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New Appliance Helps VARs to Offer SMBs Business Continuity
A small Las Vegas-based vendor today introduced to the channel a new business continuity appliance that it believes can make disaster recovery planning more accessible to SMBs and open up opportunities to VARs and MSPs in the process. XiloCore will roll out the X700 Business Recovery System exclusively through the channel. Designed to be deployed…
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Twitter Site Knocked Down in Hack Attack
(Reuters) – Twitter, the popular Internet micro-blogging service, said it is fending off a cyber attack that prevented people from accessing its website for several hours on Thursday. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said on Twitter’s blog that the site was the victim of a denial-of-service attack, a technique in which hackers overwhelm a website’s servers…
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At Websense, Layoffs and Executive Shakeup
After a tough earnings call last week, Websense announced yesterday that it plans to cut 5 percent of its roster in order to adjust to the slumping economy. “We have been aggressively managing our expense structure during the recession without any reduction in personnel costs,” said Kate Patterson, vice president of corporate communications and investor…
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InfoSec Spending to Focus on Application Security in 2010
As organizations begin planning their 2010 budgets, many have targeted application security as a top priority for the coming year, according to a new report from The InfoPro released today. The New York-based research firm released its Information Security Study following thorough interviews with 246 security professionals at Fortune 1000 organizations and midsize enterprises in…
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NIST Releases New Federal Security Control Catalog
The National Institute of Standards and Technology yesterday rolled out the first installment of what it hopes will act as a unified information security framework for the entire federal government. Brought forth in partnership with the Department of Defense (DOD), the Intelligence Community (IC) and the Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS), the draft of…
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Symantec Adds Web Gateway Security to Protection Suite
Symantec today announced the integration of Web Gateway 4.5 into its Symantec Protection Suite Enterprise Edition following the company’s April acquisition of Mi5 Networks. The latest improvement to the Symantec suite adds a new tier of anti-malware technology to the existing anti-virus engine that is meant to better protect users from botnet and Web 2.0…