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SAN FRANCISCO, March 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Webroot, a leading Internet security provider for the consumer, enterprise and SMB markets, today announced at the RSA Conference 2010 that it has appointed Ramon Peypoch to the newly created position of vice president of Corporate Development. A former driver of strategic alliances for Symantec, Websense and other global technology leaders, Peypoch will accelerate Webroot's growth through new technology partnerships and acquisitions. "Ramon brings to...
SANTA ANA, Calif., Feb. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE: IM) has been named a 2010 All-Star Channel Partner by Websense, Inc., a global leader in integrated Web, data and email security solutions. This special honor, which recognizes Ingram Micro's ongoing support of the Websense® ChannelConnect Partner Program and applauds the distributor's sales, marketing and logistics excellence, was presented by the Websense executive team during the company's 2010 North...
According to a Websense report released Thursday, cyber crooks are rigging the Internet with booby-trapped blog commentary, chat rooms, email messages and websites. Online threat analysis showed that 81 percent of e-mail during the second half of 2009 was rigged to deliver "malicious" code and 95 percent of comments posted to blog or chat forums were spam or links to nasty payloads. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) attacks were a favored tactic, piggybacking on hot topics like...
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- San Diego Software Industry Council (SDSIC) www.sdsic.org, a trade association that has been promoting and developing the software industry in San Diego since 1994, announced its newest program, SDSIC Sweat Shop. The new sweat equity marketplace is an online exchange for employers and job seekers in the software and IT industries to connect. Cash-cautious employers who are offering "sweat equity" compensation can post positions via the SDSIC Job Center and...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Aug. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Frost & Sullivan today awarded Websense, Inc. the 2009 North American Web Content Management Product Innovation of the Year Award and the 2009 Global Content Filtering Products Market Leadership Award. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081117/FSLOGO) The Product Innovation of the Year Award recognizes Websense's development of an innovative, policy-based control Web security solution that addresses the latest Web security...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Scott Klein from DU-COMM, a consolidated 911 dispatch center located in DuPage County, IL, has been looking for a "set it and forget it" appliance. Before Mr. Klein contacted Resilience he was operating Websense version 6.3 on an outdated Dell PowerEdge server that was slow and had reached its end-of-life. "Servers aren't cheap" so Mr. Klein was hesitant to make a decision that was going to be more work and less reward. Mr. Klein was adamant to...
Bit9 Chief Strategist Joined by Panelists from Finjan, Lumension, ScanSafe and Websense WALTHAM, Mass., April 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Bit9, Inc., the pioneer and leader in Enterprise Application Whitelisting, today announced its participation at the America's Growth Capital Conference in San Francisco. Bit9 Chief Strategist Tom Murphy will be among a panel of industry experts debating the state of Web 2.0 security. Among the topics discussed will be an examination of the increase in malicious...
Latest version of cloud-based Livia Web Protection software provides enterprise-class filtering and enhanced reporting for the home SAN DIEGO, March 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Total Tech, a provider of innovative Internet security solutions, today announced the availability of Livia Web Protection v2.0, an easy-to-use, managed Web filtering solution for the home that safeguards families from online dangers while helping parents manage how their children use the Internet. The latest version of the...
Leading Security Software Innovator Names Patriot Technologies as a Top-Performing Websense Channel Partner in North America FREDERICK, Md., Feb. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Patriot Technologies, the trusted, go-to source for IT security, announced today it was recognized as a 2009 All-Star Partner by Websense, a global leader in integrated web, data and email security solutions. The award was presented to Bruce Tucker, president and co-founder during the Websense 2009 North American...
Experts say the economic downturn is likely to affect hi-tech criminals over the next year.However, hi-tech criminals are likely to see opportunities to prosper rather than suffer in the downturn."Crime tends to rise when you have more unemployment," said Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at F-Secure."If you look, in general, where the attacks are coming from you can find social reasons behind them," he said.He believes it is not a technical problem, but a social...
