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DragonSoft leading Vulnerability scanner software provider from Taiwan entered the Egyptian market with the appointment of , MOVE-IT as its authorised distribution partner for its products in the Egyptian market. DragonSoft expects its tie-up with MOVE-IT will help to corner a large marketshare in the fast growing computer audit software market. With DragonSoft onboard its portfolio, MOVE-IT plans to expand agressively its services in the data and network security to include not only consultancy but also a security assessment and vulnerability management service.

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Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions is the UAE consumers’ most popular anti malware brand dominating the country’s retail sales with an overall market share of 37 per cent by value and 38 per cent by volume according to the latest IDC report about AMS retail channel in UAE, KSA, Egypt and Pakistan.

According to the same report, a total of 900,000 anti virus products with an estimated value of USD$ 6 million were sold across UAE retail stores in 2009. To make a comparison, Saudi Arabia’s AMS retail channel market during the same period was worth USD$ 4 million on a 600,000 unit volume. In Egypt, the most populous market in the Middle East, the total value of the market is estimated at USD$ 1.5.Read More…

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The new firmware released from SonicWALL introduces High Availability and Layer-7 Load Balancing, providing customers’ remote access availability while allowing for flexible, fast growth. While accessible on a broad range of devices, smartphone users running Google Android, Apple iOS 4, Windows Mobile and Symbian operating systems will also benefit via SonicWALL’s reverse proxy and ActiveSync offerings. Available immediately, SonicWALL SSL VPN 5.0 dramatically increases uptime and scalability, reliability and security to a company’s corporate network.Read More…

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SonicWALL, Inc. a leading provider of intelligent network security and data protection solutions, successfully concluded its Middle East and Africa channel partner event in Dubai, attended by over 100 partners from the region.
At the conference, SonicWALL demonstrate its recently launched SonicOS 5.8 for its Next-Generation Firewall product lines. Recognizing the constantly expanding volume, frequency and sophistication of malware threats, SonicWALL’s Next-Generation Firewalls utilize extra-firewall intelligence including the SonicWALL Global Response Intelligent Defense (GRID) Network enabling real-time threat adaptability and mitigation of over 3.7 million and growing threats.Read More…

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SafeNet, a global provider of information security, has teamed with NetApp, an innovative storage and data management solutions provider, to offer a new approach to storage security solutions. This collaboration will provide customers with the ability to manage and protect their on-premise, cloud-based and virtualised data storage in a highly secure manner. According to a Gartner report, concerns about data location, data loss, and data security (privacy) are three of the top five barriers to cloud-computing adoption.
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According to new research commissioned by Brocade wherein 76% of 600 CIO’s surveyed from EMEA region believed that IT consolidation is key for their enterprises and they are are looking to consolidate their existing IT infrastructure in the next 12 months. Apart from IT consolidation the other two key areas of focus would be virtualisation and security. The study revealed that the CIOs expect tomorrow’s corporate networks to fulfill a wide range of sometimes-conflicting demands. They want unprecedented scalability but reduced management complexity (61 percent). Read More…