Kaspersky Lab announces the release of Kaspersky Mobile Security 8.0, designed to protect smartphones from all types of IT threats as well as confidential data leaks from lost or stolen devices.

The Anti-theft module of Kaspersky Mobile Security 8.0 makes it possible for the owner of a lost or stolen smartphone to remotely block access to or completely wipe the memory of the device by simply sending a codeword via SMS to his/her number. If the SIM card is removed from a lost or stolen phone, the SIM Watch module in Kaspersky Mobile Security 8.0 sends a hidden message notifying the owner of the new number. This function ensures the owner can delete data from or block the smartphone no matter what the circumstances. Moreover, law enforcement agencies can use the new number to track down the stolen device and return it to its rightful owner.

The parental control component—new to Kaspersky Mobile Security 8.0—enables parents to restrict the sending and receiving of messages to a child's phone (e.g., premium rate numbers, adult content services, etc.). The solution's SMS Find function also allows parents to locate their children if their smartphones have GPS.

The integrated firewall in Kaspersky Mobile Security 8.0 also prevents attacks by hackers and mobile worms that spread via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connections. The new Kaspersky Lab application offering protection for smartphones was developed with all the compatibility requirements for Symbian OS 9.1, 9.2, 9.3 and Windows Mobile 5.0, 6.0, 6.1 in mind.

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McAfee announced the availability of the McAfee Total Protection for Internet Gateways. Customers can make one purchase to acquire Web, mail and network DLP protection to be deployed on McAfee appliances, providing industry leading threat protection with acquisition cost savings of 50 percent or more. The promotional bundle delivers Web, mail and DLP at a price point usually associated with Web security by itself. Additionally, the McAfee Total Protection for Internet Gateway solutions are integrated with McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) software, McAfee’s centralized security management console.

As enterprises look for ways to control costs, they look for security software that can enable productivity and security at a decreased total cost of ownership. McAfee Total Protection for Internet Gateways provides best-in-class user gateway security protection and Web 2.0 business enablement at an affordable price. The promotional bundle helps customers with their regulatory compliance concerns and provides them with lowest entry price and lowest total cost of ownership for Web 2.0 threat protection.

McAfee ePO software provides a dashboard view of DLP, and Web Gateway performance from within the ePO console. The ePO software provides visibility into malware blocked, enterprise Web filtering, Web traffic volume by protocol (http, https and ftp), and data loss policy alerts. Users may launch the appliance user interfaces through ePO software in order to configure policies.

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Seclore announced the availability v2.9 of its flagship rights management product Seclore FileSecure. With this release Seclore has significantly eased large scale enterprise deployments of Seclore FileSecure. Seclore FileSecure v2.9 now supports all Open Office formats (including MS Office formats like doc, xls & ppt) natively in Open Office. This is over and beyond the hundreds of MS Office, PDF, text, image & engineering design formats & applications already supported. A few months ago, Seclore had announced a partnership with CDAC open source technology where the two enterprises had committed to bring security to open source technologies.
                                          
Seclore FileSecure now enables secure collaboration with all the stakeholders by providing an adapter kit which can use existing multiple identity stores using a single system. With the new / enhanced automated protection for storage / fileserver systems Seclore FileSecure now provides an unprecedented ease in IT administration and mass / automated protection. System administrators can now allocate responsibilities of protection, policy definition to OU (Organization Unit) administrators as well as end users while retaining control. This can significantly lower the overheads of policy administration on system administrators and allow “self service” for distributed teams.

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HP announced major new releases of its application security software designed to help companies lower costs and protect against malicious web attacks by hackers. The new offerings are part of HP Application Security Center, a suite of software and services that helps companies ensure the security of their web applications by helping them discover, fix and prevent vulnerabilities that can be exploited by hackers. New offerings include HP Assessment Management Platform 8.0, HP WebInspect 8.0 and HP Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Project Services for Application Security Center

HP Assessment Management Platform 8.0 software helps customers set up a Center of Excellence (CoE) for application security. In a CoE model, a small team of security experts helps analyze the results of security tests that are implemented by people that may not have security expertise. By using this model to test applications for security vulnerabilities within existing development, quality assurance and operations processes, organizations can increase security coverage across the enterprise at minimal cost. In addition, this model helps organizations find and fix security vulnerabilities earlier in the application design process which helps lower costs.

HP WebInspect 8.0 and HP Assessment Management Platform 8.0 software, which are based on the same testing and reporting code, help customers to find and fix security vulnerabilities in Web 2.0 applications with new static analysis capabilities for applications built on the Adobe Flash platform and path tracing for dynamic JavaScript/Ajax applications.

