PC Security Journal

Research and Markets has announced the addition of Frost & Sullivan's new report "Asia Pacific (including Japan) Web Application Firewall Market CY2010" to their offering. This research service analyzes the Web application firewall (WAF) as a security technology, either hardware or software that sits before the Web server and analyzes layer 7 traffic (a whole session, not packets) to protect applications from attacks aimed at exploiting vulnerabilities found in the applications. The Web Application Firewall (WAF) market registered a robust growth of 28.4 percent growth on a year on year basis in 2010, reaching a total market size of $60.2 million in Asia Pacific. Explosion of Web 2.0 Technologies Triggers Growth in the Asia Pacific Web Application Firewall Market The Asia Pacific Web application firewall (WAF) market is expected to hit a strong compound annual grow... (more)

Kaspersky Lab enhances deal registration program

Partners to benefit from additional margin of up to 24 per cent Abingdon, UK, 10 August 2011 - Kaspersky Lab has launched a deal registration promotion, where partners can receive up to 24 percent margin on deals for 250 - 999 seats. The additional 10 per cent[1] is available for deal registrations submitted and accepted by 30 September 2011. "This promotion forms part of a key strategy to further support our channel partners," said Andrew Lintell, Corporate Sales Director, Kaspersky Lab. "We recognise that there is an increasing need for vendors to differentiate themselves in th... (more)

Fourteen Things I Learned At the Mobile Enterprise Summit

By Eric Lai Tech market researcher GigaOM Pro and mobile vendor Appconomy held the first Mobile Enterprise Summit on the new campus of UC San Francisco earlier today. The speakers, an impressive selection of this small but growing community (remember, it was enterprise-only), had some insights and quotes that should interest developers and IT users alike. 1.Mobile is “about bringing everything back that was personal about the PC,” opined Steve Papermaster, chairman and co-CEO of Appconomy. Papermaster wasn’t super-clear explaining what he meant by that quote, but looking at h... (more)

Intercloud: Are You Moving Applications or Architectures?

The former is easy. The latter? Not so much. In the many, many – really, many – posts I’ve penned regarding cloud computing , and in particular the notion of Intercloud, I’ve struggled to come up with a way to simply articulate the problem inherent in current migratory and, for that matter, interoperability models. Recently I found the word I had long been groping for: architecture. Efforts from various working groups, standards bodies and even individual vendors still remain focused on an application; a packaged up application with a sprinkling of meta-data designed to make a mi... (more)

Window Coverings and Security

Note: While talking about this post with Lori during a break, it occurred to me that you might be thinking I meant “MS Windows”. Not this time, but that gives me another blog idea… And I’ll sneak in the windows –> Windows simile somewhere, no doubt. Did you ever ponder the history of simple things like windows? Really? They evolved from open spaces to highly complex triple-paned, UV resistant, crank operated monstrosities. And yet they serve basically the same purpose today that they did when they were just openings in a wall. Early windows were for ventilation and were only rea... (more)