Virtualization and Cloud Security Company Chosen for its Broad Market Applicability and Strong Security Pedigree
2 Mar 2010 for RSA Conference
RSA Conference 2010
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--RSA Conference:
RSA® Conference (www.rsaconference.com), the world’s leading information security conferences and expositions, today announced Altor Networks (www.altornetworks.com), a provider of best-in-class virtualization and cloud security solutions, as the winner of its Innovation Sandbox “Most Innovative Company at RSA Conference 2010” contest. Innovation Sandbox is a half-day interactive program devoted to highlighting technological breakthroughs and solutions that are designed to help security practitioners tackle emerging security issues facing the industry.
Altor’s product, Altor VF v3.0, won the award based on its broad market applicability and the fact that it addresses major trends in virtualization security, a top of mind issue for CISOs today.
Innovation Sandbox provides emerging companies with a unique platform to showcase new products and/or services that address the current and emerging threats plaguing information security professionals.
Close to 30 companies provided submissions for consideration in the contest, with the final 10 being selected after review by the judging panel.
This year, Altor Networks competed against nine other finalists that were invited to pitch their product and business plan to a judging panel made up of venture capitalists, chief security officers, chief technology officers and industry experts.
Judges included Michael Barrett of PayPal; Asheem Chandna of Greylock Partners; Gerhard Eschelbeck of Webroot Software; Renee Guttmann of Time Warner Inc.; Ray Rothrock of Venrock and Hugh Thompson, Program Committee Chair for RSA Conference.
Innovation Sandbox was sponsored by Adobe Systems Incorporated.
“This year’s Innovation Sandbox participants offered game-changing solutions that have demonstrated the potential to succeed in today’s market. Altor Networks stood out from the crowd by demonstrating it has an approach that’s fundamentally superior to other organizations addressing similar virtualization and cloud security challenges. There is no doubt that this will be the first of many accolades for Altor.” — Sandra Toms LaPedis, Area Vice President and General Manager of RSA Conference
HELSINKI, FINLAND and WELLESLEY, Mass. - March 2, 2010 SSH Communications Security (HEL:SSH1V), the market maker in real-time security software for modern, networked organizations, continues building its world-class Customer and Markets Operations organization in the Asia-Pacific region and opens an office in Hong Kong.
The purpose of the office is to establish a local presence that will allow the company to more efficiently bring the benefits of its secure communications solutions to customers in the Asia-Pacific region. The regional hub will also offer more effective support to channel partners providing customers with our business-enhancing solutions.
SSH has appointed Tommi Lampila, VP of APAC to lead customer and market operations as head of the Hong Kong office. With more than ten years of experience at SSH in various roles in the Americas and Finland, Lampila will launch operations in Hong Kong by April 2010.
“The easy-to-use and fast-to-deploy Tectia security solutions are an ideal fit for the fast-paced and rapidly growing Asian business environments,” said Tommi Lampila. “I am excited to work even more closely with our valued customers and business partners in the APAC region.”
“We have ambitious growth targets in the Asia-Pacific area and it is imperative that we have our own office in the region to support our customers and channel partners more effectively. Our operations will be in very strong hands with Tommi, who knows our solutions and business thoroughly," said Jouni H. Leinonen, Executive VP and COO of Customer and Market Operations of SSH Communications Security.
SSH Communications Security
SSH Communications Security Corp. is the market maker in real-time security software for modern, networked organizations. We create an invaluable Circle of Trust for our customers and their stakeholders by securing, automating, and governing confidential information with our Tectia solutions in fixed, mobile, and cloud environments.
We enable and enhance business for thousands of customers in multiple industries in the private and public sectors around the world. We operate in the Americas, Europe, and APAC regions, with headquarters located in Helsinki, Finland. The company was established in 1995, and holds 14 patents. Its shares are quoted on NASDAQ OMX Helsinki.
