[From the desk of Paul Davis – his opinions and no-one else’s]
Apart from the reporter’s opinions đ
Obviously, the big news is suspected hack of the OPM
So onto the news:
Cisco, Aruba roll out 802.11ac Wave 2 products, but who’s buying?
Cisco and Aruba are the latest networking companies to introduce 802.11ac Wave 2 access points that experts say enterprises are unlikely to buy in large numbers for some time.
Cisco’s and Aruba’s wireless transceivers provide all the benefits of the latest Wi-Fi standard, which include throughputs comparable to wired Internet connections and support for more mobile devices than any wireless standard of the past. Unfortunately, taking full advantage of Wave 2 often requires expensive infrastructure changes few businesses will consider until they use up the bandwidth available from cheaper Wave 1 access points (APs).
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Invincea First to Receive Common Criteria Certification for Advanced Endpoint Threat Protection Offering
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD–(Marketwired – Jun 8, 2015) – Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit — Invincea, Inc., the leader in advanced endpoint threat protection, today announced it has become the first and only company to receive Common Criteria certification for an advanced endpoint threat protection offering. The company received this certification for its core products: Invincea Endpoint (formerly Invincea FreeSpace) and Invincea Management (formerly Invincea Management Server), now Common Criteria certified at EAL 2+. This certification resulted from an intensive year-plus testing process conducted by Computer Sciences Canada, Inc., one of the accredited Common Criteria testing laboratories.
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Panda Security Launches Adaptive Defense; Industry-First Solution for Endpoint Security Offering Automated Prevention, Detection and Remediation of Advanced Malware
Panda Security today announced the launch of Panda Adaptive Defense, a cloud-based solution that ensures endpoint protection against Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs), the ransomware trojan CryptoLocker, and targeted attacks in enterprise environments. Adaptive Defense offers a disruptive approach compared to traditional blacklist-, whitelist- and sandbox-based approaches. Adaptive Defense also detected the recently publicized âPhantom Menaceâ that was reported by PandaLabs.
Adaptive Defense, however, delivers an industry-first security model based on automated monitoring, investigation and classification of the behavior and nature of every application. This provides robust and complete protection, only allowing legitimate applications (goodware) to run.
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HP Expands Print Security Services
Technology giant HP announced new and updated print security software and services to help businesses improve the security and efficiency of their print environments.
Also, HP Printing Security Advisory Services expanded its geographic coverage, adding security advisers in Europe and Asia to make HPâs print security services available to customers in these regions.
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Tenable Network Security Extends Capabilities of Nessus Agents to Assure Security across Complex IT Environments
COLUMBIA, Md.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Tenable Network SecurityÂŽ, Inc., the leader in continuous network monitoring, today announced extended OS support for NessusÂŽ Agents to help IT security architects, analysts and system administrators reduce the attack surface and gain visibility into systems that are off-limits or challenging for vulnerability assessments.
Nessus Agents, now with support for Mac OS X and Red Hat/CentOS Linux, address key challenges of traditional network-based scanning, and reduce an organizationâs attack surface by scanning assets that are off the network or powered-down during scheduled assessments. They close the scanning gap for laptops and other portable devices that come and go from the network, and remove the need for password updates and ongoing credential management for network assets during vulnerability assessments.
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BT Strengthens Global Defense Against Growing Cyber Security Threats With Cisco FirePOWER Solution
IRVING, Texas, June 8, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — BT today announced that it is incorporating Cisco FirePOWER⢠Next-Generation Intrusion Prevention System (NGIPS) into the BT Assure portfolio of managed security services, further strengthening data and systems protection for BT customers.
Mark Hughes, president of BT Security, said: “When it comes to security, it is all about rethinking the risk. Organizations need new technologies to combat rapidly evolving cyber threats. We work with world class partners to strengthen our security portfolio and help organizations master this ever changing landscape. Cisco’s FirePOWER NGIPS brings a very strong additional capability to the arsenal of security solutions that BT customers can deploy to protect their critical assets and be prepared for the future.”
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Radware and Cisco Sign OEM Agreement for DDoS Mitigation
MAHWAH, N.J., June 08, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — RadwareÂŽ (Nasdaq:RDWR), a leading provider of cyber security and application delivery solutions ensuring optimal service level for applications in virtual, cloud and software defined data centers, announced it has provided to Cisco Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CSCO) its distributed denial of service (DDoS) mitigation technology for the new Cisco Firepower 9300 appliance designed for service providers.
âWe are excited to bring to the market our next generation security platform – the Firepower 9300 appliance,â says Marc Solomon, VP of Security Marketing at Cisco Systems. “By incorporating our own unique security approach along with Radwareâs DDoS protection on the Firepower 9300, we are able to deliver threat-centric security solutions for service providers including advanced firewalling, DDoS protection, and other security protection services.â
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Pragma Systems Collaborates With Cisco to Provide 2-Factor Authentication to Routers and Switches
AUSTIN, Texas, June 8, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Pragma Systems, a leading SSH solutions provider, announced Cisco and Pragma Systems have collaborated to provide the only government approved and FIPS certified SSH 2-factor solution that provides remote and secure access to Cisco routers and switches for access, control and configuration changes. By utilizing X.509 certificates and CAC/smartcards with Pragma SSH Client, customers now have more secure access and control into their devices or systems for regulatory compliance mandates for 2-factor authentication.
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CliQr Integrates CloudCenter Application Migration and Management Platform With Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)
SAN DIEGO, CA — (Marketwired) — 06/08/15 — Today at Cisco Live, Cisco’s annual IT and communications conference, CliQr, the leading application-defined cloud management platform provider, announces integration of its CloudCenter platform with Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI). The solution, which will be demonstrated at Booth #1106, creates an IT industry-leading solution that capitalizes on application relevancy to automate and optimize the end-to-end provisioning of infrastructure. The combination of CliQr and ACI reduces total cost of ownership, automates IT tasks and accelerates data center application deployments. Cisco ACI accomplishes this using a business-relevant software defined networking (SDN) policy model across networks, servers, storage, security and services. The integration of ACI with CloudCenter facilitates the deployment and management of the full application stack, leading to new levels of IT efficiency, security and control, all based on
the specific characteristics and needs of the application. CloudCenter integrates with ACI to deliver a single, intuitive environment where users can easily create standard application profiles. These profiles one-click-automate the provisioning of infrastructure resources — including compute, storage and, now, ACI’s network configurations and settings — along with the deployment of the application and its full complement of required components on physical, virtual or cloud environments.
CliQr and Cisco address one of IT’s biggest challenges, the costs and complexities associated with the ever-increasing pace in which businesses are deploying new and modifying existing applications across today’s very diverse infrastructure environments. Rather than the traditional approach of manually forcing applications to conform to a variety of changing physical, virtual and cloud environments, the CloudCenter platform automates the dynamic provisioning of optimal infrastructure through Cisco’s Application Policy Infrastructure Controller, enabling resources and settings based on the application needs, which leads to new levels of operational efficiency and security.
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Vorstack Becomes BrightPoint Security, Refocuses on Threat Intelligence
Threat intelligence platform provider Vorstack has relaunched as BrightPoint Security with the goal of redefining threat intelligence sharing for the IT industry.
The rebranding includes new leadership appointments and the launch of the companyâs new Sentinel product line of security solutions, including a Threat Intelligence Platform with granular policies designed to control threat intelligence sharing across vendor supply chains, affiliates and subsidiaries, according to the announcement.
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