Fahmida Y. Rashid

Yet another company is stepping into the mobile-device-management arena to help organizations make sense of the influx of employee-owned devices into the corporate environment. Aruba ClearPass is designed to simplify and automate the process of securely provisioning mobile devices onto an enterprise network, Aruba Networks said Feb. 21. The ClearPass Policy Manager software provides administrators […]

Novell is adding support for Apple Macs to its device-management suite to help administrators manage heterogeneous systems within the enterprise. With ZENWorks 11 Support Pack 2, administrators can automate patch updates for Macs, automatically deploy software and patches, and manage each system, regardless of the operating system it is running, according to Novell. The company […]

Social media and mobile devices may be putting consumers at greater risk for identity fraud, according to a Feb. 22 report on identity fraud. More than 11.6 million adults were a victim of identity fraud in the United States in 2011, an increase of 13 percent since 2010, according to the Javelin Strategy and Research […]

The White House has proposed a “bill of rights” to protect consumer privacy online. The framework that President Obama is advocating allows users to easily tell Internet companies with one click whether they want their online activity to be tracked. The U.S. Commerce Department will work with companies and privacy advocates to develop “enforceable” privacy […]

The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission is calling on ISPs and other experts to protect users from the ongoing online security threats. Internet stakeholders, which include users, service providers and policymakers, need to take “concrete steps” to address botnet attacks, domain name fraud and IP hijacking, said FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski during a speech […]

Juniper Networks acquired Mykonos Software for $80 million in cash to add Web application security to its end-to-end portfolio of security products. The company said it acquired privately held Mykonos to expand its security footprint to include “intrusion-deception” systems that protect Websites and Web applications from advanced attacks. Customers will benefit from having access to […]

IBM is rolling out a new security platform based on the technology from last year’s Q1 Labs acquisition. This new security offering looks to give IT administrators a holistic view of the environment, as well as insight into potential threats. QRadar, IBM’s latest security-intelligence platform, can track corporate vulnerabilities in real-time and analyze unusual activity […]

Worldwide Ethernet switch revenues reached $21 billion in 2011, with most of the growth coming from Latin America; Europe, the Middle East and Africa; and the Asia-Pacific region, according to a new report from IDC. The worldwide Ethernet switch market rose to $6.06 billion in the fourth quarter of 2011, up 5.5 percent year-over-year and […]

Despite Symantec’s claims to the contrary, security researchers now believe that malicious developers can look at the leaked pcAnywhere source code and find vulnerabilities that can be exploited in current versions. A researcher found that pcAnywhere’s source code was relatively unchanged from 10 years ago, according to an anonymous submission to the InfoSec Institute Feb. […]

Content-delivery-network provider Akamai is launching a service that would defend customers from a broad range of distributed denial-of-service (DDos) attacks. The Akamai Kona Site Defender protects customer Websites from getting knocked offline by DDoS attacks by directing malicious traffic to noncritical servers or just filtering them out, according to the company, which officially announced the […]