Announced for ISACA’s Information Security and Risk Management Conference

27 Sep 2011

Event to be held 14 – 16 November in Barcelona, Spain

Today, global IT association ISACA highlighted a number of key sessions to be held at its annual Information Security and Risk Management (ISRM) Europe conference, including unveiling its keynote speaker. With sessions examining data protection, PCI, cloud computing, auditing, advanced persistent threats and more, the agenda for the 14-16 November event in Barcelona deals with enterprises’ nightmares—and how to protect against them.

News Lost laptops lead the list for ICO fines

26 Sep 2011

Companies penalised an average of £70,000

The loss of laptops containing confidential or sensitive data has proved to be far more expensive than previously anticipated for some companies, according to Absolute Software. 

News NEFCU Selects Trusteer to Meet New FFIEC Security Guidelines

26 Sep 2011

Intuit Financial Services Recommends Trusteer to Help Regional Credit Union Prevent Cybercrime

Trusteer, the leading provider of cybercrime prevention solutions, today announced that NEFCU has selected Trusteer Rapport to protect its retail banking members against cybercrime and meet new FFIEC Guidelines for online banking security. The credit union’s financial management technology provider, Intuit Financial Services, recommended that NEFCU evaluate Trusteer to prevent financial malware fraud.  NEFCU is offering Trusteer Rapport, the leading cybercrime prevention software for PCs and Macs, free to its members as an added security measure.

News Imperva Research Finds SQL Injection Attacks Bypass Web Security

22 Sep 2011

Hackers Execute an Average 71 SQL Injection Attacks per Hour to Steal Data

Imperva’s Hacker Intelligence Initiative (HII) today revealed the prevalence and intensity of SQL injection attacks.  The report details how prevalent SQL injection attacks have become, how attacks are executed and how hackers are innovating SQLi attacks to bypass security controls as well as increase potency. The full report can be viewed here.

Articles Imperva Hacker Intelligence Initiative - Monthly Trend Report

22 Sep 2011

Hacker Intelligence Summary Report – An Anatomy of a SQL Injection Attack

This month’s report from Imperva’s Hacker Intelligence Initiative (HII) focuses on the rise in SQL Injection (SQLi) attacks on the Web. Dominating headlines for the past year, SQLi has become a widely-known, even outside the circle of security professionals. And for good reason: SQL injection is probably the most expensive and costly attack since it is mainly used to steal data.

News DataFlux and Global Data Excellence Commit to Worldwide Partnership

22 Sep 2011

New European partnership will be extended to the US market to help spur adoption of data governance

DataFlux, a leader in data management solutions, today announced it has finalised a global partnership agreement with Global Data Excellence (GDE), a leading provider of data quality and data governance software. Under the terms of the partnership DataFlux and GDE will provide a joint technology and expertise offering that will help organisations improve the commercial, marketing and financial value of their corporate data.

News SIEM from Q1 Labs eases IPv6 migration

19 Sep 2011

Expert recommends that organisations test compatibility across security products and gateways as networks undergo upgrade, or risk breaches

Q1 Labs, the global provider of total security intelligence solutions, has urged organisations to look how Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems as well as IPS and IDS are configured as firms move to IPv6-based networks.

News Interxion Achieves Pan-European ISO 27001 Recertification

15 Sep 2011

Recertification recognising Interxion’s continued commitment to delivering highly secure, reliable best-in-class data centres

INTERXION HOLDING NV (NYSE: INXN), a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, today announced that it has achieved recertification of the internationally recognised ISO 27001 (Information Security and Business Continuity) standard for all 11 of its European country operations.

Videos Bill Swanton Previews the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo Applications Track

14 Sep 2011

Cloud, software as a service, social, collaboration, mobile, integration and intelligence technologies will have a significant impact on how applications are sourced and managed. The applications track focuses on how these forces will dramatically overhaul the application portfolio and require new skills for application leaders to balance new and legacy investments.

Articles Understanding the correlation between data leakage and the security mission

13 Sep 2011

In a number of cases, Internet-attached private systems are not always maintained in an up-to-date state and, as such, are vulnerable to exploitation by mischief-makers and, of course, their cybercriminal peers.

News HP Unveils Expanded Enterprise Solutions for the Instant-On Enterprise

12 Sep 2011

Comprehensive security services and technology portfolio delivers insight and protection against modern cyberthreats

HP today announced its expanded Enterprise Security Solutions portfolio, designed to help enterprises establish and execute a comprehensive security strategy that addresses threats and potential liabilities resulting from the rise of mobility, cloud computing and social media.

News ISACA’s Information Security and Risk Management Conference Features Cloud Computing and PCI DSS Guidance

12 Sep 2011

14 – 16 November in Barcelona, Spain

With security continuing to be one of the top priorities for C-level executives, ISACA has today revealed a number of key sessions at its annual Information Security and Risk Management (ISRM) Conference in Europe. The three day event, to be held in Barcelona from 14-16 November, offers a fresh perspective on today’s challenges and future trends, including PCI Data Security Standard (DSS) compliance, Cloud Computing and Data Loss Prevention. With a mixture of industry professionals and end user case studies, this year’s line will have a variety of speakers—including representatives from the PCI Council, Deloitte and Touche, Emirates General Petroleum Corp, Telefónica and VISA— all sharing their invaluable insight and expertise, but perhaps more crucially their experiences of overcoming these hurdles. Attending delegates will receive the advice and tools needed, complemented by an unrivalled business insight, to design and implement workflows and practices to overcome these concerns, some as soon as they return to the organisation.  

News Avecto says Apple co-founders Twitter hack highlights need for strong account security

12 Sep 2011

Reports that the Twitter account of Steve Wozniak – the co-founder of Apple – has been hacked may sound amusing, but the potential for disaster when a high-profile Twitter user's account is hacked is significant, says Avecto, the Windows privilege management specialist.

Articles Managing Risk in the Cloud

07 Sep 2011

Adopting Cloud computing may save money, but how does it change risk?

The Cloud allows the procurement of IT services from both internal and external suppliers to be optimized because the services are delivered through the Internet in a standard way. The Cloud is not a single model, but covers a wide spectrum from applications shared between multiple tenants to virtual servers used by one customer and hosted internally.

News New Trusteer Cybercrime Prevention Architecture Adds Browser Exploit Removal and Fraudster Machine Fingerprinting to Arsenal

07 Sep 2011

Trusteer Intelligence Center warns that Second Non-Financial Malware has Morphed into Online Fraud Platform

 Trusteer, the leading provider of cybercrime prevention solutions, today announced new versions of the four products which make up its Cybercrime Prevention Architecture. The new capabilities remove malicious exploits in web page content, fingerprint fraudster machines attempting to access protected web applications, protect iOS and Android mobile devices from financial malware, and provide real-time data feeds on new malware attacks. Trusteer's Intelligence Center also warned today that a second non-financial malware variant has been retrofitted with fraud capabilities and is abusing its large installed base of infected machines to attack global financial institutions.

News Stonesoft and Mycroft Talisen Partner to Provide Secure Access to Restricted Networks

06 Sep 2011

Stonesoft today announced a partnership with Mycroft Talisen, a specialist provider of managed security services, to offer remote access solutions for networks classified as ‘restricted’.

News Venafi calls on enterprises and government agencies to formulate CA disaster recovery plans in the wake of DigiNotar Hack

06 Sep 2011

With DigiNotar joining the ranks of Comodo, StartSSL and RSA as a trusted third-party security organisation successfully compromised by hackers, enterprises need to move past the shock and begin formulating their own compromise recovery and business continuity plans, states Venafi, enterprise key and certificate management (EKCM) solution experts.

News Imperva introduces new service for cloud-based DDoS protection

06 Sep 2011

New service defends companies from crippling DDoS attacks in real-time

Imperva, a pioneer and leader of a new category of data security solutions for high-value business data in the data center, today announced the availability of Imperva Cloud DDoS Protection, a simple, secure cloud-based service that safeguards businesses from debilitating and protracted Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. By subscribing to this service, organisations can protect against the downtime and brand damage, and potential lost revenue caused by DDoS attacks.

Articles 4 Steps to Defeat a DDOS Attack on your Organisation

01 Sep 2011

Millions of computers around the world are controlled by cybercriminals. These computers have been infected with software robots, or “bots”, that automatically connect to command and control servers. The command and control servers then instruct the bots to carry out illicit activity, such as performing denial of service attacks, or harvesting application content. Building these networks of bots, or botnets, has become a lucrative business for botnet operators, who rent out their bots to the highest bidder.  

News irst Data Selects Trusteer to Help Financial Institutions Comply with new FFIEC Guidance for Online Banking Security

31 Aug 2011

Trusteer Fraud Prevention Architecture to be Available with First Data Internet Banking Platform

Trusteer, a leading provider of secure web access services, today announced that First Data will make Trusteer Rapport and Trusteer Pinpoint available with the First Data Internet Banking solutions. First Data Corporation is a global leader in electronic commerce and payment processing. The company will refer Trusteer to its financial institution clients as a preferred solution provider for risk mitigation and to help enhance financial institution compliance with the new FFIEC guidance on Internet banking security.

News International ATM cyberheist drains Florida pre-paid card bank of $13 million

30 Aug 2011

News that a Florida-based bank has been left holding the baby in a $13 million ATM fraud highlights the increasingly complex world of cybercrime and the multi-faceted layers of security needed to defend against it, says Lieberman Software.

News New StoneGate FW-315 firewall appliance meets the security needs of small networks and branch offices

30 Aug 2011

Stonesoft today introduces the StoneGate FW-315 firewall/VPN appliance with UTM functionality, which has been designed for small networks and branch offices. StoneGate FW-315 provides reliable data security combined with high availability features, which guarantee network continuity at all times.

News Lieberman Software Partners with EdgeSeven to provide security management products in the United Kingdom

22 Aug 2011

Lieberman Software Corporation, the Pioneers of Privileged Identity Management^SM (PIM), and EdgeSeven, an organisation  of information security specialists, today announced their channel partner agreement. Effective immediately, EdgeSeven is providing the entire line of Lieberman Software’s PIM and security management products to customers throughout the United Kingdom, helping organisations secure privileged identities, protect sensitive data and achieve regulatory compliance. EdgeSeven specializes in providing security monitoring and event management solutions. The company has deployed advanced solutions to organisations across all market sectors including telecommunications, finance, government and defense.

Articles Mobile Malware: it’s all just myth and fantasy - isn’t it?

16 Aug 2011

We’re all wise to the risks our online antics pose to our security. We’ve learned not to trust emails from Nigerian Bankers offering to share millions in exchange for a small upfront handling fee. Our banks haven’t monitored fraudulent activity so they don’t need us to verify our account details by confirming our information. Messages from DHL with attachments informing us about deliveries we’re not expecting don’t fool us into opening the document. We’re even wise to the links in emails that want us to visit websites and win prizes. Why don’t they work? Because we’ve learned the hard way. 

Videos Cloud Enabling Your Data Center: Security and the Cloud

09 Aug 2011

In the fourth of a series of videos, Joe Anthony (IBM Director, Security, Risk & Compliance Product Maagement) discusses security in the Cloud and the IBM Security Framework.

Articles What can Organisations do to combat the Insider Threat?

08 Aug 2011

SailPoint has recently released their survey results regarding employee behavior with respect to corporate data. An interesting figure indicates that 24% of the surveyed Brits mentioned they would copy electronic data and files to take with them when they leave a company.

News The Bunker and CNS announce IT security partnership

28 Jul 2011

Collaboration offers PCI DSS & GSx CoCo (IL3) certified solutions within ultra-secure data centres

The Bunker delivers ultra secure Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Colocation, and Outsourced IT from within Europe’s most secure data centres, and is pleased to announce a partnership to offer CNS’s COMPLIANCEngine and payment card industry (PCI QSA) compliance services alongside The Bunker’s ultra-secure data centres.

Articles News of the World, privacy and IT governance

28 Jul 2011

What Happened?

