Brian Prince

When it comes to user rights, less is more, according to officials at BeyondTrust. With that in mind, the company has launched a piece of freeware to help organizations minimize user rights as part of an overall enterprise security strategy. Using BeyondTrust Application Rights Auditor, users can identify software that requires elevated privileges. Once those […]

Sophos has integrated network access control into its latest endpoint security offering as it tries to catch up to key rivals in market share. Earlier the week of March 17, the company released Sophos Endpoint Security and Control 8.0, incorporating NAC technology with anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewall, application control and host intrusion prevention technology in one […]

8 Simple Steps to Protect Your Database By Brian Prince and Chris Preimesberger 8 Simple Steps to Protect Your Database – #1. Directly Monitor Your Financial Database Rather than monitor your network, where rogue users can gain untraceable access to your data, monitor your financial databases. Make sure your tools can identify, provide alerts and […]

The Most Common Database Design Mistakes By Brian Prince The Most Common Database Design Mistakes – Plan? What Plan? Lack of planning was an oft-repeated theme. Poor planning is the fountain from which many other problems spring- The Most Common Database Design Mistakes – Whats My Name? The failure to adopt a naming standard was […]

Shocking the encryption market is not easy to do, but officials at Voltage Security must hope their new approach to encryption will do exactly that. The company’s flagship SecureData product uses a cryptographic technique Voltage Security calls Format-Preserving Encryption. SecureData was first released to the public in fall of 2007, though the company waited until […]

Sybase is looking to bolster both performance and productivity for users with the release of the latest version of Advantage Database Server. Version 9.0 of the product, announced March 17, is one of two embedded database offerings from Sybase. It includes a number of enhancements aimed squarely at application developers. For starters, the company has […]

Startup Illuminate Solutions is bringing its value-based approach to storage to the shores of North America as it tries to make a play in an increasingly congested data warehousing market. The company, which is based in Spain, is planning to begin selling its correlation database engine-called Illuminate-and its tool suite in North American April 14. […]

According to research from Gartner, for the past few years SMBs have consistently spent from 5 to 10 percent of their IT budgets on security, as compared with the 3 to 6 percent spent by enterprises. However, even though they have spent a larger portion of their budget, the typical SMB is not addressing security […]

Symantec officials confirmed its latest round of corporate restructuring has touched some of the company’s highest levels and employees. Former Altiris CEO Greg Butterfield, who led the Altiris Business Unit at Symantec since Altiris was acquired last year, will be stepping down from that position. Also, Tom Kendra, who headed the Security and Compliance group, […]

Researchers at McAfee have uncovered an attempt by hackers to steal passwords for online games by infecting some 10,000 Web pages. Security researchers at McAfee’s Avert Labs discovered the attack March 12. According to the security vendor, the hackers have injected script into valid Web pages to include a reference to a malicious .JS file. […]

IBM has gobbled up Encentuate’s enterprise single-sign and authentication technology to strengthen its own Tivoli portfolio. The purchase is part of a $1.5 billion security initiative IBM has planned for 2008. Encentuate, based in Redwood City, Calif., will help improve IBM’s ability to compete with companies such as EMC by extending Big Blue’s capabilities around […]

Trend Micro CEO Eva Chen has made no secret of her company’s software as a service strategy. In the past year, the Japan-based company has launched a number of SAAS initiatives, pushing security into the cloud. Its latest acquisition, Identum, will add to the company’s cloud computing portfolio. In discussions with eWeek’s Brian Prince, Chen […]