Leading Vendor of Endpoint Cybercrime Prevention Solutions Names Industry Veteran to Manage in-Country Operations     

 BOSTON, Aug. 16, 2012 – Trusteer, the leading provider of endpoint cybercrime prevention solutions, today announced that it has established operations in Japan to meet growing demand among financial institutions and enterprises for its fraud prevention and endpoint protection products. The company also appointed Norio Miyazawa as Country Manager for Trusteer Japan. Mr. Miyazawa, who has more than 10 years of financial and fraud prevention solution experience with Actimize Japan, SuperDerivatives Japan and Algorithmics Japan, will head up the company’s Japanese operations.

“It’s important to understand that, if you reduce the privilege on high-end accounts, you do not impair operational efficiency. You do, however, reduce the level of risk in an organisation – and that’s a great situation to be in,”

-- Paul Kenyon, Avecto COO

 Commenting on recent reports - which assert that cybercriminal social engineering attacks are now targeting IT admins and even call centre staff - Avecto says that a least privilege approach to security is the key to solving this issue.

Integration of industry-leading DPI technology and high-performance network adapters greatly eases OEM development of application-aware security capabilities

 Vineyard Networks and Napatech today announced the coming demonstration of 20 Gbps Deep Packet Inspection (DPI)-enabled intelligent network analysis adapters at the eighth annual Government Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (GFirst) National Conference, being held August 19 through 24 in Atlanta. The conference is designed to familiarize public and private sector leaders serving in non-technical roles with the fundamentals of cybersecurity and incident response.

Commenting on the new Ponemon report - entitled `Encryption in the cloud' - Varonis Systems agrees with the governance points raised, noting that, whilst the cloud brings with it a wealth of tangible economic and operational benefits, it also brings more than a few security conundrums.  David Gibson, VP of strategy with Varonis, says that the report confirms many of the security shortcomings of the cloud, although it is fascinating to see how a growing number of organisations are grasping the nettle - and tackling these shortcomings head on.