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Mobile Cyber-Attacks to Double By End of 2011
Mobile threats have exploded this year, and researchers believe the number of mobile device exploits will double by the end of the year, according to the latest IBM report. The number of known mobile operating system vulnerabilities will increase only incrementally from 2010 to 2011, but the number of exploits based on those flaws is…
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IBM, McAfee Beef Up Security Portfolios
This week saw another milestone in the consolidation of the security information and event management (SIEM) market with the acquisition of not one but two major players. On Tuesday, IBM announced that it would buy Waltham, Mass.-based Q1 Labs and McAfee made a similar announcement of its own acquisition of Portsmouth, NH-based Nitro Security. According…
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Businesses Looking to VARs to Allay Cloud Security Concerns
According to a survey by security and storage specialist Symantec, businesses have mixed feelings when it comes to security–with a majority ranking it as both a top concern and top goal of moving to the cloud. Symantec’s 2011 State of Cloud Survey examined how organizations are adopting cloud computing and dealing with the changes it…
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IBM Acquires Security Software Specialist Q1 Labs
Technology giant IBM announced it is acquiring Q1 Labs, a Waltham, Mass.-based provider of security intelligence software. The move aims to accelerate IBM’s efforts to help clients more intelligently secure their enterprises by applying analytics to correlate information from key security domains and creating security dashboards for their organizations. Financial terms of the deal were…
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Mobile Security Investments Rising: Canalys Report
Canalys forecasts that worldwide investments in mobile security will grow an average of 44.2 percent per year over the next five years, reaching $759.8 million by the end of 2011 and turning into a $3 billion market opportunity in 2015. According to Canalys figures, only 4 percent of smartphones and smart pads shipped in 2010…
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Malware at Work The Facebook Threat
Malware at Work The Facebook Threat 63 percent of respondents believe that employee use of social media puts their organizations’ security at risk. No Title Just under 30 percent of organizations think they have the necessary security controls in place to mitigate or reduce this risk. No Title Only 35 percent of organizations currently have…
