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PatchLink to acquire endpoint security specialist SecureWave
PatchLink® Corporation has announced that terms for the acquisition of SecureWave SA, a provider of endpoint security products to more than 1,700 companies worldwide, have been agreed to in an all-stock merger. The merger transaction is subject to the approval of SecureWave shareholders and is expected to be closed in the following weeks. The c...
Laptop stolen with confidential data on The Eden Project employees
The Eden Project in Cornwall has confirmed that a laptop containing the names, addresses, bank details, national insurance numbers and pay rates of 500 of its employees has been stolen from the car of an employee who of Moorepay Ltd - the company which handles the Eden Project's payroll. The Eden Project has joined the growing ranks of organ...
Half of all employees begin their new jobs using competitive information taken from their old jobs
New research from Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. shows that almost half of people would take useful information and data with them to their next job. It is unlikely that anyone would stop them as three quarters of companies, based on the recent survey, have no security in place to prevent information going out the door. Eighty five pe...
Security Of Corporate Data On Mobile Devices Is Declining
A recent survey conducted by Sybase iAnywhere shows that the majority of companies are still failing to encrypt company-sensitive information on mobile devices. 60% of IT professionals surveyed had sensitive business information, such as emails and passwords, stored on their mobile devices. Results from the same survey last year indicated that 62% ...
GE deploys Sophos Security and Control solutions
Sophos has announced that GE will begin deploying Sophos's Security & Control solutions in 2007. Under the terms of the agreement, Sophos may be deployed on up to 350,000 endpoints (laptops, desktops and servers) throughout the world and within every division of the company. Seeking to improve manageability and reduce costs which arise from ma...
Full security suite on a USB stick
Every day, thousands of computer users have personal information stolen, identities cloned and work flow disrupted by hacking, viruses and other malicious attacks. These consumers are often protected by software-only security which can be time consuming to install, difficult to configure and manage and can result in different programs conflicting w...
Sensible Vision and Digi International release USB cameras with facial recognition software
Sensible Vision and Digi International (NASDAQ: DGII) have announced the integration of Sensible Vision’s FastAccess™ facial recognition software with Digi’s Watchport® high-performance USB cameras. The Watchport/FastAccess bundled solution gives organisations continuous information protection with fast and accurate authentication and eliminates cu...
Managers guilty of jeopardising the security of company information with careless email usage
According to a new survey, 82% of personal assistants read confidential information in error, because managers are sending and exchanging unsecured confidential information in email sent to shared Inboxes. These findings come from new research examining email behaviour among 300 senior PAs of 250 companies. The survey underlines that there is n...
Lightspeed Systems Europe monitors, controls and secures Scottish law firm legal network
Since the inception of Harper Macleod in 1988, the Scottish law firm has grown rapidly to one of Scotland’s top tier large medium sized commercial law firms with a complement of some 210 staff. Harper Macleod required a security solution which was aligned to its continued growth. A key element of the business relates to communication and traffic m...
Aventail announces Connect Mobile secure remote access to Windows Mobile smartphones
Aventail has announced Aventail Connect Mobile for smartphones, a SSL VPN providing full support and secure end point control for Windows Mobile smartphones. Connect Mobile is an easy-to-use and easy-to-manage add-on to Aventail’s award-winning SSL VPN appliances, allowing IT managers to easily extend their secure remote access solution to all mob...
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