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Fidelis Security joining General Dynamics

Posted on August 22, 2012December 30, 2021 by admini

The acquisition of Fidelis Security Systems allows General Dynamics to continue to deliver relevant and innovative cybersecurity solutions that help customers maintain the edge to successfully address and respond to dynamic cyber-threats,” said Lou Von Thaer, president of General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems.

Fidelis Security Systems has offices in Maryland and Massachusetts. Its network security solutions help stop advanced threats and prevent data breaches by exposing malicious content in network layers in real-time.

“The combination of Fidelis Security Systems’ products and General Dynamics’ cyber services and incident response capabilities will strengthen our customers’ ability to achieve situational awareness to protect and defend their networks.”

RSA Conference Trending List

Posted on February 29, 2012December 30, 2021 by admini

No 1 – Android malware, everyone seems to bring it up and everyone else seems to beam with excitement
No 2 – Malware feeds, and the challenge of how existing investments and security awareness needs to be improved
No 3 – Cloud, no longer the threat of the unknown but now something that is accepted and even leveraged to provide better security

Overall the security conference seems to be more mature, and people are more interested in networking, talking and sharing.
This might be one of the better years for the RSA security conferences.

SOURCEFIRE FIRST TO PROVIDE NEXT-GENERATION IPS WITH INTEGRATED APPLICATION CONTROL

Posted on February 27, 2012December 30, 2021 by admini

With application detection and control in a universal NGIPS platform, Sourcefire customers can easily construct integrated security policies that balance access controls with robust threat prevention to comprehensively address application-layer risks.

In addition to application control, features in the latest NGIPS release include FireSIGHT™ contextual awareness and automation .The ability to easily create tailored reports by providing input modifiers to report templates at run time to drill down on subsets of data.

“The battle for network security is based on the concept of information superiority, in which two of the most critical tenets are visibility and control,” said Martin Roesch, founder and CTO of Sourcefire. “A significant obstacle to establishing information superiority is the rapid pace of change – both within the IT environment and the broader threat landscape… While other vendors have a framework, our real-world solution has multiple components that work in tandem to allow us to first ‘see it’ and then ‘control it’ – and by so doing, gain the information superiority advantage.”

http://www.sourcewire.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=70430

Number of Malicious Sites Increase by 240% in 2011

Posted on February 14, 2012December 30, 2021 by admini

The Blue Coat Security Labs team first discovered the existence of these malicious networks early in 2011 and presently is the only company to specifically identify, track and block them.

Malnets are distributed network infrastructures within the Internet that are built, managed and maintained by cybercriminals for the purpose of launching a variety of attacks against unsuspecting users over extended periods of time.

The Blue Coat 2012 Web Security Report details the strategies and tactics that malnet operators deploy to snare users and funnel them to dynamic malware payloads, or software which surreptitiously installs on users computers designed for malicious or criminal purposes.

“With the average business now facing 5,000 threats per month, identifying and tracking malnets to block attacks at the source before they are launched is the most effective protection.

According to the report, the most common entry point into these malicious infrastructures rely on the path of least resistance, utilizing entry points that are easy to exploit, such as search engines/portals and email, or are utilized by large, diverse populations of users.

The 2012 Web Security Report examines the malnet ecosystem in depth, examining user behavior, malnet strategies and tactics, as well as highlighting the best defenses against these aggressive infrastructures.

WebPulse is a cloud-based, real-time analysis and ratings service that unites users in a common defense.

Delivered via Blue Coat ProxySG® appliances and the Blue Coat Cloud Service, WebPulse receives one billion Web requests each day from 75 million globally diverse users.

http://www.it-analysis.com/technology/security/news_release.php?rel=29754

Service providers lack confidence in LEAs

Posted on February 9, 2012December 30, 2021 by admini

They are still rare, indicating that the slow uptake of IPv6 makes it “not yet economically or operationally significant enough to warrant serious attention by the Internet criminal underground.”

However, there has been a significant increase in large flood-based attacks in excess of 10 Gbps, constituting “an extremely serious threat to network infrastructure and ancillary support services such as DNS, not to mention end-customer properties.”

Two things that might surprise network customers are the providers’ concern over the effectiveness of stateful firewalls, IPS and load-balancing devices in the face of DDoS attacks, and what Arbor describes as the “perennial disengagement of most network operators from law enforcement.”

On law enforcement, network operators lack confidence in LEA’s ability and willingness to investigate online attacks, and “evince strong dissatisfaction with current governmental efforts to protect critical infrastructure.”

Is Your Lawyer the Weakest Link? Hackers Are Now Targeting

Posted on February 3, 2012December 30, 2021 by admini

According to the January 31, 2012 article entitled “China-Based Hackers Target Law Firms to Get Secret Deal Data,” the attacks have been sufficiently serious that the FBI’s cyber division convened a meeting with the top 200 law firms in New York City last November to address the rising number of law firm intrusions.

The hackers “zeroed in on offices on Toronto’s Bay Street, home of the Canadian law firms handling the deal.” According to the article:

http://www.hahnloeser.com/tradesecretlitigator/post/2012/02/03/Is-Your-Lawyer-the-Weakest-Link-Hackers-Are-Targeting-Law-Firms-to-Get-Secret-Deal-Data.aspx