Author: Andrew Hay
AVG lands veteran COO with strong international experience
Freemium endpoint security vendor AVG Technologies has announced the appointment of John Giamatteo as COO, reporting directly to JR Smith, CEO. Giamatteo replaces Clent Richardson who, according to AVG, decided to leave the company roughly two months ago, citing personal reasons, although Richardson did agree to stay onboard to help with the transition.
Coalfire begins Navis-gating the underserved ‘GRC lite’ sector
Founded in 2001, Louisville, Colorado-based Coalfire Systems has evolved past its IT audit and compliance consulting roots to introduce a new services-led IT governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) platform for the PCI Data Security Standard, Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, HIPAA/HITECH, NERC CIP, Sarbanes-Oxley and FISMA-regulated industries. Called Coalfire Navis, the Web-based portal aims to provide all of the testing, documentation, reporting and technical support that organizations need to effectively maintain their compliance initiatives.
Secunia challenges the old guard with its take on vulnerability management
Copenhagen, Denmark-based Secunia is one of a handful of Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) security vendors with an international footprint, solid customer base and an active user community – the list becomes even smaller when we begin identifying vulnerability management players in the region. The company’s flagship product, the Secunia Corporate Software Inspector (CSI), is an authenticated internal vulnerability scanner that claims to be capable of assessing the security state of practically all programs that run on either Microsoft Windows and Macintosh systems.