Maggie Roth

HERNDON, VA – August 23, 2010 – NetWitness Corporation, the world leader in real-time network forensics and next generation network security monitoring, today announced the availability of its Series 3 appliance platforms. Designed to meet expanding operational use cases and provide a pathway for growth, the new Series 3 appliance offerings include expanded portable and branch office platforms, as well as the doubling of on-board disk storage of up to 24TB, doubling of processors of up to eight cores, and quadrupling RAM up to 128GB in its high-density 2U form factor. “We have seen a dramatic evolution in the types and variety of deployments over the last twelve months,” said Brian Girardi, Director of Product Management for NetWitness. “As our client base continues to expand and the deployment of next generation security monitoring becomes more pervasive, we recogn... (more)

Stuxnet Is the Tip of the SCADA Exploit Iceberg

NitroSecurity, Inc., the leader in high-performance, content-aware security information and event management solutions (SIEM), today issued guidance for critical infrastructure providers in the wake of the Windows Shell vulnerability (CVE-2010-2568) and the Stuxnet Trojan that initially targeted Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems from Siemens Corporation. Much has been made of the vulnerabilities in Windows software and hard-coded passwords in Siemens software that opened a door for infection of systems that in some cases are directly responsible for operat... (more)

Xiotech Sets VDI Cost-Per-User Benchmark at $25 and “ISEs” Competition Across All Metrics

Xiotech Corporation, the leader in Intelligent Application Storage, today issued a challenge to the industry around performance and administration of Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDI) and also announced a new benchmark for VDI cost per user at $25 annually – a predictable, linear cost based on the unparalleled performance, capacity and reliability of ISE storage blades.   With VDI adoption challenged by escalating infrastructure costs, unpredictable performance and lengthy provisioning, most competing storage systems depend on over-provisioning and overly optimistic technolog... (more)

Sophos Appoints Nick Bray as CFO

IT security and data protection firm Sophos announced the appointment of Nick Bray to the role of chief financial officer. Bray is joining Sophos from Micro Focus plc (Global $1.70bn FSTE 200 Company), where he has been their Group CFO for the past four years. Based in our UK headquarters near Oxford, Bray will be reporting directly into Sophos CEO Steve Munford. Bray brings a wealth of expertise to Sophos, having worked in the technology sector for 16 years, spent 11 years as a plc board member, and successfully completed eight company acquisitions. Having extensive experience wi... (more)

NitroSecurity Awarded DOD Unified Capabilities Approved Products List

NitroSecurity, Inc., the leader in high-performance, content-aware security information and event management solutions (SIEM), today announced that the company's NitroView product family is the first certified SIEM and standalone IPS solution on the DOD Unified Capabilities Approved Products List (UC APL).  As a result of this wide-reaching certification, NitroView is now approved for procurement across the entire Department of Defense (DOD), thereby alleviating the requirement for certification by individual DOD branches. With Defense Secretary Gates pursuing an aggressive init... (more)