Competitive Daily News

The Tamil Nadu government requires two things from new laptop computers: 1) Readiness to run Linux. 2) Ability to survive being walked on by users. Your editor once had a girlfriend that did that to him as some sort of shiatsu/reiki thing.  Thankfully, her macrobiotic diet had reduced her to a shade over 100 pounds, but nearly 30 years later the editorial back has almost never suffered the pains common to a calcium structure of its age.

Ovum does a very nice job describing the Trend Micro Security Among the Clouds concept.

MSFT
Microsoft tactics push India toward Linux <http://tinyurl.com/5z2p5b>
eWeek - New York, NY
ELCOT says it solicited a bid from Microsoft, proposing to pay $12 for a copy of a Microsoft operating system. However, Microsoft reportedly responded with …

Trend Micro
Trend Micro’s new anti-malware architecture <http://tinyurl.com/6lnbod>
Ovum - London,England,UK
Trend Micro has announced plans for a new kind of anti-malware shield, performing most of the workload ‘in the cloud’ as a managed service. …

Avocent cuts back, despite or because of good times at LANDesk.

Poor Karl. We deeply feel Karl’s pain. Tonight, your editor will have to get the Karls of the world off his mind before he can get a wink of sleep.

A Verdiem blogger all but admits that power management without effective security is pointless.

Avorice
Avocent to cut 5% of its workforce <http://tinyurl.com/5vh6yw>
The Huntsville Times - al.com - Huntsville,AL,USA
… in the higher growth revenue areas within our management systems and LANDesk operations,” said Edwin Harper, Avocent’s chairman and interim CEO. …

Two out of Four Apocalyptic Horsepeople
Tech, GP: Doing things ‘right’ not always best <http://tinyurl.com/5s6p8k>
Oneonta Daily Star - Oneonta,NY,USA
Symantec is probably the most well-known purveyor of security products for your PC. What started out as Norton Anti-Virus has evolved into a Symantec …

Perdiem
The Malware Arms Race as Hidden Ecological Threat <http://tinyurl.com/68uxtj>
By Andrew Cencini(Matt Heinz)
Of course, we offer the SURVEYOR product here at Verdiem for larger organizations to help reduce power consumption, but individual users can also do their part by taking five minutes or less to ensure that their PC power management is …

Somehow, the Symantec approach sounds much more complicated than it has to be.

Even if  enterprises and their end-users leave doors open, gates unlatched, and dirty dishes lying in the sink, how would they know how dire or delightful the situation is?

SYMC
Suite Deal: Symantec’s Answer to Endpoint Management <http://tinyurl.com/5ut9a9>
Enterprise IT Planet - Darien,CT,USA
Symantec says it has the answer and it is looking to rewrite the book on administering end-user systems with the company’s just-released Endpoint Management …

Sophos
Study: Four in Five Business PCs not Fully Secured <http://tinyurl.com/5kgefm>
InternetNews.com - USA
By Andy Patrizio: More stories by this author: Security firm Sophos ran a 40-day test of visiting computers from corporate users, and the results aren’t …

Lots of talk about data loss today. Routine upgrade from Symantec and some suspiciously Utimaco-sympatico industry analysis from Aberdeen. Also a good opportunity to brush up your German, soccer fans.

SYMC
Symantec Updates its Data Loss Software <http://tinyurl.com/4ka97a>
IT infrastructure support firm Symantec has released an updated version of its Vontu Data Loss Prevention software.The new version of the program increases the support given to organizations to prevent the loss of confidential …

Utimaco
Utimaco’s Data Leakage Protection and <http://tinyurl.com/3pjvfv>
Ad-Hoc-News (Pressemitteilung) - Germany
Utimaco’s Data Leakage Protection and Encryption Strategy Validated by Top Analyst FirmFOXBORO, Mass. & OBERURSEL, GermanyMA-UTIMACO Utimaco ‘ The Data …

There’s a whitelist in your future.

SYMC & Bit9
Coming: A Change in Tactics in Malware Battle <http://tinyurl.com/5g4ats> PC World - USA
For example, Symantec, which has been pushing for an industry shift to whitelists since last year, anonymously tracks new applications that appear on PCs …Fi

SYMC, the business, hasn’t done too badly over the last year, but Veritas continues to supply the gravitas keeping the company earth-bound.

SYMC
Symantec Fighting Back, But Higher Growth Still Elusive <http://tinyurl.com/6l6kwn>
CNNMoney.com - USA
… areas such as its Brightmail anti-spam product, compliance tools and new data loss protection tools acquired through its recent acquisition of Vontu. …

IT consumerization? You read about it here first, folks.

Lumension poo-bah gets punked in the reader comments column.

