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CA Internet Security rolls out More Security. Less Cost. Completely Installed. program for the channel
Free CA HIPS with the Purchase or Renewal of CA Threat Manager; All B2B Internet Security Products Now Come with Free Remote Installation
CA, Inc. announced that its Internet Security Business Unit (ISBU) is rolling out a new channel program for its Business-to-Business (B2B) product lineup. CA will now offer CA Host-Based Intrusion Prevention (HIPS) free with the purchase or renewal of CA Threat Manager (a value of $1800 for 50 licenses). Additionally, all CA B2B Internet Security products, including CA Threat Manager, CA HIPS, CA Total Defense, CA Anti-Virus, CA Anti-Spyware, and CA Gateway Security, will now include remote installation free of charge.
“In this economy everyone is being forced to do more with less,” said Chris Hickey, vice president of Sales and Marketing for CA’s ISBU. “While the economy was in decline, the rate of malware increased exponentially. We created this channel-only program to provide our partners and their customers with the best B2B anti-malware solutions at a great value. By receiving free remote installation and configuration with our products, customers can alleviate the added drain on their already tapped IT resources, and can be assured that the product is installed correctly — helping avoid any potential downtime.”
CA’s full range of B2B Internet Security products facilitate security compliance and safeguard businesses from the most severe online security risks from the network to the desktop. These products include:
– CA Threat Manager is an integrated, cohesive and comprehensive security solution that detects, blocks, cleans and removes a wide range of security threats and covers all IT environments (desktop, laptop, server and other network access points) via a streamlined management capability.
– CA Host-Based Intrusion Prevention (HIPS) combines endpoint Firewall, Intrusion Detection, Intrusion Prevention, Operating System Security and Application Control capabilities to provide centralized proactive threat protection to counter online threats.
– CA Gateway Security is a comprehensive gateway security solution that secures, monitors, filters and blocks potential threats from messaging and Web traffic — all from a centralized console. CA Gateway Security can also protect against the outbound transmission of confidential information, facilitate compliance, improve employee productivity and optimize the use of valuable IT resources — improving overall business continuity.
– CA Total Defense combines these three products into a single offering, providing a multilayered protection solution that minimizes risk and confidentiality breaches, increase system uptime and improves productivity.
CA Remote Deployment Services
A professional CA remote deployment services team is assigned to each project to manage the full installation to help ensure that the job is done quickly and accurately. The installation of CA B2B products, as well as the removal of competitive products, is performed remotely via a broadband connection — providing a convenient way to help ensure that products are installed and configured correctly.
Benefits:
– Free up IT resources for other critical projects
– Reduces the hassle of product installation
– Site survey reduces install surprises
– Convenient scheduling
This offer is available worldwide via CA Internet Security Business Unit partners in English only.
IBM extends social networking software through cloud computing with LotusLive Connections
LotusLive Wins Enterprise 2.0 Conference Showdown Over Google Apps
IBM announced its newest cloud service — LotusLive Connections — which combines business social networking with collaboration tools. Part of IBM’s cloud service portfolio, LotusLive, LotusLive Connections extends IBM’s reach further into new markets.
As part of the unveiling, LotusLive was voted the winner of The Enterprise 2.0 Cloud Computing Technology Buyers’ Choice Award. IBM’s cloud services won in a side-by-side comparison with Google Apps, EMC and other vendors’ cloud technologies, as voted by the Enterprise 2.0 conference attendees.
“IBM is an established leader in two major trends: cloud computing and social networking for business. At the nexus of these trends is LotusLive Connections,” said Bob Picciano, general manager, IBM Lotus Software. “LotusLive Connections brings companies of all sizes the ability to build, share information and easily work with their extended business network over the Web.”
LotusLive Connections helps individuals, departments and small businesses tap into the intellectual resources and capabilities that previously have only been accessible to large enterprises. Using core elements of IBM’s proven on-premise Lotus Connections social software, LotusLive Connections connects colleagues, partners, suppliers and customers from within and beyond firewalls.
LotusLive Connections simplifies working together, making it easy to identify and work with experts from any company online with the flexibility, convenience and affordable pricing associated with multi-tenant cloud services. Instant messaging, file sharing and activities are all instantly accessible for use with LotusLive networks.