On Sunday July 10^th, 2011 the News of the World published it last edition. This paper had been publishing for 168 years and was the top selling Sunday newspaper in the UK. The closure came following revelations of how the newspaper had allegedly obtained personal information using illegal methods such as phone hacking. What does this teach us about privacy and information governance?

News Lieberman Software, Hewlett-Packard Integration Controls Privileged Access to Lights-Out Management Devices

22 Jul 2011

Today’s IT administrators rely on remote access devices to manage essential datacenter functions without the need to be in the same physical location as the servers. However, if the privileged account passwords on these devices are not frequently changed, anyone with knowledge of the default passwords can gain unrestricted, anonymous access to these systems.

News HP Helps Enterprises Advance Development for the Cloud

22 Jul 2011

Service virtualization and application life cycle intelligence solutions accelerate application delivery

HP has announced new software solutions that improve collaboration among application delivery teams, enabling organizations to accelerate business innovation and lower operational costs.

Blog Imperva CTOs perspective on the Oracle CPU

22 Jul 2011

Amichai Shulman, CTO at Imperva writes: “The July 2011 Oracle vulnerability announcement contains fixes for 78 vulnerabilities in total, 16 of which are in the database server product.  

News NextiraOne and NICE Tackle New Payment Card Data Security Rules for Contact Centre Operators

19 Jul 2011

Real-time Solutions from NICE plus NextiraOne Contact Centre Expertise Ensures Compliancy with (PCI-DSS) Regulations

NextiraOne, Europe’s leading expert in communications services, has today announced that it has put in place the skills required to help customers tackle their payment card data security compliancy issues when operating a contact centre. Working in collaboration with NICE Systems Limited, NextiraOne has integrated NICE’s real-time PCI solution into its customer offering for new contact centres and is also offering upgrades to existing contact centre customers to bring them up to the new data security standards.

News Core Consultancy completes datacenter upgrade, opens new office and appoints sales manager

18 Jul 2011

Award winning firm strengthens business platform and achieves ISO 27001 compliance to manage continued demand for business continuity service

Core Consultancy, a leading disaster recovery and business continuity specialist, has announced it has completed a 6 month programme to strengthen and expand its services following the award of 'Specialist Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Company of the Year’ at the Business Continuity Awards 2010.

News Q1 Labs to present at RSA Conference Europe in October

18 Jul 2011

Chief Security Officer highlights growing cyber security threats to critical infrastructure

Q1 Labs, the global provider of total security intelligence solutions, today announced that Chris Poulin, CSO of Q1 Labs, will be presenting at the upcoming RSA Conference Europe 2011 outlining the growing threat against critical utility and energy infrastructure, including emerging smart grids.

News Leading ITC suppliers Westcoastcloud and Forensic Software partner to offer complete e-safety solution for schools

18 Jul 2011

Comprehensive cloud e-safety solution praised by childcare expert Professor Tanya Byron

Two of the UK’s leading suppliers of e-safety, Westcoastcloud and Forensic Software, have partnered up to offer the most comprehensive online child protection solution yet to the education sector.

News Verizon Tackles Growing Issue of Stolen Credentials

15 Jul 2011

Enhanced Enterprise Identity Services Offer Smartphone, 
Tablet ID ‘Tokens,’ Digital Signing Capabilities

Unauthorised access to corporate networks through stolen user names and passwords topped 45 per cent in 2010, according to the Verizon 2011 Data Breach Investigations Report, making credentials the second most compromised data type. To help address this growing security threat, Verizon is enhancing its cloud-based Enterprise Identity Services to give businesses more ways to authenticate users to corporate networks while offering strong security protection.

News Trusteer Online Fraud Intelligence and Risk Analysis Service Provides Real-Time Threat Visibility

14 Jul 2011

Trusteer Situation Room Enables Financial Institutions to Comply with the Risk Assessment Expectations

Trusteer, the leading provider of secure web access services, today announced Trusteer Situation Room (TSR), an intuitive security threat and risk assessment content sharing platform. TSR provides information on fraudsters, their activities, the institutions they target, their methods for bypassing various security controls, and techniques for blocking individual attacks. The service gathers information on malware activity from a worldwide network that spans tens of millions of endpoint devices and thousands of malicious servers, and is supported by a large team of professional security analysts that closely monitors financial fraud activities around the clock. Trusteer is offering a free 60 day trial of TSR to qualified financial institutions.

News NASA hacker compensation payment refusal case highlights the high cost of data breach remediation

14 Jul 2011

Reports that a Romanian hacker has refused to compensate the US government for hacking of various government systems comes as no surprise to Andy Kemshall, the chief technology officer of SecurEnvoy, the multi-factor authentication specialist.

News Idappcom says hacking of Indian National Security Guards sends a security message for all corporates

11 Jul 2011

News that the Web site of the National Security Guards (NSG) - the Indian counter-terror elite operation of the Indian army and police - has been hacked has a security message for any company IT security manager, says Idappcom.

Articles Avoid becoming the next big IT security disaster

07 Jul 2011

What do Chet Sherer and George Best have in common? Most of us have heard of George, one of the greatest football (soccer) players to ever step on a field. George died after a long illness in 2005, probably due to years of what could be termed a self destructive lifestyle. He is famously quoted as saying: “In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol - it was the worst 20 minutes of my life,” and later “I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep.” Chet was a colleague who lived a quiet life, did his job, and recently died suddenly from a burst aorta. Both are gone – the one after years of apparently not looking after his health, and the other through a sudden aortic aneurysm.

News First secure Cloud search application launched by Simplexo

07 Jul 2011

SearchYourCloud provides users with a unique level of security and accessibility

Simplexo, the UK search specialist, has announced the launch of ‘SearchYourCloud’, an ultra-secure service that enables users to search information stored in the Cloud, all with one click. 

Articles CNI and the Lessons learned from Lulzsec

05 Jul 2011

Hacktivism and It’s Criminal Inspiration

The recent hacking spree by Lulzsec has helped make hacktivism a household term. Although hacktivism is nothing new, it has undergone a rapid evolution that is driven and inspired by criminal, for-profit hacking.

News Cybercriminals Ditching Mass Spam for Targeted Attacks

01 Jul 2011

New Cisco Report Shows Traditional Mass Spam Volumes Plummeting as Cybercriminals Turn to More Lucrative, Pinpointed Attacks

In the complex and ever-changing landscape of online crime, cybercriminals have made a fundamental shift in strategy, abandoning traditional mass spam attacks in favor of personalised attacks with a greater financial impact on targeted organisations, according to a new security report from Cisco.Research conducted by Cisco® Security Intelligence Operations shows the trend toward increased targeted attacks featuring highly customised threats containing malwarethat are directed at a specific user or group of users for intellectual property theft.

News The Bunker achieves ISO 27001 re-certification

30 Jun 2011

The Bunker delivers Ultra Secure Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Colocation, and Outsourced IT services from within Europe’s most secure data centres, and is proud to announce its re-certification to the ISO 27001 Information Security Management System standard for a further three years.

Articles Five Ways to Get Yourself Fired

30 Jun 2011

Standfirst

A colleague of mine last Christmas declared 2011 as The Year of Living Dangerously for Information Technology (IT) Security Officers. He said that he could see many pitfalls looming this year for the unwary in IT security and that many would end up on the dole. 2011 has indeed unleashed a wave of unprecedented security breaches that have left many people reeling – Epsilon, Sony, WikiLeaks, PBS.org, RSA Security and HBGary Federal to mention only some of the victims. So to put this all in context, and provide a cautionary tale of the challenges facing IT security professionals, I have drafted a fictitious scenario to illustrate the 5 best ways to get yourself fired so that hopefully you never do! Happy reading.

News European IT Security Study Reveals How Enterprises Struggle to Contend With Emerging Business Trends

27 Jun 2011

Among key findings: wireless networks identified as most pressing vulnerability; draconian stance adopted on user-owned smart devices; 93% of enterprises involved in security consolidation practices

Fortinet® has today unveiled the findings of a wide ranging, European survey into the IT security strategies of over 300 mid to very large sized enterprises.  The survey, commissioned by Fortinet, queried enterprise IT decision makers in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Benelux and the UK about their approaches to security strategy amid a constantly changing landscape for how businesses use IT.

News Venafi Launches Web Portal to stem epidemic of lost IT security certificates

21 Jun 2011

Proper management processes and effective controls can enable enterprises to manage encryption, avoid costly breaches and the damage to reputation suffered by several Global 1000 corporations

Venafi today launched its EKCM Best Practices Portal. The site contains numerous industry-leading best practices, processes and templates, and is available to Venafi customers and registered participants. Venafi developed the Best Practices Web Portal in response to customers who found that general knowledge of how to securely implement, scale and manage encryption keys and certificates is woefully lacking. Using its nearly a decade of experience helping many of the world’s largest organisations implement EKCM solutions, Venafi worked closely with its customers to compile this set of best practices.

News NaviSite Launches New UK Cloud Node

21 Jun 2011

NaviSite’s Enterprise-Class Managed Cloud Services Now Available Through European Data Centre

NaviSite, Inc.has announced the launch of its first European cloud node, located in Woking, UK. NaviSite has already established a strong reputation as a leading provider of innovative cloud-based solutions for enterprise customers.  The new UK cloud infrastructure will provide European enterprises access to NaviSite’s Managed Cloud Services (MCS) – helping them comply with local regulations while eliminating network performance issues caused by long-distance broadband connections to offshore data centres.

News TelecityGroup recertified for ISO 9001 and 27001 standards

20 Jun 2011

TelecityGroup has announced that it has been recertified with the ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 27001:2005 standards - the globally recognised certifications for information security and quality management.

News 41 percent of Breaches Had Evidence in the Logs, Yet Firms Fail to Use Intelligent SIEM

20 Jun 2011

Breach survey highlights problem with 1^st generation SIEM technology says security expert

Q1 Labs highlights data within the recent 2011 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) as an indicator of  the problem of first-generation Security Information Event Management, (SIEM) and its failure to alert administrators to potential security problems.

Articles Raising the security bar By Ray Bryant CEO Idappcom Ltd, authors of Traffic IQ

20 Jun 2011

In today's fast-changing world of security threats, the need to raise the security bar - by enhancing an IT platform's ability to detect and prevent malicious code from `breaking through' the network perimeter - has never been greater.

But how do you tackle the process in a modern IT department? Idappcom's CEO Ray Bryant provides some thoughts ….

Articles Opening for business: your new cloud?

20 Jun 2011

Transform your infrastructure into public or private cloud with ten tips for choosing a cloud management system

Cloud computing is high on the agenda for all UK businesses, particularly for companies with substantial IT infrastructure – hosting providers, and large enterprises.  

Blog SpyEye Trojan Targets Airline Website that Accepts Bank Debit Card Payments

17 Jun 2011

Amit Klein writes: We have uncovered a SpyEye configuration that targets users of two leading European airline travel Web sites:  Air Berlin, the second largest airline in Germany (after Lufthansa) and AirPlus, the global provider of business travel services for companies. SpyEye exploits the user’s machine, not the websites, to carry out this fraud.

Blog Response quote from security intelligence specialist Q1 Labs to the denial of service attacks by Hacker group Lulz Security on the websites of CIA and US Senate.

16 Jun 2011

“In light of the weeks denial of service attack on the websites belonging to the CIA and the US Senate, UK public sector organisations are reminded of the critical importance of guarding their online perimeter,” said Tom Turner, senior vice president of marketing and channels for Q1 Labs.

News Venafi says loss of 8.63m NHS patient records unnecessary and avoidable

16 Jun 2011

Biggest data loss in NHS history should never happen to patients again

News that the medical records of 8.63 million patients - including details of abortions, HIV infections, cancer and mental illness treatments - have been lost after an NHS laptop went missing in late May has been met with consternation from Venafi, the data security specialist.

