Basingstoke, 2nd December 2009 - Research just released by a major IT distributor, claiming to show that just 62 per cent of UK organisations were able to monitor when users copied or moved data from their firm's IT resource onto portable devices, comes as no surprise, says Origin Storage.

"The study claims that around 35 per cent of interviewees noted that their firms were also unable to track how data was being saved to a mobile device," said Andy Cordial, managing director of the storage systems integration specialist.

"Whilst it's interesting note that a sizeable number of organisations have some sort of solution in place to ensure lost or stolen portable devices do not present any risk to the company if they were to fall into the wrong hands, it's clear these guys haven't heard of the latest secure data storage technology," he added.

 Yet, 90% Still Plan to Undertake Christmas Shopping Online

Reading – December 1st, 2009 – Sunbelt Software, the provider of Windows security software, today announced the results of its annual online shopping survey which reveal that while more than half (56 percent) of consumers have security concerns about using credit and debit cards online, more than 90 percent will still do so this Christmas. In fact, despite security concerns, more than 60 percent of all respondents will be doing more online shopping this holiday season than in 2008.

In recent years, the Christmas shopping season has become synonymous with an increase in cyber crime. Cyber criminals take advantage of increased online consumer activity in a number of ways, from creating fake shopping sites to tricking consumers into clicking on infected Web links with the promise of exclusive online savings or a Christmas themed e-card.

 1 December ‘09 - Media reports that a USB stick containing `restricted' information on naval manoeuvres and staff across the UK may force the Government into implementing new security practices, predicts Credant Technologies.

 “With high capacity USB sticks, capable of storing more data than a DVD, on sale in high street outlets for less than ten pounds, it's clear that the data genie is now well and truly out of the bottle," said Sean Glynn, product manager with the endpoint security specialist.

 "It's against this backdrop that we think it's time for the Government to move on from its best practice approach for its many Departments and Agencies on IT security, and make encryption of all private data mandatory," he added.

 According to Glynn, with technologies capable of encrypting data – at rest or on the move - in real time, and on a simple desktop or laptop PC, as well as smartphones and other portable devices, the argument that there is no longer a need for this level of security does not apply.

Media Giant’s Trusted Security Partner Ranks Tufin As Best in Class for Policy Analysis, Rule Clean up and Optimization; Deployment Significantly Reduces Firewall Management Burden

London, November 27th November 2009October 12, 2009 - Tufin Technologies, the leading provider of Security Lifecycle Management solutions and Nebulas Solutions Group today announced Virgin Media, as a joint customer. As part of an overall network infrastructure improvement program  Virgin Media turned to Nebulas Solutions Group to source a more resilient, efficient firewall infrastructure.  Knowing that bloated rule bases are a major source of inefficiencies Nebulas underwent a rigorous evaluation process and selected Tufin SecureTrack, to identify obsolete, redundant and unnecessary firewall rules.