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| Guidance Software Acquires Assets of Forensic Hardware Leader Tableau LLC |
 Posted by SecExtra on May 20th, 2010
Guidance Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: GUID) has announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of Tableau, LLC, a privately held developer and manufacturer of computer forensic hardware. This acquisition extends Guidance Software’s existing leadership in computer forensics technology by combining software with hardware for a complete forensic framework for the law enforcement, legal and corporate communities.
The purchase price for this transaction was $12.3 million in cash. The assets of Tableau include cash of $1.6 million. Guidance Software expects this transaction to increase previous revenue guidance by $3 million and be $0.03 accretive to its …
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| IT security for Car Dealerships: Free Guide |
Posted by SecExtra on May 17th, 2010
Car dealerships, like so many businesses, are increasing the amount of business-related activities they carry out online, from checking inventory and ordering new parts, to communicating with customers and downloading manuals.
A new guide – IT Security for Car Dealerships – released today by managed security firm Network Box, provides guidelines for car dealerships to follow to protect their IT networks from security threats.
The guide is free to download from Network Box’s website, and is designed to help car dealerships understand the unique risks that they face (such as keeping the network secure when it is constantly connected to …
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| Engate Technology Awarded Two New Patents for Preemptive Connection-level Botnet and Email Security |
Posted by SecExtra on May 15th, 2010
Engate Technology Corporation, leaders in advanced reputation network profiling technology and proactive botnet, phish, virus and email security solutions, today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has approved the issuance of two new patents which cover methods for monitoring the SMTP/TCP/IP conversation between a sending message transfer agent and a receiving message transfer agent to determine the legitimacy of a message.
The two additional patents strengthen Engate’s intellectual property portfolio and provide the company with ownership of key innovations that address critical email security needs of enterprises, service providers and technology OEMs.
The two issued U.S. patents build on Engate’s …
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| InfoSecurity Russia. StorageExpo. Documation’2010: Russian Union of IT Directors Invites IT Specialists to Participate |
Posted by SecExtra on May 09th, 2010
The Russian Union of IT Directors, uniting 17 IT clubs of the country, which comprise over one thousand and half of specialists, is an initiator, co-organizer and regular participant of various professional events dedicated to the problems of information and communications technologies.
Thus, this March the Russian Union of IT Directors along with Trans-Regional non-governmental organization “Association for Information Protection”, supported by Security Council of the Russian Federation and Institute of Contemporary Development, has conducted a roundtable “Electronic Work Flow in Russia: Aims, Problems and Tasks.”
The Union has also taken part in the 25-th Hannover IT Exhibition …
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| InfoSecurity Russia. StorageExpo. Documation’2010 Gains Support of Russian Hotel Association |
Posted by SecExtra on May 05th, 2010
The participants, guests and organizers of the 7th International Exhibition “InfoSecurity Russia. StorageExpo. Documation’2010” keep receiving salutations from the state bodies, professional associations and unions interested in the efficiency of the event InfoSecurity Russia. The Russian Hotel Association, comprising over 600 hotels, and other accommodation facilities have also given their support to the Exhibition.
According to Gennady Lamshin – the Association President – the issues of main concern for hotel owners and top managers in Russia today have shifted towards the tasks of creating storage and processing data centres, implementing electronic reservation, electronic document flow and electronic payment systems, as well …
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