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SAN FRANCISCO -- RSA CONFERENCE 2012 -- Tufin Technologies, a company that offers solutions for automated security policy management and risk mitigation, released the results of a quick survey this week, after speaking to 100 network managers on the topic of recently announced updates to the EU’s Data Protection legislation.

SAN FRANCISCO – RSA CONFERENCE 2012 – EMC today announced the availability of five new security and risk management advisory services designed to help organizations improve levels of trust and control for next-generation IT infrastructures such as cloud, virtualization, and mobile.

INTERPOL said on Tuesday that 25 suspected hackers believed to be linked to ‘Anonymous’ collective have been arrested across four countries in Latin America and Europe.

RSA Chief Art Coviello Says Industry Needs to Share Information and Develop a New Generation of Security Analysts to Combat Rising The Tide of Advanced Cyber Attacks

The RSA Conference is underway, which means vendor announcements a-plenty are on their way.

SAN FRANCISCO - RSA Conference 2012 – Rapid7 and Modulo (known for GRC solutions) have teamed up to offer their respective platforms in one setting, offering organizations a stronger view into the threats and vulnerabilities they face.

SAN FRANCISCO - RSA Conference 2012 – FireEye announced the release of a new appliance that will detect and remove malware introduced to the network through Web mail, FTP, personal storage, and other means.Called File Malware Protection System (MPS), the new offering complements FireEye’s existing MPS line, which includes Email MPS and Web MPS.

SAN FRANCISCO – RSA CONFERENCE 2012 - Bit9, the company best known for its application whitelisting technology, today announced a platform that the company says will help protect all enterprise endpoints, servers and private clouds from cyber-attacks that often make their way past other anti-virus and behavioral security solutions.

SAN FRANCISCO -- RSA CONFERENCE 2012 -- RSA, the Security Division of EMC, today introduced enhancements to its NetWitness Live™ platform, including expanded threat content and added support for new analytics platforms.The RSA NetWitness Live service is a cloud-based threat intelligence delivery platform that aggregates, analyzes and spotlights security content from approximately 100 sources.

SAN FRANCISCO - RSA CONFERENCE 2012 - Qualys has a history of making major product announcements at the RSA Conference in San Francisco each year, and this year is no exception. The company, based just miles away in Redwood Shores, today introduced significant enhancements to its flagship QualysGuard suite of applications for security and compliance.The company's cloud-based QualysGuard service adds the following new features and enhancements as announced today at the RSA Conference:

Botnet takedowns are good for the industry, but our local controls are really the only security measures that we can rely on to protect our users, networks and data.

Cybercriminals put significant effort into building their data stealing and spam pushing botnets, so when things come crashing down when authorities seize control of a botnet’s command and control server, you can imagine how frustrating it is for the fraudsters. Never mind the fact there is a good chance they’d be facing jail time as well. In the past year, we’ve seen several successful botnet takedowns, and authorities and security vendors are continuing the assault against these international cybercime empires.

Enterprise key and certificate management firm Venafi, in conjunction with Osterman Research, recently released the results of a study, which showed that most organizations fail to understand the risks associated with improper implementation and management of SSL deployments.The sample size for the study, 174 IT / InfoSec professionals, is rather small, but the data collected by Venafi is relevant nevertheless.

Two weeks ago, Mac security researchers at Intego discovered a variant of the Flashback Trojan using clever methods to infect systems. On Friday, Intego reported that a new variant of Flashback is targeting passwords and as a byproduct of infection, Flashback is crashing several notable applications.

The world has changed. The predicted consolidation of all things electronic (i.e., telephony, games, Internet, email, entertainment, social, calendars, etc.) fits in my jacket pocket and has become an indispensible part of my life. I seamlessly work from my office, my home, my car and around the world as though there are no walls.

The Obama administration today pulled the covers off of a consumer-privacy strategy aimed at helping protect users online.

Trustwave, a provider of IT security and compliance solutions, today announced additions to its managed security services portfolio, including new managed Web Application Firewall and Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions.The offerings add to the company’s existing managed security services offerings, including managed encryption, network access control, two-factor authentication and unified threat management.