May 10th 2012 – PoINT Software & Systems GmbH has announced today, that the current version of PoINT Storage Manager supports additional storage systems of EMC. Thus for example hard disk – /SSD-based NAS systems manufactured by EMC can seamlessly be integrated in a...
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Conseal Security Launches Major New Release of Conseal Server
April 25th 2012 – Infosec, Stand K76 – Conseal Security, the provider of solutions to secure data on the move, today announced Conseal Server 2.0, enabling organisations to maintain complete control over their private data when it’s on the move.
The increasingly visible headlines publically...
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Dirty Disks Raise new Questions about Cloud Security
April 24th 2012 – Research by Context Information Security has identified potentially significant flaws in the implementation of Cloud infrastructure services offered by some providers, which could be putting their clients’ data at risk. By exploiting the vulnerability, which revolves around data separation, Context...
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Acuity launches latest STREAM Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) solution
April 18th 2012 – Acuity Risk Management has announced a new release of STREAM Integrated Risk Manager, its popular free Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) solution. STREAM Version 2.0 provides users with better visibility and easier access to detailed GRC information, including a personalised...
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Context serves up new CANAPE security assessment tool at Black Hat Europe
March 16th 2012 – Context Information Security has been presenting its latest Windows security assessment tool at Black Hat Europe this week in Amsterdam. CANAPE extends the functionality of existing web application testing tools such as CAT, Burp or Fiddler in order to analyse...
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Microsoft SharePoint and LinkedIn data at risk from Framesniffing Attacks
March 13th 2012 – Context Information Security has highlighted a weakness in Internet Explorer, Chrome and Safari web browsers that enables remote attackers to steal sensitive information held on private Microsoft SharePoint sites, as well as mine data from other public websites such as...
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Disasters Happen … Don’t let the London Olympics be one for your business’s Data Centre!
February 17th 2012 – Leading European Data Centre and Computer Room Consultancy, Migration Solutions has been considering the impact that the 2012 London Summer Olympics is likely to have on the data centre industry.
As we all sit in anticipation, (well, the few of us...
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Research by Infrastructure specialist, Teneo, shows UK businesses hold on to dated firewalls despite radical changes to threat landscape and employee network usage
February 3rd 2012 – Leading infrastructure optimisation specialist Teneo found that the majority of UK organisations are retaining first generation ‘stateful inspection’ firewalls even though they struggle to cope with managing threats from online applications and changes in employee network usage such as accessing...
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Web Application Vulnerabilities still on the Rise
February 2nd 2012 – Two thirds of web applications tested by security consultants at Context Information Security in 2011 were found to be at risk from cross-site scripting and nearly one in five applications risked attacks by experienced SQL injections, according to the new...
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Conseal Security, Experts in Mobile Data Protection, to Attend Infosecurity Europe 2012, April 24-26th, London
February 1st 2012 – Conseal Security, experts in securing data on the move, today announced plans to attend InfoSecurity Europe 2012, building on its successful presence in 2011. In that time the company has continued its aggressive pace of product development, recently launching Conseal...
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ioSafe Signs UK Distribution Agreement with Micro-P for its Award Winning Range of Disaster Proof Storage
January 31st 2012 – ioSafe, the technology leader of disaster proof hardware, has announced a new partnership with Micro-P, one of the leading IT trade distributors in the UK. This new alliance is effective immediately and sees Micro-P distributing the full range of ioSafe’s...
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A good Carberp is hard to find – Context Information Security lead reseach into next generation financial malware and Trojans
January 17th 2012 – Increasingly sophisticated financial malware such as the Carberp Trojan is becoming more and more difficult to detect and eliminate, warns researchers at Context Information Security. Designed to steal log-in and account information and harvest credentials for email and social-networking sites,...
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PoINT advises adaptation of intelligent storage management to prepare for anticipated hard disk shortages
December 12th 2011 – According to news analysis the recent flood disaster in Thailand will cause massive interruptions in the production of hard disk drives until the end of 2012. Industrial organizations are preparing for significant price increases and tense delivery times for hard...
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New free PCI DSS compliance tool from Acuity
November 22nd 2011 – A free management application that allows businesses to measure, monitor and report on their compliance to PCI-DSS v2.0 payment card data security standards, has been launched by governance, risk and compliance (GRC) specialist Acuity. Available for download from the Acuity...
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BEAST browser security threat is not as fierce as it looks say Context Information Security
November 21st 2011 – Researchers at Context Information Security are playing down the level of risk to businesses and government organisations posed by BEAST, or Browser Exploit Against SSL/TLS. Recently disclosed by Thai Duong and Juliano Rizzo, the SSL vulnerability allows an attack on...
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Professionalism in information security key for success in challenging technological environment
November 14th 2011 – Jonathan Hoyle, Director General for Government and Industry Cyber Security at GCHQ, has used the IISP’s 5th Annual General Meeting (AGM) to highlight the role that professionalism in information security will play in enhancing the UK’s economic prosperity.
Hoyle’s comments were...
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