Milpitas (CA), and London (UK) - 17 January 2012: There have been numerous reports predicting 2012 will be the year of social business, and the increasing popularity of ‘digital transformation’ services touted by management consulting firms would appear to support this theory. However harmon.ie Vice President David Lavenda expects companies will struggle to “revolutionize” the way they do business. 

 In a word of caution issued today, Lavenda said, “Consultants and vendors alike will champion ‘digital transformation’ initiatives ala Y2K. But take their advice with a pinch of salt as most of these changes operate on a rip-and-replace model, asking companies to take a major leap of faith by dumping their existing communication and collaboration tools in favour of the latest, greatest social business paradigm.”

Avecto announced as finalist in three categories by Info Security Products Guide’s Global Excellence Awards

 Manchester (UK) and Boston (USA) 19 January 2012 – Avecto – the leader in Windows privilege management, today announced that it is a finalist in three 2012 Global Excellence Awards categories. Info Security Products Guide - the industry's leading information security research and advisory guide, has shortlisted Avecto as Best Overall Security Company, Best New Security Start-Up Company and Innovative Company of the Year (Security). These prestigious global awards recognize security and IT vendors with advanced, ground-breaking products and solutions that are helping set the bar higher for others in all areas of technologies.

A recent research survey shows that increasing numbers of organisations are combining their  physical and logical security (sometimes called security convergence), a process that leads to improved efficiencies plus a better return on investment (ROI) in managing risks. The initiative for the survey was triggered by the new interest in the subject which is being promoted by the ASIS International European Security Converged subcommittee led by Alessandro Lega with the support of eleven members from eight different European countries. “These results – commented Alessandro Lega – show the need to keep the momentum in promoting Security Convergence across Europe. As far as threats are converging from a technological and operational stand point, we need to make sure that corporate security organizations are not going to waste time and resources in fighting each other.

Gothenburg 9th January 2012 - Cryptzone the innovators in mitigating IT security risk have joined forces with Dutch Information Security specialist B2B Secure to manage the huge spike in demand that they’ve seen across the Benelux region. It comes as more and more companies have to address their security strategies in the wake of latest compliance rules and increasing breaches such as Diginotar which had a knock on effect especially on businesses in this region.  The two companies will work closely to promote Cryptzone’s award winning information security solutions addressing policy compliance, content security, secure access and endpoint encryption.