Protection in the IoT age
We all have so many devices and so many technology toys, and we are loving the ability to link our lives to the cloud, says Mark McCallum, Orange Business Services, head of Global Services Africa. We’re learning more about ourselves too, as wearable devices become...
Kaspsersky delivers 4Pb of security updates
Kaspersky Lab delivers 60,000 updates a month to all of its protection products worldwide. The total size of these updates is equivalent to four petabytes. That is roughly the same as 1 million movies, or more than 10 million books. If you stacked all those tomes in a...
Mobile data encryption and performance
It seems as though there is a new security breach related to data traveling over the Internet almost every day, says Martin Walshaw, senior engineer at F5 Networks. Every day might be an exaggeration of reality, but if it happens to be your data that is stolen or...
Sophos grows network security portfolio
Sophos has announced additions to its range of SG Series firewall/UTM appliances, WiFi access points as well as a new dedicated virtual reporting appliance, Sophos iView. By extending its Network Security portfolio with new entry-level and enterprise class appliances,...
Antivirus is not dead
Symantec vice-predisent Brian Dye recently claimed that antivirus software is dead, causing ripples in the infosec world, and a barrage of statements both in defence of this idea, and in denial. Lutz Blaeser, MD of Intact Software Distribution, says AV is far from...
Check Point announces Capsule
Check Point Software Technologies has announced the availability of Check Point Capsule, a complete mobile solution that offers unparalleled protection for business data and mobile devices, everywhere. In Check Point’s 2014 Mobile Security Survey, which surveyed over...
Cyberoam helps secure the SOHO
Cyberoam, a leading global provider of network security appliances, has launched CR10iNG, “the fastest & most affordable UTM unified threat management)” appliance for SOHO/ROBO markets. The appliance aims to extend enterprise level network security to small and...
Sophos acquisition grows security
Sophos has announced that it has acquired cloud-based security firm Mojave Networks. This acquisition will strengthen Sophos cloud-managed and appliance-based security solutions.
Security company uses GIT solution
Graphic Image Technologies (GIT), specialists in remote CCTV and control room technologies, video compression and transmission, has supplied and installed a complete mobile surveillance solution into a number of cash-in-transit vehicles of a major security provider in...
Avoiding data theft in the cloud
Most enterprises are already using cloud based solutions, even if they don’t see them as such. We see enterprises readily using Salesforce and Webex, yet still voicing concerns about a move to enterprise cloud computing, says Anton Jacobsz, MD of F5 distributor...
TransUnion enhances fraud detection
TransUnion is now offering a next-generation solution to the challenges of identity theft and digital fraud with the new DecisionEdge Identity Manager solution, which can operate in-store, in branch and online.
Fortinet, Ixia improve 100GbE security
Fortinet a global leader in high-performance network security – is setting a new standard for large scale enterprises and carriers with the release of the FortiGate-3810D, the first and only firewall appliance with 100GbE interfaces and 300+ Gbps throughput to meet...