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McAfee
McAfee, Inc. Unveils New Consumer Threat Alert Program: A Warning for Consumers about the Most Dangerous Online Threats
McAfee Wins 2010 SC Magazine Awards in Multiple Categories
McAfee, Inc. Launches Vulnerability Detection and Response Group
McAfee, Inc. Executives Recognized as Channel Leaders by Everything Channel's CRN Magazine
McAfee, Inc. to Present Keynote at RSA Conference 2010
Bluecoat
Blue Coat Opens New WebPulse Cloud Defense Data Center in Australia
Blue Coat Maintains Lead in WAN Optimization Market
Blue Coat Helps Establish Quaresso Software
Blue Coat to Demonstrate Secure Web Gateway Solution and Proactive Layers of Defense at RSA Conference
Blue Coat Reports Third Quarter Fiscal 2010 Results
Sonicwall
SonicWALL Wins 2010 SC Magazine Reader Trust Award
Security professionals vote SonicWALL's Universal Management Appliance as Best Policy Management Solution
SonicWALL Identifies Growing Threat of Cybercriminals Attacking New Searches
Over 284 Top Search Terms attacked over the last 7 days with 6600 Malicious URLS; Threat team outlines tips to protect against searching threats
SonicWall to Speak at RSA
Eric Crutchlow to Present 'How to Protect Against Security Threats' on Friday, March 5 at 9 a.m. PST
SonicWALL Combines Virtual Appliance Advantages With Hardened Security oS to Deliver Powerful, Dynamic and Efficient Virtual Security Solutions
SonicWALL Global Management System (GMS), ViewPoint Reporting, Email Security, SSL VPN Appliances Form Foundation for Comprehensive Virtual Appliance Portfolio
SonicWALL Strengthens Enterprise Presence With Suite of New Security Solutions
Advanced Firewall with Application Intelligence and Virtual Security Appliances Are Key Steps Towards Enabling a Vision for a Secure Future
Checkpoint
SC Magazine Reader Trust Award for Best Enterprise Firewall
Security professionals vote Check Point Security Gateway R70 for Best Enterprise Firewall
Check Point and SanDisk Deliver Secure Virtual Workspace
Check Point Abra combines Check Point security and VPN software with SanDisk secure USB drive to turn any PC into a corporate desktop
Check Point Changes the Way Mobile Users Work
Check Point Abra USB stick puts corporate desktops in the pockets of mobile workers
Check Point Launches ZoneAlarm DataLock to Protect Consumers' Private Data from Unauthorized Access
Check Point survey reveals that only 10 percent of laptop users protect their personal data
Check Point's Amnon Bar-Lev Recognized as a 2010 Channel Chief by Everything Channel's CRN
ClearSwift
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
Clearswift creates a Cloud Machine
Clearswift enables its partner community to provide managed security solutions
Clearswift welcomes Blue Coat and former SurfControl customers
Switching customers get new platform agnostic web gateway for the price of maintenance
Clearswift announces global managed services agreement with Oni Communications, a leading Portuguese Communication Solutions Provider
ONI business customers to receive hosted security applications from leading vendor
Clearswift appoints VP, Worldwide Sales to strengthen global sales organisation
Clearswift positioned to further exploit established strategies
Clearswift maintains growth strategy momentum in first quarter
Appliance business records a record quarter, up 50% on Q1 2009
Clearswift appoints PowerBit
Clearswift Catalyst Partner Program delivers the opportunity for growth for all
Sphinx, a fresh start for Clearswift
Clearswift Catalyst Partner Program delivers the opportunity for growth for all.
Palo Alto
Cisco Gaining Mindshare in Security, Says Research Firm
Network World, Feb. 23, 2010

Palo Alto Networks named as one of the most "exciting vendors" in a survey of 259 information security professionals. The survey, conducted by TheInfoPro, is based on interviews with chief information security officers and directors of information technology at large and midsize enterprises in North America and Europe.
Palo Alto Networks Extends Lead with Next-Generation Firewall Software
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 23, 2010 - Palo Alto Networks, the network security company, has extended its technology and market leadership with new next-generation firewall software and a major customer milestone. With its PAN-OS 3.1 software, Palo Alto Networks enables finer-grained control over business and Web 2.0 applications for enterprises and distributed computing environments. The company has surpassed the 1,000 enterprise customer milestone, which includes Fortune 500 organizations such as Constellation Energy, DTE Energy, Qualcomm and Western & Southern Financial Group.

"Palo Alto Networks is at an inflection point in terms of market penetration and growth, as more enterprise companies conclude that they need next-generation firewalls in their network security infrastructure," said René Bonvanie, vice president of worldwide marketing at Palo Alto Networks. "Since we offer the industry’s only next-gen firewall to classify and control applications within the firewall, instead of using clumsy bolt-on functionality, Palo Alto Networks is the clear choice for companies that want to enforce complete network security with the best available price performance."

Control Enterprise 2.0 Risks with PAN-OS 3.1
With or without their company’s acknowledgement, workers increasingly rely upon Enterprise 2.0 applications such as Facebook, SharePoint, Twitter, and other social networking and collaborative applications to help them do their jobs. Despite their benefits, these applications also carry inordinate risk, including data leaks, compliance issues, viruses, exploits, and many more security threats. IT managers can neither block these applications, nor can they blindly allow them to run across their network. IT professionals must safely enable applications by enforcing appropriate usage policies tailored for their workforce.

Next-generation firewalls from Palo Alto Networks combine three identification technologies to provide the necessary visibility and control over applications, users and content. All of the required functionality resides in the firewall, such that a single network device can accurately identify applications, scan content to stop threats and prevent data leakage.

