Utimaco Safeware AG announced the opening of its newest office in Mumbai, India. The new office opening signals Utimaco’s increased focus on extending its brand to all corners of the globe. Utimaco solutions have been marketed in India through Value Added Distributors including WeP India Ltd. and iValue Infosolutions Pvt. Ltd. for more than a year.

Through the combination of Utimaco’s leading product lines and the customer relationships already established in Mumbai and surrounding areas, the company will further position itself as a leading provider of data security and encryption solutions.

“The opening of Utimaco’s India office will help us tap the rapid regional economic growth in Mumbai and meet increased demand for our leading information protection and control solutions across the vertical market spectrum,” said Altaf Halde, Country Manager, India. “This office will provide our current and future customers and partners with local support for all activities and as a result, we forsee a large jump in customer acquisitions.”

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Avnet Technology Solutions announced that it has signed a distribution agreement with IBM that will allow its channel partners to sell IBM software solutions in the Indian marketplace. The distribution agreement enables Avnet and its channel partners to accelerate the delivery of IBM software, including its Tivoli Service Management and Information Management portfolio that are currently fuelling growth in India.

“This partnership is of great significance to our business partner network in India and South Asia,” said, Anil Menon, Vice President, Channels & Ecosystems, Software Group, IBM India/South Asia. “We believe that the mid-market space will benefit immensely from Avnet’s solution-centric approach. Their value-added distribution model will bring the technology expertise and the skills and resources to the channel community allowing them to demonstrate the strengths of IBM’s software portfolio in the marketplace.”

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Array Networks announced a comprehensive trade-in program which enables Nortel Alteon customers to switch to Array Networks’ comprehensive SSL VPN and Application Delivery Controllers product lines. The trade-in program includes significant discounts and additional benefits to provide a seamless transition for Nortel’s customers following the company’s recent bankruptcy. Array’s products consume significantly less power, which offers an eco-friendly alternative to enhance organizations’ green initiatives.

“Nortel’s recent bankruptcy announcement has created concerns among businesses,” said Michael Zhao, president and CEO of Array Networks. “With the Nortel replacement program, we are offering organizations peace of mind in having the most secure, scalable, and highest-performing SSL VPN access gateways and application accelerators available. Additionally, our power-efficient platform helps businesses cut back on energy consumption and provide ongoing cost-savings in the data center while delivering additional functionality at no extra cost.”

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McAfee announced it has created a new business unit to enhance and expand the company's software as a service offerings and extend McAfee's current "in the cloud" capabilities. The business unit will be responsible for all products within McAfee delivered over the Internet, including security scanning services, Web and e-mail security services and remote managed host-based security software and hardware.

McAfee has named Marc Olesen senior vice president and general manager of the SaaS Security Business Unit. Olesen was previously vice president of SaaS business at HP and has held executive positions at Qwest Cyber Solutions and BearingPoint. He will report to DeWalt and Christopher Bolin, McAfee chief technology officer and executive vice president.

The McAfee SaaS Security Business Unit joins McAfee's other business units in Network Consumer, Risk and Compliance, and Data Protection business units to provide increased focus, responsiveness, and accountability within the diverse security business. Each unit is designed to be entrepreneurial and responsive within a specific market, moving quickly to seize emerging opportunities and foster focus and familiarity within a particular market and its customers.

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VeriSign announced the sale of its Communication Services Group to Reston, Va.—based TNS, Inc. in a cash transaction of $230 million. The transaction is expected to close within the next 60 days, subject to customary regulatory approvals and successful financing.

"The sale of the Communications Services Group is another important step toward our divestiture goals as we continue our commitment and focus on our core businesses in Internet infrastructure," said Jim Bidzos, executive chairman of the board of directors, and chief executive officer on an interim basis of VeriSign.

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K7 Computing has already created a buzz among the partner community, with its multi-pronged strategy. The market has also responded very enthusiastically to these initiatives, which is evident from the rapidly moving sales curve. Continuing this market momentum, K7 now offers attractive incentives all along the sales cycle.

Every customer who purchases K7 TotalSecurity upto 31st March has a chance of winning a Brand New Lenovo laptop. One lucky customer from each region will win a laptop. This offer is valid only for purchases made through reseller channel in India. Customers will have to register their details at www.k7computing.com/consumeroffer to be eligible for this offer.

The reseller who has sold K7 TotalSecurity to the laptop winning customer will be the proud owner of a LCD TV. Apart from these, tons of goodies await our resellers.

K7 Computing’s Strategic Partners would also be awarded for gaining additional market depth and breadth. S.Srinivasan, Sr.Vice President–Sales & Marketing said, “we are committed towards building long term profitable relationship with our channel partners and continue to support them thru various initiatives. K7 TotalSecurity provides unrivalled protection with excellent value for money. Now with this celebration offer everyone is a winner”.

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NeoAccel recently announced that Videocon industries, has deployed the companys’ SSL VPN-Plus solution to provide secure, faster and trouble free access for its large network of dealers, Sales, Warehouse staff, and key employees to place orders, do inventory checks, invoicing and billing from remote locations.

“What happens in a high–packet loss environments like CDMA is the TCP retransmission requests caused by delayed or dropped packets are repeated by both layers of TCP. This causes an exponential increase in redundant retransmissions and frequent dropped connections,” said Micheal Susai, Chairman & CEO of NeoAccel. NeoAccel's extreme performance increase comes from its patented ICAA & TSSL protocols, purpose-built for overcoming the TCP-over-TCP meltdown and the primary bottlenecks in traditional remote access infrastructure.

