Brian Prince

E-mail security specialist PGP is building new protection onto its Universal Gateway Email product. PGP Universal Gateway Email allows users to set encryption rules for outbound and inbound e-mails and e-mail attachments. The new features, announced Sept. 12, include new functionality for delivering encrypted PDFs that can be opened using a standard PDF reader, such […]

SAN DIEGO, Calif.—Symantec has big plans for the channel. At its Partner Engage 2007 show here Sept. 12, the company announced plans for two new Symantec Services Programs designed to help partners enhance their services portfolio to meet customers needs, as well as a third program to provide partners with tools to more effectively target […]

Note to channel partners and industry watchers – the emphasis on services is nothing to fear for Symantec partners, company officials said. “We shouldnt look at this as some boogie man thats going to eat up the channel,” said Symantec CEO John Thompson during a roundtable at the Symantec Partner Engage conference in San Diego […]

It is late 2003, and officials at the Kettering Medical Center Network have a challenge on their hands: How do they ensure they are securing their network in the most efficient manner? Rather than simply renew its Symantec AntiVirus Enterprise Edition licenses, the network of Ohio hospitals decided to perform a complete network security assessment. […]

IronPort Systems is offering data loss prevention and encryption capability for e-mail in the AsyncOS operating system powering its e-mail security appliances. The introduction Sept. 11 of this DLP (data leak prevention) functionality into the IronPort appliances gives corporate IT teams a single, fully integrated solution that combines the traditional e-mail security functions of spam […]

Cisco Systems is expanding its network access control offerings in a move company officials said will cut complexity, the cost of operations and extend security at the endpoint. The San Jose, Calif., company Sept. 10 launched the NAC Network Module, a plug-in module that integrates Ciscos NAC technology into its Integrated Services Routers. The module […]

PatchLink has a new name, Lumension Security, and a new game—delivering comprehensive, unified protection and control over enterprise endpoints. Lumension Security is the result of a new focus for the company, which has sought to broaden its security footprint in the past several months. As PatchLink, officials acquired endpoint security vendor SecureWave and the STAT […]

Cyberoam, a division of Elitecore Technologies, has added features to its CR Series security appliances in a move partially meant to increase its appeal to enterprises. Cyberoams identity-based UTM (unified threat management) products provide a range of security features including identity-based firewall, VPN, gateway antivirus, gateway anti-spam, intrusion detection and prevention and content filtering. The […]

Robert Whiteley and Natalie Lambert have seen the future—and in it, traditional network security is dead. At least that is the message the two Forrester Research analysts delivered to a crowd at the Forrester Security Forum in Atlanta Sept. 6. According to them, in the next five years the Internet will be the primary connectivity […]

F-Secure is releasing its Internet Security 2008 product with new parental controls, improved anti-phishing features and a free trial version of anti-virus software for mobile devices. With Internet Security 2008, released Sept. 3, F-Secure officials said they have improved the detection and scanning performance of phishing mail, as well as added a plug-in to allow […]

Researchers at Fortinet call it Confusion 2.0—the unlearning of the golden rule of the Web: “Never give out any log-in credentials to an online service, regardless of the reason for the request.” But in their latest report on malware trends, they warned that some of the golden rules shine has rubbed off as users are […]

ATLANTA – Monster.com, TJX, Pfizer-the list of companies and organizations affected by database breaches grows bigger and badder every week, but most enterprises remain focused on the perimeter and ignore the database. Some 80 percent of enterprises lack a basic database security plan, according to Forrester Research surveys. “People take it for granted that databases […]