McAfee has unveiled a security appliance it calls McAfee Advanced Threat Defense which uses sandboxing technology to open incoming files to safely "explode" them to see if they contain stealthy malware.
A Gartner report about the security software market shows that No. 2 ranked McAfee enjoyed the most overall growth last year, Trend Micro slipped but stayed No. 3, and Symantec held onto its top spot with 19.6 per cent of the $US19.1 billion market.
While "Big Data Security" is now the industry buzzword and defines a way to get enterprise customers into a new method of threat detection based on mining massive amounts of security-event and business data to pinpoint threats, the response from a few IT shops seems to be"thanks, but no thanks."
Any enterprise looking to use cloud computing services will also be digging into what laws and regulations might hold in terms of security and privacy of data stored in the cloud. At the Cloud Security Alliance Congress in Orlando this week, discussion centered on two important regulatory frameworks now being put in place in Europe and the U.S.
IBM intends to make the security information and event management (SIEM) technology gained through the acquisition of Q1 Labs, which was officially closed yesterday, the centerpiece of IBM's broad security product portfolio.
THE GREAT LOG COLLECTION DEBATE Many organizations put their SIEM at the center of their log collection, archiving and analysis model. But when combined with a couple of hard facts and an inconvenient truth, this model often leads organizations to make the potentially catastrophic choice not to collect all their log data. Here’s how the reasoning frequently goes.
