Recent Articles
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Websense Hires New Security Research Leader
Websense is hoping to get a shot in the arm of innovation with the appointment of a new research leader poached from the labs of antivirus vendor F-Secure. Just under a month ago the web security firm hired Patrik Runald as senior research manager for the Websense Security Labs. With 14 years of security research…
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IDC Report: DLP, Security Consulting Spend on the Horizon
More than half of companies worldwide report that they are planning to invest in DLP technology, according to a new report released yesterday. Sponsored by Dimension Data and conducted by researchers by IDC, the survey of more than 400 IT security decision makers found that internal data leak concerns were more top of mind…
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Sophos Gives Away Free DLP with Antivirus Sales
Data loss prevention, although still in its infancy as a technology, is an increasingly important layer of protection against the accidental and intentional release of sensitive information. The market is dominated by the likes of Symantec, McAfee and Websense, but that’s not intimidating U.K.-based Sophos from trying to muscle in on the market with a…
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McAfee Commits to Services Through Partners
Over the last five years, McAfee has amassed a huge cache of security technologies that span the gamut of consumer endpoint protection to enterprise risk management systems. Its one weak spot: professional services. But the world’s largest pure-play security company isn’t going to develop its professional services. Rather, it plans to push more of its…
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Kaspersky Lab Releases New Administration Kit
Kaspersky Lab yesterday released an update to its security administration kit that it hopes will aid partners in selling Kaspersky into the enterprise. The company unwrapped Kaspersky Open Space Security (KOSS) Release 2, a suite of three applications that includes antivirus for workstations and for servers, plus the eighth iteration of its administration kit. The…