Security

Discover security articles covering topics like how to protect systems, networks, and data from cyber threats through measures via encryption, firewalls, and access controls. We provide expert insights into ensuring confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information.

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  • Networking

    Fortinet Enhances FortiWeb Web Application Firewall Platform

    Network security provider and unified threat management (UTM) solutions specialist Fortinet announced a firmware release for its FortiWeb Web application firewall family. FortiWeb appliances provide enterprises, application service providers, Security-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) customers with expanded security capabilities designed to improve and simplify protection of Web-based applications containing regulated and confidential…

    Nathan Eddy

  • News and Trends

    RSA Offers Authentication Manager Express

    EMC’s security division, RSA, announced its Authentication Manager Express. The newest strong authentication platform is a risk-based and on-demand authentication system designed for small to medium-size businesses to provide up to 2,500 users with secure access to data and business applications through SSL Virtual Private Networks and online portals. The system employs an intelligent risk…

    Channel Insider Staff

  • Collaboration

    Social Media Applications a Threat to Businesses: Report

    The fastest growing threat to corporate networks is Web-based social media applications, according to WatchGuard security researchers. These applications can seriously compromise network security, expose sensitive data and create productivity drains on employees. The WatchGuard report predicted social networks will become the leading malware vector over the next few years for three reasons: the culture…

    Nathan Eddy

  • News and Trends

    iPhone Infiltrates Corporate World with Help of Security Apps

    TORONTO/SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 24 (Reuters) – A slew of small security software developers are helping Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone gain a foothold within corporations that were once the exclusive domain of Research In Motion’s (TO:RIM) BlackBerry. The shift reflects efforts by some companies to accommodate the preference of many employees for Apple’s iconic smartphone, a trend…

    Channel Insider Staff

  • Networking

    Social Media Security Threats to Rise in 2011: Report

    Forty percent of social networking users quizzed have been sent malware such as worms via social networking sites, a 90 percent increase since April 2009, according to IT security and control firm Sophos’ Security Threat Report 2011, which analyzes cyber-crime during the last year and looks at IT security trends to watch in 2011. In…

    Nathan Eddy

  • Managed Services

    Quest Software Completes Acquisition of BakBone

    IT management specialist Quest Software announced the completion of its acquisition of BakBone Software Inc., a provider of data protection software headquartered in San Diego, Calif. The company said the acquisition gives Quest additional technologies to offer data protection across heterogeneous physical, virtual and application-level environments, enabling organizations to support expanding data protection needs while…

    Nathan Eddy

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