News Private Cloud strengthens as cyber hacking intensifies

15 Jun 2011

News today indicates a US Senate website has become the latest victim to serious cyber hacking amongst a catalogue of high profile organisations such as the IMF, Amazon and Sony. Last week, the Ministry of Defence reported they had suffered twice as many cyber security incidents in the last 12 months, with the NHS also confirming that it had suffered serious attacks. Prior to that the US defence giant Lockheed also told the White House that they had suffered from serious cyber attacks.

Blog What should IT do in the wake of the RSA systems hack?

14 Jun 2011

SecurEnvoy co-founder Steve Watts discusses the fall-out from the RSA systems hack in March and offers some words of advice on how best to handle the consequences...

The high-profile hack of EMC's RSA division, which resulted in questions being raised about the security of the SecurID hardware authentication system, and the eventual replacement of some 40 million tokens - a process that started in June and is likely to continue for some months - is a game changer on several levels.

Articles The 5 Golden Rules for success in Outsourcing

14 Jun 2011

The rush to embrace the outsourcing model started in the USA with the Insurance Industry’s decision to promote commodity pricing and as everyone knows, when your core product becomes a commodity you have to slash costs. The industry then moved to reduce expenses by outsourcing their IT operations and the trickle soon became a flood that embraced all industries. If you intend to join the risk-takers on the river of no return there are a few things you need to do to ensure your journey doesn’t end in disaster.

Outsourcing has worked well for some companies, but it can also lead to business-damaging disasters. The problem is, if outsourcers fail, you're left holding the baby without the resources to care for it. There is little margin for error in choosing an outsourcer as Lieberman Software found in our recent survey at InfoSecurity 2011. We discovered that 77% of IT professionals surveyed said that their outsourcers had made up work to earn extra money.

Blog The Case of the search engine poisoning

09 Jun 2011

Amichai Shulman writes: “Today, Imperva released a report on search engine poisoning.    Search Engine Poisoning attacks manipulate, or “poison”, search engines to display search results that contain references to malware-delivering websites. There are a multitude of methods to perform SEP: taking control of popular websites; using the search engines’ “sponsored” links to reference malicious sites; and injecting HTML code. Here’s a graphic explaining how it works:

News Zeus Acquires German-based Web Application Firewall Company art of defence

09 Jun 2011

Increasing Demand for Innovative Web Application Security in the Cloud is the Driving Force behind the Acquisition

Zeus Technology, the pioneers of Application Delivery Controller software, today announced it has purchased the assets of art of defence, a German-based distributed web application firewall (dWAF) provider.

News EMC lack of investment to blame for RSA disasters says Philip Lieberman

08 Jun 2011

The news that RSA, the security division of EMC, has acknowledged that information stolen from its network was used to carry out a cyber attack against Lockheed Martin and is to replace all of the 40 million SecurID hardware tokens in existence is a big setback for the IT security industry said Philip Lieberman, President and CEO of Lieberman Software.

News DLM Forum Releases MoReq2010® Core Services Specification

08 Jun 2011

Pan European Collaboration Produces Practical International Specification to help all managers in the Public and Private Sector to meet their Information Compliance and Records Management Requirements

The DLM Forum, a European Commission sponsored community of interested parties in archive, records, document and information lifecycle management throughout Europe, announced today the publication of the Core Services and Plug-in Modules for the Modular Requirements for Record Systems (MoReq2010®) specification for electronic records management systems (ERMS). This follows two successful public consultations that attracted over five hundred comments and contributions from individuals, European Commission Experts’ Review Group, suppliers and industry associations.

News Opengear Teams With Cormant to Increase Security, Visibility, Control and Reporting for Remote Physical Infrastructure

07 Jun 2011

Opengear (www.opengear.com), provider of next generation console server and remote management solutions and Cormant (www.cormant.com), developers of CableSolve a market leading physical layer IT infrastructure management system, today announced integration that gives MSPs, VOIP Service providers and others centralized management, secure access, control and visibility into all physical IT assets behind firewalls.

News 61 Percent of UK IT Leaders Believe Employee-Owned Mobile Devices Are Riskiest to the Enterprise

02 Jun 2011

2011 ISACA IT Risk/Reward Barometer also reveals concerns surround cloud computing in UK and projected increase in information security jobs

According to a new member survey by global IT association ISACA, 61 percent of information technology leaders in the UK believe that any employee-owned mobile device poses a greater risk to the enterprise than company-supplied devices do, as opposed to 31 percent who said a mobile device supplied by the company is riskiest*. When asked, ”What is the riskiest behaviour you are aware of an employee doing with a mobile device that has access to the corporate network?”, storing company data in an unsecured manner was reported as the riskiest by 48 percent of the respondents; losing the device was said to be the riskiest by 26 percent. Just 23 percent of respondents believe that the benefits of employees using personal devices for work activities outweigh the risk to the enterprise.

Articles Is Your Exchange Secure, Responsive and Constantly Available?

01 Jun 2011

This article examines the challenges Exchange presents and provides a tick list so you can confidently answer yes to the questions posed

As the most widely adopted messaging platform and semi-structured data repository in the world, Microsoft Exchange is the go-to cross-functional collaboration system for many organisations. Administrators are under enormous pressure to ensure that Exchange is secure, responsive, and constantly available. So, how do they do that? This article examines how an automated data governance program can provide the answer, expedite Exchange-related management tasks and improve the controls that protect the critical data contained in mailboxes and public folders.

Articles Business Continuity – You Need More Than Just a Plan

25 May 2011

You need to make sure your business is already prepared for anything

Stop for a moment and take a look around you – IT isn’t just the computer on your desk, the lap top in your bag or the mobile in your pocket. The truth is it’s controlling who is and isn’t entering your building- virtually and physically, how and where your customers are being dealt with, it’s driving your production line and it even has a part to play in how your coffee is produced. IT is no longer confined to a small back office, possibly in the basement, staffed with geeks all speaking their own language. IT keeps you open for business, but if you’re not careful it can close you down for good.

Blog Verizon weighs in on Visa’s Mobile Acceptance Best Practices

20 May 2011

David Tran and Jen Mack write: Verizon has reviewed Visa’s Mobile Acceptance Best Practices - and we want to add our voice in support of this important first step in addressing the rapidly evolving mobile payment landscape.

News SpyEye Attack on Verizon Exposes PCI Shortcomings

18 May 2011

Trusteer recently discovered a configuration of the SpyEye Trojan targeting Verizon’s online payment page and attempting to steal payment card information. The attack took place between May 7th and 13th.  

News Government review urges intellectual property law reform

18 May 2011

Comment from Intellectual Property specialists Marks & Clerk on the Hargreaves Review of Intellectual Property Law

The Hargreaves Review of UK Intellectual Property (IP) law has been published today, recommending various reforms to the country’s current copyright and patent regimes. The review – initiated by the Prime Minister in November 2010 – was tasked with examining whether current IP laws are still fit for the purpose of promoting innovation and growth in the UK economy. At the time, the Prime Minister referred to Google’s pronouncement that they could never have started their company in Britain due to the relative inflexibility of UK copyright law.

Articles The CEO and his Elusive Token

12 May 2011

A tale of inadequacy, woe and career destruction – or is it?

Based on a real life story as told by Steve Watts, Co-founder of SecurEnvoy

Let me tell you a story. It has everything a gripping tale needs - conflict, a power struggle and a gripping climax. Best of all, it’s loosely based on true accounts – could this be your story?

Paul Brown is CEO of a FTSE 100 retailer. It’s summer and he’s jetting off with his family for three weeks on Safari in Kenya. He’s done his research and the reserve he’s travelling to offers wi-fi access, his mobile is unlocked and set to roam wherever he does, and IT has been exceptional in making sure he knows all the passwords, processes, and exactly how to input the authentication codes that will grant him access to the network remotely. He’s even been shown how to use another computer, not owned by the company, to open the bowels of the network in case his own develops a problem. His secretary has his full itinerary, contact details and the mobile number of his dedicated guide. 

News Major Study Finds Rapid Adoption of Hosted Email Compliance

03 May 2011

Cloud-based archiving meets regulations, reduces risks and costs

Financial institutions are rapidly moving to hosted email compliance and storage services to deal with increasing costs, risks and regulations, according to a study conducted by Forrester Consulting. The study was commissioned by Bloomberg Vault, a service that helps corporations globally meet compliance, regulatory and eDiscovery requirements.

News SFW Ltd partners with The Bunker to provide dedicated dual site hosting services

03 May 2011

The Bunker Secure Hosting Ltd has announced that SFW Ltd has chosen The Bunker as its data centre partner of choice for its dedicated, dual-site hosting requirements.

Articles Cyber-Crime and the State: Defining Advanced Persistent Threats (APT)

03 May 2011

The Rise of APT

The industrialization of hacking is today the number one cyber-threat to most organizations and according to one estimate, it’s an industry which rolls $1 trillion annually. Not surprisingly, hackers are focused on optimizing their activity to increase revenue, while automating their processes in order to decrease costs.  

News Iranian hack of Aussie university highlight the dangers of political hacktivism, says Lieberman Software

03 May 2011

Reports that one of Australia's main universities, the University of Monash, near Melbourne, has been hacked by Iranian nationalists, highlights the changing face of hacker attacks, says Lieberman Software.

News Study reveals 40 per cent of businesses fear natural disaster is major risk to data loss

27 Apr 2011

Iron Mountain publishes guide for trouble-free bank holiday

A new study by Iron Mountain has highlighted that 40% of businesses consider a natural disaster to be the single biggest threat to their data, yet few seem to be prepared for it.

News CREDANT Releases Enterprise Server 7.1.1

27 Apr 2011

Newest Version of Flagship Product Offers Industry’s Broadest Range of Integrated Encryption Solutions

CREDANT Technologies, the trusted experts in data protection, today announced availability of CREDANT Enterprise Server 7.1.1. The most recent product upgrade includes new features and functionality that reduce the risk of data breaches while providing IT managers and security teams with integrated, best-in-class management and reporting capabilities.

Articles Reset your password or the cat gets it

27 Apr 2011

Today we gained further confirmation of details around the Sony Playstation network breach; millions of account names and personal details have been lost and potentially payment card details including the payment card number and Expiry dates too, but excluding the security code.

Videos SkyNews Roundtable on Government-Sponsored Hacking

26 Apr 2011

Security experts from Imperva and Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC) were interviewed on SkyNews UK's Tony Randall show on April 19, 2011. Imperva's Rob Rachwald and PWC's William Beer discussed the effects of state-sponsored hacking and what companies can do to improve their security.

News A security Blind Spot - How routine testing and development is still a threat to customer records

26 Apr 2011

A new report by Joseph Feiman of Gartner underlines the concern that major financial institutions are failing to adopt technology to fully protect customer data in testing environments. 

Articles Why Data Encryption is Not Data Masking

21 Apr 2011

A common misconception within the data community is that encryption is considered a form of data masking – even worse is that there are some that erroneously identify both as one and the same.

News Origin Launches Datalocker III with new security features and high speed USB3.0

18 Apr 2011

Origin Storage today confirmed its release of Data Locker 3. First launched in 2009, the Data Locker Secure Drive continues to give users peace of mind in the unfortunate event that their data storage device is lost or stolen. The information stored on the unit – which will be demonstrated at Infosecurity Europe from 19th – 21^st April 2010 at Earls Court, London (Stand F83) - is secured by a 6-32 digit alpha numeric PIN number that is entered directly on the device itself.

News Q1 Labs and Integralis Announce Strategic Pan-European Agreement

18 Apr 2011

Leading Systems Integrator and Trusted Security advisor appointed as first multi-country Platinum partner for security intelligence solutions provider

Q1 Labs, the global provider of total security intelligence solutions, today announced that Integralis has been appointed its sole Pan-European Platinum partner in recognition of sales and support excellence across multiple countries.

News Is cloud computing a data centre in the sky?

15 Apr 2011

People have head in clouds when it comes to smart phone security

Research by Infosecurity Europe of 1000 commuters aimed to find out if office workers understand ‘geek speak’ has discovered that many are not as tech or security aware as they could be.  When asked what cloud computing meant, a quarter thought it was a data centre in the sky.  A fifth thought it was something that Microsoft advertises, 10% global warming caused by overheating computers and 10% guessed it was a trendy club in SoHo.  Only 35% thought it was a new way to access IT services over the internet.

