COPENHAGEN, Denmark, May 21, 2013 – Napatech, the world’s leading supplier of network analysis adapters, announced today that it has received two 2013 Hot Companies and Best Products Awards from Network Products Guide. The Napatech NT20E2-PTP real-time analysis adapter was a Bronze winner for Best IT Hardware, while Napatech’s GTP tunneling support feature won the EMEA Hot Technologies category.

“The NT20E2-PTP adapter with the GTP tunneling feature provides a powerful solution for network equipment vendors that need to build analysis products, especially for mobile networks,” stated Erik Norup, President and CMO, Napatech. “We are pleased that Network Products Guide has chosen to recognize us with these two awards. They are a validation of our company’s continued commitment to providing powerful network analysis solutions using standard servers.” 

 From Rio to the World

What security managers can learn from Brazil – front line in the global cyber wars, by Cristiano Lincoln Mattos, CEO at Tempest

Brazil has enjoyed consistent economic and social growth over the last decade. Thanks to changing demographics and the economic and political stabilisation of the 1990s, millions of Brazilian citizens have joined the middle class and are encouraging a technology boom, particularly in the country’s banking sector. In fact, the Brazilian financial services industry has a history of heavily investing in technology as a business enabler, with growth of 42 percent projected by 2015.

 By Mark Bower, Vice President, Product Management at Voltage Security

The recent stories circulating around the litigation between Genesco and Visa over PCI Compliance and a data breach shine a spotlight on some of the grey areas in PCI DSS.

At the same time, there’s a spotlight on how retailers may misinterpret PCI DSS and what it means to them in reducing risk. The bottom line is that retailers can easily avoid the pain of a breach – and get rid of the PCI DSS challenge in a major way. However, what’s underneath this case hitting the front pages of the popular media?

 London, UK, 3rd April 2013, the Conservative Technology Forum (CTF) Energy Group has launched this first paper in response to a meeting with Charles Hendry, MP, in April 2012. The Group has brought together interested parties from suppliers, consumers, standards bodies and politics to formulate the paper. This has been presented to Baroness Verma and the Group hopes to hold a meeting with the Minister in the near future.

“We have to turn the approach to smart metering on its head and emphasise the benefits to early adopters” says the Andrew Henderson, Co-Chair of the Energy Group, introducing the Conservative Technology Forum policy proposals in their paper: Power to the people.