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Incapsula helps web hosting companies provide SMBs with an easy way to defend web applications against external hackers
posted on 20/12/2010

Imperva has unveiled a comprehensive strategy to help cloud providers, enterprises and small to medium sized businesses (SMBs) protect sensitive data against external and internal threats and comply with regulations such as PCI, SOX and HIPAA. Additionally, Imperva spinoff ‘Incapsula’ will help web hosters give SMBs affordable web application protection. The Incapsula web application firewall service gives small businesses an easy and affordable way to manage website security and performance for any domain that they own even if it is hosted by a third party. For hosters and other service providers, Incapsula enables website security to be extended to an entire customer base. Imperva will resell this service to complement Incapsula’s own sales efforts. “Cloud computing has created a paradigm shift in the way organizations view their data center architecture,” explained Imperva CTO Amichai Shulman. “Imperva is stepping up to the challenge of protecting cloud-based data from hacker... [more]

The new IT security landscape
posted on 16/12/2010

In-house and internal threats will be a big element of 2011 as organisations begin to understand that anti-virus, malware, and phishing software is no longer effective. There will be an epiphany that critical infrastructure is under constant attack and that there is a serious need to implement more comprehensive security software, security perimeters, data loss prevention and human assets to counter the existing and expanding security threats. This will translate into a significant need for the modernisation of infrastructure and enhanced education in human resources to implement these systems. As the wikileaks security Tsunami shows us – the malignant insider is impossible to identify – you have to ensure that no-one has authority to access data they don’t need. In the coming year companies will start to understand that the insider threat is real and that their existing security culture of using weak passwords, sharing privileged passwords and never changing root passwords will lead... [more]

The insider threats are increasingly becoming the focus of IT security managers
posted on 15/12/2010

According to a recent Imperva survey of German IT security managers, insider threat is the biggest danger when it came to data loss within corporate networks (54 percent). Far fewer respondents took the chance to blame anyone at all (25 percent), and even less believed that hackers were primarily responsible for data theft incidents (21 percent). Another result showed that 70 percent of respondents were not planning to outsource mission-critical or sensitive data, as part of a cloud-project to an external service provider, over the next twelve months. The survey findings correlated with the latest IT security trends for 2011 which Imperva published in their annual report in November. Analysis of data security incidents by the Imperva Application Defense Center (ADC) in the past year showed that IT security managers will have to face 2011 with challenges in three key areas: - The protection of mobile devices will play a more important role. Providing more complex identification and aut... [more]

Juniper Networks' Junos Pulse App for the iPad enables secure remote access and connectivity to all enterprise resources
posted on 15/12/2010

With more than 65 percent of Fortune 500 companies deploying or piloting the iPad and 7.5 million iPad’s sold worldwide, securing the device while enabling productivity for the enterprises has become paramount. Juniper Networks' Junos® Pulse App for the iPad, which enables anytime, anywhere secure remote access and connectivity to all enterprise resources, is now available for free download on iOS 4.2 from the Apple iTunes App Store. The Junos Pulse App for the iPad is part of Juniper’s broader Junos Pulse platform. It builds on Juniper’s market-leading SA Series SSL VPN solution that already enables more than 25 million end users to remotely and securely connect their devices, including laptops and smartphones, to corporate networks. The Junos Pulse App has been built for ease of use and seamless deployment so enterprises can enable the mobile workforce of iPad, iPhone and iPod touch users to be productive and secure. Providing a secure environment enables enterprise IT department... [more]

2011 security trends, hacktivism and cyber-war
posted on 14/12/2010

According to PandaLabs, hacktivism and cyber-war; more profit-oriented malware, social media, social engineering and malicious codes with the ability to adapt to avoid detection will be the main protagonists in 2011. There will also be an increase in the threats to Mac users, new efforts to attack 64-bit systems and new zero-day exploits but few radical innovations in cyber-crime. Luis Corrons, Technical Director of PandaLabs explains: “Once again we have dusted off the crystal ball and this is a summary of what we reckon will be the ten major security trends during 2011”: 1. Malware creation. In 2010 we have seen a significant growth in the amount of malware, a consistent theme over the last few years. This year, we have seen more than 20 million new strains of malware - more than in 2009. At present, Panda’s Collective Intelligence database stores a total of over 60 million classified threats. The actual rate of growth year-on-year however, appears to have peaked: some years ago... [more]

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