“Deploying SSL VPN PLUS allows us to a faster, simple, and secure access to connect geographically spread people. It also gives us lot more control over how people connect and what happens to our Network.” said Videocon’s CIO, Mr. Arindam Bose.

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SafeNet, Inc. recently announced that Carry International, a leading provider of online distribution and management services for Publishers across Asia, has selected SafeNet's Digital Rights Management (DRM) solution to provide copyright protection and flexible licensing for its Taiwan government sponsored end-to-end digital publishing distribution service. 

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Spammers have once again ramped up the siege on Microsoft's Live Hotmail services, by busting Microsoft's latest, redesigned CAPTCHA system. Near the end of 2008, Microsoft reworked its CAPTCHA authentication, attempting to prevent further automatic registrations by computer programs and automated bots, and preserve CAPTCHA's usability and reliability. As the latest attack shows, those efforts have failed.

The spammers' attack strategy includes more than registering email accounts using anti-CAPTCHA operations; sending mass emails over the Internet; infecting thousands of user machines; and stealing information. Their strategy also includes developing a successful business model that focuses on advertising products and services, and reaching users with increasing success rates. Thus, spammers have been relying on the trusted reputation of Microsoft to carry out a wide range of attacks over the Internet.

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Metro Ethernet switches manufactured by ZyXEL Communications Corp. have passed three rigorous tests to earn Tier One level of quality. ZyXEL M-Series Carrier Ethernet Switches, MGS-3712/MGS-3712F and MES-3728, are aligned with carrier-class standards for Ethernet Private Line (EPL), Ethernet Virtual Private Line (EVPL), and Ethernet LAN (E-LAN) of Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) and certified as MEF-9 and MEF-14 compliant. The certification for the three service standards demonstrates that ZyXEL Carrier Ethernet Switch technology meets Tier One quality standards of industry leading network equipment suppliers.

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Websense recently unveiled the next generation of Websense on-demand security services—Websense Hosted Email Security and Websense Hosted Web Security. The latest version combines new ease-of-use features with better protection from emerging Web 2.0 and converged threats with increased Web threat intelligence from the latest Websense URL database and Websense ThreatSeeker Network.

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F-Secure announced results from its annual Online Wellbeing Survey. This third-party survey of Internet users aged 20-40 in the United States, Canada, UK, France, Germany—and for the first time—Italy, India and Hong Kong, tested the respondents’ knowledge of online security issues (their ‘security IQ’).

The majority of respondents across the countries—92%—said they have security software installed on their computers. At the same time only 21% of all the respondents knew that antivirus definitions need to be updated many times a day. This indicates that a large population of users may have a false sense of security if their security software is expired or does not update automatically often enough. However, 67% were also aware that they need more than antivirus to keep them safe and almost 90% knew that they can get infected by visiting a malicious website, even if they don’t download anything.

Respondents in India and Hong Kong relied on the security software they had purchased or the security service from their Internet Service Provider (70% India, 50% Hong Kong). Those surveyed in the US had the least confidence in purchased software but rather relied on secure websites. In France, respondents relied more on the security of their online shopping and banking websites than their software.

F-Secure’s Online Wellbeing survey showed that only 17% of respondents were absolutely sure that they had the latest patches and updates. 40% of respondents were less sure but agreed with the statement. Canadians were the most sure (22%) that their applications were patched, with Germans coming in second (21%).

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Entrust has consistently been positioned as a visionary and innovator in the multifactor authentication and fraud detection market. Gartner Inc. confirmed what many customers believe as well by naming Entrust as one of the "leaders" in the research firm's newly created 2009 Web Fraud Detection Magic Quadrant.

Based on Entrust's comprehensive fraud detection and multifactor authentication solutions—comprised of Entrust TransactionGuard and Entrust IdentityGuard—Gartner's Web Fraud Detection Magic Quadrant placed Entrust in the top right quadrant, the leadership position, based on its "ability to execute" and the company's "completeness of vision." A sampling of Entrust's strengths in this market, according to Gartner's report, include the interoperability and versatility of the Entrust IdentityGuard multifactor authentication solution, a flexible rules engine, real-time capabilities and strong customer service.

Entrust IdentityGuard enables organizations to layer security—according to access requirements or the risk of a given transaction—across diverse users and applications. The platform's authentication options include strong username and password, IP-geolocation, device, questions and answers, out-of-band one-time passcode (delivered via voice, SMS or e-mail), grid cards, eGrid cards and a range of one-time-password tokens. Entrust IdentityGuard also provides multiple methods of supporting mutual authentication, including picture and caption replay.

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Subex Limited announced that it has entered a partnership with Swisscom, Switzerland’s leading telecommunications provider, to co-operate in the field of fraud management. The goal of the partnership is to improve the next generation fraud management. Core of the co-operation is Subex’ Nikira Fraud Management System which serves as the basis to develop and validate detection and mitigation of current and, most importantly, new fraud risks. Nikira is part of Subex’s integrated suite of revenue maximization applications, forming the Revenue Operations Center (ROC) and will be deployed to detect fraud across its current and next generation fixed and mobile networks.

With the current and expected changes in market dynamics and the deployment of its next generation network, Swisscom realized that revenue protection would become an even more complex issue as new fraud patterns are expected to emerge. Therefore Swisscom’s risk management department acted accordingly and used the opportunity of its organizational merger between the Fixline and the Mobile business to replace legacy fraud management by a converged real-time fraud management solution that can face future threads and further helps to leverage the synergies from the combined organization. The fraud management component of Subex’s ROC—Nikira was the natural choice as it provided best breed functionality from an experienced and innovative vendor with the most installations from the industry.

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