MANILA, PHILIPPINES, 23 MARCH 2011 — With more enterprise users accessing their e-mail and other office applications on the go, a cloud-based security provider is offering them some peace of mind. Proofpoint is offering the Proofpoint Mobile family of applications for e-mail security, compliance and archiving solutions for popular mobile devices, such as the iPad, …

Companies turning to Facebook for consumer interactions and commercial transactions will not spell the end of corporate Web sites, say industry watchers. Rather, organizations face security and loss of identity risks if they yield their unique digital outposts to the social media site, they cautioned. One observer Mark Evans, communications director at social media analytics …

Gary Flood Published 24 March 2011 Do you really know what is happening on your own network? Gary Flood finds out What’s the future for information security? For Paul Simmonds, a former Chief Information Security Officer at AstraZeneca and ICI and who is now with identity management body the Jericho Forum (http://www NULL.opengroup NULL.org/jericho/), the …

New Delhi, Mar 24 (PTI) Amidst the government demand for accessing contents of telecom services and company emails, industry body Assocham today urged the telecom ministry to factor in the business interest of enterprises while intercepting corporate e-mails. “We need to ensure standardised policies on adoption of security standards to protect and secure data, while …

Posted by Madalena David Art Coviellos, Executive Chairman of EMC, admitted that EMC’s security division, RSA, is currently the target of an advanced cyber attack. RSA emphasized the fact that the hackers have not managed to steal important corporate or government data, but valuable info on their security tool, namely SecurID,  that could be used …

The M86 SMB Security Suite includes the company’s M86 MailMarshal Secure Email Gateway, M86 WebMarshal, M86 Filter List, and M86 Marshal Reporting Console products. The package ships as software that can run on Windows Server or in virtualized environments and supports up to 500 users, the company said. The rise of automated toolkits and other …

Jason Alden / Bloomberg News files With the growing use of smartphones and tablets in the corporate world, companies are becoming aware of mobile security threats and the way in which wireless devices are being used to send and receive sensitive information. Last Updated: Mar 17, 2011 10:49 AM ET The prime security focus of …

India could block Research in Motion (RIM) (http://www NULL.computerweekly NULL.com/Articles/2011/02/14/245409/Indian-official-reiterates-Blackberry-ban-threat NULL.htm) from 31 March 2011 after government officials expressed dissatisfaction with access to Blackberry services. The Indian government is concerned that terrorists could use encrypted services to co-ordinate attacks. In a parliamentary written answer, junior telecoms minister Sachin Pilot said Indian security agencies are not …

Cyber commander backs cloud computing expansion While the top U.S. cyber commander was on Capitol Hill making the case for shifting the Defense Department to cloud computing, three companies were announcing a corporate alliance aimed at addressing the working-level security concerns that have slowed the progress of the commander’s proposal. The timing was, said one …

The SecurID tokens are widely used to grant access to sensitive information Hackers have stolen data about the security tokens used by millions of people to protect access to bank accounts and corporate networks. RSA Security told customers about the “extremely sophisticated cyber attack” in an open letter posted online. The company is providing “immediate …