Category: The 451 Group

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.

Trend Micro releases Deep Security 8.0; adds physical, virtual and cloud controls

Trend Micro Deep Security 8.0, a product evolved from the acquisition of Canadian host intrusion-prevention system (HIPS) vendor Third Brigade in April 2009, is the company’s latest revision of its server security platform – comprising antimalware, firewall, IDS/IPS, Web application protection, integrity monitoring and log inspection in one integrated solution. Trend Micro has spent quite a bit of time on its endpoint portfolio and has updated the product with a handful of new capabilities aimed at increasing security for physical, virtual and cloud servers in addition to ensuring that Deep Security meets Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 4 (EAL 4+) certification.

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