MANCHESTER, U.K. and BOSTON -- 24 July 2012: Avecto, the leader in Windows privilege management, announced strong end of financial year results following what has been a year of great growth for the company. A key driver behind Avecto’s success is that it helps organisations combat the threat from today’s most dangerous and persistent malware. It continues to educate organisations to the risks exposed from granting users admin rights and helps them to implement a least privilege approach to combat this challenge. Avecto’s mission is to enable its customers to lower operating costs and improve system security.

AlienVault, the only open and collaborative Unified Security Management platform delivering built-in controls and full visibility, today confirmed it had appointed Andrew Morris, CISSP, as its new EMEA Channel Director. Based in the UK, Andrew will be responsible for defining and developing AlienVault’s channel strategy in EMEA, working closely with all its regional sales teams.

 Andrew brings with him over 15 years experience of the IT security industry, the last seven of which were in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) space with LogLogic. Over his career he has held a number of positions, including a period in both the logistics and finance sectors, as well as running his own IT security company, Proformity Ltd.

“Most of today’s students have never known a time when they did not have computer and Internet access, so tapping their experience in programming capabilities is a very positive step.”

-- Claire Sellick, Infosecurity Europe event director

 The UK Cyber Security Challenge is based on a similar initiative in the US and seeks to increase the number of cyber security specialists by generating interesting in IT security from both within and outside of the IT industry.

 First held in the UK in the summer of 2010, the Challenge has grown significantly and now has a number of commercial and not-for-profit sponsors, including ISC(2) and the SANS Institute.

Security experts at Venafi, the leader in enterprise key and certificate management (EKCM) solutions, warn that an estimated 67,000 mobile phones are likely to be lost or stolen during the Olympics in London. Numbers of smartphones and other portable networked devices have exploded over the past few years. As a result, this year’s Games will see the largest-ever risk of corporate and personal data loss during an Olympics period, with an estimated 214.4 terabytes of potentially sensitive data likely to be lost or stolen—an equivalent of 200 million books’ worth of data.