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StarLink signed a strategic alliance with the leaders in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection services, Prolexic Technologies to represent Prolexic in the MENA region and provide an additional sales channel for the company’s monitoring and mitigation services. A DDoS attack is an attempt to make a computer resource (i.e. web site, e-mail, voice, or a whole network) unavailable to its intended users. By overwhelming a web site and/or server with data and/or requests, the target system either responds so slowly as to be unusable or crashes completely. The data volumes required to do this are typically achieved by a network of remotely controlled Zombie or botnet [robot network] computers.Read More…

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Almasa Value Distribution, a division of Almasa Holdings announced its appointment as the Exclusive Master Distributor for gateProtect in the Middle East region and it will be responsible for recruiting security-focused partners for gateProtect in the region and is expected to run gateProtect-themed events in the UAE and Saudi Arabia later this year for its channel partners.
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SonicWALL in its eight year of participation at GITEX showcases its SuperMassive E10000 Series of Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFW). With the evolving threats and continued evolution of computing trends, like adoption of virtualization, SaaS, mobility and Web 2.0 applications, SonicWALL’s team of experts will effectively demonstrate its comprehensive portfolio of Next-Generation IT Security solutions to address these burgeoning threats. Read More…

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IBM today announced a definitive agreement to acquire security intelligence software solutions provider Q1 Labs. The move aims to accelerate IBM’s efforts to help clients more intelligently secure their enterprises by applying analytics to correlate information from key security domains and creating security dashboards for their organisations. Following the close of the acquisition, Q1 Labs will join the newly-formed IBM Security Systems division, representing the world’s most comprehensive security portfolio. After the close, IBM intends the new division to be led by Brendan Hannigan, CEO of Q1 Labs. Read More…

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Trend Micro announced its new Partner Programme which is devised to focus on rewarding its channel partners proactivity, driving new business and customer retention, delivering greater rewards and reviewing partners who are underperforming. Trend Micro’s new approach makes it a leaner, agile and more lucrative Partner Programme, in which the vendor delivers simplicity, flexibility and profitability to its partners, in return for a much-boosted set of rewards around profitability. The tiering structure is now a simple Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum arrangement – vastly improved flexibility and vastly reduced administration, plus a far clearer line of accountability to each and every partner.Read More…

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Barracuda announces the expansion of its portfolio of solutions in the Middle East in response to demand for stronger security following a global increase in high profile security attacks. Barracuda Networks’ research scientists have been analysing the latest cyber security threats landscape and will be sharing new research into the latest threats affecting consumers and businesses in the Middle East. Read More…

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Leading value added distributor, ComGuard announced that following the long successful relations with Kaspersky in the Middle East region, now it has bagged the distribution rights for India and Kaspersky has appointed ComGuard as the nationwide enterprise distributor for India. Commenting on extension of relationship with Kaspersky to India Ajay Singh Chauhan, CEO of ComGuard said, “We are happy to expand our relations with Kaspersky beyond Middle East region. We are sure that we will be able to further consolidate our relations with Kaspersky and write a similar success story in India too.”Read More…

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Al Otaiba Communications launched a unique security solution, Sitecom Cloud Security that protects all devices in a home network against cybercrime and online threats when browsing the internet. With internet adoption continuing to rise in the UAE, reaching 75 per cent of the population as of 2010, Sitecom Cloud Security particularly addresses the growing need to protect families against internet threats such as viruses, trojans, worms, spams, spywares, malwares, adwares, phishing and identity theft. Read More…

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Leading IT distributor, Al Hosani Computer in association with Kaspersky announced their special promotion “GITEX Shopper week of Golden Bar Surprises” for this Gitex Shopper’s. The promotion will kickstart at 8th October and will run for a week and during that week anyone who purchases Kaspersky Antivirus 2012 or Kaspersky Internet Security 2012 at Al Hosani Computers stand EL 2-2 at Gitex Shopper or from any of leading retailer like Carrefour, CompuMe , EMax, Geant, HyperPanda, Jacky’s, Jumbo and Sharaf DG will have the chance to enter the lucky draw to win a limited edition of 7 golden bars, worth up to AED 30,000 each.Read More…

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Astaro, a Sophos company and leading Unified Threat Management provider, announced the availability of version 2 of Astaro RED 10 appliance. The new version of the celebrated branch office security hardware appliance offers additional features which make securing remote locations even easier and helps avoid potential lapses in security due to downtime. Astaro RED is the first security solution to offer complete and centrally managed Unified Threat Management and has been recognised as a revolutionary method for securing branch offices. It empowers organisations to connect their remote locations to a central location (headquarters) within minutes and without onsite technical expertise.
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Kaspersky Labs partnered with Emerging Threats Pro, the leading producers a professional grade IDS and IPS ruleset for Snort and Suricata based on and supporting the Emerging Threats open source project. The ruleset focuses on malware and major vulnerabilities, but also provides known bad IP lists and IP/DNS reputation feeds. Kaspersky uses these ruleset for its in-lab internal research work. The cooperation between the two companies entails collaboration on a malware samples exchange and also combined work on extending Emerging Threats Pro ruleset coverage.Read More…

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Leading global information security solutions provider, eScan recently bagged the August 2011 VB100 False Positive Award from UK based Virus Bulletin magazine. The VB100 award is awarded to a anti-virus products which are tested for heuristic and generic detection technology and also whether it meets the basic requirements, both on demand and on access, in its default settings, all malware known to be ‘In the Wild’ at the time of the review, and generates no false positives when scanning a set of clean files. Several other tests are also carried out as part of the comparative review process, including speed measurements, and results and conclusions are included with the review.Read More…