Splunk, the vendor who calls itself “the google for data centres” are seeing an increase in sales due to the high crime that comes hand in hand with an economic downturn.
Palo Alto networks formally launches in the UK
After several years of offering its products via a few specialist systems integrators in the UK, California’s Palo Alto Networks has established a formal presence in the country.
Infosecurity Europe: firms get access to military grade forensics
It’s not often that firms supplying specialist network forensics technology to US government agencies are allowed to supply their systems software to civilian companies, especially outside of the United States, but Utah-based Solera Networks has achiev…
Infosecurity Europe: Police central e-crime unit can’t afford to tackle e-crime
At the Infosecurity Europe show, London, on 30 April 2009, in a session titled ‘The dynamics of e-crime’, an audience member – an employee of the police central e-crime unit (PCeu) within the Metropolitan police service – interrupted the panel to decla…
German Police arrest Bavarian cracking group
Police in Bavaria have arrested 11 people suspected of being members of the Hacksector cracking group, which maintains a dark hats forum of the same name on the Internet.
Infosecurity Europe: Employee awareness of security is “dangerously immature” says (ISC)2’s Colley
John Colley, managing director of (ISC)2 EMEA lamented the lack of security is company culture in his talk ‘Are we getting the basics right’ at Infosecurity Europe this year.
Infosecurity Europe: Mobile-originated spam set to be a major problem
The issue of spam is a major concern for vendors and attendees at the show. And, while internet service providers (ISPs) are doing their bit in shutting down the accounts of spammers in real time, it`s only the fixed line ISPs that have this luxury.
Infosecurity Europe: Business social networkers can “learn a lot from kids”
Chris Boyd, director of malware research at FaceTime Security Labs, warned against the dangers of social networking at the talk ‘Social networking pirates: Batten down the hatches, Cap’n Jack is coming’ at Infosecurity Europe.
Infosecurity Europe show opens with security cafes and expert forums
The Infosecurity Europe show opens for a three-day run in London today, with two features that are new for 2009 – security cafes and expert forums.
Infosecurity Europe: Lord Erroll calls for greater punishment for cybercrime
Lord Erroll stole the limelight, and the audience’s attention on the ‘Who got caught out the last 12 months’ keynote panel at the Infosecurity Europe show in London, 28 April 2009, by calling for greater penalties and repercussions for cybercrime.