Mumbai & India-based producer of speciality chemicals, Pidilite Industries said it has acquired the adhesive business of Ahmedabad-based Bluecoat Private Limited. The transaction was concluded on a slump sale basis for a consideration of ...
A Gartner report about the security software market out today shows that number-two-ranked McAfee enjoyed the most overall growth last year, Trend Micro slipped but stayed number three, and Symantec held onto its top spot with 19.6 percent ...
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Blue Coat Systems, a provider of Web traffic filtering and business assurance products and services, plans to buy security analytics specialist Solera Networks, which uses data mining techniques to classify network traffic and detect ...
Reporters Without Borders named five countries that regularly spy on journalists and dissidents, a practice the group contends is made possible with advanced technology from private companies. The Paris-based group, which is an ...
Security company, FireEye, has announced a new threat protection platform designed to help enterprises deploy new security models to counter modern cyber attacks. Many traditional defences, such as firewalls and anti-virus, are not enough ...
Today’s mobile spam and phishing attacks will increasingly delivered by mobile malware networks, despite mobile device operating systems being more secure than those of desktop or laptop computers, a report has found. Blue Coat ...
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Samar Khalil, Network Management Department Director, IDM Blue Coat systems on Thursday announced that it had tied up with one of Lebanon’s biggest internet service providers, IDM, which will now optimise its web content delivery ...
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A Canadian think tank called on Tuesday for continued scrutiny of U.S. security vendor Blue Coat Systems after a new technical analysis showed wide use of its products in countries with human rights and censorship concerns. The Citizen ...
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Blue Coat has identified its Top 5 bring your own device (BYOD) traffic disruptors – activities and content sites that take up valuable WAN and internet bandwidth and disrupt the performance of mission-critical enterprise ...
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Over half of the UK’s business IT networks (51 percent) were breached during 2012 due to employees using their personal devices at work, according to research carried out by Virgin Media Business. Some 500 British CIOs were ...
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New software from Web security specialists Blue Coat Systems allows companies to restrict what employees can do on their cellphones while logged into the corporate Wi-Fi. The software, which works with Blue Coat's ProxySG Web filtering ...
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Only 8% of European companies plan to decrease spending on antivirus and antimalware in 2013, a survey of IT security purchasing intentions has revealed. Some 21% of more than 250 IT professionals polled by Computer Weekly and TechTarget ...
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Irish multinational drug maker United Drug has implemented Silver Peak WAN optimisation devices that have improved application performance, upgraded disaster recovery provision and saved on bandwidth costs to the tune of €30,000 per ...
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Cybergeddon, a complete take-down of the internet, is undoubtedly within the power of some nation states, but is unlikely, say security industry experts. Bringing down the internet would not be in anyone’s interest, said Fred Piper, ...
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Blue Coat has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire network security company Crossbeam Systems. The acquisition brings together two market leaders that deliver complementary technologies to scale and secure the ...