New Lumension® Risk Manager Update Includes Enhanced Remediation Management, and Third Party Connectivity to Streamline Audit Workflows, Manage Risk and Reduce Costs
Scottsdale, AZ, Mar. 1, 2010
Executives around the world are looking for ways to converge their company’s disparate governance, risk and compliance initiatives, improve risk management, and reduce costs. A recent survey (February 2010) conducted by KPMG indicates that 64 percent of executives consider convergence of GRC projects a top priority. To help organizations and agencies effectively manage IT risk and cut costs through a centralized approach to compliance and IT risk management, Lumension, the global leader in endpoint management and security, today unveiled the latest version of Lumension® Risk Manager v4.1, part of the Lumension Compliance and IT Risk Management Solution. Lumension Risk Manager is designed to help organizations demonstrate continuous compliance and improve their security posture through a framework that automates audit workflows, harmonizes controls with policy requirements, and remediates key risk areas.
Further, through its partnership with Network Frontiers’ Unified Compliance Framework, Lumension extends its support for over 420 regulatory requirements with 26,320 citations mapped to over 2,500 harmonized controls by including Security Breach Notification Laws, Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, and FTC Red Flag Rules.
“Many times organizations can feel like they’re suffocating under a blanket of so many compliance rules and regulations. They feel constant pressure to demonstrate compliance with limited budgets and resources for recurring compliance projects,” said Jeff Hughes, director of solution marketing for IT GRC, Lumension. “Organizations cannot afford to take a scattered approach to compliance; reacting to every new compliance mandate with another new product or procedure. They need a focused compliance solution that centralizes compliance and IT risk management by bridging and streamlining disparate compliance programs, controls, policies and procedures while reducing redundancies.”
Enhanced Key Benefits of Lumension Risk Manager:
- Expanded Controls Coverage/Intelligent Assessments: LRM 4.1 includes integration with the Unified Compliance Framework (UCF) database updates that include additions to the UCF database around State Level Security Breach Notification Laws and FTC Red Flag Rules.
- By utilizing the UCF, Lumension’s patent pending risk intelligence engine automatically identifies critical controls needed to achieve compliance and secure any IT asset. Controls are assessed once across and reported across all regulations, saving time and consolidating compliance projects.
- Actionable Remediation and Alerting: Through its enhanced tracking and notification features, LRM 4.1 can assign mitigation efforts to business owners and track ongoing remediation progress. LRM improves operational workflows, automatically updating assessment scores and giving administrators clear visibility of progress made towards compliance and remediation activities. Email notifications can alert administrators when levels of compliance have changed or surveys are past due.
- Expanded Flexibility & Automation through the Lumension Connector Development Kit: Most IT GRC companies provide limited integration to third-party systems. Lumension Risk Manager’s open connector ecosystem allows scan and inventory data to be imported from virtually any database system. Customers and consultants can use the Lumension Connector Development Kit to create custom connectors and import data from their network scanner, asset inventory system and other databases.
- Exception Management: Helps administrators produce more realistic risk and compliance scores where there are certain exceptions that have to be made for circumstances unique to the network. This gives security professionals greater flexibility to make exceptions where needed and allows them to approve, reject or create exceptions from scratch.
Lumension Risk Manager is now available. For more information, please click on Lumension Risk Manager.
To find out how Lumension Compliance and IT Risk Management Solution addresses compliance requirements such as PCI DSS, click to view our On-Demand Demo.
About Lumension Security, Inc.
Lumension Security, Inc., a global leader in operational endpoint management and security, develops, integrates and markets security software solutions that help businesses protect their vital information and manage critical risk across network and endpoint assets. Lumension enables more than 5,100 customers worldwide to achieve optimal security and IT success by delivering a proven and award-winning solution portfolio that includes Vulnerability Management, Endpoint Protection, Data Protection, and Reporting and Compliance offerings. Lumension is known for providing world-class customer support and services 24x7, 365 days a year. Headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, Lumension has operations worldwide, including Virginia, Utah, Florida, Luxembourg, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain, Australia, and Singapore. Lumension: IT Secured. Success Optimized.™ More information can be found at www.lumension.com.
Access Control and Audit Leader Starts 2010 with Multiple Security Industry Honors
Jersey City, New Jersey – March 1, 2010 – Xceedium Inc., the leading provider of identity-based access control solutions, announced today that Info Security Products Guide, the world’s leading publication on security-related products and technologies, has named Xceedium GateKeeper as a finalist for the 2010 Global Product Excellence award in the Auditing Solutions category. This award recognizes security and IT vendors with advanced, groundbreaking products and solutions that raise the bar in all areas of technology. Xceedium received this honor shortly after being named a finalist by Network Products Guide for its prestigious 2010 Hot Companies award.
