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TeleSign Brings Enhanced PhoneID 2.0 Product to the U.K. and Germany
posted on 18/05/2012

TeleSign, a market leader in Internet fraud prevention and Intelligent Authentication, has announced an upgrade of its PhoneID solution for the United Kingdom and Germany. Online businesses use PhoneID to automate fraud prevention and protect against spam and fraudulent activity. TeleSign’s patented PhoneID technology enables companies to identify risky transactions by analysing and reporting a set of key attributes associated with a phone num... [more]

Data Loss Prevention (DLP) for cloud services like Google Drive, Dropbox and Co. part of Endpoint Protector 4.1
posted on 18/05/2012

Company data security is greatly threatened more than ever with cloud services such as Google Drive, Dropbox and iCloud finding their way on company PCs. Endpoints such as USB ports, CD/DVD drives, printers etc. are no longer the only cause of worry when it comes to stopping leaks of sensitive data. The Internet and the cloud poses a greater security threat by allowing an easy transfer of data through file upload services, e-mail, instant messagi... [more]

Viewfinity’s Newest Privilege Management Release Dramatically Raises Level of Manageability, Reducing Burden on IT Through Automation
posted on 18/05/2012

Viewfinity (www.viewfinity.com), the leading provider of privilege management solutions, today announced Viewfinity Privilege Management 4.0, a compelling and major upgrade to the company’s flagship product. With this release, enterprises have a new, automated approach previously not available in any solution for managing rights and privileges for standard users on Windows endpoints and servers. Viewfinity’s new, intelligent automation iden... [more]

Protection of Confidential Cardholder Data from Unauthorized Use and Replication- Combined Solution Reduces Scope and Cost of PCI DSS Compliance
posted on 16/05/2012

Quarri Technologies and ExoIS Inc. declared todaythat they have partnered to launch their complementary offerings, Protect On Q™ (POQ) and PeepSafe® in a single solution to the North American and European markets. This new, integrated solution offers secure browser technology access through the PeepSafe secure portal for simplified, end-to-end compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). The combined PeepSafe a... [more]

"Forex admin/user credential leak could have been prevented by effective use of Windows Privilige Management," says Avecto.
posted on 16/05/2012

Last week’s revelation of cyber criminal activity leaking abundant volumes of admin and user credentials from a foreign exchange trading Web portal on to the Pastebin service could have been avoided, states Avecto. According to Paul Kenyon, Avecto's chief operating officer, the use of effective Windows privilege management would have helped limit access to data. "While questions need to be asked about the way in which this data was stored on t... [more]

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