Survey Finds Small Businesses Underprepared for Cyber Threats

A Symantec and National Cyber Security Alliance-sponsored survey found that a majority of small business owners believe Internet security is critical for success and that their companies are safe from cyber threats, despite many of them failing to take fundamental precautions.

The survey, conducted by Zogby International, found that nearly two-thirds of U.S. small businesses are more dependent on…

Quest Acquires British Software Firm ChangeBASE

Quest Software Inc. has acquired ChangeBASE, a privately-held software provider based in the U.K., which specializes in automated application analysis, remediation and conversion for target platforms including Windows 7 and 8, Internet Explorer 8 and 9, Terminal Server/Remote Desktop Session Host, VDI, and Application Virtualization.

Quest said the acquisition will expand its product portfolio, allowing companies to develop a…

Millennium bcp Putting Cisco’s Cloud to Work Aiding in Application Development

Cisco cloud computing technology is helping Millennium bcp optimize its data center resources required to support application development, simplify data center management and reduce total ownership cost with increased business agility and productivity. 

Millennium bcp is one of the first customers to adapt a cloud-based model, based on Portugal Telecom’s cloud infrastructure, and will incorporate an architecture for a virtualized…

VMware Owning its Cloud Overseas with Conference and New Solutions

While McAfee has been loud from Las Vegas, VMware has been making noise from overseas with its VMworld Europe in Copenhagen, Denmark.

VMware held a similar conference on “owning the cloud” earlier this year in Las Vegas and while it reported multiple advances in that week, it has unleashed a whole slew of new solutions and…

ARINC Cyber Conference Pushes for Cyber Industry Growth in Maryland

ARINC and the Maryland Department of Veterans Affairs co-sponsored a cyber conference Thursday at the ARINC headquarters in Annapolis, Md. 

Up to a hundred Veteran-owned small business leaders with a focus on cyber and IT had the chance to hear about opportunities in the cyber environment from Maryland’s Lieutenant Governor Anthony Brown and Secretary of Veterans Affairs,…

IBM Wraps Up Algorithmics Acquisition Growing Business Analytics Portfolio

IBM has closed its acquisition of Algorithmics, a firm providing software and services for improved business insights at banks and investment and insurance organizations to assess risk and address regulatory challenges.

IBM said the acquisition will expand the company’s business analytics capabilities in the area of financial risk. IBM recently acquired OpenPages and the combined acquisitions add to IBM’s…

SAP Renews Platform with SAP HANA Road Map

SAP AG is renewing its platform with SAP HANA led-architecture road map. In accord with this announcement, Gartner Inc. published a new report, “SAP Throws Down the Next Generation Architecture Gauntlet with HANA.”

The report indicated that it provides CIOs, CTOs, IT planners, enterprise technology architects, application managers and project leaders with an overview of the…

NJVC Named a Winner in the Government Information Security Leadership Awards; President Jody Tedesco Comments

NJVC recently announced its Cyber Security Dashboard development team was named the winner in the Government Information Security Leadership Awards Team Award category. The team was honored for the creation and deployment of the Cyber Dashboard.

The Dashboard visualizes, analyzes and generates reports from the aggregated and correlated data feeds of…

McAfee and FOCUS 11 Keeping Cyber Threats at Bay

All the buzz is about McAfee and its FOCUS 11, which kicked off earlier this week in Las Vegas. The company reported a record attendance of security professionals came together to discuss what’s to come next in the security realm. With multiple announcements regarding new products, partnerships and solutions, its no wonder why McAfee’s name…

Microsoft’s OmniTouch Is ‘Touch Screen’ for Any Surface

Microsoft has developed a wearable system that allows projection screens on everyday surfaces, including the palm of your hand, named OmniTouch, according to a CNET report.

The technology combines a laser-based pico projector and depth-sensing camera, the latter not unlike Microsoft’s Kinect camera for the Xbox 360, says CNET. But it is modified to work at short range.

This technology has…