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McAfee
McAfee, Inc. Reports Results for the Second Quarter of 2010
McAfee, Inc. to Acquire tenCube; To Deliver Next Generation Mobility Platform
Polycom and McAfee Alliance to Further Secure Unified Communications and Collaboration
McAfee, Inc. Recognized for Its Top Women in the Channel
McAfee Inc. Extends Industry-Leading Consumer Protection with New Products for Mac
Bluecoat
Blue Coat Introduces Assessment Service for Revealing View and Analysis of Network Application Activity
Blue Coat Expands Visibility into and Analysis of Potential Threats with Reporter 9.2
Inland Revenue Board of Malaysia Deploys Blue Coat PacketShaper Appliances to Increase Application Visibility
Blue Coat Enhances PacketShaper Appliances to Provide Visibility and Control for Apple Software Updates
COCC Delivers Secure Internet Access to Banks and Credit Unions with Blue Coat ProxySG Appliances
Sonicwall
SonicWALL Secures Mobile Workforce Access to Corporate Networks With Launch of Remote Access Solutions
New remote access security solutions enable protected access to information from PCs and wide array of mobile devices
SonicWALL Strengthens Commitment to Global Government Customers With Common Criteria EAL4+ Certification
Certification Earned for SonicWALL's Current TZ and NSA Firewall Solutions
SonicWALL Completes Merger With Thoma Bravo and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan
SonicWALL Shareholders Approve Merger Agreement With Thoma Bravo and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan
Transaction Expected to be Completed Close of Business Today
SonicWALL Mails Letter to Shareholders
Urges Shareholders to Vote FOR Merger with Affiliates of Thoma Bravo and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan at SonicWALL's July 23, 2010 Special Meeting
Checkpoint
Media Alert: Check Point Research Team Discovers Critical ToolTalk Database Server Vulnerability
Check Point IPS solutions protect businesses against newly discovered ToolTalk Database Server Parser vulnerability and newly patched Microsoft zero-day threats
Check Point Software Technologies Reports Record Second Quarter 2010 Financial Results
Check Point Abra Named "I.T. Product of 2010" by Computerworld Magazine
Impressed by Check Point's innovative secure virtual workspace, Computerworld Magazine selects Abra as Product of the Year in Czech Republic
Check Point Software to Announce Second Quarter Financial Results on July 21, 2010
New ZoneAlarm Free Firewall by Check Point Wins PC Magazine Editors' Choice Award and Five Stars from CNET
Check Point's firewall with cloud-based security earns top honors from technology experts
ClearSwift
Web 2.0 & social technologies are critical to success for today’s progressive businesses
Over half of companies believe shutting down social media access is detrimental
‘Generation Standby’ on the increase
One in five people would turn down a job offer that restricts social media access at work
Clearswift adds ‘on box' encryption and real-time URL categorisation to award winning security products
Clearswift SECURE Web Gateway 2.1 & Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway 3.1 launched
Clearswift rolls out 24*7 support as standard
Additional Advanced and Premium support contracts bring enhanced benefits
Clearswift scoops ‘Best Content Security’ prize at European industry awards
Clearswift awarded top honour at SC Magazine Awards
Clearswift updates MIMEsweeper for SMTP
New version of email security solution launched with enhanced spam detection.
Clearswift’s ‘Web 2.0 in the Workplace’ report launched
Research undertaken by Clearswift in 2007, found that just 11% of businesses were making use of Web 2.0 technologies such as Facebook and Salesforce.com. Three years on, the latest figures show over two-thirds of companies are allowing the use of web collaboration or social media tools in the workplace.
Clearswift reports solid financial growth and appoints new COO
Web and Email Appliance business delivers growth strategy
Clearswift to Showcase Unified Content Security for Web and Email at LegalTech 2010
Clearswift gives businesses the confidence to innovate
New Appliances provide greater protection from converged threats and deliver efficiencies
Palo Alto
Palo Alto Networks Introduces GlobalProtect for Remote Enterprise Security
Unique private cloud-based approach extends next-generation firewall visibility and control to remote endpoints

SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 22, 2010 - Palo Alto Networks, the network security company, today announced GlobalProtect, a solution that helps enterprises secure remote endpoints with faster performance and easier management. Utilizing a unique approach, the solution extends the same visibility and control of applications, users, and content that Palo Alto Networks customers typically enjoy inside the enterprise network to endpoints outside the network.