For example, a team planning a project can create a group around the project, including vendors from outside their company. Together they can build a project plan using Activities and post and share associated files. Comments can be made and tasks tracked in the same service. All participants are kept up-to-date without having to hunt through email for the latest documents. Networking, sharing and collaborating are all integrated in LotusLive Connections.
LotusLive Connections will be available on June 30, 2009.
For more information about LotusLive Connections visit www.lotuslive.com/connections.
Triumfant Launches Signature Counter Illustrating Inability of Traditional Malware Solutions to Protect Against Constant Attacks
As Rate of Attacks Outpace Signature Creation, Enterprises Require New “Signature-less” Protection
Triumfant(R), creator of patent-pending software that automatically discovers, analyzes and remediates unexpected changes and conditions at the endpoint, announced the launch of its “Signature Counter,” which updates each time a traditional antivirus vendor must create a malicious code signature to combat a new malware attack. The counter already places the number of required signatures at over 3.7 million.
The counter is based on Symantec’s yearly ‘Internet Security Threat Report,’ which stated that the company created 1.6 million new malicious code signatures in 2008, bringing its all time total to 2.6 million. The Signature Counter started 2009 at 2.6 million and has added 1.0 million signatures to-date, based on projections for the year.
Symantec stated that the number of signatures created in 2008 was a 265 percent increase over 2007. If this same increase is applied from 2008 for 2009, it can be conservatively estimated that antivirus vendors will need to create 4 million new signatures this year.
Creating 4 million new signatures in one year breaks down to:
- 333,000 signatures per month
- 11,000 signatures per day
- 7.6 signatures per minute
- 1 signature every 8 seconds
At this rate, the response times of the signature-based tools could potentially suffer, widening the gap from detection to remediation. To protect against these attacks, users will increasingly require new solutions that do not rely on signatures to protect against network and endpoint attacks.
“Our signature counter is designed to demonstrate the incredible and unrealistic pace at which signatures need to be created to kill and remediate malware attacks. Given that there were less than 1 million signatures 18 months ago, seeing the number in such a graphical form is eye opening. We are quickly reaching a point where the number of new attacks is getting ahead of the collective ability to write signatures,” said Jim Ivers, CMO, Triumfant. “Now is the time to look at signature-less alternatives. Antivirus solutions won’t be going away, but vendors need to look at new options, including anomaly detection, behavioral analysis and heuristics to help protect their customers.”
Triumfant leverages a one-of-a-kind ability to discover, diagnose and repair unwanted changes and unexpected conditions on endpoint computers and servers to detect previously unidentified malicious attacks, perform security configuration management, and enforce organizational and mandated security policies. Triumfant’s Resolution Manager identifies and removes malware, repairing any changes made by the infection and returning a machine to its original state within a matter of minutes.
Triumfant Resolution Manager:
- Uses no signatures
- Needs no previous knowledge of the malware or its variants
- Continuously scans the desktop in real-time, looking for changes caused by malware
- Requires no human intervention – not even from virus researchers
- Remediates all collateral damage to a machine
Visit the Signature Clock at www.triumfant.com
Oracle Announces General Availability of Oracle Communications Unified Inventory Management 7.1
Application Enhancements Empower Communications Service Providers to More Rapidly Introduce and Deliver Next Generation Services
- To enable the rapid introduction, fulfillment and ongoing management of next-generation, customer-centric services, Oracle announced the availability of Oracle(R) Communications Unified Inventory Management 7.1.
- The application is designed for cost-effective introduction in a discrete fashion into an existing inventory environment through a modular, service-oriented architecture (SOA)-based framework and inventory federation capabilities for unifying disparate data across multiple systems. This approach enables service providers to deploy only the specific inventory capabilities required in their environments.
- Since the product’s initial launch, service providers worldwide have purchased and/or deployed the application – including Etihad Atheeb Telecom “GO,” Cellular South, Com Hem AB and Tikona Digital Networks – to support enterprise and consumer services across fixed, cable and mobile networks.
- Building on best practices derived from these implementations, Oracle Communications Unified Inventory Management 7.1 provides new capabilities with improved usability and integration that will help customers accelerate deployment and optimize the application’s benefits, while reducing total cost of ownership.
