CREDANT Technologies Reports Strongest Quarter Ever
by CREDANT TechnologiesCREDANT Technologies, the market leader in endpoint data protection solutions today announced their best quarterly revenue bookings in the history of the company. CREDANT enjoyed great success across the board in achieving these numbers, and particular success internationally, where they recorded 577% growth compared with the same quarter last year. CREDANT also signed a multi-million dollar deal, their biggest ever to date, with one of the world’s largest ...
CREDANT Technologies Gains Two Recognitions
by CREDANT TechnologiesCREDANT Technologies, the market leader in endpoint data protection solutions, today announced it has been ranked number 93 on Technology Fast 500™, and is a finalist in GSN: Government Security News Homeland Security Awards competition. Technology Fast 500 is Deloitte LLP’s ranking of 500 of the fastest-growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences, and clean technology companies in North America. Rankings are based on percentage of fiscal year revenue growth during the ...
August 17, 2009
Mobile laptop usage soaring
by CREDANT TechnologiesThe apparently amusing tale of New York coffee shops - apparently fed up with laptop users hogging their table space and using up electricity for hours on end - has a much darker message, says Sean Glynn, Director at Credant Technologies. According to Sean Glynn with the endpoint data protection specialists, the story highlights the fact that laptop usage amongst business people has now reached critical mass. "Thanks to the ...
August 7, 2009
CREDANT Launches Mobile Guardian Enterprise Edition v6.5
by CREDANT TechnologiesCREDANT Technologies has released CREDANT Mobile Guardian Enterprise Edition (CMG EE v6.5), which includes full disk encryption and protection for Mac OS X in addition to improvements in usability, transparency and manageability for endusers of Windows and Smartphone devices. CMG EE v6.5 for Mac extends CREDANT’s data protection to all Mac OS X environments including Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger and v10.5 Leopard Systems. The new edition requires no additional IT ...
June 2, 2009
Pension Holder Data Loss Avoidable
by CREDANT TechnologiesThe loss of personal details - including names, addresses, national insurance numbers and salary plus bank data - from The Pensions Trust could have been avoided if the laptop used by the organisation's contractor had used onboard encryption, says Credant Technologies. "The fact that the Trust is a not-for-profit organisation does not mean that it can bypass any of the stringent IT security safeguards or require similar controls to be ...
May 26, 2009
Survey Reveals Workaholics Work 2-6 hours In Bed
by CREDANT TechnologiesOver a quarter of UK employees are so work obsessed they can’t resist using a mobile device such as a laptop in bed before they go to sleep according to a survey released today by CREDANT Technologies – the endpoint data protection specialists. The survey discovered that of those people who do work in bed, 57% do so for between 2 and 6 hours every week, little wonder that the ...
April 16, 2009
PIN cracker situation due to weak security
by CREDANT TechnologiesRevelations that hackers have discovered a method of cracking PINs from payment cards as they travel from an ATM to a banking computer are the direct result of sloppy security practices, says Credant Technologies, the military grade encryption specialist. "The report, from Verizon Business, claims to show that criminal fraudsters are intercepting the weakest links in the multi-hop network path between one bank's ATM and the home network of the card ...
March 31, 2009
Credant named “champion” in data encryption market
by CREDANT TechnologiesCREDANT Technologies, a market leader in data protection solutions, today announced that European independent IT analyst firm Bloor Research has found that CREDANT has made significant gains in the two markets it serves and is building on that momentum. In its latest market updates, Bloor classifies CREDANT as a “champion” in the data encryption market and an “innovator” in the enterprise data protection market. In comparison to last year, CREDANT’s ...
March 18, 2009
Phone Data makes 4.2 Million Brits Vulnerable to ID Theft
by CREDANT TechnologiesAccording to the findings of a survey by endpoint data protection security experts, Credant Technologies, 80% of phone users store information on their phones that could easily be used to steal their identities. The research surveyed 600 commuters at London railway stations about their mobile phones, typical usage and the types of sensitive information stored on them. The results were horrifying : • 16% have their bank account details saved on their ...
