Web 2.0 to Impact eHoliday Shopping

By WorkLight

With the economy unravelling, says Web 2.0 for Business specialist WorkLight, the online shopping world is changing as companies look to augment their traditional online shopping destinations by leveraging Web 2.0 tools.
“With the Christmas shopping season getting well under way, it’s clear that Web 2.0 is beginning to change the face of the consumer’s [...]

CREDANT and Safend Partner to launch CREDANT Protector

By CREDANT Technologies

CREDANT Technologies and Safendtoday announced a partnership that will provide CREDANT customers with an unprecedented level of protection for their sensitive data.
The partnership adds Safend’s endpoint data leakage monitoring and protection technologies to CREDANT’s data protection portfolio. Powered by Safend technology, CREDANT’s new offering, CREDANT Protector, strengthens its existing security portfolio through the addition [...]

CREDANT and Safend Release CREDANT Protector

By Alan Harten

CREDANT has partnered up with Data Leakage Prevention solutions company, Safend, to give CREDANT customers additional sensitive data protection.
The partnership will see the use of Safend’s endpoint data leakage monitoring and protection technologies integrated into CREDANT’s existing extensive data protection portfolio.
The company wanted the new solution so that it could combine it with their [...]

Devfense NSA Network Security Mapping

By Alan Harten

A new security assessment tool may prove useful for accurately mapping a company’s assets.
This can be of great assistance in deflecting attacks by organised cyber criminals.
These criminals are paying a lot of attention to Web application Security, and are always intent on finding a way around any barriers that are placed in their path. [...]

Survey Shows Patient Information could be Left to Haemorrhage from mobile devices

By CREDANT Technologies

A transatlantic survey of more than a thousand healthcare professionals has shown that over a third are unwittingly putting personal information at risk by storing patient records, medical images, contact details, corporate data and other sensitive information on mobile devices such as laptops, BlackBerrys and USB sticks - and not adequately securing them.
The “mobile [...]

Finjan Raises $22 Million in Investment Round

By Finjan

Finjan today announced that it has raised $22 million in an investment round led by HarbourVest Partners, with participation by new and current investors Benchmark Capital, Israel Seed Partners, Benhamou Global Ventures, and Cisco.
The company will use the proceeds to accelerate its growth and leadership within the global Secure Web Gateway market.
“The Secure [...]

Organisations fail to educate employees about risks from online shopping

By ISACA

Organisations allow employees to shop online but do not educate users about risks, exposing employees and employers alike to spam, malware, phishing and loss of productivity in the workplace.
ISACA, a nonprofit association that serves more than 86,000 IT security, assurance and governance professionals globally, has carried out three simultaneous surveys (two in the [...]

WorkLight® Helps Retail Banks Gain Edge by Embracing Secure Web 2.0

By WorkLight

WorkLight announced that it will demonstrate how banks can enhance their online and mobile capabilities by enabling secure interactions using consumer Web 2.0 tools such as gadgets and widgets.
Exhibiting at the annual BAI Retail Delivery Conference in Orlando (November 18-20), the company, known for enabling Facebook for secure business use, is now urging retail [...]

WorkLight and Tata Join Forces to Deliver Web 2.0 Business Solutions

By WorkLight

WorkLight and Tata Consultancy Services today announced a partnership to provide companies, for the first time, the ability to securely engage customers, partners and employees through consumer Web 2.0 tools, such as Facebook, iGoogle, iPhone apps, desktop gadgets, RSS and more.
Enabling secure, personalized and enterprise-grade interactions beyond the portal, companies will gain real business [...]

New Guide Aligning COBIT 4.1, ITIL V3 and ISO 27002 Helps Enterprises

By ISACA

In the current economy, enterprises worldwide are struggling to achieve growth and governance at an affordable cost without compromising the business, its customers, and the integrity and security of their information systems.
To help them accomplish this daunting task, the nonprofit, independent IT Governance Institute (ITGI), in conjunction with the UK Office of Government Commerce [...]