New Features in Oracle Communications Unified Inventory Management 7.1
- Oracle Communications Unified Inventory Management 7.1 introduces pre-built technology packs that provide out-of-the-box functionality for accelerated rollout of the most common IP multi-play and higher layer services including voice over IP (VoIP), multiprotocol label switching layer 3 virtual private network (MPLS L3 VPN) and Metro Ethernet/virtual local area network (VLAN) services.
- The application enables true inventory federation through a federation framework that allows integration and collaboration with external inventory systems without requiring capital intensive data migration and/or consolidation, or a risky complete inventory system transformation.
- Further, Oracle Communications Unified Inventory Management 7.1 delivers out-of-the-box integration with Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, which many service providers use to create tailored reports that draw upon real-time and historical inventory data, as well as Oracle Spatial, which supports geographical mapping and geocoding across the application. These pre-built integrations deliver rapid, seamless incorporation of business analytics and powerful geospatial representations to the inventory arena.
- The new release also features an enhanced graphical design time modeling tool, Design Studio, which offers best practices modeling of customer services and resources. It also simplifies the configuration and development of Web services to support service fulfillment for enterprise and consumer multi-play services.
- Oracle Communications Unified Inventory Management 7.1 also provides additional documentation and use cases to empower service provider implementation teams with tools to deploy the application faster and with less in-house development.
Supporting Quotes
“Communications service providers around the world are already benefitting from the integrated inventory tools that Oracle Communications Unified Inventory Management offers. With this new release, Oracle has demonstrated the application’s strength through documented successes that service providers and their systems integrator partners can replicate, as well as productized technology packs to accelerate the delivery of key next generation services. Oracle Communications Unified Inventory Management 7.1 will empower service providers to quickly and efficiently introduce, deploy and manage a range of services, from convergent consumer multi-play to advanced enterprise services,” said Liam Maxwell, vice president of products, Oracle Communications.
“With the intent to create the largest WiMax network in Europe, Africa and the Middle East, GO had the unique opportunity to define a strategic systems architecture that is not burdened by legacy applications or approaches but instead embraces innovative applications that natively support contemporary technologies, are readily extensible to support additional technologies and ensure close alignment with key TM Forum standards. Consistent with that goal, GO has deployed Oracle Communications Unified Inventory Management as our strategic inventory platform, which provides GO the confidence and flexibility to support both current and next-generation services and technologies,” said Craig Humphreys, vice president, information technology at Etihad Atheeb Telecom “GO.”
Source: Oracle
GFI Software Gives Away Full-Featured GFI LANguard for Free
Helping small businesses maintain and improve network security in an economic downturn
As more and more businesses bear the brunt of the economic downturn and budgets are drastically cut, security is often the first area to suffer. With cybercrime on the increase and threats becoming more dangerous and frequent, businesses can ill-afford to ignore security. If anything, they need to beef up their defenses. This is why GFI Software is giving away a 5-IP freeware version of its award-winning product GFI LANguard(TM) – to assist organizations shore up their defenses and secure their networks.
“In this contracting economy, we believe that vendors should work with businesses to assist them in sustaining a viable business until the economy bounces back. We view ourselves not only as a vendor but also – and equally importantly – as a business partner that understands our customers’ needs and is actively doing something to help,” Walter Scott, CEO at GFI said.
“With this in mind and to tangibly convey to our customers that WE CARE, we are giving away a freeware version of GFI LANguard, one of our leading security products. We are doing this for two reasons. First, we want to help business owners to continue focusing on security issues even though they don’t have the budgets and, second, we want to encourage them to take security to another level and fully understand that security goes beyond anti-virus and anti-spam. With this fully functional 5-IP version of GFI LANguard we are giving something back to businesses and helping them keep their networks secure,” he added.
Winner of the Best of TechEd award in 2007, highly recommended by the judges at the SC Magazine Europe awards in 2008 and a finalist at this year’s SC Magazine Europe awards, GFI LANguard allows administrators to scan, detect, assess and rectify vulnerabilities on their network and to secure it with minimal administrative effort.
Over 15,000 vulnerability assessments are carried out when the network, including any virtual environment, is scanned by GFI LANguard. When the scan is complete, GFI LANguard’s Patch Management functionality allows administrators to deploy and manage patches and security updates on all machines across the network. Hardware information can be retrieved and baseline comparisons used to check for unauthorized changes.
For more information on GFI LANguard visit http://www.gfi.com/lannetscan
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