Category: Product

VM Fortress includes features from Security Enhanced Linux (SE Linux), such as flexible mandatory access control (MAC) features, which the company said can limit damage caused by vulnerabilities in virtual machines (VMs).

Users can manipulate some configuration features, such as sound card volume, mouse configuration and user password, with the rest controlled by the administrator, the company said.

VM Fortress supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5, 32-bit and 64-bit, on x86 hardware, along with VMware Workstation version 6 and VMware Player version 2.

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/147343/desktop_virtualization_gets_militarygrade_security.html

AlgoSec this week unveiled FireFlow, which automates policy change management and integrates with existing processes — such as the e-mail and Web-based forms typically used by department heads to request adding or removing a user’s access. News of AlgoSec’s new release, which is due to ship next quarter, comes a few weeks after rival Tufin Technologies announced version 4.2 of its flagship SecureTrack product.

“It’s not uncommon for folks to have 40,000 to 50,000 rules across hundreds of firewalls in today’s large environments, and having a dedicated application to manage them is gold,” Lindstrom said. When coupled with a sprawling, international staff, this process of tracking user rights and privileges often proves even more taxing. For instance, global enterprises with offices in different countries often have to implement different rules to achieve the same results. “Some of our clients who are large financial institutions find that they have to apply different policies in different countries, because the laws are different,” Shaul Efraim, vice president of marketing at Tufin, told InternetNews.com.

http://www.internetnews.com/software/article.php/3754241

Now available as an integrated part of the StoneFly Integrated Storage Concentrator (ISC) line of high-availability IP SANs, the new SAN-based encryption will also be offered with other StoneFly IP SANs later this year.

http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=156842

“We try to be sensitive to that and make sure the machine is still usable while you’re encrypting,” said John Dasher, director of product management at PGP.

The encryption solution comes at a time when Macs are becoming more ubiquitous in the enterprise environment. With the success of the iPhone and iPod, more and more businesses are incorporating Macs into their network environments, experts say.

A March Forrester Research study reported that the enterprise adoption of Macs tripled to 4.2 percent last year, while a Yankee Group survey found that 87 percent of companies now have at least some Macs in their offices — a statistic which has risen 48 percent from two years ago.

Execs tout the product as the the only one on the market that can accommodate an integrated environment for both Windows and OS X. Looking at the broader picture, Dasher said that the data encryption solution addresses the growing need for enterprises to protect critical data, which has become increasingly mobile, and as a result, increasingly vulnerable to loss.

It also comes at a time when companies are required to implement beefed up security to protect intellectual property and corporate brand quality, as well as sensitive customer information.

http://www.crn.com/security/208402993

Key SecureTrack Benefits for PCI-DSS Compliance: Continuous change tracking and analysis – ensuring all aspects of network and data security is inherent to the PCI standard.
Powerful security policy simulation and risk analysis – policy simulation is a key part of the PCI requirement to test security systems and processes regularly.
With SecureTrack’s Policy Analysis, managers can identify potential threats to cardholder data security and eliminate them before any damage can occur.
Periodic Auditing and Reports – intuitive, packaged reports for PCI-DSS compliance can be quickly customized to meet the specific requirements of every organization.

http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=6186

Check Point VPN-1 supports the L2TP client embedded in all current and future iPhone versions, giving customers immediate IPsec VPN access to corporate servers.

http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=6182