Brian Prince

Vertica Systems is taking its columnar database into the cloud, joining a number of other vendors that have made similar moves. But the market for on-demand database services remains nascent, industry observers said. Vertica Analytic Database Cloud Edition is on-demand version of the company’s grid-enabled columnar database, hosted on Amazon.com’s EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud). The […]

Security researcher Aviv Raff is marking Israel’s 60-year anniversary in his own way-by embedding in his personal blog proof-of-concept code for a zero-day bug targeting Internet Explorer Versions 7 and 8b and challenging readers to find it. It’s a treasure hunt of sorts, which Raff said is in keeping with an Israeli Independence Day tradition. […]

Verdasys and Fidelis Security Systems are integrating their technologies to push a coordinated approach to data leak prevention that spans the network and an organization’s endpoints. Verdasys makes Digital Guardian, host-based DLP tool that discovers, classifies, monitors and controls data. On the network side of DLP is Fidelis’ Extrusion Prevention System. The combination of the […]

Yahoo and McAfee are teaming up to play traffic cop in the name of improving the security of Web searches. The companies are launching a beta program for SearchScan, a new feature by Yahoo Search, powered by McAfee’s SiteAdvisor technology. The feature alerts users of sites with spam, spyware, adware and other malicious software that […]

More than a half million computers have been infected by a Trojan spreading through bogus MP3 files on popular peer-to-peer networks in the past several days, according to researchers at McAfee’s Avert Labs. McAfee first reported noticing a spike in the discovery of a Trojan known as Downloader-UA.h on May 6. The malware was added […]

Embarcadero Technologies is looking to expand its appeal to application developers with the acquisition of CodeGear, a division of Borland Software. The $23 million move is a play by Embarcadero, which specializes in database design tools, to meet application and database developers on middle ground with products that appeal to both groups. CodeGear serves a […]

Sourcefire is building on the management and automation features of its flagship Sourcefire 3D System as the company looks to win over more customers to its intrusion prevention technology. With Sourcefire 3D System 4.8, the company has built out its intrusion prevention capabilities with technology meant to automatically configure rules to monitor traffic on standard […]

Data migration projects may seem straightforward, but they often hit snags for a variety of reasons-not the least of which is data quality. Bad data can break new applications or systems, according to experts, and in order to avoid pitfalls associated with it, it’s necessary to loop in business managers to help IT staffers understand […]

Symantec enjoyed a strong fourth quarter on the back of growth in its security business. While the security and compliance segment was the third largest part of the company’s revenues for the quarter, it also grew the most, jumping 21 percent over the previous year. Symantec’s overall revenues for the quarter, which ended for the […]

Larger firewall vendors may face challenges from smaller companies looking to make their mark filtering communication between virtual machines. The interest in protecting virtual environments has spurred a number of startups and established vendors to make plays in several areas to address security concerns. One issue is the need to monitor and inspect traffic between […]