Two New Hacking Schemes Uncovered Using Surveillance & Hack-Back Techniques 

London, July 26, 2010—Imperva, the leader in data security, announced today its hacker intelligence initiative (HII), a research effort focused on providing deeper insight on how cybercriminals conduct large scale cyber attacks as well as shedding light on the evolution of the underground business of cybercrime. Part of Imperva’s Application Defense Center (ADC), the hacker intelligence initiative will investigate the anatomy of attacks as well as key hacking trends by exploring the cybercrime industry utilizing techniques including hack-back, forum monitoring and internet traffic surveillance.

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Neptuny mentioned in Leading Analyst Firm’s “Hype Cycle for IT Operations Management, 2010” report

Milan, 26th July 2010 - Neptuny, a leading solution provider in IT Performance Optimization and Capacity and Virtualization Planning solutions, today announced that it has been mentioned in Gartner’s “Hype Cycle for IT Operations Management, 2010” report, published by Milind Govekar on 12th July 2010 among sample vendors for different sections “Virtual Server Resource Capacity-Planning Tools”, “Saas Tools for IT Operations” and “Resource Capacity Planning Tools”.

 

Neptuny Caplan is the Capacity and Virtualization Planning solution that enables customers to associate capacity needs to business drivers. Caplan provides unique features, such as the ability to manage any technology domain (physical and virtual servers, databases, applications, storage, network, facilities and more) and the agent-less and highly automated architecture.

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ANDOVER, Massachusetts, July 22, 2010 – Frost & Sullivan’s recently released update on the “World Intrusion Detection and Intrusion Prevention Systems Markets” suggests that users of Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS) are willing to pay 3 times more for higher throughput. 

The research provides figures for the average throughput per price band for IDS/IPS systems in 2009. When compared with earlier Frost & Sullivan data for 2006, it can be seen that prices have fallen between 20% and 30% in general with the exception of IDS/IPS systems capable of providing 5 Gbps or more of throughput. In this case, prices have fallen by a mere 8%.

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July 23 2010 - Three years after the launch of the first iPhone, the advent of “mobile connectivity” is profoundly shaking up the way consumers shop, according to new research from PriceGrabber.co.uk®. Not just online, but in stores too, as a growing army of ‘smart shoppers’ are arriving in stores equipped with Internet enabled Smartphones.

Whilst these devices might be small, they still have the capacity to spend big - with the research finding that 20 percent of shoppers who make purchases from their mobiles have spent more than £100 on mobile phone shopping sprees in the last three months.

Read more: Smartphones Heralding New Era of Smart Shopping

Enterprises can mitigate insider threat and cost-effectively address compliance mandates for DB2 databases on z/OS mainframes

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., July 21, 2010— Imperva, the leader in data security, announced today it will partner with NEON Enterprise Software to provide best in class database auditing capabilities for DB2 on z/OS. Imperva and NEON will integrate and embed NEON’s proven DB2 auditing technology into Imperva’s Securesphere Data Security Suite.

The addition of NEON technology to the Imperva SecureSphere Suite expands Imperva’s existing support for auditing DB2 for z/OS via integration with IBM Audit Management Expert (AME), enabling Imperva customers to choose from the broadest range of options to support their mainframe environments.

Read more: Imperva provides most comprehensive database activity monitoring capabilities for mainframe users