Dell has introduced new software solutions aimed at helping organisations simplify IT, mitigate risks, and accelerate business results, in response to customer needs. In line with the company’s customer-inspired, end-to-end ...
WatchGuard Technologies has announced today that it is the first UTM security appliance vendor to offer a firewall that configures itself. The company is adding a new cloud-based configuration utility – RapidDeploy – that ...
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Many organisations continue to rely on ineffective intrusion prevention systems (IPS) for defending information systems, says security firm Stonesoft. Advanced evasion techniques (AETs) – which combine several known evasion ...
It's obvious that there are significant cost savings associated with employees using their own smartphones,tablets and laptops for work.However,the downsides are numerous and worth considering says Dominic Jones of Barton ...
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Marsh has introduced CloudProtect, a new insurance solution designed to protect companies against first-party losses stemming from a cloud service provider's failure. The company said that the new risk transfer solution, developed in ...
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XL Group has added six seasoned underwriters to its US cyberliability underwriting group, and also appointed a new vice president to its Select Professional group, in a bid to expand its technology underwriting capabilities in New York, ...
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ACE USA has launched the Privacy and Network Security Liability Endorsement to help expand privacy protection coverage for both Healthcare Facilities and Managed Care Organization policies. Complementing the ACE Medical Risk's existing ...
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Allied World US, a subsidiary of Allied World Assurance Company Holdings(AWH), has introduced a new product, dubbed Techtonic//5.0, to offer combined coverage for a wide range of evolving exposures in Errors & Omissions (E&O) and Privacy ...
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The ACE Group has hired Timothy O’Donnell as executive vice president of financial lines for its international insurance operations, effective 1 June 2012. In this role, O'Donnell will be responsible for the company's directors and ...
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Verizon announced today it is extending its managed services offering for Microsoft Lync Server to its business customers by adding the ability to operate,monitor and manage unified communications and collaboration(UC&C)servers and ...
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Free smartphone apps pose huge threats to user privacy by collecting unnecessary information,says a report from Juniper Networks. The network security firm analysed 1.7 million applications on the Android market over an 18-month period ...
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The websites of several Swedish government agencies were knocked offline on Friday. The website failures coincided with threats by hacktivists, claiming to be members of the Anonymous collective, to launch a cyber attack against Swedish ...
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Chinese telecommunications equipment manufacturer Huawei has reacted to today's report from a US Congressional Committee that both it, and rival Chinese firm ZTE, represent a "security threat". Further reading US Congress: Huawei and ...
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A hacker group said to be connected to Hamas has claimed responsibility for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on US banks in retaliation to the controversial video "The Innocence of Muslims" posted on Google's YouTube service. ...
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A White House executive order on cyber security is "close to completion," according to Janet Napolitano, US Secretary of Homeland Security. The news comes just weeks after former White House cyber security chief Howard Schmidt said US ...
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