Woodstock Wire: Enterprise Security News

May 18, 2012

Gen-Y careless in wi-fi use?

Unisys -- In delivering the results of its latest twice-yearly Security Index survey, Unisys highlights the increasing scale of public wi-fi use, particularly by New Zealanders in the 18-34 age-group.

May 18, 2012 11:27 AM

Cybersecurity Czar Steps Down

Portfolio.com: Business News -- Former Microsoft and eBay security chief Howard Schmidt is leaving his post as the White House's first cybersecurity coordinator.

May 18, 2012 10:34 AM

Iomega and McAfee Collaborate to Offer Enterprise Security on Iomega's Top of the Line StorCenter PX Series Network Storage Products

PR Newswire: Networks -- Industry-leading, enterprise-class endpoint protection enhances Iomega network storage products for SMBs and distributed enterprise

Iomega is the first SMB network storage...

May 18, 2012 10:23 AM

RSA Helps Accelerate Adoption of Encryption Key Management Interoperability with KMIP-enabled Solution

PR Newswire: Networks -- RSA implements Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP) specification standardized through OASIS into its RSA(r) Data Protection Manager solution to help enterprises...

May 18, 2012 10:23 AM

Cyber Security Company Lunarline Wins VOLT Award

PR Newswire: Computer and Electronics -- Lunarline has been selected as a winner of the VOLT Award presented by Washington's SmartCEO magazine honoring technology leaders in the nation's capital. Lunarline won as an emerging/small...

May 18, 2012 10:20 AM

May 17, 2012

SCADA/Smart-Grid Vendor Adopts Microsoft's Secure Software Development Program

Dark Reading -- Meanwhile, utilities lag when it comes to cyberattack preparedness and risk management at the executive and board level

May 17, 2012 10:43 AM

Tripwire Gives Back

Tripwire -- In addition to developing great products, Tripwire also spends a great deal of time giving back to the community. Tripwire has always been a supporter of local philanthropic efforts by allowing...

May 17, 2012 10:29 AM

SMB Security Software: Well Hello There Sophos

The VAR Guy -- Talk about a familiar theme. Last week, Kaspersky Lab talked about dominating the SMB security software market. This week, McAfee is making SMB security software claims. Next week, Sophos will...

May 17, 2012 10:21 AM

Sophos serves up new security suites

CRN Australia -- Adds cross-platform mobile security.

May 17, 2012 10:19 AM

Boards Are Still Clueless About Cybersecurity

Forbes - Technology -- The Governance of Enterprise Security: CyLab 2012 Report, released today by Carnegie Mellon CyLab, examines how boards of directors and senior management are managing privacy and cyber risks....

May 17, 2012 10:05 AM

Tripwire Dedicates Time and Money to the Local Community Through the Creation of 'The Tripwire Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation'

Marketwire - Computers and Software -- Today, Tripwire, Inc. announced The Tripwire Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation to support nonprofit organizations and philanthropic efforts...

May 17, 2012 09:41 AM

RSA Renews IT Services Agreement With CGI for 6 Years

Marketwire - Computers and Software -- CGI Group Inc. (TSX:GIB.A)(NYSE:GIB), a leading provider of information technology and business processing services and RSA Canada, one of Canada's...

May 17, 2012 09:40 AM

Top Executives in Critical Infrastructure Cite Need for Improvement in Managing Cyber Risks

PR Newswire: Internet Technology -- RSA, The Security Division of EMC (NYSE: EMC), alongside Carnegie Mellon CyLab highlight Carnegie Mellon CyLab's new 2012 Governance Report, the first global analysis of how...

May 17, 2012 09:34 AM

Rethinking Protection Technologies: A Change Has Occurred

CircleID -- I ordinarily spend a lot of my time talking about the technical aspects of threat detection and examining the tools and strategies that the bad guys are employing to subvert corporate defenses...

May 17, 2012 09:16 AM

May 16, 2012

Sophos Targets SMB With Security Suite Launch

Channelnomics -- Sophos has launched a set of comprehensive security suites directly targeting the SMB, which will likely give partners an easy inroad into lower markets by touting affordability and comprehensive...

May 16, 2012 11:58 AM

Sophos Offers Partners New Complete Security Suites to Meet Clients' Changing Needs

Marketwire - Computers and Software -- Complete Security Suites Mean Better Protection, Simplified Management and Cost Savings for Customers

May 16, 2012 10:53 AM

Symantec to Webcast 2012 Financial Analyst Day

Marketwire - Computers and Software -- Symantec (NASDAQ: SYMC) will host its 2012 Financial Analyst Day on Thursday, May 24, 2012, from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time, in San...

