Recent Security Analysis
Imprivata builds authentication management capabilities with an eye on virtualization
Expanding its ability to tie multiple authentication events at the edge to a single correlated identity, Imprivata has incorporated support for biometric strong authentication. Will virtualization prove to be the trend that validates its approach?
MIS / Market Development, 3 Dec 2008
Steve Coplan IBM's Tivoli Security Policy Manager to test waters as identity undergoes transition
Policy management for identity – defining access controls in terms of attribute and role and tying identity into broader security processes – is identity management's next frontier. Can IBM extend its technology as the market is transformed?
MIS / Market Development, 3 Dec 2008
Steve Coplan Varonis targets link between data loss prevention and identity management
Data governance firm Varonis says it will be coupling its data visibility and entitlement management tools more closely as it looks to exploit the point of intersection between anti-data-leakage and identity and access management.
MIS / Market Development, 2 Dec 2008
Paul Roberts, Steve Coplan Symark brings in restructuring specialist as its second CEO in six months
MIS / Analyst Note, 1 Dec 2008
Steve Coplan Shavlik, building on its management strength, looks to broaden its reach
The patch and configuration management vendor plans to expand its capabilities to include anti-malware, arguing that enterprises, bending under the weight of new threats and compliance worries, are hungry for better management and visibility of endpoints.
MIS / Impact Report, 25 Nov 2008
Paul Roberts Struggling ESIM vendor High Tower shuts doors
MIS / Analyst Note, 25 Nov 2008
Nick Selby QNX drives automotive, industrial embedded use with Neutrino RTOS update
The company is among those targeting the hot area of embedded software, but is it really better-off focusing on automotive, industrial control and other RTOS markets rather than mobile devices?
MIS / Market Development, 24 Nov 2008
Jay Lyman Solidcore targets PCI bucks with retail POS products
The company is introducing POS Check and Control, a combined whitelisting, configuration management and file integrity monitoring product. Is this the future of endpoint security, or a sop to retailers freaked out by PCI?
MIS / Market Development, 24 Nov 2008
Paul Roberts ForeScout introduces integration kit for wireless NAC
The company introduced a new wireless integration kit that gives it the ability to see and control mobile devices, connecting wirelessly to enterprise networks using gear from Aruba Networks.
MIS / Market Development, 21 Nov 2008
Paul Roberts Finjan, expanding partnerships, closes $22m in VC round – $22m!
The Israeli vendor of Web-based threat detection and enterprise anti-malware appliances raised a $22m 'marketing' round. We spoke with Finjan last summer, and it reported good growth, but gave no hint of pending fund-raising.
MIS / Market Development, 20 Nov 2008
Nick Selby nCircle updates its approach with Suite360 and a Web app scanner
The company, with its acquisition of Cambia last year, widened its scope to add change and configuration auditing and management to its vulnerability management. As it said to us in 2006, it's moving its way up from security to operations.
MIS / Market Development, 20 Nov 2008
Nick Selby Bit9 partners with TripWire on PCI compliance
Application control firm Bit9 has announced a partnership with audit and change management vendor TripWire that's targeted at retailers concerned about PCI compliance – the second such announcement in a week.
MIS / Market Development, 20 Nov 2008
Paul Roberts With FIPS certification and a bigger channel, BeCrypt posts profit and expands in US
The UK-based encryption vendor has seen success (nearly 600 customers) in the UK government sector. It has been seeking partners and certifications to expand its business to the lucrative US government market. Two key milestones have been reached.
MIS / Market Development, 19 Nov 2008
Nick Selby F5 Networks and Secerno team up for Web application and database transaction security
MIS / Analyst Note, 19 Nov 2008
Lauren Eckenroth CA takes a strategic view of federated SSO as key component of Web security thrust
In order to underpin its push into 'Secure Web Business Enablement,' CA has released a stand-alone federated Web SSO manager and developed its own proxy technology.
MIS / Market Development, 18 Nov 2008
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