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Imperva Analyzes High-Profile ‘Anonymous’ Attack
posted on 01/03/2012

Report reveals details on methods employed by hacktivist group to attack high-profile organizations Imperva, Inc., a pioneer and leader of a new category of data security solutions for high-value business data in the data center, released yesterday 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. The Hacker Intelligence Summary Report –The Anatomy of an Anonymous Attack offers a comprehensive analysis of the attack, including a detailed timeline of activities from start to finish, an examination of the hacking methods utilized and insights on the use of social media to recruit participants and coordinate the attack. “Our research shows that Anonymous generally mimics the approach used by for-profit hackers, leveraging widely known methods – SQL injection and DDoS – to carry out their attack. We found that Anonymous, although it has developed some custom attack tools, generally uses inex... [more]

Cardinal Allen Catholic High School’s effortless, and paperless, policy compliance
posted on 17/02/2012

Staff and Pupils get to grips with numerous education policies and procedures at the click of a button Cryptzone - the IT threat mitigation experts, today confirmed it is helping Cardinal Allen Catholic High School meet its legal and regulatory responsibilities. The specialist maths and computing college is using Cryptzone’s NETconsent Compliance Suite to automate its policy management life-cycle, drastically cutting its administration effort and curtailing the policy paper trail – important given the school’s gold accredited ECO School status. Automation guarantees it captures everyone’s agreement to mandatory policies where a signature is required and prevents any one, who could pose a risk, from logging on. All schools, universities and colleges have policies and procedures that students and staff must follow: Health and Safety, Child Protection, Anti-bullying, IT Acceptable Usage, Mobile Phone Policy to name just a few. Legal and regulatory responsibilities place pressure on ed... [more]

Windows 7 Adoption Driving Business Growth at Avecto
posted on 08/02/2012

Avecto, the world leader in Windows Privilege Management, today announced that the increasing migration of organizations to Windows 7, is a key driving factor for boosting year end results upward by 200% on 2010. Tony Bolland, CEO said “Organizations of all sizes, ranging from SMEs to large corporations employing over 450,000 people, now rely on Avecto’s Privilege Guard technology to empower users, reduce operating costs, achieve compliance and strengthen security. According to IDC research published in 2011, shipments of new Windows 7 licences will rise to over 109M in 2012. With our Privilege Guard technology we are enabling customers to deliver the least risk, least cost Windows 7 desktop environment. These latest year end results underpin our strategic plans for rapid growth as we respond to increasing market demands.” In 2010 Gartner research* predicted that with the approaching end of Windows XP support in 2014, organizations should treat the rollout of Windows 7 strategically ... [more]

Imperva announces Imperva Web Application Attack Report
posted on 08/02/2012

Imperva released today the second Imperva Web Application Attack Report (WAAR), which revealed that web applications are subject to business logic attacks. The WAAR, created as a part of Imperva’s ongoing Hacker Intelligence Initiative, offers insight into actual malicious web application attack traffic over a period of six months, June 2011 through November 2011. Imperva monitored and categorized attacks across the internet targeting 40 different applications. The WAAR outlines the frequency, type and geography of origin of each attack to help security professionals better prioritize vulnerability remediation. “Business logic attacks are attractive for hackers since they follow a legitimate flow of interaction of a user with the application,” said Amichai Shulman, Imperva’s CTO. “This interaction is guided by an understanding of how specific sequences of operations affect the application’s functionality. Therefore, the abuser can lead the application to reveal private information f... [more]

Avecto announced as finalist in three categories by Info Security Products Guide’s Global Excellence Awards
posted on 25/01/2012

Avecto recently announced that it is a finalist in three 2012 Global Excellence Awards categories. Info Security Products Guide - the industry's leading information security research and advisory guide, has shortlisted Avecto as Best Overall Security Company, Best New Security Start-Up Company and Innovative Company of the Year (Security). These prestigious global awards recognize security and IT vendors with advanced, ground-breaking products and solutions that are helping set the bar higher for others in all areas of technologies. “Least privilege, as a concept, is not new but is yet to be adopted by most organizations and we do so much more than just that. We educate the security market on its importance and demonstrate how vital an aspect this is of their whole security ethos,” explains Paul Kenyon, Avecto’s COO. “While the threat from within may come from people, we understand that not everyone’s intentions are malicious. We’re constantly looking at ways of improving Privilege Guar... [more]

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