May 16, 2012 10:53 AM

Staying Positive Online: Youths Strive to Dispel Myths of Internet Dangers

PR Newswire: Business Technology -- Trend Micro Inc. (TYO: 4704;TSE: 4704) today announced the winners of the company's third annual "What's Your Story?" international video contest that empowers youth to be leaders in educating...

May 16, 2012 10:39 AM

McAfee Hosts First Annual Charity Golf Tournament

Business Wire: Networks -- McAfee, the world's largest dedicated security technology company, today announced that its first annual McAfee Charity Golf Tournament generated over $150,000 for The Parkinson's Institute...

May 16, 2012 10:23 AM

May 15, 2012

Websites Select Security Services To Suppress DDoS, Other Attacks

Dark Reading -- Web application firewalls are a popular way to protect sites, but cloud and managed-security services offer strong benefits to protect against denial-of-service attacks and compromise

May 15, 2012 11:47 AM

Security Firm Says Apple Asking for Assessment

NewsFactor -- Apple's Macs have been subject to a variety of high-profile security threats in recent months. Now, according to Kaspersky Labs, Apple has asked the security firm for a vulnerability analysis.



According...

May 15, 2012 11:33 AM

PCI Security Standards Council Takes On Credit Card Security Threat

ChannelWeb -- Council to provide training on secure installation of payment applications to support merchant PCI DSS compliance efforts.

May 15, 2012 11:29 AM

SMBs caught in a false sense of IT security

IT Business -- Canada's smaller companies are adopting newer technologies but not thinking hard enough about potential security risks involved with them, a Symantec survey finds

May 15, 2012 11:29 AM

SMBs Are Adopting Virtualization, Cloud and Mobility for Improved Disaster Preparedness According to a Symantec Survey

Marketwire - Computers and Software -- Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC) today announced the findings of its 2012 SMB Disaster Preparedness Survey, which discovered that disaster preparedness...

May 15, 2012 11:02 AM

Security Powerhouses McAfee and CloudShield Offer a New Sensor-based Approach to Detect and Defend Against Advanced Persistent Threats

PR Newswire: High Tech Security -- McAfee, the world's largest dedicated security technology company and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) (NYSE: SAI), a FORTUNE 500(r) scientific, engineering and cybersecurity...

May 15, 2012 10:58 AM

Over A Thousand Young Cyber Security Enthusiasts Registered and Competed in CyberQuests 2012

PR Newswire: Business Technology -- The U.S. Cyber Challenge (USCC) has completed its CyberQuests competition. The online competition, conducted in collaboration with the...

May 15, 2012 10:52 AM

CyberSafe Announces Support for FDA 21 CFR Part 11 Compliance

PR Newswire: Business Technology -- CyberSafe, a leading security software vendor and SAP partner, today announced that the latest version of its TrustBroker(tm) Secure Client...

May 15, 2012 10:50 AM

RSA(r) Conference Announces Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia as Closing Keynote Speaker at RSA(r) Conference Europe 2012 in October

Business Wire: Internet -- RSA(r) Conference, the world's leading information security conference group, today announced that Jimmy Wales, best known as the Founder of Wikipedia, is confirmed as the Closing Keynote Speaker...

May 15, 2012 10:43 AM

McAfee Aims to Protect Critical Infrastructure from Increased Attacks

Business Wire: Networks -- McAfee announced a collaboration with Intel to better protect the world's energy utility ecosystem, including generation, transmission and distribution, from increased cyber attacks. The two...

May 15, 2012 10:41 AM

Security firm claims OS X is 'really vulnerable' to malware

BGR -- Security firm Kaspersky Lab has begun to independently examine Apple's Mac OS X platform and found that it's highly vulnerable to malware. "As Mac OS X market share continues to increase,...

May 15, 2012 09:58 AM

May 14, 2012

Criminals Have Nowhere to Hide with Live Video, Data and Mission-Critical Applications in the Hands of First Responders around the World

Business Wire: Hardware -- From the United Arab Emirates to the United Kingdom to the US, Motorola Solutions Public Safety LTE delivers key mission-critical broadband projects, industry-first solutions and lifecycle...

May 14, 2012 08:59 AM

May 13, 2012

Communicating the value of Information Security - Part 1

Tripwire -- Earlier this year, I began writing about my project relating to "connecting security to the business." Essentially, I want to find repeatable methods to help information security people communicate...

