Bring your own device strategies fuel demand

Manchester UK and Boston USA – 2nd March 2012 -  Avecto announced today that Info Security Products Guide has named them as "Innovative Company of the Year" in security as part of the 2012 Global Excellence Awards program. The award, announced at RSA Conference 2012, recognizes a company that has delivered significant innovation in the market in the past year.

London, UK (28 February 2012)—The growing shift to cloud computing can deliver significant value—but most enterprises have little knowledge of the perils of transferring IT decision-making away from technology specialists to business unit leaders. Eliminating oversight and governance from cloud computing decisions can create significant risk to organisations, effectively undermining any benefits of moving to the cloud and, at the same time, potentially creating serious issues for organizations.

Only through proper governance and management can cloud computing achieve its potential for organizations.

Varonis extends their Metadata Framework™ technology and enterprise context awareness for data loss prevention to McAfee customers.

London – February 27, 2012 - Varonis Systems Inc. (http://www.varonis.com), a leading provider of comprehensive data governance software, announced it has joined the McAfee® Security Innovation Alliance (SIA) partner program in order to better address the challenges organizations face as they manage growing volumes of unstructured and semi-structured data. The interoperability between the Varonis IDU Classification Framework and McAfee® Data Loss Prevention (DLP) will allow customers to identify sensitive data on their file systems, NAS devices and SharePoint sites, find areas with excessive permissions and abnormal access activity, understand who can access, who is accessing, who shouldn't have access, who owns the data, and remediate risk faster than traditional data protection and classification solutions.

Report reveals details on methods employed by hacktivist group to attack high-profile organizations

Redwood Shores, Calif. – February 27th, 2012 – Imperva, Inc. (NYSE: IMPV), a pioneer and leader of a new category of data security solutions for high-value business data in the data center, released today a report that reveals details on an attack by hacktivist group ‘Anonymous’ against a high-profile unnamed target during a 25-day period in 2011.

 The Hacker Intelligence Summary Report –The Anatomy of an Anonymous Attack offers a comprehensive analysis of the attack, including a detailed timeline of activities from start to finish, an examination of the hacking methods utilized and insights on the use of social media to recruit participants and coordinate the attack.