News nlyte partners with RFID Global to simplify data centre asset management

12 Apr 2011

nlyte Software integrates RFID technology into data centre infrastructure management solution for real time, end-to-end planning

nlyte Software today announced its partnership with RFID Global Solution, Inc., a real-time asset visibility software provider, which will enable organisations to deploy an integrated RFID solution to track and manage assets within the data centre.  Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology enables the physical and theoretical infrastructure of a data centre to be completely in sync, giving organisations extensive control throughout their data centre environment.

Articles Death, Taxes and Encryption Keys

11 Apr 2011

Every so many weeks around dinner time, the phone rings and it’s somebody asking me if I’m interested in changing some insurance policy or other. Now I don’t know about you, but I think like most people I have more insurance policies than I know what to do with. 

Articles Visual Security Compliance; Protecting Data in the Age of Mobile Working

08 Apr 2011

Mobile working is a hit with individuals and organisations, giving valuable extra flexibility and allowing workers in the field to make use of otherwise unproductive time, when using public transport for example. It is also opening up a new front in the battle over data security. While data loss due to theft of equipment, such as portable computers, is taken very seriously and can carry penalties including heavy fines or permanent bans from obtaining and holding customer details in the future, organisations need to do more to ensure Visual Security Compliance.

Articles Chink in the Cyber Armour?

08 Apr 2011

When evaluating our effectiveness in dealing with cyber defence, we have two layers of uncertainty and risk: how effectively are we protecting critical information, and what are the adversaries actually getting and how might they use it against us? 

News Epsilon data breach causes potential reputational havoc for major US brands

05 Apr 2011

Reports that Epsilon, the permission-based email marketing firm, has suffered a major data breach, could cause severe reputational damage for its clients, warns Venafi, the enterprise key and certificate management specialist.

Articles Cloud Computing Standards: The Great Debate

05 Apr 2011

Justin Pirie, Director of Communities and Content for Mimecast, takes a look at the ongoing debate around cloud standards.

Recent research conducted by Mimecast has found that a large proportion of businesses are now using some form of cloud service, with a further 30 percent planning on adopting more cloud services in the future. Fashionable new architectures within the technology industry are not unusual. However, even allowing for a certain amount of bandwagon jumping, this rate of cloud adoption has been considerable.

News Origin Storage welcomes new CESG security product certification plans

05 Apr 2011

Origin Storage has welcomed the impending Commercial Product Assurance (CPA) Foundation and Augmented certification scheme from the CESG - the Communications-Electronics Security Group - since it will give public sector organisations a wider and more competitive choice of security products.

Videos HP Software & Solutions Information Management

05 Apr 2011

Erik Moller discusses results of an HP commissioned global information management study, as well as at HP's new information management products and services

Read the related Press Release here.

News HP Helps Organizations Reduce Risk, Increase Efficiency of Information Management

05 Apr 2011

Study finds 70 percent of organizations lack holistic approach to managing business-critical information

HP today updated its Information Management portfolio to enable organizations to reduce risk, increase efficiency and simplify the way they manage their business information.

Watch Erik Moller discuss this press release here.

News Origin Storage launches Government grade encrypted portable hard drive

29 Mar 2011

Origin Storage has today announced that DataLocker Inc. received FIPS 140-2 validation certificate #1504 for the DataLocker Enterprise v2.0 encrypted portable hard drive. Issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 validation program ensures that cryptographic modules meet all government and military standards for data encryption.

Videos TEN for global trading

24 Mar 2011

Daniel Lee, business director, DBS Vickers Securities

Videos Trend Micro's CEO Eva Chen and Cloud Security

22 Mar 2011

Eva Chen Interview - Trend Micro CEO, Eva Chen, discusses the challenges and opportunities of cloud security

News Origin Storage says Canadian health data theft highlights case for multi-layered drive security

22 Mar 2011

Reports from Canada about the theft of a hospital hard drive containing photos and videos of patients shows how easy it is for data drives to go missing in public areas, says Origin Storage.

News Risk Manager “real-time” scoring and attribute based access control stops compliance breaches before they happen

17 Mar 2011

Innovative software from Pirean simplifies Sox, PCI and business specific compliance processes

Pirean Software has launched a new platform, Risk Manager, that allows organisations to easily implement Attribute Based Access Controls and real-time Risk Scoring to prevent system administrators from creating or modifying user accounts that breach compliance frameworks.

News ControlCircle launches Rapid-Deployment Managed Cyber Threat Services

17 Mar 2011

Scalable BotNet infiltration protection and DDoS mitigation services available to SMEs and global organisations

ControlCircle today introduced a rapid deployment Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) mitigation service for both SMEs and global organisations.  ControlCircle offers a scalable, fully-managed and integrated DDoS service to protect organisations of all sizes and profiles from malicious cyber-attacks that are designed disrupt or disable Internet-facing services.

News Prosodie selects Q1 Labs to meet strict online gambling security regulations for major French client

14 Mar 2011

Largest independent security intelligence provider helps GENY infos meet regulatory compliance through high-value cloud services

Q1 Labs today announced details of a successful project by Prosodie which is helping its client GENY infos meet tough French government regulations to ensure the security of cloud-based gambling sites.

Articles Are you using live customer data outside of your production database?

11 Mar 2011

Say that you want to develop a new payment gateway for your online store. A team of developers are hired, the improvements you want are designed, and the new system is created. Finally, you need to test it all, to ensure that the improvements will work the way you intend them to, and also to ensure that all the old payment information still works correctly.

News Raritan Introduces Industry’s Most Secure and Comprehensive Solution for Managing Remote Server Racks and Branch Offices

10 Mar 2011

Enables IT maintenance tasks to be performed securely from anywhere; Management appliance meets stringent industry and government security standards, including FIPS 140-2 encryption and Smart Card/CAC authentication

Raritan today introduced significant enhancements and new security features to the Dominion^® KSX II integrated appliance targeted at companies wanting a single, easy-to-use solution to manage all the IT equipment residing in remote locations in a very secure and responsive way.

News Restrictive email policies creating hidden security risks for business

09 Mar 2011

Second part of the Generation Gmail Report by Mimecast reveals that employers must provide flexibility for email users if they are to protect their corporate IP from leaking outside the organisation

Mimecast today announced the second instalment of its Generation Gmail Report; an international study investigating how attitudes to work email use are evolving and the differing ways in which employers are managing this core communication channel.  The report indicates that IT departments are fighting a losing battle in seeking to constrain employees’ behaviour through policy alone. Findings suggest that a new approach is needed in order to empower employees while protecting corporate intellectual property and ensuring the business complies with the relevant regulations.

News ISACA’s EuroCACS Conference Demystifies the Cloud

08 Mar 2011

Global business and information technology (IT) leaders will meet at the European Computer Audit, Control and Security (EuroCACS) Conference in Manchester from 20-23 March to share the latest guidance on key IT security and governance issues facing enterprises today. Hosted by ISACA, a global association of 95,000 IT professionals, EuroCACS will examine topics such as virtualisation, outsourcing, governance, risk and compliance, social computing, social networking and human factors, and cloud computing.

News Metro Bank Provide Innovative Approach to Banking and Security with Trusteer

08 Mar 2011

Metro Bank, the first new high street bank in the UK for 100 years, today announced it has enlisted the Trusteer Rapport secure browsing service to ensure its customers are protected and secure in their online transactions with the bank, from the start. Having experienced exponential growth since its launch in July, a key consideration in Metro Bank’s selection of Trusteer is that it is a proven security technology that can scale in a rapid growth environment moving from protecting a several thousand customers one day to millions the next.

Videos Email alerts for security events

07 Mar 2011

See how Quest OnDemand Log Management SaaS service can immediately notify you when suspicious activity such as sensitive resource access or administrative group change happens.

Articles Get Secure, Not Security

04 Mar 2011

In the security world, there’s a rather unfortunate asymmetry between those of us who seek to defend systems, and those who seek to attack them. The defenders need to find every potential weakness, every point of entry, in order to defend it.  

Articles Use your smartphone to log into cloud and secure systems at your peril says Lieberman Software CEO

28 Feb 2011

Research by a US university undergraduate that has revealed that Google Android apps are sending user credentials in the clear comes as no surprise to Phil Lieberman, CEO of Lieberman Software. "According to newswire reports, Dan Wallach's research has revealed that several Android apps - including an approved Facebook application - are sending all data but the password ‘in the clear.’ This is absolutely typical of open source software, since there is little incentive for the software developer to use secure protocols unless the destination system requires this,” he said.

News RSA attendees “wary of the cloud”

24 Feb 2011

Overtis identifies user activity management in the cloud as the missing element

Overtis has commented on the finding that IT managers are still wary of entrusting their most sensitive data to cloud service providers. Panelists at the RSA security conference in San Francisco reported that IT managers often opt for a hybrid model, where critical data is stored on dedicated servers and only the least sensitive information is stored in multi-tenanted environments.

News Conseal Security Selects iomart Hosting to Provide Secure Platform for Delivering Cloud-Based Security Solutions

22 Feb 2011

Web and Server Hosting Specialist Will Underpin the Launch of Conseal’s Innovative Products for Securing Data

Conseal Security today announced that following an extensive evaluation of the market, it has selected iomart Hosting to provide the online delivery platform for its cloud-based security remote management console and remote device authentication solutions.

News FAST backs government moves to tackle £21bn estimated cost of IP theft

22 Feb 2011

Office of Cyber Security recommends central reporting hub and website to publicise costs of cyber crime in UK

The Federation Against Software Theft (FAST) has welcomed the government’s proposal to set up a central hub for UK firms to report cyber fraud. The recommendation from the Office of Cyber Security (OCS) follows the first government-backed study, which reports that cyber crime costs the British economy approximately £27 billion a year.

Deleted Iron Mountain study: UK Companies not prepared for a data loss

22 Feb 2011

1/3 of businesses say data loss would seriously impact their business within one day. Yet 40% fail to test their disaster recovery system more than once a year and 1/3 have no archiving strategy

A new study for Iron Mountain, conducted by MacArthurStroud has highlighted that 1/3 of UK companies recognise that data loss would seriously impact their business, but 40% fail to test their disaster recovery (DR) systems more than once per year.

Deleted Iron Mountain study: UK Companies not prepared for a data loss

22 Feb 2011

1/3 of businesses say data loss would seriously impact their business within one day. Yet 40% fail to test their disaster recovery system more than once a year and 1/3 have no archiving strategy

A new study for Iron Mountain, conducted by MacArthurStroud has highlighted that 1/3 of UK companies recognise that data loss would seriously impact their business, but 40% fail to test their disaster recovery (DR) systems more than once per year.

Articles Iron Mountain study: UK Companies not prepared for a data loss

22 Feb 2011

1/3 of businesses say data loss would seriously impact their business within one day. Yet 40% fail to test their disaster recovery system more than once a year and 1/3 have no archiving strategy

A new study for Iron Mountain, conducted by MacArthurStroud has highlighted that 1/3 of UK companies recognise that data loss would seriously impact their business, but 40% fail to test their disaster recovery (DR) systems more than once per year.

Deleted Iron Mountain study: UK Companies not prepared for a data loss

22 Feb 2011

1/3 of businesses say data loss would seriously impact their business within one day. Yet 40% fail to test their disaster recovery system more than once a year and 1/3 have no archiving strategy

A new study for Iron Mountain, conducted by MacArthurStroud has highlighted that 1/3 of UK companies recognise that data loss would seriously impact their business, but 40% fail to test their disaster recovery (DR) systems more than once per year.

News Accellion Wins Info Security Products Guide’s 2011 Global Excellence Compliance Award

21 Feb 2011

Accellion’s Secure File Transfer Solution Named Best Compliance Solution

Accellion, Inc. today announced that Info Security Products Guide has named Accellion a winner of its 2011 Global Excellence Awards in the Compliance Category.  This prestigious honor recognizes Accellion for setting the standard for excellence in meeting the strictest security and compliance requirements for the transfer of digital information.