Your editor thinks this kind of publicity is self-defeating. If things are rotten and getting worse, these vendors are only publicizing their own lameness.

SYMC
Consumerization of small business IT <http://tinyurl.com/5jx2vj>
NetworkWorld.com - Southborough,MA,USA
During the Altiris user conference in April, I watched a lunch panel discuss the “consumerization of IT” and whether that’s a good thing. …

Lumension
It’s the end of the Internet as we know it <http://tinyurl.com/62j5vd>
Inquirer - Harrow,England,UK
Andrew Clarke, senior VP at Lumension Security was quick to offer advice which we are sure is totally unbiased by any commercial considerations. …

Sophists
Majority of PCs are at risk <http://tinyurl.com/6g5q7g>
Small Business - Dublin,Ireland
Eighty-one per cent of PCs lack basic security, according to recent research carried out by software and hardware security developer and vendor Sophos. …

No recession here, thank you.

Symantec packs up its troubles in an old kit bag.

Market News
Enterprise software market booms <http://tinyurl.com/68bhp9>
VNUNet.com - UK
Symantec dominates the market, with over 26 per cent market share, with McAfee second with over 11 per cent. “In 2007, the security market did not …

SYMC
IT asset management suite to feature Symantec Endpoint Protection <http://tinyurl.com/5zmrw4>
SearchSecurity.com - Needham,MA,USA
By Colin Steele, News Writer Symantec next week will announce Symantec Endpoint Management Suite 1.0, a new software offering that will provide IT asset …

Another discussion of the Forrester Wave (DON’T call it a Quadrant) report on DLP, with the added bonus of the report embedded in the article. Just click, and it’s yours.

New HP BTO software rumbles out of The Garage.

An embarrassing stumble on the road to the June 2008 Patch Tuesday.

Your editor read the last article and thinks there must be much simpler ways to solve this problem than described here.

DLP Segment
Data Leak Prevention - Forrester Wave <http://tinyurl.com/5g47qq>
By wrrobinson
RSA Security stands out for its integrated vision and leading discovery capabilities, while Vericept rounds out the Leader class of 2008 because of its very balanced DLP coverage and strong analysis features. …

HP
HP Introduces New Software to Automate Business Service Changes … <http://tinyurl.com/4dwvfd>
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
LAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–HP (NYSE:HPQ) today announced new Business Technology Optimization (BTO) software and Software-as-a-Service offerings to help IT …

MSFT
Microsoft advises admins on June patch problem <http://tinyurl.com/69gxgt>
SC Magazine US - USA
The issue only affects System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) 2007, a Microsoft solution to distribute patches across across the corporate …

Mobile Asset Discovery
Detecting rogue mobile devices on your network <http://tinyurl.com/64d7vf>
Search Security - Australia
“If you are running SMS or LANDesk or something similar, you can easily take this kind of desktop inventory,” he said. But don’t stop there. …

A recap of a recent Bloor Research tour d’horizon of the endpoint protection racket.

Cracking the full disk encryption code.

Forrester publishes a DLP racing from.

Trouble at McAfee.

Symantec reaffirms support for benchmarking efforts that rate them highly.

Endpoint Protection
Endpoint Data Protection: Potentially Helpful, Definitely Confusing <http://tinyurl.com/6dp6l5>
IT Business Edge - Louisville,KY,USA
They include PGP, GuardianEdge, Credent, Checkpoint, Lumension, Vontu, McAfee, Utimaco, Symantec, BeCrypt, Microsoft, BigFix, Centennial, Entrust, GFI, DES, …

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Full Disk Encryption isn’t FDE anymore <http://tinyurl.com/5eg6hz>
CNET News - San Francisco,CA,USA
McAfee/SafeBoot bundles in Data Leakage Prevention (DLP); PointSec adds port blocking, etc. The bottom line is that FDE alone isn’t cutting it anymore; …

DLP
Websense, Reconnex top Forrester ranking of DLP vendors <http://tinyurl.com/5djure>
SearchSecurity.com - Needham,MA,USA
It was the second major vendor to jump into the DLP market by acquiring Vontu last year for $350 million. Symantec is also partnering with GuardianEdge for …

MFE
McAfee Launches Internal Probe Of Israeli Unit <http://tinyurl.com/5u9m64>
Trading Markets (press release) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
A McAfee spokesman also confirmed the resignation of the company’s Middle East regional director Patrick Hayati. According to a Globes story the internal …

SYMC
Symantec pledges support to under-fire malware tests <http://tinyurl.com/5tpyj5>
SC Magazine UK - London,England,UK
Symantec has pledged its support to under-fire anti-malware tests, the VB100, in complete contrast to the accusations cast by its deadly rival Trend Micro. …