Ericka Chickowski

McAfee flexed its network security muscles with the announcement of a new set of internal network appliances, new intrusion prevention system (IPS) capabilities, and a reorganization of these and other network products into an across-the-board solution set it’s now marketing as McAfee Full Spectrum Network Defense. The new appliances, called Network Threat Behavior Analysis (NTBA), […]

Endpoint security firm GuardianEdge announced yesterday that it will evolve with the full disk encryption market by releasing a new encryption management product meant to work seamlessly with the Trusted Computing Group’s (TCG) hardware-based disk encryption specification, Opal. Released earlier this year by TCG, Opal was designed to offer the industry a standard for self-encrypting […]

Absolute Software yesterday announced the $12.1 million acquisition of Pole Position Software, owner of LANrev, in a deal that will help expand Absolute further into asset management. Absolute is best known for its Computrace software suite, which enables enterprises to track the location of mobile assets with its geotechnology feature and freeze device data in […]

Websense announced this week that it started working with bit.ly to prevent hackers from abusing the shortening service and tricking users into visiting sites hosting malicious content. One of the leading URL shortening services for social networking sites such as Twitter, bit.ly and others like it have been subject to a wide spectrum of chicanery […]

Defense contractor Northrop Grumman addressed the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., this week to announce a new private sector-academic cybersecurity consortium that it hopes will accelerate research to address growing threats to government and private-sector infrastructure. The results could put the system integrator at an even bigger advantage within the government security market . […]

Webroot released two products to the channel this week that its leaders believe will enable the channel to help customers better satisfy their web and e-mail risk and compliance requirements. The first release was an update to its SaaS Web Security Service which extends the service to outbound threat detection and adds more heuristic techniques […]

IBM announced plans to acquire database security vendor Guardium for what some sources have pinned at $225 million. The acquisition is a big validation of the database activity monitoring (DAM) market, which has managed to maintain healthy traction within the channel  even in the down market. "These products play a critical role in establishing a […]

GN Netcom  appealed to the channel early this week with an announcement that it would tweak its Jabra Partner Program for North America in an effort to improve deal registration and learning programs and better support partners focused on Unified Communications. The headset manufacturer has enrolled more than 200 channel partners since first launching its […]

Sophos and Juniper Networks announced this week that they’re teaming up to extend the spam protection on Juniper’s branch office networking security platforms. The partnership enables Juniper to integrate Sophos anti-spam technology into Juniper Networks SRX Series Services Gateways, SSG Series Secure Service Gateways and J Series Service Routers for the branch. Sophos’ technology takes […]

IT Pay Trends Whats Up Whats Down IT Pay TrendsBy Ericka Chickowski No Title According to IT Skills and Certifications Pay Index (ITSCPI), released by the IT pay analysts with Foote Partners, most IT specializations have lost a bit of their luster during this year’s economic crunch. The quarterly ITSCPI examines the pay premium of […]

This week, Jersey City, N.J.-based Xceedium released to the channel an update to its access control gateway that gives customers the power to control and audit access to legacy mainframe systems and virtualized systems, two niches for which it has traditionally proven quite complex to manage access The Xceedium GateKeeper Version 5 will extend its […]

Understanding the State of Endpoint Security What You Need to Know About the State of Endpoint SecurityBy Ericka Chickowski No Title The Ponemon Institute recently conducted a study on behalf of Lumension to take the pulse of decision makers from both IT security and IT operations groups about endpoint management and security. Unsurprisingly, Ponemon found […]