Campbell, Calif. – February 22, 2012 – AlienVault, creator of OSSIM, the de facto standard open source SIEM (Security Information and Event Management), announced today the launch of the AlienVault Open Threat Exchange™ (AV-OTX), a system for sharing threat intelligence among OSSIM users and AlienVault customers. Free to contributors, AV-OTX cleanses, aggregates, validates and publishes threat data streaming in from the broadest range of security devices across a community of more than 18,000 OSSIM and AlienVault deployments. With AV-OTX, an attack on any member of the community alerts and arms the entire community with timely intelligence required to better manage a similar attack.

The Varonis® solution enables visibility, intelligence and control over the information stored within file shares and HP IBRIX X9000 Storage Systems.

London – February 21, 2012 - Varonis Systems Inc., the leading provider of comprehensive data governance software, today announced a solution with Varonis DatAdvantage, DataPrivilege and IDU Classification Framework and HP IBRIX X9000 Storage Systems. Customers now have access to Varonis data governance software automation and advanced modular HP IBRIX X9000 storage infrastructure. The pairing enables comprehensive visibility into user and group information from directory services, detailed data usage audit trails, actionable intelligence about where sensitive data resides, safe removal of excessive permissions, and data owner identification within a best-in-class scale-out NAS infrastructure to support explosive data growth.

Designed specifically for In-line Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) applications, the NT4E2-4T-BP provides IPS performance acceleration via intelligent flow distribution to up to 32 CPU cores

  ANDOVER, Massachusetts, February 21 – Napatech today announced the availability of a new 4x1 Gbps In-line network adapter with bypass functionality for high performance Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) applications. Designed for use in off-the-shelf standard servers, the NT4E2-4T-BP provides comprehensive bypass functionality for assurance of in-line connections while also providing intelligent flow identification and distribution to up to 32 server CPU cores. This allows IPS applications to improve throughput performance on a per CPU core basis while assured that every packet can be examined at full load.

21st February 2012 - The old security chestnut of lost USB sticks is back in the news again, with reports of a stick containing a safety assessment of a nuclear power plant in North-East England going walkabout from the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR).

 The unencrypted USB stick contained a 'stress test' safety assessment of the Hartlepool plant, but the ONR - undoubtedly playing the incident down - has said the stick did not contain significantly sensitive data.

 According to Cryptzone, however, the fact that the data was also available on the Internet is actually a red herring, as the real point here is that the ONR employee should not have been using an unencrypted USB stick.