The new HP SaaS for Application Security Center Project Services provide full scanning and penetration testing services that are designed to supplement customer security teams during critical projects or peak testing periods, to provide expertise around the scanning requirements of Web 2.0 technologies and it also provides guidance on how to build out an effective compliance-driven web application security scanning practice across the entire enterprise.

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F-Secure Mobile Security and its new advanced anti-theft feature has been available from June 24 for Windows Mobile phone users. The anti-theft feature includes remote lock, remote wipe and theft control functionalities. The remote lock can be used to lock the device to protect confidential information quickly and easily with a single SMS message. The theft control feature activates when the SIM card is changed by locking the device. As an ultimate safety measure to prevent misuse, it is possible to erase all the data on the phone with the remote wipe by sending an SMS message.

F-Secure Mobile Security enables smartphone users to enjoy the full potential of their devices, safeguarding data even in the unfortunate event that the phone is lost or stolen. It seamlessly combines real-time antivirus and antispyware protection with a customizable firewall to make the phone completely safe. F-Secure Mobile Security 5 with Antitheft is available for Windows Mobile from today and is already available for S60 3rd and 5th edition smartphones through the F-Secure eStore (www.f-secure.com/estore), as well as many F-Secure partners.

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BitDefender announced the availability of an enhanced version of BitDefender Online Scanner. Incorporating the BitDefender’s industry-leading scanning engines, BitDefender Online Scanner is a free, on-demand antivirus and antispyware tool that shows users the security status of their PCs and detects and disinfects viruses and spyware files. Accessible directly from the browser and easy to deploy, BitDefender Online Scanner will scan and automatically clean the system memory, all files and drive boot sectors.

BitDefender Online Scanner can be used without having to uninstall the existing data security product. Other benefits include Superior proactive detection, Virus and spyware cleaning, Always up-to-date, Effective right away and it’s convenience.

BitDefender Online Scanner is based on the same technology as BitDefender Antivirus 2009 which is considered one of the most reliable antivirus solutions worldwide according to independent organizations like Virus Bulletin, AV Test, AV Comparatives, etc. The product is compatible with Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or higher under Windows XP or Vista and provides not only detection but also disinfection from viruses and spyware. BitDefender Online Scanner is available to everyone who visits BitDefender’s website and complements any antivirus product already on the user’s system.

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Aladdin Knowledge Systems now affiliated under common management with SafeNet, Inc., announced general availability of HASP SRM 4.0, the latest version of the company’s fully integrated software protection and licensing solution. A new portfolio of language interfaces, Mac and expanded Windows OS support, and heightened performance for the solution’s Business Studio management platform offers software publishers with more customization options to fit their specific needs — regardless of platform, location or language.

With added support for three new languages, HASP SRM’s new localization features enhance the end-user experience and simplify software licensing development, deployment and management for software publishers. The HASP SRM Admin Control Center enables software publishers selling globally to provide Chinese-, Italian-, and Japanese-speaking IT administrators at end-user sites to more easily understand, manage, monitor and maintain their software licenses.

In addition, HASP SRM now supports software-based licensing, locking, and product activation for software publishers’ Intel-based Mac applications, providing flexible software licensing options for enablement of new business models.

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McAfee announced that it has upgraded its enterprise firewall products with next generation capabilities that help customers increase network security and lower their compliance and operational costs in both physical and virtual network environments. The products, McAfee Firewall Enterprise (formerly Sidewinder), McAfee Firewall Enterprise Control Center and McAfee Firewall Enterprise Profiler also feature streamlined management through integration with McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) software and leverage McAfee global threat intelligence to provide world class protection.

Next generation capabilities include significant advancements in firewall management, hybrid delivery options and integrated layers of threat protection. With the addition of McAfee Firewall Profiler, McAfee Firewall Enterprise is application and identity aware. McAfee Firewall Enterprise is the first and only firewall to use a global reputation-based technology, including TrustedSource reputation and geo-location to filter unwanted traffic before it hits the network—stopping attacks before they happen.

The revised version of Control Center and Firewall Reporter dramatically simplify management of multiple firewalls and enable more accurate audit and compliance reports. McAfee Firewall Enterprise is now available in traditional appliance form factors, in a new virtualized hardware appliance and as a software-based firewall virtual appliance. These new delivery options allow customers to take advantage of virtualization technologies to lower cost and increase flexibility when consolidating datacenter and application environments and when bringing up new virtual environments.

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Cyberoam announced the launch of its new ‘Accelerator Series’ appliances, CR50ia and CR100ia, that combine comprehensive network security with breakthrough network performance for SMEs. With gigabit throughput, the appliances offer almost five times higher firewall throughput and twice the IPS throughput in comparison to the existing models, delivering high security and value for money to SMEs.

