4TRESS Authentication Appliance Enables Banking Customers to Quickly and
Affordably Meet 2011 FFIEC Mandate
ActivIdentity®, part of HID Global, trusted leader in solutions for the
delivery of secure identity, today announced highly-integrated fraud
detection service and versatile authentication capabilities for its 4TRESS™
Authentication Appliance. The all-in-one platform and cloud-based service
provide banking customers with an unmatched level of multi-layered strong
authentication, enabling them to achieve increased security more conveniently
and affordably across the network and in the cloud.
Banking organisations face increased risk from sophisticated cyber attacks,
coupled with newly mandated FFIEC regulations over online banking security.
Simultaneously, bank customers have stated a strong preference for
mostly-transparent authentication methods to maximise co... (more)
Malicious Sites Nearly Double, while Mobile Malware Continues to Grow
SANTA CLARA, Calif - 21 February, 2012 - McAfee today released the McAfee
Threats Report: Fourth Quarter 2011, revealing that malware surpassed the
company's estimate of 75 million unique malware samples last year. Although
the release of new malware slowed in Q4, mobile malware continued to increase
and recorded its busiest year to date.
"The threat landscape continued to evolve in 2011, and we saw a significant
shift in motivation for cyber attacks," said Vincent Weafer, senior vice
president of McAfee Labs. ... (more)
Rapid7, the leading provider of security risk intelligence solutions, today
announced that the new version of its leading penetration testing solution,
Rapid7® Metasploit 4.2, allows organizations to assess the security posture
of IPv6 enabled systems. Metasploit users can now fully test whether IPv6
addresses on their network are vulnerable to cyber-attacks. This is
particularly important for organizations that have not consciously rolled out
IPv6 on their IPv4 network, often neglecting the new version of the internet
protocol completely.
The new Metasploit version also audits ... (more)
Porticor, a cloud data security company delivering a cloud-based data
encryption solution that infuses trust into the cloud by ensuring customer
keys are never exposed, on Wednesday formally launched to make available a
solution combining data encryption with patented key management to protect
critical data in public, private and hybrid cloud environments.
Since Porticor addresses the fundamental cloud security issue of data
encryption with keys managed in the cloud, companies are now assured that
their private data stored in the cloud across a variety of storage types,
includin... (more)
“2011 was a groundbreaking year for us, marked by three-fold revenue growth
and tremendous traction in the market.," said David Canellos, CEO of
PerspecSys, the creator of cloud data control solutions for the enterprise,
as the company announced the expansion of its operations by opening its first
U.S. office in the Washington, D.C. Metro area and naming industry executives
Gerry Grealish, John Emerson, David Stott and Eric Hay to key positions
within the company.
“This is an extremely exciting time in the evolution of our industry and
for PerspecSys in particular, as the demand... (more)
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