News Exploring the “Trust Phenomenon” – 5 million infections and rising

18 Feb 2011

Experts from AVAST will highlight how the “Trust Phenomenon,” combined with innovation on the part of cybercriminals, is contributing to the growth of three distinct families of malware in their presentation at the RSA Conference in San Francisco.

Videos RSA2011 - Interview with Jeremiah Grossman

18 Feb 2011

Peter Silva chats with security expert Jeremiah Grossman, Founder & CTO of WhiteHat Security. The interesting discussion touches on WASC, XSS attacks, OWASP and a few other security topics. Fun and informative.

Articles Workers stealing your Data - the 2011 headache – can it be stopped?

17 Feb 2011

Information is one of the primary competitive weapons and business enablers for organisations of all kinds. The ability to provide the correct information to educate workers has driven a proliferation of information sharing—but with it has come significant risk.  The actions of users who intentionally or accidentally cause damage to an organisation is now one of the most complex and difficult to manage problems facing IT security teams. So, how can you thwart the people you trust? This article examines some of the important aspects of insider threats and offers guidance to reduce the risk.

News Credant Launches Beta Program for Cloud Encryption

17 Feb 2011

CREDANT Removes Major Roadblock to Cloud Adoption through Unique Data Encryption Approach

CREDANT Technologies today announced immediate availability of the beta program for its cloud encryption software for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) private cloud infrastructures. The new CREDANT cloud security platform provides enterprise customers with the ability to more rapidly embrace cloud infrastructure by removing the primary roadblock to adoption – data security. With this launch, CREDANT enables organizations to control and enforce security whether corporate data is located in private, hybrid or public cloud infrastructures. The CREDANT cloud security platform provides the only cloud data security approach to enable granular encryption, access control and key management that allows enterprises, including the cloud provider itself.

Videos University of Leeds - Case Study

16 Feb 2011

HP TippingPoint security helps the University of Leeds protect and secure its network, dramatically reducing the number of incidents, freeing up bandwidth and improving network visibility.

News ISACA’s EuroCACS Examines Data Protection, Cloud Computing and Social Networking 20-23 March 2011

11 Feb 2011

David Smith, the deputy commissioner and director of data protection for the United Kingdom Information Commissioner’s Office will discuss the challenges posted by personal privacy expectations from customers and regulators—and how IT professionals can strengthen public confidence in data protection—in his keynote presentation at ISACA’s European Computer Audit, Control and Security Conference (EuroCACS). This year, the event will be held 20-23 March in Manchester—one of the top 20 places to visit according to the New York Times’ “41 Places to Go in 2011.”

News Huddersfield NHS laptop loss highlights need to protect data

03 Feb 2011

Credant says latest NHS laptop loss highlights need to protect data on portable elements of integrated IT systems

Reports that Huddersfield health officials have launched a high-level enquiry after a laptop containing 1,500 patient records was stolen, has been met with incredulity by Credant Technologies.

Articles The Life and Times of a Firewall Policy Rule

01 Feb 2011

In the infographic below we’ve summarized the (long and sometimes tortuous) life of a firewall policy rule. Firewall rules are born and modified as a result of access requests from users or IT projects. And over time, they become irrelevant – because applications, services and networks change, and users leave.

Videos Data Centre World 2011

28 Jan 2011

This year Data Centre World, the UK’s largest and fastest growing exhibition and conference for data centre managers, professionals, distributors and channel partners will deliver more than ever before with more sessions, more theatres and more exhibitors.

Over the 2 days of the event you will be able to attend 48 sessions and gain knowledge and insights from some of the industry’s key players.

Register here for FREE!

Blog Security conferences: Why go?

27 Jan 2011

Bill Brenner writes: For the last couple years, the RSA security conference has been later than usual. In 2009 it was in mid April, which was fantastic.

Last year it was March. Not as good, but still better than mid-February, when San Francisco is usually rainy and cold -- and snowstorms foul up the travel schedule.

News According to ISACA 40% of Global Executives Block Move to the Cloud

20 Jan 2011

IT Governance Institute Survey Also Reveals Outsourcing, Social Media and GEIT Trends

Forty percent of C-level executives have stated that they are not planning to adopt cloud computing, according to the fourth Global Status Report on the Governance of Enterprise IT (GEIT, conducted by the nonprofit, IT Governance Institute (ITGI), ISACA’s research affiliate.  Respondents who do not plan to use cloud computing at all in the near future list security (47%) and privacy concerns (50%), followed closely by legacy infrastructure investments (35%), as barriers to adoption.

Read the full report here

News Thales nShield Hardware Security Modules support Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2

19 Jan 2011

Thales HSMs provide highest level of security assurance and cryptographic key management for database encryption

Thales, leader in information systems and communications security and a Microsoft Gold Partner, announces its nShield hardware security modules (HSMs) now provide comprehensive key management and hardware-based cryptography for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2. Microsoft customers selecting Thales HSMs now benefit from additional security features including encryption key management and storage of master encryption keys in FIPS-validated hardware – a long-standing industry best practice – enabling organizations to meet compliance mandates such as PCI DSS and data breach notification acts.

News Varonis enables departments and agencies to comply with new wikileaks US document automation clampdown

10 Jan 2011

Limit and Automate Access to Sensitive Data with Free Trial of the Varonis Data Governance Software Suite

Following the release of massive amounts of confidential government documents by WikiLeaks, the United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has directed federal departments and agencies to review their procedures for safeguarding classified national security information, and to complete an assessment of the safety measures they have in place to protect confidential documents by January 28.

News Leading security organisations join forces to launch first set of principles for information security

16 Dec 2010

ISF, (ISC)²® and ISACA jointly promote positive behaviour, personal practice in information security

Three of the leading global security organisations have launched the first information security principles designed to promote good practice in information security. The Information Security Forum (ISF), (ISC)² and ISACA have joined forces to develop a set of 12 independent, non-proprietary principles that will help security practitioners respond more effectively to the changing needs of organisations in today’s complex, interconnected world.

Videos How Stuxnet infects PLCs

15 Nov 2010

This video demonstrates how W32.Stuxnet can compromise a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC), resulting in unintended consequences for the machines connected to it.

News Accellion Announces General Availability of the Industry’s First Secure File Transfer Solution for Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft OCS R2

03 Nov 2010

Improves Workflow Efficiency while Protecting Confidential Information

 Accellion today announced general availability of the Accellion Secure File Transfer Solution for the Microsoft Business Productivity Infrastructure Platform.  By extending secure file transfer capabilities to Microsoft Outlook 2010, Microsoft SharePoint 2010, and Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 (OCS), Accellion makes it easier for enterprises to protect their intellectual property, achieve compliance and improve workflow efficiency. 

News Interoute provides Europe’s enterprises secure cloud hosting solutions

26 Oct 2010

Interoute’s Geneva Security and Hosting Operations Centre attains ISO 27001

Interoute today announced it has received ISO 27001 certification for its Hosting and Security Operations Centre (SHOC) in Geneva.  The internationally recognised 'best practice' security management standard assures enterprises of Interoute’s continuous commitment to securing their critical data.

Videos Iron Mountain's New Enterprise Discovery Suite

26 Oct 2010

Join Iron Mountain experts as they discuss how automating and integrating governance and discovery processes can transform an organization.

Videos Brent Akeson, national credit manager, Adidas, Canada

21 Oct 2010

Brent Akeson, national credit manager, adidas Canada, speaks to SunGard about the need for Transparency, Efficiency and Networks at Toronto City Day 2010.

News Platform Computing and Excelian partner to deliver high performance analytics for financial services

14 Oct 2010

On-demand trading and risk applications for organisations seeking to avoid traditional cost and scalability constraints

Platform Computing today reinforced its strategic partnership with Excelian, a leading Murex, OpenLink, Grid and High Performance Computing (HPC) consulting company, to deliver high performance analytics as a new service.  Based on Platform Symphony, the world’s leading SOA grid middleware, Excelian’s service offering enables Financial Services customers to securely and seamlessly scale compute capabilities for risk and trading analytics without the cost and time required to acquire servers, network bandwidth or administrative staff.

Articles Oracle’s Optimized Solution for Oracle Database — A Business White Paper

14 Oct 2010

Virtually all IT organizations in both the private and the public sectors use a database system at the core of their operations. These databases are integral to day-to-day operations. If they are not available around the clock it will have a significant detrimental effect on business and in some cases the safety of employees.

Articles Private Key Management: Best Practice Tips From the Real World

14 Oct 2010

It has always been taken for granted that the entire IT security industry understands that, as part of digital certificate management, it is necessary to manage the private keys associated with those certificates. A recent conversation with an analyst made it clear that this assumption was just that – an assumption. 

News RSA Research Readies Global Enterprises for New Era of Compliance

12 Oct 2010

Sweeping Changes in Compliance Landscape Mark End of Business as Usual; Top Security Officers Share Strategies for an Age of Escalating Scrutiny.

Blog Are our global networks secure?

07 Oct 2010

Gareth Spence writes: This is a question that many of us perhaps take for granted. When was the last time you considered the security of your data as you transferred money online or emailed sensitive information to work colleagues? Personally, I rarely consider the risk that someone may be intercepting this data. At least I didn’t until now.

News ISF announces 10 future threat scenarios in Threat Horizon 2012 report

01 Oct 2010

Globalisation, cultural change and infrastructure weaknesses all underlying drivers

The Information Security Forum (ISF) has announced its predictions for the 10 most likely threat scenarios that organisations face in the future.  According to its new Threat Horizon 2012 report, the rapid adoption of cloud computing, increasing use of mobile devices, growth of cybercrime and online espionage, and the merging of home and work life, all have a role to play in future risk management and contingency planning.

Articles Firewall Cleanup

29 Sep 2010

Firewalls are designed to provide access control. Although there is risk associated with any access, by limiting what access is permitted the risk is limited and understood and can be evaluated against business need to effectively justify the risk. However, poor firewall management defeats this purpose by ineffectively controlling access and limiting visibility into what access is actually permitted; poor management also increases the cost associated with security management.

Articles Too much data can mean insecure data storage is the result

27 Sep 2010

Data exists in many forms in most organisations and, as IT managers find to their annoyance when they start trying to archive that data in a coherent manner, its sheer volume can often be overwhelming.

News Q1 Labs Introduces Real-Time Social Media Monitoring and Correlation in Latest Version of Security Intelligence Platform

27 Sep 2010

QRadar Security Intelligence Platform 7.0 Utilizes Native Content-Aware DPI and Anomaly Detection to Provide Pinpoint Visibility of Social Media Activity at the Application and User Levels

Q1 Labs today announced it has introduced the next version of its security information and event management (SIEM) product, QRadar 7.0, complete with the ability to monitor activity on social media platforms and multimedia applications such as Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, LinkedIn and Skype, among others. 

News The Bunker ranks highly in Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track 100

21 Sep 2010

The Bunker has been named as one of Britain’s most successful technology businesses in the 2010 Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track 100. The Tech Track 100 ranks Britain’s fastest-growing private technology companies.

News The Bunker adds an Ultra Secure lining with its Secure Hybrid Cloud proposition

16 Sep 2010

The Bunker is pleased to announce its Secure Hybrid Cloud proposition, delivering all the benefits of a scalable and flexible hosting environment, but with the ultra secure peace of mind afforded by a solid SLA (Service Level Agreement) and years of experience delivering security and business continuity.

News IPC Collaborates with Interxion to Accelerate European Expansion of its Global Financial Connectivity Infrastructure

14 Sep 2010

Interxion to host IPC Electronic Connectivity Services infrastructure in London and Vienna to continue to position IPC customers at the heart of European financial markets

Interxion have announced that IPC will locate its core Electronic Connectivity Services (ECS) infrastructure at Interxion’s Financial Hubs located in London and Vienna. IPC’s expanded presence in Europe will strengthen the company’s capability to support growing demand for its portfolio of Electronic Connectivity Services, and will help position its customers at the heart of Europe’s financial markets.

