Brian Prince

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 […]

Microsoft has plugged a number of security holes on this month’s Patch Tuesday, including much-anticipated fixes for a slew of vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft Office Excel. The company issued four security bulletins this month, each covering vulnerabilities that can be exploited remotely and are rated “critical”-Microsoft’s highest threat rating. According to Microsoft, there are a total […]

Imperva has built a new capability into its database monitoring product allowing users to track changes to sensitive values at the row level. The technology, which the company calls Track Value Changes, is part of its SecureSphere Database Security Gateways software. Meant to track even the smallest changes to database values, company officials are touting […]

One by one, Adam Schafer, a system engineer at Bluefire, demonstrated the attacks, rendering the smartphone in front of him defenseless. In the first, he modified the home page of the device and added a favorite to Pocket Internet Explorer; in the second malware copied and forwarded SMS messages received on the device to a […]

When Microsoft announced it was bringing query processing and storage capabilities into the cloud with its SQL Server Data Services offering, industry watchers took notice. Time will tell, however, whether other major database players will follow suit with offerings of their own. Microsoft’s SQL Server Data Services is not exactly SQL Server on the Web; […]