Dennis Fisher

3Com Corp. is the latest vendor to join the security appliance fray, announcing an OEM relationship with Crossbeam Systems Inc. The agreement enables 3Com to sell two of Crossbeams appliances—the C30 and the X45—under the 3Com name. In addition, the companies plan to jointly develop an appliance aimed at the lower end of the market. […]

Enterprises looking for a way to prevent security breaches from inside the network and to stop unauthorized use of company machines will have a new alternative soon when InfoExpress Inc. releases its CyberGatekeeper LAN software. The system is based on the premise that any action not expressly permitted under a companys security policy is malicious. […]

Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday announced the creation of a $5 million fund to be used to reward people who turn over information leading to the conviction of virus writers. To kick off the program, Microsoft offered rewards of $250,000 each for information that leads to the arrest of the authors of two recent viruses, Blaster […]

As part of the further expansion of its nascent Security Business Unit, Microsoft Corp. Tuesday will announce the availability of Windows Rights Management Services, an add-on for Windows Server 2003 that is meant to help enterprises control the ways in which documents, e-mails and other information is used. RMS is related to technology that has […]

3Com Corp. this week became the latest vendor to join the security appliance fray, announcing an OEM relationship with Crossbeam Systems Inc. The agreement enables 3Com to sell two of Crossbeams appliances—the C30 and the X45—under the 3Com name. Also, the two companies plan to jointly develop a new appliance aimed at the lower end […]

Instead of developing technologies for buttressing the shaky security in some of the most widely used applications, a small but growing group of companies is turning to a new type of VPN for added security. Companies such as Neoteris Inc., Permeo Technologies Inc., Symantec Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc. are eschewing the use of traditional […]

Discuss This in the eWEEK Forum Faced with a growing number of identity management competitors, Computer Associates International Inc. plans to juggle its product lineup once again, this time consolidating two security lines in an effort to ease customer deployment and integration. At the Computer Security Institute conference in Washington this week, CA will announce […]

Security, engineering and public policy experts at Carnegie Mellon University are joining together to form a lab at the school dedicated to researching and developing new security technologies. The new organization, known as the Carnegie Mellon CyLab, will include representatives from the schools engineering, computer science and public policy departments, as well as personnel from […]

Discuss This in the eWEEK Forum MagiQ Technologies Inc. on Monday plans to release the first version of its much talked-about quantum key distribution product, known as Navajo. The system is to be unveiled at next weeks Computer Security Institute show in Washington and is among the first commercially available quantum cryptography products. In theory […]

Discuss This in the eWEEK Forum Antivirus experts are warning of a new mass-mailing worm infecting Windows machines that also is programmed to launch a denial-of-service attack against two domain names. The new pest is called Mimail.C, and it conforms to just about every convention of the mass-mailing virus rulebook. The worm first appeared Friday […]

Discuss This in the eWEEK Forum Internet Security Systems Inc. on Thursday announced plans to shut down two of its international engineering operations in an effort to slash costs. The announcement comes less than 10 days after the company reported third quarter net income of $5 million, down 21 percent from the same period last […]

Security appliance vendor Blue Coat Systems Inc. on Wednesday announced its acquisition of Ositis Software Inc., a small maker of anti-virus appliances. Blue Coat will pay $1 million in cash and 363,125 in stock for the company. The acquisition will enable Blue Coat to add its own anti-virus protection to its line of ProxySG boxes. […]