Articles How Operations Management & Intelligence Helped the Makers of Pom Bears Improve Factory Productivity, Efficiency and Costs

13 Sep 2010

Intersnack is a leading European snack manufacturer, best known in the UK for its Pom-Bear, Penn State Pretzel and Mr Mash brands. Over the last year it has significantly improved the operational efficiency of two of its factories in the Netherlands following a review of factory processes. The cost saving and productivity gains were so significant that Intersnack is now going to install the same factory management solution, CDC Factory, into 10 more factories across Europe.

Videos Private Cloud Security

13 Sep 2010

Nirav Mehta, Director of Strategy and Technology, RSA, the Security Division of EMC discusses the new solutions for Cloud compliance and security.

News ControlCircle awarded ISO/IEC 27001:20005 certification for its UK operations

10 Sep 2010

ControlCircle today announced the company has achieved the ISO/IEC 27001:20005 certification for information management and physical security at its UK operations centres. The internationally-recognised standard provides assurance that ControlCircle maintains the highest levels of security for its clients’ information assets. The award is part of an ongoing process to achieve ISO 27001 accreditation at all ControlCircle sites as the firm expands its global footprint deeper into Europe, North America and in the Asia Pacific.

News Trans Data Management partners with The Bunker to provide IP-based Alarm Signalling System

07 Sep 2010

The Bunker Secure Hosting Ltd has announced that Trans Data Management Ltd (TDM) has chosen The Bunker to host AlarmLink, an integrated alarm signalling and management system.

News Trust issues apparent despite increasing demand for data centre advice

01 Sep 2010

Sentrum research shows that large UK companies want consultancy, but most will ignore the advice given

Sentrum has today released new research findings which show an increasing use of consultants for the design and specification of data centre facilities. Yet despite this growth, there remains a poor level of trust in the advice given by these consultants. 97% of the UK businesses which took part in the survey admitted that they had in fact ignored some or all of the advice they received.

News USA.net simplifies compliance and e-Discovery with Isilon

25 Aug 2010

Leading Provider of Hosted Email and Email Compliance Solutions Uses Isilon Scale-Out Storage to Consolidate VMware Environment, Simplifying Virtual Server Management and Reducing Costs

Isilon today announced that USA.NET has deployed Isilon scale-out storage to power its Message Archival solutions. USA.NET’s rapid business growth required a move to a more efficient and flexible virtual environment that could ingest, parse, index and archive hundreds of millions of small files. Leveraging Isilon’s X-Series powered by the OneFS® operating system, USA.NET's Archival Services group consolidated its VMware-based servers and file-based storage onto a single file system, simplifying both data and virtual server management.

News Growth equity investor Summit Partners invests $100 million in AVAST Software

23 Aug 2010

Leading Antivirus Software Developer Positioned for Continued Growth

AVAST Software today announced that growth equity investor Summit Partners has invested $100 million for a minority stake in the company.

Articles Five Imperatives for Extreme Data Protection in Virtualized Environments

19 Aug 2010

Transforming an organization through server virtualization requires a strategic and coordinated approach. Data protection – which includes not only backup, but also secondary storage and disaster recovery considerations – is an area that can easily complicate virtualized data centers if implemented hastily. It is essential that data protection efforts reduce hardware purchases, rather than require additional hardware to make it work. The following are five critical data protection imperatives that organizations must consider during virtual server planning.

Videos Linden Lab Second Life Runs Junos

17 Aug 2010

Linden Lab, the team behind Second Life, partnered with Juniper Networks for their next-generation data center and wide area networks to improve the user experience and lower operating costs.

Videos New Network Data Center Security Solution: (Demo)

16 Aug 2010

Today's data center demands an advanced, end-to-end network security solution that can address evolving and multi-faceted security challenges. Juniper Networks new network data center security solution is addressing these challenges by focusing on three areas: making security dynamic and providing application visibility and identity-aware networking. The result is a cloud-ready data center network with security that is both intelligent and elastic.

Articles How do we manage the quality of the supply chain whilst maintaining efficiency?

16 Aug 2010

An enterprise-wide quality management initiative is required to maintain supplier quality without sacrificing bottom-line objectives.

By Yaniv Vardi, managing director EMEA, Sparta Systems

Biotech and pharmaceutical manufacturing has for years witnessed and experienced the struggle between two opposing forces—supply chain efficiency and supply quality. This is often characterised by the detachment between C-level executives concerned with boosting the bottom line with an efficient product lifecycle, and quality managers responsible for enforcing strict procedures and ensuring product quality.

Articles Firewall Economics

13 Aug 2010

There are three main processes that drive the firewall administrator’s responsibilities – the periodic changes made when adding, modifying, or removing rules from the rulebase, the ruleset audits and reviews in concert with security and compliance efforts, and log monitoring and review associated with forensics work.

Articles DBSi Case Study – The Evolution of Network and Application Performance Management

12 Aug 2010

DBSi is a leading regional provider of high availability disaster recovery, managed hosting, and data centre services. Headquartered in Pennsylvania USA, its business model is based on flexible, cost-effective solutions tailored to the specific needs of its clients. DBSi operates multiple advanced technology recovery and hosting centres which also contain seats for workspace recovery; and through its high-speed fibre optic networks provides seamless connectivity between its facilities, clients and the world.

Articles Data Centre Consolidation: Relying on Application Delivery Solutions

11 Aug 2010

The UK Government announced in January 2010 that it will cut the number of public data centres it uses from 130 to 10. HP made a move to consolidate its 85 data centres into 6, and Intel over 130 into eight dense data centres. Reader’s Digest, one of the world’s longest established traditional publishers announced as early as 1994 that it was commencing a five year plan to consolidate its 17 data centres, demonstrating that consolidation is not new to the IT agenda.

News Connect Internet Solutions partners with The Bunker to host disaster recovery option for the National Audit Office

10 Aug 2010

The Bunker has announced a new customer relationship with Connect Internet Solutions, providing the company with an environment to host the disaster recovery option for the website and underlying content management system (CMS) of the National Audit Office.

Blog Monitoring is not Management

09 Aug 2010

Joe Polastre writes: There's been a lot of discussion recently about the difference between monitoring and management. This week, I received an email with the title "Revolutionizing Energy Management". Interesting, I wonder what management solution this company provides for energy. The content of the email went on to talk about a brand new meter that provides real time power load information. While I'm sure this company's meter is very innovative (names purposely omitted to protect the innocent), it was clear that this company did not understand what the word "management" even means.

Videos CommVault® Simpana® Whiteboard Series: Information Governance

09 Aug 2010

Simon Taylor, Senior Director of Information Access and Management at CommVault, talks about Information Governance, covering unified solutions for application, compliance, and records managers.

News Imperva Partners with ActiveBase to Provide first-ever Joint Data Activity Monitoring and Data Masking Solution

06 Aug 2010

Imperva announced today it has partnered with ActiveBase, a pioneer in Dynamic Data Masking, to provide the broadest protection for sensitive data available today. Imperva and ActiveBase will jointly sell and implement the full solution.

Articles Shifting The Mix: A Practical Approach To Making IT More Strategic

03 Aug 2010

Today’s IT budget is spent mostly on “keeping the lights on”. In fact, roughly 70% of the budget is spent on sustaining and running existing capability while only 30% is spent on providing new capabilities to the business. The business, together with IT, needs to find ways to increase the value created by the existing and new investments in IT.

News Mimecast Launches Support for Microsoft Exchange 2010, Easing Migration Concerns for Administrators

29 Jul 2010

Innovations include greater policy control, load reduction on Microsoft Exchange and automated message management controls

Mimecast today announced support for Microsoft Exchange 2010, easing migration headaches and controlling costs while unlocking the immediate benefits of Microsoft’s newest 64-bit architecture. Avoiding expensive on-premise management overheads and removing the need for .PST files, Mimecast’s Unified Email Management (UEM) suite of services now fully supports Microsoft Exchange 2010 and provides a single-platform approach to archiving, security, continuity and policy control; integrating seamlessly into customers’ existing – or newly planned – IT infrastructures.

News Trusteer Adds Free Financial Malware Removal to Rapport Secure Browsing Service

28 Jul 2010

New Capability Addresses Low Detection Rates by Anti Malware Tools; No Additional Cost for Customers and End Users

Trusteer today announced that it has added financial malware disinfection to its Rapport service. In addition to preventing Trojans like Zeus, Silon, Bugat, DBJP and zero day malware from tampering with website communications and transactions, Rapport now removes malicious code that attempts to attack browser sessions. This new capability is being provided at no additional cost to all Rapport customers and end users. Trusteer will also submit any new (zero day) malware it discovers to all anti malware vendors in an effort improve notoriously low detection rates for crime ware.

Videos Global IT Council

28 Jul 2010

Daryl Plummer and David Cappuccio introduce the benefits you can get from the Global IT Council. View a related webinar: http://is.gd/dDyip

Videos The Evolution of Risk Management

27 Jul 2010

Marcus Cree, Principal Risk Consultant for SunGard's Capital Markets business talks about transparency, risk and the challenges, past and present.

Videos DoubleTake & Vision Solutions Merger

26 Jul 2010

Nicholaas Vlok, CEO of Vision Solutions speaks about completing the merger agreement with Double-Take Software and how the combination of the two companies expand their global service and products for the disaster recovery for IBM Power Systems, Windows, Linux and Cloud Computing market

News DataCentre Expo’s Visitor Marketing reaches over 1 million internationally

23 Jul 2010

DataCentre Expo’s visitor marketing plan is extremely high-profile, with a ‘global reach’ of over 1 million recipients.

Email broadcasts, off-the-page advertisements, online advertising and press coverage will really take off throughout July and August. The marketing campaign has already produced impressive results with appearances in: IT Mittelstand, eWeek and Network Computing, DV Dialogue, Manage IT and of course TheDataChain.

Videos The changing asset management landscape

22 Jul 2010

Dayle Scher of TowerGroup discusses the importance of operational efficiency and transparency to meeting client needs.

Articles Quo Vadis, SNMP? Part 1: Introducing SNMP

21 Jul 2010

As business efficiency becomes more and more dependent on connected computer systems, monitoring and ensuring their reliability in performance is absolutely necessary. Because of the huge amount of devices on the market, supplied by various manufacturers, it was imperative to introduce a standard for this kind of monitoring. That is why IETF1 developed Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) towards the end of the 80s. Today, the third generation of SNMP is still the standard for network management – not least because there is no practical alternative. However, the use of this protocol as a basis for extensive network management is not unproblematic – it requires comprehensive know-how and sometimes the ability to improvise.

Articles Quo Vadis, SNMP? Part 2: Putting SNMP into practice

21 Jul 2010

In the first part of this White Paper, we looked at the basic features of SNMP, the history, problems, and future prospects. Alternatives to the established, yet frequently problematic, protocol were also shown. This second part focuses on the technical side – from the use of MIBs to the practical setup of network monitoring. As the developer of an established network monitoring software, Paessler AG has been dealing with SNMP extensively since 1996 and has looked closely into its options – and inadequacies.

Videos The European Confidence Report 2010 - Taking Risk Seriously

19 Jul 2010

Research released from Oracle reveals senior business and IT managers across Europe's financial services institutions believes there needs to be more emphasis placed on risk management when it comes to decision-making and performance management

Videos NYSE Euronext Standardizes on JBoss Enterprise Middleware

16 Jul 2010

"We've been running mission-critical applications on Red Hat Enterprise Linux for a long time. It was that experience and those results that led us to consider JBoss Enterprise Middleware, and we're satisfied, and not surprised, knowing that Red Hat's middleware solutions are as enterprise-class as its platform solutions."
- Brian Clark, chief software architect, NYSE Euronext

News HP Secures Applications Services Contract with 3M

15 Jul 2010

HP Enterprise Services today announced that 3M, which produces thousands of innovative products for dozens of diverse markets, has signed a multimillion dollar, three-year applications services agreement to help improve productivity, enabling the company to get innovative products into the market more quickly.

