IBM Confirms Finjan’s Report on Crimeware-as-a-Service

By Finjan

Finjan Inc. a leading provider of secure web gateway solutions for the enterprise market, stated today that a blog posting from IBM Internet Security Systems, in which the rapid ascendance of hacking-as-a-service is discussed, confirms an earlier report from Finjan on Crimeware-as-a-Service.
“It is indicative of the domination of criminal gangs in the malware [...]

CloudShield Has New Applications For IBM Blade Centre

By Alan Harten

CloudShield Technologies has announced that support for its DNS Defender and Subscriber Services Manager (SSM) applications is now available with the new IBM Blade enter PN41 blade.
Both national governments and service providers will now be able to take advantage of the platform in order to gain protection from different kinds of attacks.
Users will [...]

Smash - IBM’s secure mashup tool

By Isabelle Chaize

IBM have released a newly developed mashup tool.
Smash is designed to create mashups securely, which IBM hope will make mashups available to the wider enterprise market by sorting out security issues, one of their chief problems.
Mashups enable the creation of customised applications by users who do not have extensive technical coding knowledge.
Rod Smith, IBM [...]

IBM Embarking on Asset Encryption

By Dave Nixon

In providing 355,000 employees with PGP’s whole-disk encryption to ensure data confidentiality, IBM is embarking on an enormous rollout of desktop and laptop encryption.
Although IBM already uses encryption in areas of its organisation, predominantly with Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions encryption in Lotus Notes, the rollout of PGP whole-disk encryption symbolizes Big Blue’s biggest-ever [...]

IBM Introduces New Telecom Security System

By Brian Turner

IBM has announced security hardware, software and services to address the security needs of the user, enterprise systems and the core of large-scale Internet Protocol (IP) carrier networks. The Telecom Core Infrastructure Security Solution monitors and manages the health of both the network and the traffic itself.
The system addresses security needs generated by the increase [...]

IBM Updates ISS Endpoint Desktop Tools with New Security Capabilities

By Brian Turner

IBM, in an alliance with software developer BitDefender, is updating Internet Security Systems’ desktop security package with new anti-virus and anti-spyware technology.
ISS Proventia Desktop Endpoint Security, which is expected to be available by the end of the year, aims to help companies manage the protection of PCs from external attacks.
BitDefender anti-virus tools have been integrated [...]

IBM Introduces First Security Device From ISS

By Brian Turner

Less than a month after acquiring Internet Security Systems for $1.3 billion, IBM plans to unveil its first appliance - the Proventia Management SiteProtector.
SiteProtector is designed to allow network and host security operations to be managed from one console. It manages a number of software products from ISS, including network-based intrusion prevention, multi-function systems, server [...]