Unlike traditional approaches to endpoint security, Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect ties application-, user-, and content-based policies to roaming users through a persistent thin client that can be pre-installed or installed on demand. Similar to a VPN, remote traffic is sent over a secure tunnel. However, unlike typical VPN deployments, which direct traffic to a few geographically centralized gateways, the GlobalProtect client automatically connects to the nearest corporately-managed Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewall deployed at a hub, branch, or in a private cloud. This results in faster throughput, easier management, and better protection.

"The three traditional approaches to endpoint security - client-side software suites, proxies, or full tunnel VPNs - typically have resulted in significant performance impacts, management headaches, or bad user experiences," said René Bonvanie, vice president of worldwide marketing at Palo Alto Networks. "Just as we pioneered the next-generation firewall three years ago, we are once again leading the market with GlobalProtect and introducing a new approach to managing and securing remote endpoints while offering security and performance that other firewall vendors cannot match."

More and more applications are moving into the cloud and more and more users are moving off-premise. According to well-known analyst John Pescatore, "The Next Generation Firewall will follow the same pattern - extending to NGFW as a service (or what we used to call ‘In the Cloud Firewalling’ before the cloud term got ripped away from the Internet carriers) to inject the same firewall policy between the users and the Internet and in between the cloud-based services we consume that used to be inside the data center."

Palo Alto Networks is widely recognized as the only network security vendor with true application visibility and control in the firewall, enabling enterprise IT managers to make informed policy decisions that improve their overall security posture. GlobalProtect reinforces the company’s history of innovation by offering enterprise customers solutions that meet their changing security needs.

Pricing and Availability
GlobalProtect will be available in the fourth quarter of 2010 and will initially support Windows-based PCs and laptops. For more information about GlobalProtect, contact your local reseller or visit http://www.paloaltonetworks.com.

About Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto Networks is the network security company. Its next-generation firewalls enable unprecedented visibility and granular policy control of applications and content - by user, not just IP address - at up to 10Gbps with no performance degradation. Based on patent-pending App-ID technology, Palo Alto Networks firewalls accurately identify and control applications - regardless of port, protocol, evasive tactic or SSL encryption - and scan content to stop threats and prevent data leakage. Enterprises can for the first time embrace Web 2.0 and maintain complete visibility and control, while significantly reducing total cost of ownership through device consolidation. For more information, visit www.paloaltonetworks.com.

For John Pescatore’s full blog post, see: http://blogs.gartner.com/john_pescatore/2010/04/30/the-future-of-the-firewall-hint-the-perimeter-hasnt-and-isnt-going-away-but-it-has-moved/
Palo Alto Networks Discovers Critical Vulnerabilities Addressed in Today’s Microsoft Security Bulletin
New Potential Security Threats Will Impact Popular Media Apps

SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 8, 2010 - Palo Alto Networks, the network security company, today announced that its Application and Threat Research Team discovered two of the critical vulnerabilities in the June Microsoft Security Bulletin published today. Vulnerable systems are susceptible to an attacker taking complete control of them through commonly used media applications.

Microsoft credits Palo Alto Networks’ Application and Threat Research Team for finding two remote code execution vulnerabilities that exist in the way the Microsoft Windows handles media files. This vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user opened a specially crafted media file. If a user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs, view, change or delete data, or create new accounts with full user rights.

To view these vulnerabilities as standard entries in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures list, see CVE-2010-1879 and CVE-2010-1880.

The Palo Alto Networks Application and Threat Research Team is active in the research community, aggressively pursuing both new vulnerability research and mitigation of all types of threats. Leveraging its expert understanding of today’s applications, threats and how vulnerabilities get exploited, the team is a consistent contributor in support of Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday releases, including discovering nine Microsoft vulnerabilities in the past 12 months.

Palo Alto Networks’ next-generation firewall provides policy-based visibility and control over applications, users and content. Using this technology, enterprises can accurately identify and control applications, scan content to stop threats, and prevent data leakage - all with a single network device. By reducing the number of security devices in their networks, companies can save both capital expenditures and operational costs.