Videos Passwords and Credit Card Numbers Hacked! SQL Injection Explained

15 Jul 2010

How hackers steal your private information from websites.

Videos Brocade's World Class Data Center Overview

15 Jul 2010

Michael Hirahara, Vice President of Global Real Estate, Facilities and Services at Brocade, discusses the design of the world-class data center at Brocade's new San Jose Campus. He covers the three design and construction elements of the data center (scalability/flexibility, energy efficiency and environmental sustainability) and Brocade's approach to facilities development.

Articles Redstor and Education Bradford

15 Jul 2010

Education Bradford Select RBUSS to Improve Services.

"The online backup service from Redstor has completely transformed how we backup school data so much so that we have no hesitation in recommending it to other authorities"

The Local Education Authority is based on collaboration between Bradford Council and Serco PLC, an international service company which combines commercial know-how with a public service ethos. It improves services by managing people, processes, technology and assets more effectively.

Articles Site selection – top five things to consider when building a data centre

15 Jul 2010

Whether you’re an in-house IT manager, developer or collocation provider looking to build a new data centre, one of the most important decisions in the whole process has to be where you build it. Over the last 10 years various factors have been jostling for position as the most important consideration.

It is essential to recognise that each site is different and every company has separate requirements. There is no such thing as a one site fits all.

In this article, Adam Tamburini, UK country manager at e-shelter, draws on over a decade of experience to discuss how requirements for data centre land has changed in recent years and what the industry top five now look like.

Videos Customer Video: Priceline.com

14 Jul 2010

Juniper has been fundamental in helping us build a faster, simpler and more cost-effective data center network infrastructure," said Michael P. Diliberto, CIO, Priceline.com. "We've reduced our network operating costs dramatically by occupying far less rack space and consuming less power than our old gear. It's rare that you find a technology that helps you reduce cost and increase quality and scalability, while simultaneously increasing speed and agility.

Videos Customer Video: Old Mutual

13 Jul 2010

Old Mutual Mitigates Hardware Spend and Halves Hyperion Helpdesk Calls with Triometric

Articles Old Mutual Mitigates Hardware Spend and Halves Helpdesk Calls with Triometric

13 Jul 2010

Old Mutual is a leading international long-term savings group. Established in 1845 in South Africa, the FTSE 100 Company now serves the growing demands of customers, companies and their advisors in 35 countries.

News Imperva Introduces File Security Family to Help Mitigate Insider Threats

13 Jul 2010

Expands Data Security Suite Beyond Web Applications and Databases to File Systems

Imperva, the leader in data security, announced today the introduction of a new family of File Security products, the latest addition to the company’s SecureSphere Data Security Suite. Imperva’s File Security products include SecureSphere File Firewall, which prevents unauthorized access to unstructured data residing on file servers, network attached storage (NAS). Additionally, SecureSphere File Activity Monitoring (FAM) allows enterprises to monitor access to sensitive file data, establish audit for compliance and reduce data access rights to a business need-to-know level. With this product expansion, Imperva’s data security suite helps enterprises protect not only web applications and databases but file systems as well.

Articles Increasing IT Efficiency in a Dynamic Datacenter with a Virtualized Storage Solution

12 Jul 2010

End to End Efficiency Delivered by Microsoft Server Virtualization and Compellent Storage Virtualization

Datacenter efficiency is a large concern for Information Technology (IT) management as demands for services continue to increase while budgets continue to be reduced. Supporting growth and maintaining availability per the service level agreements while mitigating the risks to critical data, systems, applications, and the computing infrastructure in the event of a system outage or a complete disaster presents an ongoing challenge from both a technological and a business perspective. Organizations must consistently find solutions that not only meet application and data requirements for capacity, performance, and availability, but also have proven return on investment and cost reduction capabilities.

Videos Customer Testimonial: Credit Market Analysis

12 Jul 2010

Ryan Sclanders, IT Infrastructure Manager for Credit Market Research talks about the challenges of their high volume data requirements and how they came to choosing their provider to reduce costs and improve efficiency.

Articles Managing the Cloud: An Even Greater Need for IT Cost Transparency

12 Jul 2010

While there is considerable controversy about what technologies and approaches constitute “Cloud Computing,” the overall idea is that customers can buy and use computing on demand. The computing power resides on the Internet – the Internet is often represented as a cloud in architecture diagrams– and people access this computing power as they need it via the Internet.

Articles Is your network monitoring equipment still working for you?

12 Jul 2010

Any IT Manager worth his salt knows a corporate network cannot run efficiently without some degree of network performance management. But with corporate networks becoming progressively more complex and being required to support increasingly sophisticated applications, how many can confidently claim their network monitoring and performance management systems are still up to the job?

Sean O’Donnell, SevOne’s director for EMEA, looks at the impact of developments in enterprise applications on the corporate network and the risks faced by businesses which fail to invest in effective network performance management tools.

Videos Drive Encryption Management with Intel® RAID Controllers

09 Jul 2010

Get even more performance and data protection with Intel Premium Features for RAID solutions. When combined with Intel® RAID controllers, you can further enhance storage applications and deliver higher ROI for your server boards and systems

Videos Remaining compliant in 2010

08 Jul 2010

How SunGard customers are able to keep up with regulatory demands

Compliance is on the top of everyone's mind. Rex Gooch at SunGard's trading business explains some of the critical challenges faced in remaining compliant in 2010, and describes the actions SunGard is taking to help ensure customers are able to meet regulatory demands across their business.

News Isilon helps Central and Eastern Europe's largest broadcast over satellite provider meet growing demand

07 Jul 2010

STN gains rock-solid reliability and a huge boost in performance while helping the company reduce number of staff assigned to managing storage by 40%.

Isilon today announced that STN, a leading teleport service provider delivering broadcasts over satellite for Central and Eastern Europe, has successfully implemented an Isilon scale-out Storage platform for its existing environment and to help migrate clients onto its new playout system and meet strong demand for its innovative services.

Blog Storage Optimisation Part 2

06 Jul 2010

The second part of Philip Howard's article on Storage Optimisation.

This is the second of two articles about storage optimisation. In the first I discussed how an optimal solution would be one based around discovering (at a detailed level) all of your SAN infrastructure resources (servers, disks and so on) in real-time to create a consolidated view of the entire environment. Then for the solution to take that awareness, combine it with any specific, unique policy or other restrictions that might be in place, and to apply business intelligence principles to the problem of how you might optimise those resources. As a result of this analysis you would like the software to recommend potential solutions, allowing you to choose which one you prefer and, once that determination has been made, for the software to implement relevant changes (actually prepare the storage for migration and then to perform the data migration) for you automatically.

Videos Hitachi Cloud Services: Instant IT from Hitachi Data Systems

05 Jul 2010

Adopt cloud at your own pace! More data is being created than ever before and unstructured data is the predominant data structure that needs to be managed in new and more intelligent ways. Hitachi Cloud Services offer delivery models that provide instant IT. It services on demand enable organizations to gain advantage in their marketplace -- scaling without additional capital expense.

Videos Andrew Butler highlights Gartner Data Center & IT Operations Summit 2010

01 Jul 2010

As a Data Center professional you are expected to "do more with less" and be a key enabler towards business growth and manage business change. Find the nuggets of fresh learning and knowledge that will show the business why they should count on you and how you can help the business look beyond the cost discussion to new opportunities for growth.

Videos Raimund Genes on Cloud-based Security

30 Jun 2010

Trend Micro CTO, Raimund Genes, discusses the benefits of Smart Protection Network, Trend's cloud-based security technology. Smart Protection Network is powered by web, email and file reputation to provide protection from today's latest web-borne threats.

Videos Isilon Simplifies Data Management for Enterprise IT

30 Jun 2010

Sam Grocott, VP of Marketing at Isilon, talks us through the sixth generation of its OneFS^® scale-out storage operating system and two new data management software applications, SmartPools™ and InsightIQ™. With OneFS 6.0, SmartPools and InsightIQ, Isilon delivers a uniquely powerful yet simple approach to solving complex data management challenges, enabling enterprise IT departments to easily manage data, consolidate applications and scale out a single storage resource in lockstep with evolving business needs.

Videos Luxembourg Stock Exchange implemented IBM XIV systems

29 Jun 2010

Luxembourg Stock Exchange implemented two full IBM XIV systems at each of two data centers, with synchronous mirroring for protection against disaster. The solution delivers high performance and availability, with automated load balancing and data protection.

Videos Data Backup Compliance - Wockhardt entrusts Tivoli

28 Jun 2010

In this video Suresh of Wockhardt tells us that after evaluating Tivoli & Veritas they chose Tivoli because it scored higher on some key features. After implementing Tivoli, the manual intervention that was required earlier in the areas like media management and data restoration was greatly reduced resulting in increase of productivity.

Suresh Shenoy, Sr. Vice president-IT, Wockhardt hospitals

Blog Assessing Risk in the Virtual Data Center

28 Jun 2010

Brian Gracely from Cisco writes:

Having lived through both the Internet bubble in 2001 and the Housing/CDO bubble in 2008, we’re all too familiar with what happens when large inter-connected entities start having problems. It can often be like watching dominos fall. Things were really great when the systems appeared to be working according to the plan, but then “the plan” got sidetracked and bad things started happening that weren’t on the radar.

Videos Cloud Security Doesn't Matter

24 Jun 2010

An interpretation from the blog post: "Cloud: Security Doesn't Matter" by Chris Hoff

Articles Major U.S. Healthcare Provider ‘Prescribes’ BMC Software To Ensure High-Quality Patient Care

24 Jun 2010

When Novant Health needed to replace its IT service management (ITSM) tools and processes, the North Carolina-based non-profit healthcare system selected BMC Software’s (NASDAQ: BMC) Business Service Management (BSM) platform to ensure the changes supported the hospital system’s No. 1 priority – providing quality patient care.

Videos ADVA Optical Networking and Spread Networks from New York to Chicago

23 Jun 2010

Christine Keck and Brian Quigley discuss ADVA Optical Networking and Spread Networks' announcement of a new ultra low-latency dark fiber network, which provides 13.33ms connectivity between New York and Chicago, and the importance of this network to the finance community

News Q1 Labs Announces QRadar Security Intelligence Operating System (SIOS)

22 Jun 2010

Powering the Network Security Industry’s First Security Intelligence Platform

Q1 Labs today announced QRadar SIOS - the Security Intelligence Operating System - which powers the QRadar family of security intelligence products. QRadar SIOS is the foundation of the industry's first total Security Intelligence Platform, a common framework for collecting, warehousing, filtering, analyzing and reporting on all security intelligence telemetry. This integrated solution will be the platform for risk management, SIEM , log management , and network and application activity monitoring, as well as all new products to be delivered by Q1 Labs and partners.

Videos Intel vPro Technology MSP Case Study - Sabio

21 Jun 2010

Sabio's strategy is to offer enterprise-class service to SMB customers using advanced tools such as Intel vPro technology-based PCs. Intel vPro technology's remote capabilities allow Sabio to reduce PC downtime by 20% and deskside visits by 25%. Antivirus patches can be pushed to PCs that are turned off, reducing technician time spent on patching and speeding critical updates.

Videos NYSE Euronext increases transparency to improve the customer experience

10 Jun 2010

In this video, Theresa Molloy, vice president of corporate client services, NYSE Euronext, discusses how transparency was achieved in customer communications by partnering with SunGard to develop the NYSE Market Access Center.

News A Modular, Scalable, Data Centre with a PUE of 1.13

03 Jun 2010

A statement like that is surely worthy of a spot in the next episode of Ripley's Believe It or Not.

Last week I was treated to a revolutionary facility tour. The invitation to see this new facility was nearly ignored, thinking it would be yet another container tour. The PR gambit sent through was a bit vague and in truth, as the old adage goes, if it sounds too good to be true...you know the rest!

Videos BladeRoom Cooling System

03 Jun 2010

This is a short clip on the innovative BladeRoom cooling system.

