Brian Prince

Trend Micro and Provilla; Symantec and Vontu; Cisco and IronPort—the list of acquisitions this year in the data loss prevention space keeps growing longer. But some market-watchers speculate the buying spree may soon slow down. “The race is definitely on among larger security vendors to add content and behavior monitoring and data leakage protection technologies […]

Compliance is driving a boom in the data audit market and designing the tools of the trade. A recent Forrester report, “The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Database Auditing and Real-Time Protection, Q4 2007,” estimates the value of the database auditing and real-time protection market—including new licenses, support and services—to be $450 million, and predicts that number […]

Advocates of PostgreSQL say the open-source database is continuing to slowly win converts even as it remains in the shadow of the more widely used MySQL. PostgreSQL has come a long way technically since its inception in the 1980s, when it was known as Postgres. Today it remains sufficiently modern and relevant to developers, and […]

Now that Symantec has snatched up Vontu, the software giant is planning to bring data loss prevention to more than just large enterprises. In a call with members of the media Nov. 6, Ken Schneider, chief technology officer of Symantec’s Security and Data Management Group, said the company plans to broaden adoption of DLP technology […]

Mu Security released a new version of its flagship appliance to help enterprises strengthen testing and share analysis templates throughout their organization. Version 3 of the Mu-4000 Security Analyzer includes Sharable Analysis Templates, a new feature that helps organizations propagate best practices for system testing throughout an enterprise. Typically, only a small, specialized incident response […]

After weeks of rumors, Symantec finally announced that it plans to acquire Vontu for $350 million. Symantec’s move to buy up the San Francisco-based data loss prevention specialist comes after a busy month in the DLP space. Security rivals McAfee and Trend Micro both made moves of their own, with McAfee announcing plans to buy […]

Cisco Systems is making a major play for the access policy management market with the acquisition of Securent, but several analysts are questioning whether the merger will result in acrimony or marital bliss. The acquisition, valued at about $100 million, gives Cisco the capability to allow customers to audit and enforce access policies to applications, […]

IBM has launched a new program Nov. 1 for companies pursuing compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard in conjunction with a sweeping data security standard. The comprehensive program is designed to take companies through the entire PCI (Payment Card Industry) compliance process, from assessment to compliance to certification, to help them meet […]

IBM touched off a major push for security that will include spending $1.5 billion on security-related efforts in 2008 to help businesses protect data and manage risk. Company officials said the money will be spent on developing security products and services as part of a strategy to make IBM a more prominent player in the […]

McAfee announced Oct. 30 that it will acquire ScanAlert to attack Web site security from both ends with ScanAlerts Hacker Safe service and its own SiteAdvisor rating system. With its eye on securing e-commerce, McAfee is set to integrate ScanAlert, of Napa, Calif., into its security strategy. ScanAlert audits and certifies the security of more […]