Last fall, Mr. Nadella came to Washington and in a comprehensive speech the Microsoft CEO laid out Microsoft’s broad vision for security in the enterprise. Today, the company made a series of announcements in a lengthy blog post from Microsoft Chief Information Security Officer Brett Arsenault that starts to bring that vision into clearer focus. It’s probably not a… Read […]

Posted on February 26th, 2016 by admin
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 Mainframes aren’t dead yet. IBM is launching a new version of its z13 mainframe for mid-sized enterprises today that introduces a number of new security features. With up to 4 TB of RAM, the z13s also supports 8x as much memory as IBM’s previous single-frame mainframes. IBM also says the z13s offers faster processing speeds […]

Posted on February 21st, 2016 by admin
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Physical security now a major concern of CIOs With the recent terrorist attack physical security is seen as growing concern for all organizations. Among the ranks of potential threats that organizations face, acts of terrorism is an increasing concern. More than one half of all CIOs that we have talked to have expressed concern about […]

Posted on February 19th, 2016 by admin
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 Malwarebytes, a security company that started when its cofounder was still a teenager fixing his parents’ infected computer, has come a long way from its bootstrapped roots. Today the startup’s software is used by millions of consumers and some 70,000 businesses to protect from and clean up computer viruses, worms, trojan horses and more. And now, to grow […]

Posted on January 24th, 2016 by admin
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Some executive fight security practices Even today there are clashes with senior business executives that make it more challenging for CSOs and CISOs to create a secure environment. Many of the conflicts that occur between security and business executives are due to ongoing philosophical differences regarding risk and convience.  Many of them feel they are […]

Posted on January 8th, 2016 by admin
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 Satya Nadella came to Washington, DC this morning, and delivered The Microsoft State of Security address, laying out Microsoft’s security vision and all of the tools and technologies that entails. Speaking at the Microsoft Government Cloud Forum, he articulated the company security strategy. Key to this was not only finding ways to secure the key elements of […]

Posted on November 18th, 2015 by admin
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 Israel is a small country with a thriving security startup industry, and Microsoft appears to be have a taste for them. Today it announced an agreement to buy Secure Islands, its third Israeli security firm in the last year. While Microsoft did not reveal a specific price, various reports peg the deal at between $77 million […]

Posted on November 10th, 2015 by admin
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 As HP downsizes its own holdings in network security, another IT giant is ramping up: today Cisco announced that it would acquire Lancope, which focuses on behavior analytics, threat visibility and security intelligence to detect malicious activity on corporate networks. Cisco is paying $452.5 million in a cash and equity deal, with the Lancope team […]

Posted on October 28th, 2015 by admin
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 On the heels of Dell buying EMC for $67 billion and Western Digital buying SanDisk for $19 billion, HP is selling off its TippingPoint network security business to TrendMicro for $300 million. TippingPoint is a provider of next-generation intrusion systems and network security solutions, and HP says that in future it will resell network security services from partners (including… Read More […]

Posted on October 25th, 2015 by admin
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 Today at Amazon re:invent, Amazon announced a new service called Amazon Inspector that analyzes your AWS instances and reports back with any security or compliance issues it finds. This provides a valuable service for Amazon customers who may be worried about security, especially those that are new to cloud services. The service does a complete […]

Posted on October 8th, 2015 by admin
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