Tufin Extends the Scope of its Firewall Operations Management Solution Tufin Security Suite 5.3 to Support Palo Alto Networks Market-Leading Next-Generation Firewalls

RAMAT GAN, Israel & London Feb. 8, 2011–Tufin Technologies, the leading provider of Security Lifecycle Management solutions, today announced it is the first firewall management company to offer comprehensive support for next-generation firewalls from market leaders such as Palo Alto Networks.

The latest update of SecureTrack – Tufin’s firewall operations, auditing and compliance product – introduces the industry’s first solution that provides network security teams with seamless, comprehensive management and auditing capabilities for both next-generation and network-layer firewalls. Palo Alto Networks customers can now benefit from improved management, policy analysis and reporting found in the Tufin solution.

February 8th 2011 - Publishing Technology plc (LSE: PTO), the largest provider of software and services to the Publishing industry, is very pleased to announce the first live installation of the new advance Contract, Rights & Royalties (CR&R) solution. Sterling Publishing, a committed Publishing Technology customer for over twenty years and one of the world’s leading publishers of non-fiction books, is a publishing subsidiary of Barnes and Noble Booksellers, acquired in 2003.

Previously operating on the VISTA-branded Royalties system from Publishing Technology, Sterling provides its parent company with publishing and distribution rights to thousands of titles. Sterling has an active list of owned and distributed titles and annually publishes and distributes new titles. The CR&R system today handles numerous contracts and authors and contributors in support of those products.

 CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA, USA – February 7th, 2011 –  nPulse Technologies will demonstrate the world’s first commercial implementation of the open-source, OISF- and DHS-sponsored Suricata IDS/IPS project (http://www.openinfosecfoundation.org) at next week’s RSA Conference in San Francisco.   The ThreatMeter appliance, which is part of nPulse’s Dragonfly Sensor product line, delivers multi-gigabit IDS/IPS performance in a 1U appliance. ThreatMeter utilizes advanced packet capture hardware from Napatech and the latest rulesets from Emerging Threats Pro to achieve full packet inspection even on the busiest links.   Matt Jonkman, CEO of Emerging Threats Pro, and also Founder of the OISF, said, "It is exciting to see a solution with the performance and functionality of ThreatMeter come to market so quickly. It underscores the power of the open source, open standards philosophy embraced by both Emerging Threats Pro and the OISF, as well as by solution vendors like nPulse and Napatech." 

 A major survey from ISACA, a not-for-profit IT governance and security association, confirms the central role that governance plays in information security within large organisations and stresses the fact that 95% of IT professionals  within major organisations consider governance to be important.                                

The study conducted by the IT Governance Institute (ITGI), ISACA’s research affiliate is titled the “Global Status Report on the Governance of Enterprise IT (GEIT) 2011.” It says that two thirds of respondent enterprises have some GEIT activities in place, with the most common being the use of IT policies and standards, followed by the employment of defined and managed IT processes.