Information on more than 1,000 applications that are identified by Palo Alto Networks can be found in Applipedia, part of the company’s Application and Threat Research Center. Visit the online resource to find the latest news, commentary, and discoveries on applications and threats at http://www.paloaltonetworks.com/researchcenter/.

About Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto Networks is the network security company. Its next-generation firewalls enable unprecedented visibility and granular policy control of applications and content - by user, not just IP address - at up to 10Gbps with no performance degradation. Based on patent-pending App-ID technology, Palo Alto Networks firewalls accurately identify and control applications - regardless of port, protocol, evasive tactic or SSL encryption - and scan content to stop threats and prevent data leakage. Enterprises can for the first time embrace Web 2.0 and maintain complete visibility and control, while significantly reducing total cost of ownership through device consolidation. For more information, visit www.paloaltonetworks.com.
Palo Alto Networks Delivers "Read-Only" Facebook
Gives enterprises more control over which employees can use Facebook, when, and for what purposes

SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 8, 2010 - Companies can now implement "read-only" Facebook policies in the workplace with next-generation firewalls from Palo Alto Networks, the network security company. New, finer-grained control over who uses the popular social networking application and for what purposes means companies can enable Facebook for employees that need it for their jobs, while limiting its functionality for other workers who use it primarily for personal reasons.

This kind of granular control over the use of Facebook - by user, group, content or even time of day - is unique to Palo Alto Networks’ next-generation firewall. As a result, IT security managers are better equipped to prevent leaks of corporate data, improve worker productivity, and reduce security threats such as malware and viruses that increasingly use Facebook and other applications to invade the enterprise.

"Our message to IT professionals is ‘yes, you can,’" said René Bonvanie, vice president of worldwide marketing, Palo Alto Networks. "Yes, you can safely enable applications like Facebook in your workplace. Yes, you can reap the rewards of social networking while mitigating the risks. Our next-gen firewall is the great enabler of Enterprise 2.0 apps."

How and Why: Read-Only Facebook
Imagine a manufacturing organization where certain members of the marketing group have "read-only" access to Facebook to monitor a competitor’s social marketing efforts - without being able to post personal status updates or comment on friends’ updates. The corporate communications team might have full use of Facebook, including applications and chat, in order to communicate with journalists. The legal team may have no access to Facebook, while the human resources (HR) staff has complete access but only between 12:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m.

In fact, organizations can get extremely granular by enabling or disabling discrete Facebook functions:
  • Base access to Facebook
  • Facebook posting
  • Facebook chat
  • Facebook mail (messages)
  • Facebook apps
  • Facebook Social Plug-ins

All permitted traffic can be scanned for threats or confidentiality. The new "read-only" Facebook functionality is available now at no cost to Palo Alto Networks customers.

Information on more than 1,000 applications that are identified by Palo Alto Networks can be found in Applipedia, part of the company’s Application and Threat Research Center. Visit the online resource to find the latest news, commentary, and discoveries on applications and threats at http://www.paloaltonetworks.com/researchcenter/.

About Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto Networks is the network security company. Its next-generation firewalls enable unprecedented visibility and granular policy control of applications and content - by user, not just IP address - at up to 10Gbps with no performance degradation. Based on patent-pending App-ID technology, Palo Alto Networks firewalls accurately identify and control applications - regardless of port, protocol, evasive tactic or SSL encryption - and scan content to stop threats and prevent data leakage. Enterprises can for the first time embrace Web 2.0 and maintain complete visibility and control, while significantly reducing total cost of ownership through device consolidation. For more information, visit www.paloaltonetworks.com.
Palo Alto Networks Resolves New Facebook Social Plug-ins Privacy Concerns
Enterprises Can Use Next-Generation Firewalls to Safely Enable Facebook for Their Workers

SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 5, 2010 -Palo Alto Networks, the network security company, today announced it has released new functionality that enables enterprises to control Facebook Social Plug-ins, empowering users to continue to embrace Facebook while mitigating any privacy concerns. Facebook users in enterprises are susceptible to having their confidential data shared with third parties because of recent changes at Facebook, which cause behavioral data from its users to be made available unless a user explicitly opts out.

The new default Facebook privacy settings are designed to share private and corporate information with advertisers and other third parties. In enterprises, this policy has major implications, as there is no central way for IT security teams to protect their users from the unknown and - in almost all cases - unwanted privacy impact, which involves the sharing of behavioral and website information with Facebook and its advertising customers.

