Brian Prince

As the number of VOIP deployments is expected to continue to increase, IT professionals and researchers are urging enterprises not to forget about security. Voice-over-IP security threats are viewed as more theoretical than actual. But the few cases that have come to light have been brazen and costly. For example, investigators arrested two people in […]

3Com officials are getting ready to file an IPO by the end of the year for TippingPoint Technologies, which 3Com bought in 2005. But just what will happen if TippingPoint steps out on its own in the crowded market for intrusion prevention systems remains to be seen. Paul Proctor, an analyst at Gartner, said that […]

In an attempt to compete at the midmarket level, Websense has re-engineered its flagship security product with a new interface and simplified installation. The new software, called Websense Express, leverages the companys ThreatSeeker technology, which scans millions of Web sites for security threats. “A lot of the SMBs [small and midsize businesses] tend to think […]

Cyber-thieves have set their sights on C-level executives with sophisticated social-engineering techniques designed to steal data, according to security researchers at MessageLabs. In its monthly report, MessageLabs recorded a sudden spike in the number of targeted attacks June 26, intercepting some 500 attacks that used e-mails with Microsoft Word document attachments containing malicious code. The […]

IBM is using technology from recently acquired Consul in new software designed to help businesses meet security and compliance guidelines. The new IBM Tivoli Compliance Insight Manager allows companies to track, report and investigate non-compliant behavior across their enterprise. The software monitors user behavior in comparison to corporate policies, automatically providing alerts when data or […]

Layer 7 Technologies has released its SecureSpan XML Firewall as a virtual soft appliance for service-oriented architectures. The idea is to enable enterprises and services providers to deploy a SOA security appliance on commodity server hardware and VMware virtualized computing platforms more quickly and at lower cost, while at the same time improving architectural flexibility. […]

E-mail and Internet content security provider Marshal on June 26 announced that “pump-and-dump” spam has dropped significantly, though not all security vendors agree. Marshal researchers say stock spam now represents five percent of all spam as compared with 50 percent in February. During the past quarter, the amount of pump-and-dump spam, a type of financial […]

eIQnetworks and Mazu Networks are planning to integrate their products to give enterprises a clear view into activity on their networks to help better monitor and address security threats. Mazu is a provider of network behavioral analysis (NBA) technology, while eIQnetworks specializes in security information management (SIM). Officials at both companies hope the alliance will […]

Untangle aims to straighten out network security for small and midsize businesses with an open-source version of its core product. The Untangle Gateway Platform is now licensed under General Public License v2, and provides open-source advocates with a new tool for blocking spam, spyware, viruses, adware and unwanted content on their networks. Company officials said […]

Sometimes in IT, the best defense is a good defense moved further up the network stack. At least that is what some vendors and analysts are predicting about the next generation of network firewalls. “The firewall is the piece of network security infrastructure with all the traffic … every frame going in and out of […]

Mi5 Networks has beefed up its Webgate appliance with technology designed to help organizations detect botnet activity inside their networks and combat malware in Web traffic. Webgate 3.0 provides new anti-botnet capabilities inside the network firewall, offering total visibility of internal network activity as well as inbound and outbound traffic. Mi5 uses signature matching and […]

IBM has released to the public a beta version of DB2 Viper 2, the newest incarnation of its data server. Less than a year after releasing Viper, IBM is promising Viper 2 will expand on its predecessor by simplifying the development and administration of XML in DB2 with features such as a built-in SQL function […]