‘Web Threats Weekly’ Offers Email Alerts

By Alan Harten

A Canadian company has launched a new e-mail alert system that aims to supply the public with tools to better defend themselves against potential threats.
The e-mail alerts will go under the name Web Threats Weekly and will give members of the public information they need about the latest problems.
Pacific Coast Information Systems will send [...]

Cyber-Ark Signs Seven-Figure Deal with Top 10 Global Bank to Provide Privileged Identity Management Solution

By Cyber - Ark

Cyber-Ark Software, the leading provider of Privileged Identity Management (PIM), Sensitive Information Management and Digital Vault solutions, today announced that one of the world’s largest and most influential global financial institutions has chosen Cyber-Ark’s Privileged Identity Management Suite to secure and manage its privileged identities and application passwords.
This seven figure deal marks another major win [...]

WorkLight confirms consumers flocking to Web 2.0-enabled healthcare

By WorkLight

WorkLight says that consumers - particularly in the US - are turning to Web 2.0-enabled online healthcare, as healthcare providers realize the cost advantages of using “Healthcare 2.0″ technology.
A recent industry report confirms that over 60 million adults are now using Web 2.0 for healthcare in the United States.
“Healthcare in the US is an [...]

Information Security Awareness Forum supports Safer Surfing

By Infosecurity Europe

The Information Security Awareness Forum (ISAF) is pleased to announce its support of the http://www.surfingsafer.com website.
The SurfingSafer website provides an increasingly comprehensive set of user reviews of security products designed to make surfing safer. Such a valuable resource provides a critically important service to users and small businesses alike by promoting and improving [...]

Infosecurity Advisor says NHS patients should rise up and defend their data from the number-crunchers

By InfosecurityAdvisor

Mike Barwise, editor of www.infosecurityadviser.com the Web portal of the Infosecurity Europe show, has revealed he is concerned about the NHS plans to make “additional use” of patient data.
Barwise - an established privacy advocate - says on the Infosecurity Advisor Web site that the NHS is
currently conducting a consultation on the “Additional Uses of [...]

Capacity Planning is a key factor for managing Data Centers

By Neptuny

Neptuny today announced that a poll carried out at the Gartner Data Center Summit in Amsterdam found that 93% of companies are interested in implementing Capacity management for Cloud Computing or Virtualization.
“The growing importance for managing Data Centers in a more effective and efficient way is driving demand for Capacity Management”, comments Neptuny’s Business [...]

ISAF issues warning to retailers to tighten up on security procedures

By Infosecurity Europe

Figures released in October by APACS, the UK payments association, show that Card-not-present fraud rose by 18 % in the first six months of 2008.
A leading member of the Information Security Awareness Forum (ISAF) has issued a further warning after cybercriminals ordered a laptop on credit and had it delivered to her home [...]

Finjan donates Secure Web Gateway to Hospital St Jansdal in The Netherlands

By Finjan

Finjan Inc today announced that it donated one of its award winning Vital Security NG-5000 Secure Web Gateway appliances to the Children and Teenagers Ward of Hospital St Jansdal in The Netherlands.
Utilizing Finjan’s patented real-time content inspection, it ensures safe Internet access for the seriously ill young patients in the Hospital’s Children and [...]

Cyber-Ark Signs Huge banking Institution

By Alan Harten

Software Company Cyber-Ark, who work in the areas of Privileged Identity Management (PIM), Sensitive Information Management and Digital Vault solutions, have been hired by an unnamed “influential global financial institution” to provide their PIM security solution.
According to the company the ink is already dry on what they claim to be a seven figure contract.
Not [...]

Malware Attacks Increase

By Alan Harten

As a response to recent widespread reports of a new wave of data stealing attacks that include Sinowal Trojan - aka Torpig and Mebroot - which were responsible for the theft of perhaps many hundreds of thousands of online bank account details as well as bank payment card data, Finjan says it is willing to [...]

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