Brian Prince

Officials at network security firm FireEye have their eyes on botnets and their minds on a strategy that mixes a new anti-botnet appliance with a global intelligence and analysis service. FireEye has integrated its FireEye Botwall 4000 appliance with its Botwall Network, a subscription-based botnet discovery and analysis service. According to the company, the service […]

Code Green Networks expects to find a willing market for enterprise-class data leak prevention among small and midsize businesses. Unveiled this week, the CI-750 provides features from Code Greens midsized business appliance—the CI-1500—but slimmed down to meet the cost and management challenges unique to organizations or locations with fewer than 250 network users, officials at […]

Oracles revenues for new application licenses jumped 65 percent in the companys first fiscal quarter, driving a 28 percent increase in earnings per share compared to the same quarter last year. Oracle President Charles Phillips said Sept. 20 that the Redwood Shores, Calif., company is grabbing market share from SAP in the applications space. While […]

Selling illegal software is a worldwide, multi-billion dollar business. For software companies, that means coming up with ways to stop piracys negative effects is an important element of survival. With that in mind, Uniloc USA, which specializes in electronic device recognition products for software copy control, is offering up several software licensing strategies to help […]

Open-source security provider Untangle is looking for a few good managed service providers. The company plans to announce a new MSP partner program Sept. 24 that allows MSPs to offer and manage Untangles open-source network security product, the Untangle Gateway Platform, to protect customer networks from spam, viruses, spyware, adware and other threats. “From the […]

Sophos, in its latest release of PureMessage for Microsoft Exchange, sports added simplified management features and enhanced data leak prevention. PureMessage for Microsoft Exchange 3.0 features several advances on the previous version, including Support for Microsoft Exchange 2007 and the 64-bit version of Windows Server 2003 The ability to monitor and manage multiple PureMessage instances […]

Security vendors and customers alike have their eyes on the endpoint, with the market for security suites for such devices estimated to be in the billions. BigFixs latest foray into this segment of the security space with BigFix EndPoint Defender (code name Project Fortinbras), an endpoint protection appliance aimed at mid-size enterprises. BigFix EndPoint Defender […]

Pervasive Software is looking for a bigger share of the embedded database market with the release of Pervasive PSQL Summit 10, the next generation of the companys database engine. Released Sept. 18, the new version is designed to help ISVs, VARs and OEMs embrace new technologies, such as Microsoft Windows Vista, and to take advantage […]

Barracuda Networks has announced plans to integrate technology from recently acquired Web application security vendor NetContinuum into its product line. Barracuda acquired NetContinuum for an undisclosed sum in July. NetContinuum develops products that combine Web application security, traffic management and SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) acceleration. The move was meant to broaden the companys security footprint […]

Sourcefire is rolling out the latest version of Sourcefire 3D System, affording customers a new level of protection with what it calls an adaptive intrusion prevention system. Unlike traditional IPS products, 3D System Version 4.7, announced Sept. 17, enables users to optimize the security and performance of their IPS systems based on the actual network […]

Security provider McAfee pulled the covers off the latest version of ePolicy Orchestrator on Sept. 17, touting its interoperability and several new features allowing users to manage security products for the endpoint and network. ePO 4.0 enables users to unite the management of network, data and endpoint security under one console, McAfee officials said. Calling […]

MySQL plans to launch alpha and beta versions of several new free and open-source software products in September, including a release candidate of the latest version of its database software. “Were always announcing new open-source products, but this month we just happened to have a lot coming out all at once,” said Zack Urlocker, the […]