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Check Point acquires data security and document encryption specialist Liquid Machines
posted on 10/06/2010

Check Point Software has announced the acquisition of privately held Liquid Machines, a leader in data security. Liquid Machines’ products prevent the misuse, modification, loss or theft of intellectual property and sensitive information residing in documents. Liquid Machines specializes in data protection and has 12 issued and pending patents for document encryption and content security. The acquisition, completed today, will broaden Check Point’s extensive data security portfolio. Check Point’s data security strategy focuses on securing data throughout its lifecycle; Check Point Full Disk Encryption prevents data loss due to lost or stolen devices, Check Point Virtual Private Networking (VPN) turns any network into a secure and encrypted communication channel, and Check Point’s recently announced Data Loss Prevention products prevent sensitive data from being leaked out of the organization. The Liquid Machines technology will be part of Check Point’s future product suite and will... [more]

Varonis' software helps find areas with excessive permissions and abnormal access activity
posted on 09/06/2010

As digital collaboration continues to accelerate in every healthy organization, unstructured data proliferates over multiple platforms, including Windows, SharePoint and UNIX/LINUX servers. Organizations require an intuitive, unified view of these data repositories to efficiently and effectively manage and protect them. Varonis Systems Inc. has announced Version 5.5 of DatAdvantage® and DataPrivilege®, a further evolution of the Varonis Meta-data Framework™, which enables customers to identify sensitive unstructured and semi-structured data on their file systems, SharePoint Sites and NAS devices. Varonis’ software helps customers find areas with excessive permissions and abnormal access activity, understand who can access, who is accessing, who shouldn’t have access, and who owns the data, and remediate risk faster than traditional data protection products. With unstructured and semi-structured data such as documents, images, spreadsheets, presentations, videos, audio files and... [more]

Hancock Bank offers Trusteer's Rapport web browser security service to its customers
posted on 08/06/2010

Hancock Bank has partnered with Trusteer to offer the Rapport web browser security service to its e-Banking consumer, business, and commercial customers. Rapport protects sensitive data, such as account credentials, by locking down the browser and creating a tunnel for safe communication between a customer’s machine and Hancock Bank’s web site. “Throughout our 110 year history, Hancock Bank has prided itself on being one of America’s safest banks and we are committed to maintaining that track record with our e-Banking services,” said Jeff Theiler, senior vice president and payment services director for Hancock Bank. “Faced with the growing threat of malware that is designed to evade anti-virus products and steal login credentials, we wanted to offer our customers the best protection available to secure their e-Banking sessions. Trusteer Rapport met all our needs, it is fast and easy to deploy, locks down the browser, and makes our strong authentication system even more secure.” Hancoc... [more]

Law firm in Belgium turns to Enterprise Vault to archive email and achieve corporate governance
posted on 07/06/2010

All Belgian legal firms are required to show “good governance” of their IT Systems. They should be able to show a paper trail of email communication to support an action or advice given to a client. Altius, one of the largest independent law firms in Belgium, has turned to Enterprise Vault from Frontier Technology to archive email, reduce storage and achieve corporate governance. Altius assists companies in their international and Belgian transactions and litigation. The firm wanted their emails to be centrally archived to aid legal cases. They also required a solution to reduce overall storage and give lawyers access to their email archives at home. Due to the volume of email data being generated at Altius, personal email archives were becoming overwhelmed and management were noticing increased overheads and unreliability in their systems. The firm required a solution to store all emails centrally, reduce storage costs and management overheads while allowing full remote access to arc... [more]

Netpad devices exacerbate security threats and potential data losses
posted on 04/06/2010

Bell Micro has warned of the security implications as a result of the proliferation of netpad devices. With the iPad currently closing the gap between laptops and smart-phones, 2010 will see the start of the introduction of an entire raft of new portable hardware that further increases the drive towards remote system access but also further exacerbates security threats, and potential data losses. “These new netpad devices are powerful, fashionable and extremely vulnerable to loss and theft,” said Ed Callacher, Divisional Leader for Security and Networking at Bell Micro. “The real danger however is from the ‘Magpie effect’ whereby the demand for such shiny new technology outstrips the consideration of the increased security risks associated with them and the resulting impact that this could have on the corporate network. The introduction of such devices into a business brings with them an urgency to drive all IT managers to now reconsider their security at three separate levels - the syst... [more]

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