Palo Alto Networks’ new App-ID allows IT security teams to protect their Facebook users against the undesired data sharing while transparently preserving Facebook functionality and not breaking the functionality of other websites that rely on the Facebook Social Plug-ins.

"This is another example of the safe enablement that customers of Palo Alto Networks can uniquely take advantage of; reaping the benefit of social applications, yet mitigating the risks," said René Bonvanie, vice president of worldwide marketing at Palo Alto Networks. "For example, an organization might want to enable customer service representatives to use Facebook, the chat function and the messages function, but disable Facebook Applications and Social Plug-ins to mitigate productivity and privacy concerns."

The Palo Alto Networks Application and Threat Research Team actively researches applications. Taking input from the market, application developers and customers, the team aggressively maintains App-ID and the nearly 1,000 applications it identifies, adding three to five applications weekly. Palo Alto Networks’ App-ID technology enables a more sophisticated identification than a simple signature, putting decryption, decoders, heuristic analysis, and a rich signature analysis at the team’s disposal. Augmented with detailed information about the application’s use, behavior, and risks, customers can make informed policy decisions regarding applications.

Next Generation Firewall: How it Works for Facebook
Palo Alto Networks combines three identification technologies to provide visibility and control over Facebook-related functionality, users and content:
  • App-ID identifies exactly which Facebook functionality is running on the network, as well as the associated risks, so administrators can deploy comprehensive application usage control policies for inbound and outbound traffic.
  • User-ID integrates with Microsoft Active Directory and LDAP directories to link Facebook use to users and groups - not just IP addresses - for visibility, policy creation, logging and reporting.
  • Content-ID combines a real-time threat prevention engine with a comprehensive URL database to detect and block a wide range of threats, limit unauthorized transfer of files and data, enabling customers to scan permitted Facebook traffic for threats and confidential data.

Information on nearly 1,000 applications that are identified by Palo Alto Networks can be found in Applipedia, part of the company’s Application and Threat Research Center. Visit the online resource to find the latest news, commentary, and discoveries on applications and threats at http://www.paloaltonetworks.com/researchcenter/.

About Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto Networks is the network security company. Its next-generation firewalls enable unprecedented visibility and granular policy control of applications and content - by user, not just IP address - at up to 10Gbps with no performance degradation. Based on patent-pending App-ID technology, Palo Alto Networks firewalls accurately identify and control applications - regardless of port, protocol, evasive tactic or SSL encryption - and scan content to stop threats and prevent data leakage. Enterprises can for the first time embrace Web 2.0 and maintain complete visibility and control, while significantly reducing total cost of ownership through device consolidation. For more information, visit www.paloaltonetworks.com.
Back to the Future
CFO, April 27, 2010

Michael Lehman thought he would be enjoying his retirement by now. The veteran CFO already retired once, in 2002 at age 51, from a 15-year career at Sun Microsystems. Called back to the same role in 2006 when his successor stepped down, Lehman saw the company through peaks and ultimately valleys, helping to sell the technology giant to Oracle in January.
Proofpoint
Swisscom Taps Proofpoint for Cloud Services
06-22-2010 Proofpoint’s SaaS Email Archiving Solution Now Available to Enterprise Customers as Part of New Swisscom Cloud Services Offering
Proofpoint Bolsters Presence in US Government Sector
06-09-2010 Leading email security and compliance vendor appoints Jeff Lake to Vice President, Federal Operations to support government team and drive growth in public sector
SaaS Email Security and Compliance Leader Proofpoint Reports Q1 2010 Results, Achieves 27th Consecutive Quarter of Record Revenue
05-04-2010 Email Archiving Growth, Strong International Traction, Performance in Key Vertical Markets Including Financial Services, Healthcare and Government Sector Drives Revenues to Highest Levels Ever
Proofpoint Positioned in the “Leaders” Quadrant in 2010 Secure Email Gateways Magic Quadrant
04-29-2010 Evaluation Based on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute
Titus Labs and Proofpoint Partner to Deliver Interoperable Email Classification, Email Security and DLP Solutions to Enterprise and Government Customers Worldwide
04-27-2010 COTS interoperability for customers of Titus Labs email and document classification solutions with Proofpoint’s SaaS and on-premises email security, DLP and email archiving solutions