IT Security

Irish distributor for Proofpoint.

E-mail security tools from Proofpoint to be distributed within the Irish market by distributor Vision4 IT.

08 April 2008: ProofPoint

Wick Hill continues to invest in channel partnerships.

Sales incentives for partners fuel continues sales growth for Wick Hill group.

08 April 2008: Wick Hill

Computer thefts foiled with tracking software.

Computertrace One tracks computers aiding their recovery or rendering the equipment useless by remote data cleaning.

07 April 2008: Absolute Software

Wireless security remains an issue in the bay area.

Comprehensive study of wireless network security issues in the San Francisco Bay area published by AirDefense.

07 April 2008: AirDefense

DNSChanger protection from MacScan

Anti malware for MAC OS X now includes protection against the latest threats for fans of the Mac.

07 April 2008: SecureMac

Storries nomination for C2C

Archiving Software product award nomination for C2C in the Storage Industry Awards.

07 April 2008: C2C Systems

Ingrian Networks acquisition completion.

Acquisition delivers powerful combination of data protection products for the enterprise market.

07 April 2008: SafeNet

Over 96% of e-mail scanned in March constituted spam.

Unwanted e-mails remain constant over last quarter with nearly all e-mails scanned being junk of which 0.07% contained malicious code.

04 April 2008: SoftScan

Authentication and content security products at Aladdin’s InfoSec stand.

Digital Rights Management, eTokens and content security all feature in Aladdin’s portfolio being showcased at InfoSecurity Europe 2008.

04 April 2008: Aladdin Knowledge Systems

Malware statistics for March 2008

Phishing and virus threats for march analysed in McAfee’s monthly malware statistics report.

04 April 2008: McAfee

Seven steps to identity protection on social networking sites.

Advice from SecureTest enables social networking site users to do more to protect their identity than relying on built in security features of such sites.

04 April 2008: SecureTest

Penetration testing demo at InfoSec.

Remote network penetration testing demonstration to feature at Core Security Technologies’ stand at InfoSecurity Europe.

04 April 2008: Core Security Technologies

Anonymous proxy site proliferation considered a serious issue.

Increasing use of anonymous proxy sites enables web filtering software to be bypassed causing serious problems for business IT administrators.

04 April 2008: Bloxx

Network management programme for Europe.

Partner programme for the distribution and support of network management products from Ipswitch to provide incremental European sales growth for the company.

04 April 2008: Ipswitch

Privacy features and file shredder for System Suite 8.

PC utility software includes comprehensive security features to protect against malware and phishers as well as protect data.

04 April 2008: Avanquest Software

Hashing algorithm steps up protection in Data Protection Suite.

Functions for protecting data increased in Data Protection Suite from Protegrity with stronger encryption methods.

04 April 2008: Protegrity

Illegal file sharing culprits believe they won’t be caught.

Survey into digital entertainment highlights behaviour of illegal downloaders, many of whom don’t consider current regulatory measures as being a challenge.

04 April 2008: The Federation Against Software Theft

Hidden cost to businesses of handling spam.

ClearMyMail releases results of study to understand the cost per employee of the time spent managing spam content in their business e-mail accounts.

03 April 2008: ClearMyMail

Tag and search facility for improved archive management.

Archive One from C2C upgraded with additional functionality enabling improved identification and security of archived data.

03 April 2008: C2C Systems

Theft consequences of government owned laptops goes beyond hardware cost.

Damages to the reputation of the public sector through laptop losses could have a serious impact on ID card scheme in the UK according to PGP.

03 April 2008: PGP (GB)

Comprehensive corporate user malware study results released.

Malware hosting on corporate sites stays live for an average of 61 days according to results of study by ScanSafe.

02 April 2008: ScanSafe

Autorun virus on memory sticks remains significant threat for March.

ESET malware statistics for March reveals a tenth of malicious code detected was autorun based malware from removable media such as flash memory.

02 April 2008: ESET

Third generation network security testing platform.

Defensics 3.0 enables integrators and manufacturers to comprehensively verify the security of network and wireless products.

02 April 2008: Codenomicon

Citrix trusted client to be distributed by BeCrypt.

Membership of Citrix alliance program enables BeCrypt to use secure thin client technology from Citrix as part of its product set.

02 April 2008: BeCrypt

Support for PCI compliance self assessment.

Filing of self-assessment questionnaire for the PCI security standards council now supported by QualysGuard.

02 April 2008: Qualys