The Xceedium GateKeeper provides organizations the ability to easily and cost-effectively reduce the complexity and cost of controlling and auditing users accessing critical infrastructure from “any” endpoint. A feature-rich hardened appliance, the GateKeeper is an all-in-one solution that is easy to deploy and maintain. With a blue-chip customer base in both government and commercial sectors, the Xceedium GateKeeper delivers a comprehensive and unique solution for controlling access and auditing privileged users.
“In order to remain competitive, enterprises and government organizations need to provide access to business critical assets by internal employees, contractors, vendors and other third parties in a secure, auditable and compliant fashion,” says Aimee Rhodes, Vice President of Marketing, Xceedium. “We are proud to be recognized as a leading industry player for organizations seeking to provide identity based access control to key infrastructure and assets.”
2010 Global Product Excellence Award winners will be honored on March 18, 2010 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco.
About Info Security Products Guide Awards
Info Security Products Guide sponsors leading conferences and expos worldwide and plays a vital role in keeping end-users informed of the choices they can make when it comes to protecting their digital resources. It is written expressly for those who are adamant on staying informed of security threats and the preventive measure they can take. You will discover a wealth of information in this guide including tomorrow’s technology today, best deployment scenarios, people and technologies shaping info security and independent product evaluations that facilitate in making the most pertinent security decisions. The Info Security Products Guide Awards recognize and honor excellence in all areas of information security. To learn more, visit www.infosecurityproductsguide.com and stay secured.
Quantiq International boosts its application security product suite with the addition of the award winning Fortify, market leader in Software Security Assurance solution.
Singapore, February 24, 2010 - Quantiq International Pte Ltd is pleased to announce the addition of Fortify® Software into their elite suite of security solutions. Fortify, leader in the emerging category of Software Security Assurance uniquely protect companies and government agencies from today's greatest security risk: the software that runs their business.
"Fortify is a major boost to our lines of application security product," said Kwek Hong Sin, Managing Director, Quantiq International. "With the growing demand of source code analyzers for potential security vulnerabilities in applications, Fortify 360 offer critical analytic, remediation and management capabilities needed in all enterprises. It identifies, removes, contain and prevent vulnerabilities in software - key word; ACCURACY! Fortify helps meet compliance fast and effect. We have lined up demands on this solutions by enterprises.”
Software Security Assurance or SSA, is a risk-managed approach to improving the security of software. With SSA, organizations can map their application security activities with the organization's risk objectives and demonstrate clear value to stakeholders whether their SSA software sources is internal, outsourced, procured through vendors, or open source.
Fortify's Source code analysis products helps companies discover and remediate errors in the code throughout the development cycle. It sifts through source code and checks for possible flaws and vulnerabilities and can be run on developers desktop or on the server used by developers to "check-in" completed chunks of codes. Visit www.fortify.com or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for more details.
About Quantiq International
Quantiq International Pte Ltd provides information technology products and services to government and commercial enterprises throughout Asia. The company provides strategic, implementation, management and technology services including: network security and design, policy development, project management, installation and implementation, risk assessment, customization and consulting. The company is based in Singapore. With a sole focus on information security and a team of highly skilled industry experts, Quantiq International collaborates with the leading security technology innovators to ensure that our clients stay ahead of the technology curve. More information is available at http://www.quantiqint.com.
About Fortify Software, Inc.
Fortify®'s Software Security Assurance products and services protect companies from the threats posed by security flaws in business-critical software applications. Its software security suite — Fortify 360 — drives down costs and security risks by automating key processes of developing and deploying secure applications. Fortify Software's customers include government agencies and FORTUNE 500 companies in a wide variety of industries, such as financial services, healthcare, e-commerce, telecommunications, publishing, insurance, systems integration and information management. The company is backed by world-class teams of software security experts and partners. More information is available at www.fortify.com or visit our blog at blog.fortify.com.
