As organizations continue to digitize content in the current business environment, there is substantial need to emphasize the rights on its usage and establish control to avoid any loss of data. This need is expects to have a huge bearing on the enterprise digital rights management (DRM) systems market...

Juniper Networks has announced the creation of the internet protocol TV and Multiplay Initiative, an ongoing program designed to enable providers to more rapidly and cost-effectively deploy IPTV and multiplay service offerings...

The Asia Pacific market has seen a tremendous growth in information technology market in the last one decade. The establishment of new IT organisations naturally led to growth in enterprise IT sector too. Among all, one of the most important...

Thirty-five percent of the packaged software installed on personal computers worldwide in 2005 was illegal, amounting to USD 34 billion in global losses due to software piracy, research firm IDC reported. According to the study commissioned for the Business Software Alliance...

Governments across Europe are increasingly seeking means of improving citizens’s safety and security while safeguarding civil liberties to protect against the ever-present threat of terrorism. Adopting biometrics is one trend that Europe has in recent years resorted to solve such security threats...

Unisys has submitted policy proposals, which the company claims is designed to help create global standards and practices for identity authentication and credentialing. The proposals have been submitted to delegates attending the 15th World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT 2006) in Singapore...

The recent absence of high-profile malware attacks and their corresponding alerts does not mean the Internet has suddenly become safer. Rather, it marks a change in the overall threat landscape, according to Trend Micro. High-profile malware attacks have changed course as targeted attacks...

Macintosh platform vulnerability discovery rates have increased by 228 percent in the past three years alone, from 45 found in 2003 to 143 in 2005, according to key findings released by from McAfee Avert Labs. "Many believe that using an Apple operating system is a form of security in itself...

Three more security vulnerabilities have been disclosed for the month of April, in a report by Symantec. The notable vulnerabilities of the month include one in the Oracle Database Export Component, one in Mozilla Firefox, and one in Microsoft Internet Explorer...

The IT threat environment is much more sinister, in which the majority of externally originated attacks are not just criminal in nature, but targeted and intentional, revlealed a report by IT research firm, Burton group. It said this combined with compliance, software consolidation...

Failure to address IT business risk can jeopardise business outcomes, and it outlines potential blind spots for Chief Information Officers and IT leaders worldwide, said Mercury Interactive Corp. in a survey report produced in cooperation with the Economist Intelligence...

Most internet users are attracted with clean appealing graphics and advertisements, thus falling in the trap of spyware. According to a Spyware Quiz conducted by McAfee SiteAdvisor a staggering 97 percent of Internet users are just one click away from infecting their PCs with spyware, adware...

The use of stealth technologies to conceal both malware and commercially viable Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUPs) is on the rise, according to research study results published by McAfee. The findings also suggest that online collaboration sites and blogs contribute to the increased proliferation and complexity of rootkits...

Thailand-based mobile software company Vervata has rolled out an application, FlexiSpy, for Symbian mobile phones to capture call logs, text messages and mobile Internet activity. Vervata advertises the software as a tool to monitor kids and unfaithful...

Nearly 60 percent of U.S. businesses believe that cybercrime is more costly to them than physical crime, reports a recent IBM survey of companies in the healthcare, financial, retail and manufacturing industries. The costs resulting from cybercrime, these businesses report...

Symantec Corp. has released its ninth volume of its semiannual Internet Security Threat Report, covering the six-month period from July 1, 2005 to Dec. 31, 2005. The report marks an increase in threats designed to facilitate cybercrime. While past attacks were designed to destroy data...

Research firm Gartner, Inc. has placed McAfee in the leader quadrant in its "Magic Quadrant for Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), 2H05", as published on 30 November 2005. Gartner's research examined the security infrastructure products and services of leading vendors in the intrusion detection and prevention marketplace...

Computer Associates unveiled its eTrust Anti-Spam, the most recent addition to CA's eTrust PC security portfolio, which also includes enterprise-strength antivirus, anti-spyware and firewall software for consumers. According to a recent IDC report, spam messages sent daily worldwide have jumped from seven billion in 2002 to 23 billion in 2004...

Check Point Software and SofaWare Technologies Ltd., a Check Point company, have unveiled a
major upgrade to the Security Management Portal (SMP), a network security management system designed for service providers deploying the
company's award-winning Safe@Office and VPN-1 Edge Internet security solutions...

Forum Systems and Computer Associates International have joined hands to offer the industry's first XML Antivirus solution. Forum Systems has integrated CA's award-winning eTrust* Antivirus software with the Forum XWall* Web Services Firewall, bringing industrial-strength protection against today's viruses, worms...