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Symantec Announces Updates to Data Management, Protection and Endpoint Security Solutions
For smaller organizations, Symantec offers both on-premises and cloud-based solutions with Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition and Symantec Endpoint Protection.cloud, respectively, providing customers with flexibility of choice and freedom of deployment to best meet their business needs.
To identify emerging threats across local and global environments, Symantec Protection Center will offer a centralized view across the Symantec security portfolio and third-party products through three levels of integration — single sign-on, data collection and process automation.
Symantec Enterprise Vault 10 software will add new integration with Symantec’s data loss prevention and encryption technologies to archive and discover organizations’ information without compromising confidential information, in addition to allowing organizations to discover data stored in the cloud and from social networks. Symantec’s Software-as-a-Service-based Enterprise Vault.cloud will offer unlimited cloud storage for e-mail, with rapid search and access, for a flat fee per mailbox per month.
As more law firms and eDiscovery service providers are required to adopt more formal information management processes, they will be faced with increased costs associated with discovery over those that have an efficient information governance strategy and archiving solution available.
“Information streams are evolving from email to social networks and archives are moving from on-premise to the cloud, causing IT administrators to lose sleep over managing information and lawyers to debate new retention policies,” said Brian Dye, vice president of product management, Symantec. Enterprise Vault 10 is adding Data Classification Service (DCS) as a new feature that leverages Symantec’s data loss prevention technology to analyze email content and metadata to automatically classify the email. With no hardware, software, or plug-ins to install and maintain, this solution offers unlimited email storage and retention in secure enterprise-class data centers for a flat fee per mailbox per month.
http://www.securityweek.com/symantec-announces-updates-data-management-protection-and-endpoint-security-solutions
Sophos acquires Astaro
“The combination of Astaro’s comprehensive portfolio of network security solutions alongside our endpoint, mobile, and email and web threat and data protection capabilities will enable us to continue to deliver on our vision of providing complete security without complexity wherever the user and company data resides,” stated Steve Munford, Chief Executive Officer, Sophos.
The market for multi-function security appliances has continued to grow because organizations of all sizes want better protection against security threats and need to support their users and distributed workplaces in a comprehensive, easy to use, efficient way.
…Astaro, with $56 million in billings and 30% year over year growth in 2010, is the fourth largest dedicated unified threat management (UTM) provider, leads the market and has sustained fast growth due to its strong track record of innovation and robust portfolio of feature rich network security solutions.
…“Demand for network security solutions with more comprehensive and high-quality protection is accelerating fast, and yet companies are struggling with the complexity of multiple security solutions to serve these needs,” stated Jan Hichert, Chief Executive Officer, Astaro. … Together, we will deliver to customers the ability to apply consistent security and web and application controls regardless of where the user is or where the network boundary may lie.”
…Solutions Fuelled by Best-in-Class Threat and Data Protection and Web and Application Control: Solutions will offer complete protection to meet complex threats and malware challenges, especially from the web, applications and social engineering vectors that require full visibility and coordination, supported by SophosLabs and renowned malware and threat expertise.
Enriched Channel Offerings: The combination of Sophos and Astaro will offer partners a complete and differentiated range of security solutions and services to meet customer needs not answered in the market today. Partners can deliver coordinated threat and data protection, and policy from any endpoint to any network boundary with solutions that can be deployed in any way: software, virtual, appliance, via a cloud services platform and backed by security updates from Sophos Live Protection for real-time, high-performance protection for end users no matter where they are.
http://blogs.csoonline.com/1498/sophos_acquires_astaro
Symantec announces April 2011 MessageLabs Intelligence Report
“The trend in targeted attacks suggests there may be a seasonal pattern as the number of targeted attacks always seems to be higher at this time of year,” said Paul Wood, MessageLabs Intelligence Senior Analyst, Symantec.cloud. “As the financial year draws to a close in many countries, it is also possible that the timing is perfect for cybercriminals seeking information about the financial performance of a company, and a carefully crafted attack may be just the means by which they can achieve this.”
Spam: In April 2011, the global ratio of spam in email traffic from new and previously unknown bad sources decreased by 6.4% points since March 2011 to 72.9% (1 in 1.37 emails).
Viruses: The global ratio of email-borne viruses in email traffic from new and previously unknown bad sources was one in 168.6 emails (0.593%) in April, an increase of 0.114% points since March.
Web security: Analysis of web security activity shows that an average of 2, websites each day were harbouring malware and other potentially unwanted programs including spyware and adware, a decrease of 18.2% since March 2011.
• In Australia, 1 in 271.3 emails were malicious and, 1 in 321.0 for Hong Kong, for Japan it was 1 in 902.9 compared with 1 in 640.0 for Singapore.
• Spam levels for the Education sector were 74%, 72.8% for the Chemical & Pharmaceutical sector, 72.5% for IT Services, 71.8% for Retail, 70.9% for Public Sector and 72.2% for Finance.
• In April, the Public Sector remained the most targeted industry for malware with 1 in 26.4 emails being blocked as malicious.
• Virus levels for the Chemical & Pharmaceutical sector were 1 in 157.4, 1 in 260.4 for the IT Services sector, 1 in 287.6 for Retail, 1 in 87.1 for Education and 1 in 209.5 for Finance.
http://www.ameinfo.com/263494.html
Dropbox 1.2 Experimental Build Fixes Security Issue
The issue caused quite the controversy among users, as it could only be exploited if an attacker was able to get access to the computer. And with access, come all kinds of power including the ability to snag files directly from the local computer.
That update is now available in form of an experimental Dropbox 1.2 build for all supported desktop operating systems. Cautious users may consider waiting for the final release of Dropbox 1.2 before updating to the new version.
It took Dropbox less than two weeks to develop the means to protect the configuration files and databases on the local system.
http://www.ghacks.net/2011/04/28/dropbox-1-2-experimental-build-fixes-security-issue/
Dropbox 1.2 Experimental Build Fixes Security Issue
The issue caused quite the controversy among users, as it could only be exploited if an attacker was able to get access to the computer. And with access, come all kinds of power including the ability to snag files directly from the local computer.
That update is now available in form of an experimental Dropbox 1.2 build for all supported desktop operating systems. Cautious users may consider waiting for the final release of Dropbox 1.2 before updating to the new version.
It took Dropbox less than two weeks to develop the means to protect the configuration files and databases on the local system.
http://www.ghacks.net/2011/04/28/dropbox-1-2-experimental-build-fixes-security-issue/