As consumption of bandwidth rises to accommodate rapidly rising usage of web tools like SaaS, Web 2.0, IMs and more, organizations expose themselves to serious network security threats. The ‘Accelerator Series’ revolutionize network efficiency by enabling higher levels of identity-based security and high granularity with throughputs that are far superior to competitors. In doing so, they ensure that organizations meet the security challenges thrown up by rapidly growing applications.

With the rise in insider threats, control over the user and visibility into user activity has become critical to ensuring network security in SMEs. Cyberoam, with its gigabit performance delivers the granularity of user control that is required to ensure comprehensive protection against user-targeted external threats as well as insider threats. Given the high throughputs, administrators can ensure high security while maintaining high performance in SMEs.

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Fortinet announced enhancements to its centralized management portfolio with the new software release of FortiManager 4.0 and FortiAnalyzer 4.0, which significantly improve the enterprise management capabilities of Fortinet’s FortiGate multi-threat security appliances. The new software releases of Fortinet’s management and analysis platforms correspond to the FortiGate FortiOS 4.0 operating system introduced earlier this year.

The Fortinet centralized management portfolio, comprised of FortiManager 4.0 and FortiAnalyzer 4.0, offer improvements in the performance and scalability of FortiManager 4.0 software allow administrators to deploy and manage thousands of FortiGate devices within the network and from a single FortiManager platform. Improved workflow in FortiManager 4.0 software allows administrators to reduce the amount of work required to manage a large number of devices. In addition to device-centric management, the new centralized policy model allows for a single policy to be deployed to any or all devices under management. Improved disaster recovery features, including full support for redundant and geographically separate FortiManager devices, mean faster recovery of the security infrastructure in the event of a major disaster.

Improved correlation between vulnerabilities and security policy is enabled with FortiAnalyzer 4.0 software, which now includes a vulnerability management (VM) component. Reports demonstrate not only vulnerabilities discovered by the service, but also provide guidance on adjusting the security policy of Fortinet devices to protect against those vulnerabilities. The new VM component is kept up to date through Fortinet’s FortiGuard Vulnerability Management Service.

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SafeNet announced the availability of the SafeXcel-1742 and SafeXcel-1746, the next generation of the company’s proven security co-processors, and the SafeXcel-3120 and SafeXcel-3141 high-performance system on a chip (SoC) processors. Each family of chips provides customers with flexible price and performance options when selecting a security solution for accelerating IPsec, SSL/TLS/DTLS, SRTP, MACsec, and Public Key operations.

The SafeXcel-1742 and SafeXcel-1746 security co-processors allow host processors to offload packet processing and crypto computations, providing acceleration of IPsec, TLS/SSL/DTLS, SRTP, and MACsec security protocol functions, as well as acceleration of the latest cipher and hash cryptographic algorithms, including Suite B. The SafeXcel-1746 contains the highest performance PKA in its class and meets requirements for very high session setup rates.

The SafeNet SafeXcel-3141 and SafeXcel-3120 are highly integrated, high-speed network security SoCs, designed to optimize overall system performance, while reducing cost and shortening time to market for networking, storage, telecom, and defense manufacturers. The security certification capabilities for SafeXcel-3120 and SafeXcel-3141 are FIPS 140-2 Level 3 compliant. The SafeNet SafeXcel-3120 is a highly integrated device designed for modest performance and high security, where power and cost-sensitivity are a priority at the network edge. The SafeXcel-3120 contains all the same trusted platform features as the 3141, with the addition of red and black data separation.

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Trend Micro unveiled a new release of its data loss prevention solution, LeakProof 5.0, with added features and benefits designed to reduce the complexity and cost often associated with the discovery, monitoring and blocking of sensitive data.

LeakProof protects sensitive information such as customer and employee data, as well as intellectual property by monitoring and preventing information leaks across multiple threat vectors. Available in two versions, LeakProof Standard helps organizations comply with regulatory mandates by securing employee and customer data. LeakProof Advanced offers the same protection plus advanced DataDNA fingerprinting to secure intellectual property and trade secrets.

The LeakProof fingerprinting method delivers accuracy and virtually zero false positives, allowing enterprises to search a fingerprint database of millions of records in order to determine instantly if there is a match with the content. It's small enough to run even on laptops without eating up memory, or causing slowdown. In addition, Trend Micro's character-based technology extracts fingerprints from any language. Unlike other solutions where the fingerprint engines must understand the language in order to create fingerprints, the LeakProof technology is language-independent.

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