May 13, 2012 05:58 PM

How Buying Cloud Security In A Marketplace Change The Equation

Secure Cloud Review -- With the launch of the Amazon AWS Marketplace the promise of change for how cloud apps products are sold, consumed and used is very real. What the app store did for phone apps, the marketplace...

May 13, 2012 05:57 PM

C Finally Has A New Standard for Secure Coding

Dr.Dobbs -- C11 specifies many security features that require minimal changes to existing code. They greatly reduce unexpected behavior and prevent many kinds of common attacks.

May 13, 2012 05:55 PM

Securing Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Security

Infosecwriters.com -- David Borland submits this paper on Amazon AWS security basics. A very good overvie wif you are considering Amazon as a cloud provider and want to know more about the security they provide.

May 13, 2012 05:31 PM

New .secure Internet Domain On Tap

Dark Reading -- 'Safe neighborhood' top-level domain will require SSL, DNSSEC, and other security measures for websites

May 13, 2012 05:03 PM

Americans Less Jittery About Net Security

Unisys -- Americans desensitized to cyber attacks? Unisys Steve Vinsik discusses the Unisys Security Index with GovInfoSecurity.

May 13, 2012 04:58 PM

Cybersecurity Roundup: Hackers Target Gas Firms; Twitter-Spammer Logins Leaked; and More

CIO - Blogs -- This week's cybersecurity news roundup features a US ICS-CERT warning about a "spear phishing" campaign aimed at natural-gas pipeline companies; Twitter spammers' logins exposed; a University...

May 13, 2012 04:52 PM

Kaspersky: McAfee Losing Focus Under Intel

Channelnomics -- The Russian security company boasts of its double-digit, faster than market growth, fueled by endpoint security sales. By comparison, Kaspersky pointed out how McAfee is in decline following...

May 13, 2012 04:49 PM

AVG to Present at Upcoming Investor Conferences

PR Newswire: Business Technology -- AVG Technologies N.V. (NYSE: AVG), today announced that management will present at the following investor conferences in the second quarter of 2012:

May 13, 2012 03:56 PM

May 11, 2012

CSOs warned of serious cyber-espionage attack

Network World -- A cybersecurity consulting firm has documented the existence of a China-based espionage operation that has infiltrated the computer systems of at least 22 organizations in the government and...

May 11, 2012 12:29 PM

AVG Reports First Quarter 2012 Financial Results

PR Newswire: Business Technology -- AVG Technologies N.V. (NYSE: AVG) today reported results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2012.



"AVG's solid execution across the board drove strong first quarter financial results and...

May 11, 2012 10:27 AM

Trend Micro Reports First Quarter Results

PR Newswire: Business Technology -- Trend Micro Incorporated (TSE: 4704; TYO 4704), the global cloud security leader, announced earnings results for the first quarter 2012, ending March 31, 2012.

May 11, 2012 10:25 AM

McAfee Security Innovation Alliance Adds New Partners

Business Wire: Technology News -- McAfee today announced eight new partners have joined the McAfee(r) Security Innovation Alliance (SIA), McAfee's technology partnering-program. With over 130 leading vendors participating in...

May 11, 2012 10:22 AM

May 10, 2012

How To Use Service Providers To Manage DDoS Threats

Dark Reading -- Distributed denial of service attacks can put your website and your businesss out of commission. Here are some tips on how to mitigate the threat

May 10, 2012 11:45 AM

Police-themed ransomware starts targeting US and Canadian users

Network World -- A ransomware application that locks computers and asks their owners to pay fines for allegedly violating several laws through their online activity is targeting U.S. and Canadian users, malware...

May 10, 2012 11:37 AM

Kaspersky Lab: Mobile Security, Cloud — and the Bahamas?

The VAR Guy -- Ahhhh... The sand, the sun -- plus security software, mobility and cloud computing rolled into one. The VAR Guy is packing his bags and heading to Kaspersky Lab Partner Conference (May 10-14,...

May 10, 2012 11:32 AM

Symantec Solutions Achieve Common Criteria Certifications

Marketwire - Computers and Software -- Federal Information Processing Standard Validations Also Confirmed

May 10, 2012 10:54 AM

May 09, 2012

Less than half of small businesses verify cloud providers' security

IT Manager Daily -- Many IT security experts agree that cloud computing providers could be doing more to protect their customers' data. But that doesn't mean customers don't have their own responsibilities when...

May 09, 2012 11:46 AM

Symantec Modernizes Data Protection With Integrated Backup and Deduplication Appliances

Marketwire - Computers and Software -- NetBackup 5200 and Backup Exec 3600 Appliances Protect Information Completely Across Virtual and Physical Systems

May 09, 2012 10:49 AM