March 11, 2009
Lothian USB stick loss atypical of Police security
by CREDANT TechnologiesCredant Technologies says that reports that the Lothian and Borders Police have lost a USB stick containing vehicle registrations and other information is symptomatic of the public sector being under-resourced when it comes to IT security. "The good news, however, is that we are seeing increasing numbers of emergency services, including the Police, coming to us for advice, and taking our data encryption plus compliance products to bolster their overall levels ...
Compliance deadline looms for local authorities
by CREDANT TechnologiesCredant Technologies is coming to the rescue of local authorities, education and emergency services who are being faced with ex-communication from Government networks as the March 31st compliance deadline approaches. The Government Connect Secure eXtranet (GCSx) and Code of Connection (CoCo) rules kick in on March 31 and any local authority not meeting the rules could run the risk of losing data and being cut-off from Government networks. "Many Public ...
February 12, 2009
Open Security Foundation in partnership with Credant
by CREDANT TechnologiesCredant Technologies, the market leader in data protection solutions, today announced it has entered a partnership agreement with the Open Security Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to tracking and reporting security vulnerabilities and breaches of personal information The Open Security Foundation's DataLossDB, a research project that documents known and reported data loss incidents worldwide, recently announced the inclusion of the Primary Sources Archive. The Primary Sources Archive is a collection of ...
Companies remain concerned over latest Web 2.0 security
by CREDANT TechnologiesA report released today by Forrester Research, and commissioned by Adobe, has highlighted the fact that knowledge workers working in companies remain more than a little worried about the security of Web 2.0-based collaborative working systems. "The Forrester research confirms the findings of research announced at the SchmooCon 2009 conference in Washington this week, which found that security on social networking sites is significantly wanting, despite the take-up of the technology ...
February 4, 2009
Yasni research highlights case for encryption
by CREDANT TechnologiesResearch just released, which shows that 83 per cent of people use their date of birth, maiden or pet name as a security password for e-banking or email accounts, strengthens the case for the use of encryption on company data of all types, says Credant Technologies. "The research from our colleagues at Yasni.co.uk highlights the fact that, despite all the issues surrounding cybercrime and the theft of personal data, human nature ...
January 28, 2009
Welsh NHS Trust data loss avoidable
by CREDANT TechnologiesAccording to Credant Technologies a Welsh NHS Trust, which has been rapped over the knuckles for being in breach of the Data Protection Act after losing data on 5,000 patients held on a laptop, could very easily have avoided the problem had it used encryption technology. "The Information Commissioner's Office has quite rightly found the Abertawe Bo Morgannwg trust to be in breach of the DPA for losing the data on ...
January 21, 2009
9,000 USBs left in Laundrettes
by CREDANT TechnologiesData leakage and data loss is at an all time high and this could be blamed on the ever-popular USB or memory stick which most people now use to download and transport large amounts of sensitive data. So it’s no surprise to find in a survey released by Credant Technologies that in the last year, 9000 USB sticks have been forgotten in people’s pockets as they take their clothes ...
January 12, 2009
CREDANT Launches Endpoint Data Leakage Prevention Solution to Protect Government Data from Cyber Attacks
by CREDANT TechnologiesCredant announced today the launch of CREDANT Protector, its endpoint data leakage prevention solution that offers government agencies comprehensive device and wireless port control, as well as extensive optical media (CD/DVD) encryption capabilities. CREDANT Protector provides government agencies with an unprecedented level of protection for their sensitive data, allowing authorised government employees to utilize removable media to further the agency mission while eliminating the risk that sensitive data may be ...
November 25, 2008
CREDANT and Safend Partner to launch CREDANT Protector
by CREDANT TechnologiesCREDANT 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 of comprehensive device and wireless port control solutions and extensive optical media (CD/DVD) encryption capabilities ...
November 20, 2008
Survey Shows Patient Information could be Left to Haemorrhage from mobile devices
by CREDANT TechnologiesA 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 device usage in the healthcare sector” survey released today was carried out amongst senior clinicians, ...
October 27, 2008
Lawyers found guilty of failing to defend their clients
by CREDANT Technologies24% of UK legal firms have confessed to misplacing at least one mobile device containing confidential documents. These losses leave the data saved to the device vulnerable to exposure with case-notes, contracts and client details typically at risk. That’s the shocking discovery by Credant Technologies, a company specialising in IT security, in its survey amongst 100 legal firms across the UK to ascertain how this well-informed sector view “security, ...