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Loop Technology Managing Director, Adam Davenport, along with Managing Consultant, Louis Rabon, both attended the recent 2012 RSA Security Conference in San Francisco.
Australian premier sporting organisation Tennis Australia secures critical country-wide network with Loop Technology and Palo Alto Networks.
In the first half of 2011, NSS Labs performed extensive testing of 6 of the most widely deployed enterprise network firewalls in the market. The testing was focused on traditional port-based firewall features and excluded any review of next-generation firewall capabilities. Products were evaluated in terms of security effectiveness, performance, stability, and total cost of ownership.
Gartner states "RSA SecurID compromise is of concern, but not likely a fatal flaw."
As previously reported, a recent attack on RSA’s systems resulted in certain information being extracted related to RSA SecurID® authentication products. This note is being provided in order to help customers further assess their risk and prioritize their remediation steps as necessary in relation to this event.
RSA, the security division of EMC have just announced that a recent attack on RSA’s systems has resulted in certain information being extracted from RSA’s systems that relates to RSA’s SecurID two-factor authentication products.
Do your users want to access email on their smartphones and tablets? Do they want to connect their personal devices to the work network? How can you say yes to this explosion of mobile devices while maintaining security and compliance?
Demand for outsourced cloud security services is growing exponentially and organisations are faced with the difficult decision of selecting the right service provider that will best meet their needs. Some key considerations for any organisation looking to outsource security services to the cloud are
Mobile applications are all the rage at the minute, but has anybody thought about where the applications come from? These applications provide convenient access to email, bank and credit card data, personally identifiable information and travel itineraries which not only expose the individual but the enterprise to new types of security threats which are only emerging now.
Amendments to Austalian privacy legislation are to be debated mid next year. The Senate has issued a draft of privacy principles for Australia, which will affect those organisations who currently outsource their data to cloud providers hosted overseas, as well as international cloud service providers.
The Stuxnet worm is a newly discovered piece of sophisticated malware that presents a dangerous threat to the nature of cyber attacks, proving infrastructure can now be directly targeted. Arrests have recently been made in Iran where a nuclear power plant was infected by the worm. The discovery of the worm has opened a new chapter in the ongoing saga of malware and what it means to our globally-connected world.
Loop Technology sponsored the McAfee Focus 2010 event held in Melbourne and Sydney this September. Latest industry trends were uncovered by the McAfee CTO (George Kurtz) and CEO (Dave De Walt) as the future vision and strategy was demystified.
Loop Technology recently held "The Future Of Information Security 2010" event this September in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. The seminars uncovered how you can achieve maximum visibility over your network using Palo Alto Networks innovative Next Generation firewall technology.
Loop Technology presents the Q3 installment of our newsletter covering issues such as Managed Services, how to gain maximum network visibility and Web 2.0 in the work place.
Leading technology company NEC addresses security compliance with Loop Technology and RSA enVision®
The team at Loop ran in the annual City to Surf fun run event this year. The "Loopies" posted some great times on a fantastic day in Sydney which saw Clair Bellenger and Ryan Wood take out the titles.
Loop Technology held an exclusive luncheon at ARIA restaurant to demystify the APRA PPG234 guide.
In every organisation, regardless of security technology in place, there are still the risks associated with the people who interact with your information and IT systems. Employees however should be empowered and educated about technology risks in order to become the first line of defence against security threats.
Technology Manager Michael Aboltins was the first at Loop with an iPad. He reviews his new toy and ponders whether they can be utilised within businesses, and if so, are they secure?
Research report outlining the impact of social media and Web 2.0 on today’s workplace with one in five people saying they would turn down a job offer that restricts social media access at work.
Loop Technology was again a sponsor of APAC's premier IT Security conference and uncovered what the trends and major discussion points were at this year's conference on the Gold Coast.
Loop partner Clearswift has unveiled new research outlining the latest business adoption of social media. The global report shows a startling change compared to three years ago.
Gartner has recently released their 2010 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Network Firewalls, where Loop Technology partner Palo Alto Networks was named as a Visionary.
Loop Technology Managing Director Adam Davenport was interviewed by Sky Business Technology Report on the Information Security concerns within Australian eHealth Services.
McAfee Security Alliance awarded Loop Technology ANZ Network Security Partner Of The Year for 2009. Loop Technology won the award over other McAfee partners for their new business generated for McAfee Network Security product lines.
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has published a prudential practice guide on the management of security risk in information and information technology by financial institutions supervised by APRA.
Loop Technology's Managing Director Adam Davenport was interviewed by CRN magazine at the RSA Conference in San Francisco this year to discuss trends they have noticed during this year's RSA Conference. Securing the cloud was the major theme this year and two Australian resellers discuss cloud computing within the Australian market.
The pace of cyber attacks on Australian companies is picking up, a new report shows, underscoring the growing risk of financial loss for companies at the hands of hackers.
SonicWALL and Loop Technology are happy to announce the availability of the SSL VPN 4.0 firmware for the SRA 4200, SSL VPN 2000 and SSL VPN 4000 appliances.
Loop Technology has added Palo Alto and Proofpoint to their security offering. Palo Alto Networks delivers the only next-generation firewall that provides policy-based visibility and control over applications, users and threats. Proofpoint’s unified email security, email archiving, data loss prevention and email encryption solutions provide complete protection against both inbound and outbound messaging threats.
This new RSA Security Brief combines the expertise of top technologists in the field of cloud security to help organisations understand how to build trust relationships to link cloud services, protect against fraud and meet new compliance challenges arising in the cloud.
Australia's Internet Industry Association (IIA) has published a draft of an eSecurity Code aimed at protecting citizens from online threats.
The SANS Institute Top Cyber Security Risks report identifies that the two greatest risks were; Client-side software that remains unpatched and Internet-facing web sites that are vulnerable.
This new guide is intended to assist Victorian Public Sector organisations develop policies and procedures for the use of Portable Storage Devices.
Secure Computing Magazine evaluated McAfee's Endpoint Encryption for Mobile solution and concluded that it 'is a very good encryption solution for mobiles'.
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Blue Coat Appoints Venkat Raghavan as Senior Vice President of Research and Development

SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 16, 2012 – Blue Coat Systems, Inc., the technology leader in Web security and WAN optimization solutions, today announced that IBM veteran, Venkat Raghavan has joined as senior vice president of research and development. Venkat brings a 20 year track record of delivering world-class enterprise security products and market-leading innovation to Blue Coat.

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Posted 16/05/2012 11:00:00 PM