SLiC Smartphone Security Solution Recognized for Outstanding Innovation
Richardson, TX, USA – February 16, 2010 – Sipera Systems, the leader in real-time Unified Communications (UC) security, announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation’s (TMC®) INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine has named Sipera SLiC (Secure Live Communications) as a recipient of its 2009 Product of the Year Award.
Sipera SLiC makes smartphone VoIP and UC “ready for business” by providing enterprise-class communications privacy, compliance and security. SLiC is the industry’s first system that enables enterprises to comprehensively secure next-generation communications on smartphones, permitting the use of VoIP, UC, Cloud Telephony, and other low-cost and feature-rich communications applications with complete security and privacy.
“SLiC enables an enterprise to implement VoIP or other UC applications on employees’ smartphones without security violations, increased compliance risk or common eavesdropping problems. Now VoIP on the smartphone is safe to use in any location or context, permitting roaming minutes offload and full-featured communications on these devices,” said Adam Boone, Vice President of Marketing and Product Management for Sipera. “It’s an honor to be recognized with this INTERNET TELEPHONY Product of the Year award, which is also a reflection of Sipera’s leadership in securing enterprise UC applications on any end point device, in or out of the office.”
“INTERNET TELEPHONY is proud to grant Sipera a 2009 Product of the Year Award for its SLiC smartphone security system. Sipera has proven its commitment to quality and excellence while addressing real needs in the marketplace,” said Rich Tehrani, CEO, TMC. “We’re happy to recognize and honor Sipera for its development of IP communications technology. We look forward to more innovative solutions from the company in the future.”
A complete list of Product of the Year winners is published in the February 2010 issue of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine, (www.itmag.com). INTERNET TELEPHONY has been the authority in IP communication since 1998™.
About Sipera
Sipera Systems is the worldwide market leader in solutions for the rapid and simple adoption of Unified Communications (UC).
Thousands of users around the globe rely on Sipera to secure VoIP, IP video, collaboration, messaging and dozens of other high-performance applications. Sipera’s groundbreaking Borderless UC enables secure communications to any device in any location.
Backed by the extensive vulnerability research of the Sipera VIPER Lab, Sipera’s solutions for VoIP security and UC security enable enterprises to deploy remote teleworkers, distributed call centers, business continuity, pandemic planning, secure SIP trunks, toll fraud prevention, media logging and archiving, and many other communications innovations.
For more information, visit http://www.sipera.com.
Researchers at network forensics firm NetWitness Corp., have discovered evidence that the Zeus Trojan continues to evade antivirus and steal thousands of passwords on consumer and corporate network PCs.
Investigators said they discovered a 75GB cache, believed to be a hacker drop site tied to the Zeus infections. The cache contained the stolen data from more than 74,000 Zeus infected systems. The hacker files, a one month dump of data from mid-December to mid-January, were discovered Jan. 26 during a routine evaluation of a corporate network. Alex Cox, a principal analyst at NetWitness and researcher who discovered the cache, said he traced a malware download from the corporate network back to a server in Germany, which was left unprotected by the cybercriminals.
NetWitness named the infected PCs tied to the latest wave of Zeus attacks the Kneber botnet. Zeus collected extensive data from individuals at commercial and government systems, including 68,000 corporate login credentials, 2,000 SSL certificate files, and usernames and passwords for online banking sites and social networks. The most common stolen account credentials were usernames and passwords to Yahoo email and Facebook accounts.
Microsoft corrected critical flaws in its Server Message Block (SMB), issued kill-bits to block browser components containing ActiveX flaws and addressed nearly two-dozen other vulnerabilities in its Patch Tuesday updates.
The software giant issued 13 bulletins, five rated critical, fixing 26 vulnerabilities across nearly all facets of its product line.
Microsoft SMB client and server vulnerabilities
Two high-priority vulnerabilities in the Microsoft Server Message Block, a protocol that handles communication between network devices, were addressed in Microsoft bulletin MS10-006. The remote code execution vulnerabilities exist on SMB clients and could be exploited by an attacker if they convince a user to initiate a connection with a malicious SMB server. The update is rated critical for Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2; it is rated important for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.
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