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Leasedirect chooses iCritical to safeguard and store its highly sensitive business emails
posted on 06/08/2010

With email fast becoming the primary method of communication within the business world, organisations are increasingly looking for systems which offer the utmost protection in order to maintain data integrity. Leasedirect has chosen iCritical to safeguard and store its highly sensitive business emails. Leasedirect will now be entrusting vaultCritical – iCritical’s permanent email archive solution – with gathering, storing and indexing every internal and external email and attachment sent to, from and within the company. vaultCritical is a forensic archive system which tracks and stores emails securely in an encrypted format. The system ensures that communication cannot be deleted or amended, enabling it to provide complete data confidentiality and a forensic ‘tamper-evident’ analysis of an organisation’s email history. This ensures the highest standard of compliance to organisational, legal and all government imposed privacy, email and data regulations. Graham Lea, Head of IT at... [more]

Witura's WT-9001 GSM monitoring system controls irrigation systems
posted on 05/08/2010

Witura Corporation has announced its WT-9001 GSM monitoring system, designed for the monitoring and control of irrigation systems ideally suited for agriculture and aquaculture whereby water levels are manipulated on a regular basis. The WT-9001 is useful for dynamic monitoring of water levels along dykes when the safety of the site location is dependent on the efficiency of water management levels. Too much or too little water can be adverse to crops or farmed marine food sources. As such, water levels are kept to their allowed range and monitored regularly. Wherever variations in weather conditions are present such as drought, rain or tide changes, these in turn affect water levels. Here’s where the remote control and monitoring system is especially useful. Mr. Chin, Director of Witura Corporation says, “The device provides convenience and peace of mind as owners do not need to be present at all times on site to monitor water levels at different sectors.” The GSM enabled con... [more]

Throughput is the determining factor for how much customers are willing to pay for IDS IPS systems
posted on 27/07/2010

According to Frost & Sullivan's recent update on the World Intrusion Detection and Intrusion Prevention Systems Markets, users of Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS) are willing to pay 3 times more for higher throughput. The research provides figures for the average throughput per price band for IDS/IPS systems in 2009. When compared with earlier Frost & Sullivan data for 2006, it can be seen that prices have fallen between 20% and 30% in general with the exception of IDS/IPS systems capable of providing 5 Gbps or more of throughput. In this case, prices have fallen by a mere 8%. “This data clearly shows that IDS/IPS customers value high throughput”, states Erik Norup, President, Napatech Inc. “Customers are willing to pay more to ensure that their IDS, and particularly their IPS, does not become a bottleneck or become overloaded. Overloading is a distinct possibility as the number of intrusion events increase and traffic rates continue to grow between 40% and 60% ... [more]

OnSite Aparato access control solution ensures data is safe from both software attacks and physical theft
posted on 26/07/2010

Brivo Systems' ACS OnSite Aparato™ is a full-featured appliance-based access control solution with unmatched built-in security features. The OnSite Aparato’s Trusted Platform Module (TPM), compliant with ISO Standard 11889, securely stores passwords, digital keys, and certificates directly in the system. Aparato is the only TPM-equipped access control solution on the market. The TPM, standard in every Aparato system, is a hardware-backed software integrity verification function with fully encrypted data storage, employing the government’s Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) 256. Use of this standard enhances security and ensures data is safe from both software attacks and physical theft. The TPM also guards against unauthorized modification of application software, provides tamper detection, and simplifies software upgrades by eliminating tokens and other peripheral security measures, resulting in a lower cost of ownership than smart cards and other software-based technology. Aparato’... [more]

IT security professionals consider off the shelf commercial applications to be riddled with code flaws and vulnerabilities
posted on 26/07/2010

According to a survey conducted by Fortify Software, 83% of IT security professionals consider commercial applications, the ones you buy off the shelf, to be riddled with code flaws and vulnerabilities. 56% believe these flaws could allow hackers to exploit these software vulnerabilities. As a result, security professionals are making heavy investments in penetration and code testing, combined with application scanning, to try and build security into the software. Half of the IT security professionals also admitted to hacking, with 73% of these respondents doing so to test the strength of their own network’s defences, 13% for fun or out of curiosity, and 3% targeting their efforts at the competition. The survey also unearthed that, amongst the 300 IT security professionals interviewed (with the majority taken from companies employing 1,000 plus employees), 31% admitted to being victims of hacking. More interestingly, with 29% replying ‘don’t know’, this figure could be substantiall... [more]

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