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In addition, the new ZoneAlarm free firewall uses both signatures and heuristics to block dangerous websites, and also includes an identity check-up with ‘identity guard’ that allows customers to see if their identity and personal information has been exposed.

Bari Abdul, vice president of consumer sales at Check Point, said: “Most people have some form of anti-virus protection.

http://www.scmagazineuk.com/check-point-enhances-free-firewall-with-malware-analysis/article/170795/

“Single-purpose technologies, like firewalls and traditional IPS devices, don’t provide a combined view into the context or depth of users, applications, devices and data on the network… For truly effective protection and policy management, organizations need real-time visibility of everything on the network,” said John Burris, Chief Executive Officer of Sourcefire.

http://www.pr-inside.com/sourcefire-expands-real-time-application-awareness-r1909416.htm

“Secerno’s products are expected to expand Oracle’s portfolio of security solutions to ensure data privacy, protect against insider threats, and enable regulatory compliance,” Vipin Samar, vice president of Oracle’s (NASDAQ: ORCL) database security group, wrote in a letter to both companies’ customers.

In November, IBM paid $225 million to acquire Guardium, a privately held database security software developer that competed with the likes of Secerno and Imperva.

http://www.databasejournal.com/features/oracle/article.php/3883496/Oracle-Buys-Database-Firewall-Firm-Secerno.htm

The company will offer cloud-based support for network firewalls and intrusion detection and prevention systems in the fourth quarter of this year, which will be available separately and can be used on Verizon and other providers’ network connections.

Howorth explained that this service would be split between a standard offering aimed at SMBs, and a premium services for mid-to-large enterprises, to give them complete control over security on their networks.

http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2263506/verizon-business-offer-network

Fortify on Demand, a set of hosted Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions that allow any organization to test and score the security of all software with greater speed and accuracy, is the industry’s first SaaS-based software security solution to test for security issues specific to the cloud and to provide a Cloud Readiness Scorecard. “Like immunizing themselves against infection, cloud providers can use Fortify 360 or Fortify on Demand to ensure that bad code introduced by one or more customers doesn’t contaminate their cloud offering. They can also create premium offerings around applications or infrastructure where software security has been rigorously applied,” said Chess.

“For cloud consumers, our products can ensure that their code is secured and that they can trust their software before the move to this unique shared environment….Its software security suite–Fortify 360–drives down costs and security risks by automating key processes of developing and deploying secure applications.”

http://4g-wirelessevolution.tmcnet.com/news/2010/05/18/4794426.htm

Broad cloud security services had to wait on the maturation of security technologies and for demand in the marketplace to grow, observers say. Meanwhile, more focused security services are springing up to help small and midsize businesses cope with complexity.

“Security has gotten much more complicated,” says John Pescatore, vice president of business intelligence firm Gartner. Another sign of maturity: In the past, the fuzzy status of managed and cloud security services’ compliance to various regulations kept some companies away. “A lot of people are attracted to these security-as-a-service offerings because, as part of it, they get the reporting needed by regulations,” he observes.

Starting in June, the company will offer antivirus, anti-spam, anti-malware, and URL filtering services for no charge to existing Secure Gateway customers.

Where Verizon aims to sell services to enterprises, the goal of Symantec’s HEP is to ease management of the company’s endpoint security products for small and midsize businesses.

Large enterprises are not as interested in SaaS offerings because they lose some control and flexibility, says George Tomic, distinguished engineer for Symantec Hosted Services.

http://www.darkreading.com/securityservices/security/perimeter/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=224701664