Cisco is collaborating with Arbor Networks to deploy a unified threat management offering for helping defend against distributed denial-of-service attacks. Tom Bienkowski, Arbor director of product marketing at Arbor, told NetworkWorld.com Cisco will embed Arbor’s Peakflow SP Threat Management System into a module on its carrier-class CRS-1 routers. Ellen Messmer writes the companies are aiming [...]
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Red Hat has taken on a leadership role to manage a Java open source implementation project, aiming to continue supporting the technology and its users. The company is aiming to help steer the development of the OpenJDK 6 project and Andrew Haley, Red Hat Java technical lead, will stay on as a OpenJDK 6 board [...]
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Dell SecureWorks Bolsters its Cybersecurity Offerings; Jeff Schilling Comments
March 6, 2013 No Comment
Dell SecureWorks has expanded its incident response services portfolio with three new offerings to counter the severity and frequency of security breaches, according to a company statement. Jeff Schilling, Dell SecureWorks incident response practice director and former director of the Army‘s Global Network Operations and Security Center, said the new solutions are from “insights gained [...]
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Raytheon Signs On For DHS Cyber Info Sharing Program; Steven Hawkins Comments
March 4, 2013 No Comment
Raytheon has signed an agreement with the Department of Homeland Security to share information on cyber threats to the nation’s critical infrastructure. The company will act as a commercial service provider for DHS’ Enhanced Cybersecurity Services program and aim to help protect the defense industrial base and other infrastructure sectors, the company said Friday. [...]
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BAE Systems has won a $43 million cooperative agreement extension to head the Army Research Laboratory’s Micro Autonomous Systems and Technology Collaborative Technology Alliance. The company announced today that the five-year extension will enable BAE to work with MAST Alliance’s team of scientists to help advance bio-inspired micro-robotic technology and expand the remote sensing capability [...]
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Thales, Entrust Form Enterprise Encryption Product Team; Cindy Provin Comments
February 27, 2013 No Comment
Thales and security technology provider Entrust will jointly deliver encryption and management products to customers aimed at helping them secure their enterprises and protect cloud-based information. The companies intend to help clients defend against online and internal threats with Thales technology that is interoperable with Entrust’s products, the companies said Tuesday. Entrust will re-sell the [...]
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The recent hacking allegations against China are potential distractions from the threat of corporate insiders stealing trade secrets and proprietary data, according to Kroll Advisory Solutions white paper released Tuesday. “If hackers can do this much damage from the outside, just imagine what the individuals with the keys to the kingdom are capable of,” said [...]
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EMC Division, Juniper Partner To Stop Network Attacks; Nawaf Bitar, Art Coviello Comment
February 27, 2013 No Comment
EMC Corp.’s security arm RSA and Juniper Networks have agreed to share intelligence aimed at helping clients defend networks from advanced threats and access cloud-based corporate resources via mobile devices. RSA will integrate its Live threat intelligence delivery service into Juniper’s Junos Spotlight Secure global attacker intelligence service, RSA said Monday. Juniper will add RSA Security [...]
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Booz Allen Unveils Cyber Data Collection Service; Mike McConnell Comments
February 26, 2013 No Comment
Booz Allen Hamilton has launched a new a cyber threat intelligence service intended to help companies take defensive actions against cyber attacks. Cyber4Sight Threat Intelligence Services aims to collect data from multiple sources while identifying and monitoring a company’s cybersecurity profile, Booz Allen said Monday. “In today’s world, too many organizations wait until a cyber [...]
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China’s defense ministry claims recent accusations against one of its military units as being behind many cyber attacks on U.S. companies and agencies lacks technical proof and is unreliable, Reuters reports. The ministry claims computer security firm Mandiant‘s recent report on the hackings only relied on linking Internet Protocol addresses to conclude the hacks came [...]
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