Enhancements to PAN-OS 3.1 software advance Palo Alto Networks’ technology lead with even more visibility and control. New features include:

  • App-ID has a new function-based hierarchy (versus a flat structure) for better control over application enablement. This means organizations can easily enable an application and disable certain functions - like enabling Facebook while disabling Facebook apps. This new hierarchical structure in PAN-OS 3.1 allows more powerful, finer-grained policies that are easier to manage.
  • User-ID now offers pervasive coverage with support for LDAP directories such as eDirectory and OpenLDAP, in addition to Microsoft Active Directory, so IT managers can link application traffic to specific users and groups - not just IP addresses. User-ID also now features an API for integration with other repositories. User-ID is unique in the firewall market in its ability to provide enterprises with both visibility and policy control of users and groups.
  • Content-ID offers even better protection with daily threat signature releases as well as the ability to customize threat signatures for specific applications and vulnerabilities. Additionally, because threat developers continue to exploit the Web 2.0 movement, Palo Alto Networks has added protections against JavaScript and HTML viruses to Content-ID in PAN-OS 3.1. As a result, Content-ID is a more powerful, real-time threat prevention engine that detects and blocks a wide range of threats, limits unauthorized transfer of files and data, and controls non-work related Web surfing.



With these and other improvements, Palo Alto Networks has solidified its position as the only network security vendor with application visibility and control in the firewall, allowing enterprise IT managers to make informed policy decisions that improve their overall security posture. For a complete list of new features in PAN-OS 3.1, please see the company’s data sheet at http://www.paloaltonetworks.com/literature/datasheets/PAN-OS3.1.pdf.

Pricing and Availability
PAN-OS 3.1 will be available in March 2010 as a free update to all customers on maintenance programs with Palo Alto Networks.

Visit the Palo Alto Networks Research Center, the company’s 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.
How to Safely Enable Enterprise 2.0 Applications in the Workplace
eWeek, February 3, 2010

The adoption and usage of Enterprise 2.0 applications in the workplace is growing at astronomical rates. While there is ample proof of the business benefits of their use, there continue to be major security and compliance risks associated with them. It is time for IT executives to demonstrate leadership and set smart policies.
Palo Alto Networks’ Next-Generation Firewall Selected By Qualcomm Incorporated to Mitigate Network Security Threats
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 12, 2010 - Palo Alto Networks, the network security company, has added Qualcomm Incorporated to its growing roster of enterprise customers. After a rigorous product evaluation process, Qualcomm chose Palo Alto Networks’ next-generation firewall to provide network security enforcement and application control.

"As Qualcomm engineers develop some of the world’s most advanced wireless technologies, the sheer volume of data generated places heavy demand on our data center’s network," said Zeeshan Sabir, director of information technology at Qualcomm. "Palo Alto Networks helps us deliver a well-balanced combination of throughput, network security and access control mechanisms without impacting our network performance."

Palo Alto Networks’ next-generation firewall provides policy-based visibility and control over applications, users and content. Using this technology, enterprises can accurately identify 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.

"Palo Alto Networks has fixed the firewall by solving the root security problem: the ability to identify and control applications, users and content," said Larry Link, vice president of worldwide sales at Palo Alto Networks. "We are pleased to be working with Qualcomm on improving their network security and application control."

Next-Generation Firewall: How it Works
Palo Alto Networks combines three identification technologies to provide visibility and control over applications, users and content:

* App-ID identifies exactly which applications are 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 to link network activity to users and groups - not just IP addresses - for application 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, and control non-work related Web surfing.

As a result, IT managers can accurately determine what is running on their network and make informed policy decisions that improve their overall security posture.

The Palo Alto Networks solution is based on an innovative single pass parallel processing (SP3) architecture that simplifies management, streamlines processing, and maximizes performance. The single pass software performs traffic analysis only once across each functional area, including networking, application classification, user classification and threat prevention. The software is tied directly to a parallel processing hardware platform that uses separate processors for each of these functions to maximize throughput and minimize latency.

Visit the Palo Alto Networks Application and Threat Research Center to find the latest news, commentary, and discoveries on applications and threats (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.
Global Carrier Simplifies WAN Security with Next-Generation Firewalls
SearchEnterpriseWAN, December 16, 2009

Wide area network (WAN) operations should include more than security management, but one global telecom operator drowning in thousands of firewall requests for its data centers around the world found little time to do much else. Deploying a group of next-generation firewalls allowed IDT Corp. to decommission dozens of weak legacy firewalls and simplify WAN security management.
Proofpoint
Proofpoint Reports Findings of Email Security Trends Survey Conducted at RSA Conference 2010
03-09-2010 Spear Phishing and Email Encryption Are Hot Topics, Top Email Annoyances Revealed
Proofpoint Updates its Next-Generation Email Security and Privacy Platform with Powerful Data Loss Prevention and Encryption Enhancements, Available for SaaS or Appliance Deployment
03-02-2010 Proofpoint 6.1 Offers Multi-protocol Data Loss Prevention Features, Enhanced DLP Workflow and Reporting, Email Encryption Enhancements and Security and Performance Improvements
University Hospital of Zurich Deploys Proofpoint for Inbound Email Security and Secure File Transfer
02-24-2010 Proofpoint Appliances Provide Comprehensive Email Security and Compliance Solution for 7,000 User Mailboxes
Proofpoint Names FishNet Security ‘North America Partner of the Year’
02-16-2010 Award presented to Gary Fish, CEO of FishNet Security, for the company’s impressive year-on-year revenue growth, including 250 percent growth in Proofpoint sales in the fourth quarter of 2009.
Proofpoint Unveils Advantage Partner Program to Recognize High-Performance Resellers, Improve Ease of Doing Business
01-27-2010 New US and Canada channel strategy provides resellers with sales support, high profit margins, training programs and discounted demonstration systems