US computer chip giant Intel said Monday that it has completed its $7.68 billion acquisition of computer security firm McAfee. Intel said that with the completion of the deal, McAfee becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel. McAfee will continue to sell security products and services under its own brand. The Santa Clara, California-based Intel,… Continue reading Intel completes McAfee acquisition
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Juniper Introduces Virtualized Security for Private and Public Clouds
Juniper Networks today announced the integration of its new Juniper Networks vGW Virtual Gateway with the Juniper Networks SRX Series Services Gateways to provide a consistent, virtualization-aware solution for private and public cloud deployments. This milestone marks the first step with Juniper’s acquisition of Altor in December 2010 in a multi-phased strategy to combine best-in-class… Continue reading Juniper Introduces Virtualized Security for Private and Public Clouds
Northrop Responds To Federal Agency Needs For Stronger Cloud Security
Northrop Grumman has unveiled a new methodology for strengthening data security in the “cloud” at the recent 6th Annual SANS Institute Cyber Defense Initiative conference. Northrop Grumman introduced its Cyber Architecture Reference Series, an approach to building in strong security measures in the highly vulnerable world of public/private clouds – or hybrid clouds – storage… Continue reading Northrop Responds To Federal Agency Needs For Stronger Cloud Security
Trend Micro Launches Endpoint Protection With OfficeScan 10.5
Trend Micro has announced the industry’s first hypervisor agnostic, virtualization-aware endpoint security offering—Trend Micro OfficeScan 10.5, the company’s endpoint security solution for medium businesses and enterprises. Trend Micro OfficeScan 10.5, which is powered by the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network, an infrastructure of in-the-cloud, correlated, automated, & intelligent threat protection, designed to solve the challenges unique to endpoints today.
NITROX Processor Unveiled with High Performance Security & Compression for Cloud Computing
Single Chip NITROX Family With 16 to 64-Cores Delivers Unmatched Performance With up to 200K SSL Ops/s, 40Gbps Security and 20 Gbps Compression Along With Virtualization and cloud computing While Slashing Power Consumption
Cloud Guard Extends Unified Security to On-Premise Virtualized Networks
Global DataGuard Secures Private Cloud Environments with VMware-Based Unified Enterprise Cloud Security. VMware version of Cloud Guard Unified Enterprise Cloud Security technology for private cloud environments. A customizable, self-contained unified security system.
Sophos and Virtual Computer Form Alliance to Secure Virtual Environments
Virtual Computer’s NxTop® customers now have the option of selecting Sophos Anti-Virus profiles to help proactively safeguard their virtual environment from suspicious activity, viruses, and other malware threats.
The Cloud Security Basics
Cloud computing is one of the most-discussed topics among IT professionals today. And not too long into any conversation about the most highly touted cloud models, software as a service (SaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS) or platform as a service (PaaS)–the talk often turns to cloud security.