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Led by the team behind ModSecurity, Qualys today announced an open source web application firewall project dubbed “IronBee,” with the goal of producing a web application firewall sensor that is secure, high-performing, portable, and freely available – even for commercial use.

SonicWALL, a provider of network security and data protection solutions, today announced its SuperMassive™ E10000 Series of Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFW) featuring a multi-core architecture that utilizes up to 96 cores of processing power and delivering more than 40 Gbps of firewall throughput and over 30 Gbps of application control and Intrusion Prevention Service (IPS).

Putting its recent acquisition of Altor Networks into action, Juniper Networks today announced the integration of its new vGW Virtual Gateway with its SRX Series Services Gateways to provide a consistent, virtualization-aware solution for private and public cloud deployments.

Rapid7, a Boston-based provider of vulnerability management and penetration testing solutions, today announced that its NeXpose product now provides full Adobe® Flash decompilation and analysis support. With the new feature, Rapid7’s Web application scanning goes beyond basic Flash support with the ability to discover more vulnerabilities and improve intelligence in Flash analysis.

Zscaler, a provider of cloud based security solutions, today unveiled Zscaler Mobile, a service designed to protect mobile devices from the ever-increasing number of threats to mobile devices. Combined with Zscaler's existing Web and email cloud security services, Zscaler Mobile enforces the same policy for users wherever they go, across all their devices. The platform supports leading smartphones and tablets including iPhone, iPad and Android devices.

Dell announced new Enterprise Mobility Services today, a line of services and solutions to help address strategic pain points that enterprises and CIOs are experiencing as critical challenges to their business as the work force becomes increasingly mobile. The new services and solutions announced today include:

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EMC today announced that it has named Thomas P. Heiser as president of RSA, the Security Division of EMC. Heiser, a 26 year veteran of EMC and most recently serving as RSA's Chief Operating Officer, will continue day-to-day leadership of the division.

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Many are familiar with the popular T.V. series’ fictional account of the NCIS (Naval Criminal Investigative Service). Real-life NCIS Acting Special Agent Kirk Greffin has been cracking down on white-collar crime, government corruption and contractor fraud. Greffen states, “A $10 million heist is a major crime, whether the money is taken with a gun or with a keyboard. Fraud victimizes every taxpayer. It wastes billions of tax dollars and erodes public confidence.

According to a recent survey, 90 percent of U.S. and UK IT managers said they are planning to implement new mobile applications this year, with half saying that successfully managing mobile applications tops their priority list.

With an estimated one trillion devices that will be connected to the Internet by 2015, security vulnerabilities are emerging that companies need to address. Recognizing this trend, IBM today announced initiatives to extend security to the growing number of mobile and instrumented devices beyond an organization’s own walls, such as smartphones, ATMs, retail kiosks, traffic systems, meters, buildings and sensors.

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