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Email Security Appliance Provides with Real-Time Analysis of Embedded URLs and Attachments To Protect Against Targeted, Socially Engineered Attacks

Smartphone security firm, Lookout, today released the findings of its second App Genome Report, based on an analysis of over 500,000 mobile apps across different device platforms and app markets. The results show that the Android Market is growing at a rate nearly three times faster than the Apple App Store.

In an interview earlier this year, Kristin Lovejoy, Vice President of Security Strategy at IBM, addressed growing security concerns across the North American business landscape. Lovejoy focused on global security threats facing organizations, unique challenges of managing security across IBM, and how security leaders can improve in 2011 and beyond.

“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?” - Satires of Juvenal“Good, Bad, I’m the one with the gun” - Bruce Campbell as Ash in “Army of Darkness” (1992)

Websense today unveiled a new Mobile DLP solution to help prevent sensitive data loss via mobile devices, whether connected through cellular carriers or WiFi. The new solution, Websense Mobile DLP™, helps prevent the loss of confidential data on iPads, iPhones, Android, and other mobile devices by utilizing content security controls.

At the RSA Conference in San Francisco today, Scott Charney, corporate vice president of Microsoft Trustworthy Computing, urged public and private sectors to adopt a proposal for a global Internet health model. In his keynote address about Microsoft’s Collective Defense vision, Charney said that existing technology and organizational policies could be used to implement a device health model that promotes trusted online experiences.

RSA today announced a new solution designed to automate the identification, prioritization and resolution of enterprise security incidents and enabling CISOs to visualize and prioritize security threats while reducing the time-consuming investigation processes.

ipTrust today announced the availability of ipTrust Intelligence Service, a new service which enables technology, reseller and service provider partners to integrate ipTrust's reputation analytics into their solutions, adding a significant layer of protection against today's most sophisticated attacks.

Akamai Technologies today unveiled new cloud defense solutions including updated DDoS defense Architecture and Web Application Firewall solutions.

Damballa Inc., at the RSA Conference in San Francisco today released its “Top 10 Botnet Threat Report - 2010” which revealed a dramatic increase in Internet crime and targeted botnet attacks. At its peak in 2010, the total number of unique botnet victims grew by 654 percent, with an average incremental growth of eight percent per week.

Tacoma, Washington based IID (Internet Identity), a provider of technology and services that help organizations secure Internet presence, today announced the availability of a new border gateway protocol (BGP) security solution for the extended enterprise designed to detect, diagnose and mitigate BGP security threats.

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.