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LogLogic Virtual SIEM Appliance Makes Official Debut

LogLogic, a provider of SIEM and IT data management solutions, today announced the official release of its virtual SIEM solution, LogLogic’s MX Virtual.

Company has received $6.25M to accelerate its future growth plans and further expand its base of enterprise and government customers.

A new report released today by IT security giant McAfee indicates that while organizations see the potential value of Web 2.0 tools, decision makers continue to debate whether to use them in the workplace.

Application Security Inc., announced product upgrades to its AppDetectivePro and DbProtect solutions this week at Oracle Open World in San Francisco.

Blancco, a Finland based provider of data erasure solutions, today introduced a product designed to eliminate the risk of inadvertent data leaks by erasing retired mobile devices that may contain sensitive business information.

Log management priorities – and tools – are evolving in small-to-medium sized businesses with SIEM solutions now being widely used as a tool to monitor network traffic, identify threats and highrisk incidents, improve remediation efforts, and advance other security operations functions in general.

AT&T Exposes iPad Customer Data

AT&T acknowledged on Wednesday that a security hole in its website had exposed the email addresses of some iPad owners.

LogLogic Log Management Virtual Appliances will offer enterprise-grade log data collection, search and storage capabilities running on VMWare virtual servers

An online survey of over 250 security professionals revealed that Forty-seven percent of IT security professionals believe that security audit costs will increase in 2010.

LogLogic cut its prices by more than 50% claiming cost is now up to 73% lower than its nearest competitor’s list price.

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