Read the associated article here. Or view the linked videos on the BladeRoom System, BladeRoom's Monitoring, BladeRoom's Resilience, BladeRoom's Maintenance, BladeRoom's Energy Efficiency, BladeRoom's Plug & Play and BladeRoom's Scalability.

Videos BladeRoom Monitoring

03 Jun 2010

Watch this clip to learn about BladeRoom's remote monitoring systems.

Read the associated article here. Or view the linked videos on BladeRoom's Cooling System, BladeRoom's Plug & Play, The BladeRoom System, BladeRoom's Maintenance, BladeRoom's Resilience, BladeRoom's Energy Efficiency andBladeRoom's Scalability.

Videos BladeRoom's Resilience

03 Jun 2010

A demonstration on BladeRoom's Resilience

Read the associated article here. Or view the linked videos on BladeRoom's Cooling System, BladeRoom's Monitoring, The BladeRoom System, BladeRoom's Maintenance, BladeRoom's Plug & Play, BladeRoom's Energy Efficiency andBladeRoom's Scalability.

Videos BladeRoom's Maintenance

03 Jun 2010

A demonstration on BladeRoom's Maintenance

Read the associated article here. Or view the linked videos on BladeRoom's Cooling System, BladeRoom's Monitoring, The BladeRoom System, BladeRoom's Plug & Play, BladeRoom's Resilience, BladeRoom's Energy Efficiency andBladeRoom's Scalability.

Videos BladeRoom's Energy Efficiency

03 Jun 2010

A demonstration on BladeRoom's Energy Efficiency

Read the associated article here. Or view the linked videos on BladeRoom's Cooling System, BladeRoom's Monitoring, The BladeRoom System, BladeRoom's Maintenance, BladeRoom's Resilience, BladeRoom's Plug & Play andBladeRoom's Scalability.

Videos BladeRoom Plug & Play

03 Jun 2010

A demonstration on BladeRoom's Plug & Play capability.

Read the associated article here. Or view the linked videos on BladeRoom's Cooling System, BladeRoom's Monitoring, The BladeRoom System, BladeRoom's Maintenance, BladeRoom's Resilience, BladeRoom's Energy Efficiency and BladeRoom's Scalability.

Videos BladeRoom's Scalability

03 Jun 2010

A demonstration on BladeRoom's Scalability.

Read the associated article here. Or view the linked videos on BladeRoom's Cooling System, BladeRoom's Monitoring, The BladeRoom System, BladeRoom's Maintenance, BladeRoom's Resilience, BladeRoom's Energy Efficiency and BladeRoom's Plug & Play.

Videos Changing The Rules of Networking

02 Jun 2010

HP's acquisition of 3Com creates a robust set of end-to-end networking solutions that deliver better business outcomes to a full spectrum of customers, from Fortune 100 enterprises to SMB

News IT Professionals Are Hacking Their Own Enterprises To Keep Intruders Out

02 Jun 2010

Survey also finds 31% of companies have fallen foul of hackers

A survey of IT security professionals has discovered that 83% consider commercial applications, the ones you buy off the shelf, to be riddled with code flaws and vulnerabilities. That’s the discovery of a survey conducted by Fortify Software, a leader in Software Security Assurance (SSA) solutions, who found that 56% believe these flaws could allow hackers to exploit these software vulnerabilities.

Videos T&C: Tweet & Control botnets

25 May 2010

This video demonstrates how Trojan.Twebot can be controlled through Twitter. See the blog post associated to this video here.

Blog Twittering Botnet Says Hello!

25 May 2010

Peter Coogan from Symantec writes:

A recent blog from our colleagues at Sunbelt highlighted a new Trojan botnet creator tool called "TwitterNet Builder." Symantec has detection in place for this threat as Trojan.Twebot. As the name suggests, the builder is closely linked to Twitter, using a Twitter account to issue command-and-control instructions to the Trojans created by the builder.

Videos Security and Compliance Cloud Challenges

25 May 2010

Join Bret Hartman, Chief Technology Officer, RSA, the Security Division of EMC, as he discusses the challenges that cloud computing can pose organizations, including outsourcing, as they build a strategy to protect their mission-critical information, like SAP, in the cloud.

News Core Consultancy Wins "Specialist Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Company of the Year" at Business Continuity Awards 2010

19 May 2010

Innovative, High-Availability continuous data protection and remote recovery solution for small and medium businesses recognised at leading industry awards

News JSE Listed Securities Companies Look to the Cloud For Compliance Silver Bullet

19 May 2010

Johannesburg - The increasing pressure on financial companies to tighten up governance and compliance has created a rapid surge in the uptake of ‘Software as a Service’ (SaaS) technology solutions that quickly and effectively address this. Many JSE-listed stock-broking companies, including Kagiso Securities, Afrifocus, Cadiz Financial Services Group and Barnard Jacob Mallet (BJM), have all adopted the cloud-based email management solution, Mimecast.

Articles Open Source Security Study

19 May 2010

Open source now permeates more than 50 percent of enterprises, and its use is growing rapidly. This trend underlies an assumption held by many IT and business leaders that open source is enterprise class in terms of functionality and scalability. But is it secure? How much business risk is introduced with open source?

News System Integrator MTI Launches Enterprise Backup as a Service

19 May 2010

New Cloud Backup Service Now Meets Businesses-Level Requirements

MTI has unveiled its Cloud Backup as a Service (BaaS) offering for businesses, one of four new service sets to be launched under the MTI Insight Services banner. The other three groups will be MTI Consult (Consultancy Services), MTI Create (Project Services) and MTI Care (Customer and Managed Services).

Videos What does Transparency, Effieciency and Networks mean to you?

18 May 2010

SunGard poses the question to Claudia Feldmann from Commerzbank AG at SunGard's City Days Frankfurt.

Articles Magic Quadrant for Secure E-Mail Gateways

13 May 2010

The e-mail security market is very mature. Targeted phishing detection, outbound e-mail inspection, encryption and delivery form factor are the major differentiators.

Videos Barracuda Networks

30 Apr 2010

Michael Hughes @ InfoSecurity 2010 talks about Barracuda and the role they play in the market.

News New Consumer Survey of 1,000 Respondents Reveals that Consumers Put Responsibility on Web Site Owners to Prevent Malware Infections

30 Apr 2010

Survey Also Underscores Importance of Government Intervention to Fight Cybercrime and Devise Regulations on ISPs and Online Providers

An independent survey amongst 1,000 UK consumers commissioned by Qualys®, Inc the leading provider of on demand IT security risk and compliance management solutions, revealed the need for multiple groups to take proactive measures to keep web sites safe from malware and to protect sensitive customer information.

Videos Tripwire @ InfoSecurity 2010

29 Apr 2010

Tim Zonca talks about Infosecurity, how far the industry has come in adopting measures for information security and how Tripwire establishes itself as a leader for securing your network.

News Iron Mountain Enhances CloudRecovery Solution for Microsoft DPM

29 Apr 2010

Iron Mountain’s CloudRecovery Solution includes Support for DPM 2010, Increased Scalability, and Added Disaster Protection across Microsoft applications such as Hyper-V, Exchange, SharePoint, and SQL Server

News F5 Unlocks True Potential of ‘On-Demand IT’

28 Apr 2010

New BIG-IP release helps extend enterprise data centre architecture to the cloud through holistic ecosystem supporting the dynamic nature of applications and data

News Beijing Genomics Institute powers one of the world's largest DNA sequencing environments with Isilon IQ

27 Apr 2010

Asia’s Largest Genomics Institute Deploys Isilon Scale-out NAS to Power More than 100 Illumina Sequencers, Speeding Time-to-Discovery while Reducing Capital and Operating Costs

News Cyber-Ark’s New Privileged Identity Management Suite Delivers Complete Security and Audit Control for Organizations’ Most Powerful Users

27 Apr 2010

Addition of On-Demand Privileges Manager Delivers Granular Access Control and Personalized Security for Integrated, Cost-Effective Protection Against Data Breaches and Insider Threats

News Pillar Data Systems Gives Customers More Control over Disaster Recovery, Storage Performance and Efficiency

27 Apr 2010

Pillar Data Systems today delivered several new features that increase the performance, efficiency and ease of management for its award-winning Pillar Axiom storage system. These new additions build on the Axiom’s unique Quality of Service (QoS) capabilities and ensure greater flexibility and reliability for storage administrators.

News Hi-tech spending to increase

23 Apr 2010

Marketing spending among high-tech and telecom providers (HTTPs) is picking up in 2010, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc. The survey found that 44 per cent of 2010 HTTP marketing budgets will be flat compared with 2009, 41 per cent will increase and only 15 per cent are likely to decrease. This compares favorably to 2009 when more than half of providers' marketing organisations took cuts in their budgets compared to 2008.

Videos CommVault® / Microsoft® Video 2010

21 Apr 2010

CommVault / Microsoft video 2010

News DataCentre Expo set for Dusseldorf

16 Apr 2010

Europe’s first fully dedicated, expo led data centre event will take place in Düsseldorf, 16^th – 17^th Sept 2010.

News Gartner says worldwide IT spending to grow 5.3 per cent in 2010

12 Apr 2010

Worldwide IT spending is forecast to reach $3.4 trillion in 2010, a 5.3 per cent increase from IT spending of $3.2 trillion in 2009, according to Gartner, Inc. The IT industry will continue to show steady growth with IT spending in 2011 projected to surpass $3.5 trillion, a 4.2 per cent increase from 2010.

News More than 400 organisations worldwide adopt EMC SourceOne

09 Apr 2010

In just one year since its introduction, more than 400 organisations worldwide have adopted EMC SourceOne. Customers including Northampton Borough Council, Ogilvy South Africa and TOMRA are deploying EMC SourceOne to help them manage risks, simplify e-discovery and cut storage costs.

News Human error highlighted as security risk

08 Apr 2010

63% of businesses believe that denial of service attacks are a real and serious problem, whilst all believe that human error is a threat to service availability and data security. The vulnerability of websites also made the top three, with 68% of organisations seeing it as a threat worthy of concern.

Videos Diane Morello discusses the Gartner CIO Leadership Forum in London April 27-28 2010

08 Apr 2010

Diane Morello discusses the Gartner CIO Leadership Forum in London April 27-28 2010. For more information, see our events page.

News Additions to Data Center 3.0 portfolio

08 Apr 2010

Cisco has introduced continued innovation and additions to its Data Center 3.0 portfolio, designed to reduce IT infrastructure cost and complexity, provide better support for data center virtualization, and improve business agility to deliver strategic competitive advantages.

News Enterprises under-investing in the protection of corporate secrets

07 Apr 2010

Focus on protecting compliance-related data needs to expand to more valuable intellectual property.

Videos Identity & Access Management

22 Mar 2010

Ant Allan, Gartner, discusses key issues in Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Blog thedatachain of thought

11 Mar 2010

The 'soft' launch of thedatachain continues to go well - with several key content partners on board, and more in the pipeline. Our intention is to use video as the primary delivery mechanism - short, sharp, incisive comment from vendors, analysts and end users as we visit the many data centre, virtualisation and cloud events out there. This content is backed up by vendors own video content, plus the site's strong news focus, articles and, over time, a valuable information source on buzz topics.

News Protecting critical medical research

09 Mar 2010

Switzerland-based Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI), a part of the Novartis Research Foundation, is relying on two Spectra® T950 tape libraries to archive and backup critical biomedical research data.

Videos Netcordia

03 Mar 2010

Explore NetMRI's latest features (v.3.0) which help you improve network performance with automated configuration and change analysis across routers, switches, and other layer 2/3 network devices

News DeviceLock and SentryBay join forces

24 Feb 2010

DeviceLock has formed a partnership with Security software specialist SentryBay. The partnership is set to provide one of the most comprehensive solutions available for companies wanting to secure their data and end-user devices.

News Mountain swallows up Mimosa

24 Feb 2010

Iron Mountain has acquired Mimosa Systems, a leader in enterprise-class content archiving solutions, for approximately $112 million in cash, subject to closing adjustments.