McAfee Inc. unveiled its 2010 Threat Predictions report. McAfee Labs believes cybercriminals will target social networking sites and third-party applications, use more complex Trojans and botnets, and take advantage of HTML 5. McAfee Labs also predicts 2010 will be a good year for law enforcement’s fight against cybercrime. more…

Black Box Veri-NAC

Black Box Corporation announced that its one-box vulnerability management and network access control (NAC) appliance Veri-NAC has been selected by SC Magazine as one of the top 20 most influential IT security products in the last 20 years. more…

IDCs European Security Appliance Market Numbers

According to IDC’s Western European Quarterly Security Appliance Tracker, 3Q09 revenues for the Western European security appliance market reached $377.44 million in factory revenue, a 16.2 percent decrease over the same quarter a year ago. Shipments also decreased by 16.7 percent over last year’s second quarter, with 127,717 units shipped. more…

Newgen Software Technologies announced the introduction of a new feature in its Cheque Truncation System (CTS). The innovative aspect called the Automatic Signature Verification (ASV) is the latest feature of the Cheque Truncation System which comes with increased operational efficiency and reduced risks for banks. more…

Research conducted amongst European CIOs and senior IT decision-makers across 13 European countries by leading research firm Portio in behalf of Colt has found that 68 per cent of respondents say security fears prevent them from adopting cloud computing services. This concern was especially high in the UK with 74 per cent of UK CIO’s highlighting security as the factor they consider to be the main barrier to cloud services adoption. more…

Lieberman Software today announced integration of its privileged identity management solution Enterprise Random Password Manager (ERPM) with Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server. According to Lieberman software the product gives enterprises the ability to automatically discover and secure all privileged identities present on Sharepoint Server sites and their activities on those sites. more…

M86 Security announced that the newly branded M86 Security Secure Web Gateway, obtained from its acquisition of Finjan, will be available in the first quarter of 2010. The Secure Web Gateway appliance ought to provide vital protection for medium to large organizations from Web-based threats, which are expected to grow in 2010. According to M86 Security, with this product the enterprise becomes the largest Web security appliance vendor in the world. more…

Blue Coat Systems announced that it continued to lead the worldwide content security gateway appliance market for the third calendar quarter of 2009, according to the most recent market share report released by Infonetics Research. Blue Coat increased its market share in the third quarter to 23.8 percent, extending its market leadership for the 11th consecutive quarter. more…

Transduction TR-9070-IR

Transduction is now shipping the new TR-9070-IR infrared indoor/outdoor IP camera. The TR-9070-IR is enclosed in a waterproof aluminum casing to protect it from rain and snow and is geared towards faster, more cost-efficient video installations in virtually any location. In addition, the camera is equipped with 30 infrared LEDs making it well suited for applications involving difficult lighting or day/night surveillance. more…

According to the latest Enterprise And SMB Hardware Survey, North America And Europe, Q3 2009 by Forrester Research 49 percent of survey respondents from enterprises and 51 percent from small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) cited security and privacy concerns as their top reason for not using cloud computing. The survey of more than 2,200 IT executives and technology decision-makers in Canada, France, Germany, the UK, and the US is Forrester’s largest annual survey of emerging hardware trends for both enterprises and SMBs. more…