Fortinet a leader in zero-day discoveries
Fortinet has announced that FortiGuard Labs, the global threat research arm of Fortinet, discovered 18 critical zero-day vulnerabilities in 2013 – more than any other network security vendor in the industry. This adds to the 140+ zero-day vulnerabilities identified...
Protecting your business data
Unstructured data is burgeoning. In order to protect and manage that data, organisations need to have systems and structures in place, and must understand how the data is being used, by whom it is being used, and most of all, they must know exactly who should not be...
Panda Security continues XP protection
The number of threats exploiting Windows XP is expected to increase as more unpatched vulnerabilities are discovered. Despite Windows XP having reached its end-of-life, Panda Security’s 2014 corporate and retail solutions will continue to protect customers using the...
Dell enhances security portfolio
At the Dell Enterprise Forum customer and partner event last week, Dell showcased new security services and solutions that further expand its security portfolio. With the new offerings, businesses can defend all technology touch points to better safeguard the...
Check Point protects against Heartbleed
Check Point Software Technologies, a worldwide leader in securing the Internet, have announced that its network security products offer multiple protections from the Heartbleed vulnerability, providing for the security of customers’ clients, servers and the integrity...
Security challenges in a virtual world
Mobility and cloud computing are currently hot topics in the IT space, enabling users to work on the move and from practically anywhere in the world. However, in order to deliver the full capabilities of these two technologies, virtualisation is critical to creating a...
TruTeq launches wireless security system
As house break-ins continue to increase, rising by 64,4% over the past eight years, mobile solutions provider TruTeq Devices has launched an affordable wireless security system that is believed to be the next-generation of alarm system – and one that will arguably...
Endpoints are the new perimeter
Today’s threat landscape is unrecognisable from the one that we knew five years ago. Cybercriminals are no longer pimply teenagers in basements, but sophisticated, well equipped and well-funded thieves. Organised crime and nation states play a role too, funding the...
Kaspersky plans enterprise market expansion
On 15 April 2014, Kaspersky Lab revealed its vision of enterprise security at the company’s annual CyberSecurity Summit in San Francisco, USA. The event focused on how enterprise IT security realities affected businesses worldwide and featured commentary and panel...
McAfee offers free Heartbleed Checker tool
McAfee, part of Intel Security, has released a free tool to help consumers easily gauge their susceptibility to the potentially dangerous effects of the Heartbleed bug, a vulnerability in OpenSSL that has placed millions of Internet users’ personal information at...
Sophos refreshes appliances with Intel
Sophos has announced a refresh of its network Security Gateway hardware with the availability of the new Sophos SG Series appliances. These high-performance hardware appliances - based on the 4th generation Intel Core processors – deliver up to four times the speed of...
Kaspersky tops AV-TEST trial
Kaspersky Lab’s flagship product for home users Kaspersky Internet Security blocked every threat in the Bi-Monthly Certification January-February 2014 testing conducted by AV-Test, an independent German research centre. The solution claimed first place, achieving a...