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Presentation will educate attendees on tactics and techniques to avoid a cyberattack or data breach. San Jose, CA (PRWEB) April 25, 2013 ThreatMetrix™, the fastest-growing provider of integrated cybercrime prevention solutions, today announced that Andreas Baumhof, chief technology officer, ThreatMetrix, will speak on “Proactive Tactics for Avoiding Attacks and Data Breaches” at the FS-ISAC & BITS Annual Summit, April 28 – May 1, at Marriott Sawgrass, Ponte Vedra, Fla....
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Symantec released their 2013 Internet Security Threat Report yesterday, finding that Android is still the most targeted mobile operating system, that malware authors are increasingly watching their victims and stealing their identities, and that small businesses are more likely to be targeted than large companies. All told, 2012 saw a 42-percent increase in targeted attacks with 31 percent of these attacks aimed at businesses with...
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Securonix, the leader in Security Intelligence software announced today the general availability of Securonix version 4.0. The release combines external global threat intelligence with internal local threat intelligence on users, systems and activities down to the transaction level. In addition, the intelligence can be applied in real time for prevention and rapid detection of threats. Through the unified view of IT risk, Securonix...
ABINGDON, England, December 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Kaspersky Lab experts have today outlined the key security trends of 2012 and presented their views on the core threats of 2013. The most notable predictions for the next year include the continued rise of targeted attacks, cyber-espionage and nation-state cyber-attacks, the evolving role of hacktivism, the development of controversial 'legal' surveillance tools and the increase in cybercriminal attacks targeting cloud-based...
SAN DIEGO, Nov. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- From mass compromises of Wordpress to a spear-phishing attack on the White House, there is no doubt cybercriminals gained confidence and momentum in 2012. To help organizations prepare for next year, the Websense(®) Security Labs(TM) today announced seven predictions for the 2013 threat landscape. The full report can be found here, which includes in-depth articles on mobile security, email security and Java exploits. Highlights include: 1....
Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection™ is a new approach to identifying and applying additional security controls to suspicious messages. It is the industry's first comprehensive, cloud-based data security solution for preventing targeted email attacks. Schaumburg, IL (PRWEB) August 09, 2012 Sagient Technologies, Inc, ("Sagient") (http://www.sagienttech.com) has partnered up with Proofpoint to provide clients with today's most complete email protection solutions. The...
CHANTILLY, Va., Aug. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Enterprise users receive unfiltered phishing messages nearly every day of the week, and most of them are not properly trained to recognize or safely react to them, according to new survey data released today by PhishMe. More than two thirds (69%) of security professionals say they encounter phishing messages that get past anti-spam filters and reach users' email boxes at least a few times a week, according to a survey of attendees...
SAN DIEGO, April 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Research released today by the Websense(®) Security Labs(TM) in the Websense 2012 Threat Report reveals the trifecta that is driving epidemic levels of data theft: 1) extremely effective social media lures; 2) evasive and hard-to-detect infiltration of malware; and 3) sophisticated exfiltration of confidential data. The report provides real-world examples, and offers practical advice to IT security practitioners. "Traditional...
FAIRFAX, Va., Feb. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Norman, a global security leader who delivers powerful malware analysis solutions for enterprise, service providers and government, announced the availability of the latest version of its Malware Analyzer G2 platform. This next generation malware analyzer platform now delivers: Analysis capabilities significantly beyond standard high-level threat summaries The industry's most powerful data mining and threat assessment capabilities...
DULLES, Va., July 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) has entered into an exclusive licensing agreement with SafeNet, Inc., a global leader in information security, to market RShield(TM), Raytheon's advanced malware detection product. Traditional malware detection solutions such as antivirus, spam gateways and firewalls, have failed to address sophisticated, socially engineered, polymorphic, zero-day attacks. As a result, attacks of this nature have eroded the perimeter...
