ntl:Telewest Business Partners with CRYPTOCard to Deliver Managed Security

As ‘cloud-computing’ continues to gather momentum to meet the needs of distributed organisations and mobile workforces, so the need for secure identity and access management solutions have become paramount.

Oxford, United Kingdom, 21^st January 2009 – Secerno, the technology leader in data security, today announces a partnership with QinetiQ, the leading international defence and security technology company, to offer active database control as a managed service to government departments and defence companies. The partnership will see QinetiQ market Secerno products to provide protection against threats that cause data to be lost or compromised.

QinetiQ will enhance its current database monitoring and analysis activities with Secerno DataWall ™ which identifies every attack, leak, threat and accidental misuse of data. The technology will also allow QinetiQ to offer database policy enforcement, compliance and auditing by accurately logging, alerting, substituting or blocking every query on its way to the database without blocking legitimate business transactions.

 London - Data leakage and data loss is at an all time high.  It could be blamed on the ever-popular USB or memory stick which most people now use to download and transport large amounts of sensitive data.  So it’s no surprise to find in a survey released today by data security experts Credant Technologies that in the last year, 9000 USB sticks have been forgotten in people’s pockets as they take their clothes to be washed at the local dry cleaners.

The survey was carried out across the UK, to gauge the frequency and ease with which mobile devices such as USB and memory sticks are lost or forgotten in strange places such as dry cleaners and also as a warning to people to be vigilant when downloading information to carry around with them as it does frequently get lost.  A similar survey was conducted by Credant Technologies last September amongst taxi drivers in London, which showed that 6,193 handheld devices such as laptops, iPods and memory sticks are forgotten at the back of taxis every 6 months!

Finjan’s Web Security survey finds that enterprises increase their IT security budgets for 2009 while their overall IT budgets tend to be reduced

 Farnborough, United Kingdom, 12^th January 2009 - Finjan Inc., a leading provider of secure web gateway solutions for the enterprise market, today announced the findings of its IT security survey conducted during December 2008. In light of the economic downturn and rising cybercrime attacks as indicated in Finjan’s Web Security Trends Report Q4 2008, Finjan conducted an online survey among 200 IT and security professionals. The survey focused on determining the trends for allocating IT budgets in 2009 compared to 2008.