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Avecto Awarded Innovative Company of the Year (Security) at Global Excellence Awards

Avecto announced yesterday that Info Security Products Guide has named them as 'Innovative Company of the Year' in security as part of the 2012 Global Excellence Awards program. The award, announced at RSA Conference 2012, recognizes a company that has delivered significant innovation in the market in the past year. 'Being named Innovative Security Company [...]

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NitroSecurity makes it simple for new partners to get started

To help channel partners leverage this market opportunity and effectively deliver strategic security solutions built on its NitroView SIEM platform, NitroSecurity, Inc. has enhanced its NitroConnect Partner Programme to further engage and empower value added resellers and systems integrators.NitroSecurity's NitroConnect Partner Programme now features the following elements: Single Authorisation Level – NitroSecurity makes it simple [...]

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Credant Technologies provides Dell with encryption and data protection for its commercial client systems

Credant Technologies now provides Dell with encryption and data protection for its commercial client systems. Dell customers may select the Credant Mobile Guardian Dell Edition security encryption solution factory installed on Dell Precision™ workstations, Latitude™ laptops and OptiPlex™ desktops, along with other Credant solutions through Dell's Software and Peripheral (S&P) store with commercial laptop and [...]

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Name.com joins VeriSign Identity Protection Network

In the wake of some recent high-profile hacker attempts to steal the passwords of millions of customers, businesses, including domain name service providers, are exploring options for added protection to ensure that Web site administrators and domain name registrants can manage their Web-based property with confidence. Name.com LLC, is leading the way by offering its [...]

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Selecting an Application Security Assurance Approach

This case study from company ABC discusses ways to develop and maintain secure systems and applications, including selecting suitable static-analysis code scanning tools for application development. ABC is implementing web application firewalls to protect web based applications and acknowledges that secure development will take a long time to implement partly based on expensive and time-consuming [...]

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Adobe Reader vulnerability could be exploited to gain access to vulnerable systems

Adobe Reader is arguably the world's most ubiquitous electronic document sharing application. The software can be used to view, search, digitally sign, verify, print, and collaborate on Adobe PDF files, and includes scripting functionality to allow for extended customization and extensibility.Core Security Technologies, provider of CORE IMPACT, have issued an advisory disclosing a vulnerability that [...]

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Comodo Endpoint Security Manager alerts IT administrator of suspected and prevented threats

While competing security software companies continue to patch their software to prevent possibly disastrous threats, zero-day attackers can be exploiting known vulnerabilities before a patch can be issued. Comodo Endpoint Security Manager (ESM) now enables centralized management of Comodo Firewall Pro. Saving significant time and money on security software, installation and day to day management [...]

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Vendors should be liable for insecure software

Information insecurity is costing us billions. We pay for it in theft: information theft, financial theft. We pay for it in productivity loss, both when networks stop working and in the dozens of minor security inconveniences we all have to endure. We pay for it when we have to buy security products and services to [...]

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Customer list access protection service places fictitious customer information within your data to track where it goes

Although it doesn't stop the information from being taken, most customer data is freely available to inside personnel and the next level of protection is tracking where it goes. Keeping customer data from leaving facilities is almost impossible. The next step is to put tracking information within.There's a new service out there for protecting your [...]

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