Commenting on a recent survey showing that financial services executives are spending approximately 20% of their time (the equivalent of a full day every week) dealing with changing global and local regulatory requirements, an expert with global IT association an ISACA leader says that a governance framework can be the best solution to maximizing their efficiency.

According to Ramsés Gallego, security strategist and evangelist at Quest Software and international vice president of ISACA, many business professionals fall into the understandable trap of not being able to see the forest for the trees.

Read more: Better Governance Principles Can Save Financial Professionals Several Hours A Week

Security Policy Management Leader Taps Ed Greene and Stephan Mesguichto lead the sales organizations of the Americas and Europe

 

 

Tufin Technologies, the market-leading provider of Security Policy Management solutions,today announced Stephan Mesguichas vice president of Sales for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), and Ed Greene as vice president of Sales, the Americas.These two accomplished leaders bring more than 40 years of combined sales and operations experience to Tufin, furthering its ability to capitalize on the increased global demand for firewall management solutions. Tufin’s ongoing ability to attract top notch talent aligns with its strong and consistent growth, high customer satisfaction ratings, and steady stream of accolades including its fourth, consecutive five-star review from SC Magazine,recognition from Deloitte as the fastest growing technology company in Israel and making Network Computing UK’s shortlist for “Company of the Year.”

 

Read more: Tufin Taps Seasoned Industry Veterans To Lead Sales Efforts

Lieberman Software Reveals 39% of IT Staff Can Get Unauthorized Access to Sensitive Information

IT professionals are allowed to roam around corporate networks unchecked, according to a survey of more than 450 IT professionals released today by Lieberman Software Corporation.  It found that 39% of IT staff can get unauthorized access to their organization’s most sensitive information – including the CEO’s private documents – and one in five has already accessed data they shouldn’t.

68% of respondents believe that, as an IT professional, they have more access to sensitive information than colleagues in other departments such as HR, finance and the executive team - leaving companies wide open to data breaches from the inside.

Read more: 1 in 5 IT Staff Have Accessed Executives’ Confidential Data

Varonis Data Transport Engine solves IT nightmare by allowing automatic, easy, safe and non-disruptive Enterprise data migration   

London – September 5th, 2012 - Varonis® Systems Inc. announced today the launch of Varonis Data Transport Engine (DTE), the newest family member of the Varonis Data Governance Suite, which solves one of the biggest yet most neglected IT challenges - how to securely move and archive data, remove stale data, and ensure permissions to moved data are maintained or improved. Recent research conducted by Varonis found that 96% of C-level IT executives considered data migrations difficult. The major areas of concern were maintaining availability (69%), determining which data is needed, stale or active (66%), determining who data belongs to (62%) and maintaining and/or translating correct access controls (61%).[i]

 

Read more: Varonis Launches Complete And Secure Data Archiving And Migration

Entersekt, a leading mobile security software development company, today announced that they were responsible for the development of the security infrastructure and the underlying mobile development environment that supports Nedbank’s recently released Application Suite. With this latest innovative solution, Nedbank has been provided with the foundation to develop, update and deploy multiple mobile applications to their customers in a simple and user-friendly way.

 Entersekt has the unique ability to deploy bi-lateral digital certificates to most mobile phones, thus guaranteeing secure communication between the user and the enterprise. The benefit is that this technology enables companies to provide both secure mobile and on-line access to applications.

 

Read more: Nedbank chooses Entersekt for its mobile security software