• DynTek snaps up Sensible Security Solutions

    Deal gives DynTek a pre-established foothold in the booming Canadian IT security market; SSS a leader in enterprise level security, a perfect match for Dyntek’s mid-market approach

  • GAO criticizes government cybersecurity R&D procedures

    Problems include the failure to define a federal cybersecurity agenda and properly utilize an established coordinating repository; spread out over multiple agencies, R&D requires a stronger coordinating authority

  • CACI announces $230 million in new defense IT contracts

    Deals cover a range of communications and analysis systems; 90 percent are for new projects rather than extensions of earlier ones

  • Imprivata recognized for its single sign-on authentication system

    Company’s OneSign is declared best in show at the 2006 Information Security Decisions Conference held last month in Chicago

  • ECSI wraps up SPR contract and signs a few more

    $8.5 million deal to protect Strategic Petroleum Reserve sites is almost complete; ECSI, a leader in energy infrastructure security, signs with liquid natural gas facilities in Texas and makes a classified agreement with one in South Korea

  • Google pushes federal governent sites to expand searchable content

    As much as 40 percent of government content is unavailable to search users; penetrating the “deep Web” is key; an OMB order requires agency cooperation, but the deadline has passed and Google is lending a hand to get the program back on track

  • BT acquires Counterpane Internet Security

    IT security is a growing problem – and a growing business; BT has many corporate customers, and to offer these customers a more robust managed security service with enhanced auditing and reporting capabilities, it has just acquired a California IT security outsourcing specialist

  • Unisys launches new business security ad campaign

    Targeted at C-level executives, initiative includes a Fortune magazine cover featuring the recipient’s photograph; company hopes to sell IT security and continuity as competitive advantages, not as reactive responses to threats

  • Physical and IT security teams merge

    Guards on patrol are now instructed to keep an eye out for open wireless networks and passwords written on sticky pads; $1.1 billion spent each year on bringing the two cultures together, but problems remain; integrating building and network access an emerging trend

  • The state of U.K. critical infrastructure is not good

    Looking for investment opportunities? Look no farther than the U.K. critical infrastructure; a just-published experts report highlights that many weaknesses that need to be addressed, the many problems that must be resolved

  • New business opportunities in radiation detection technologies

    The North Korea nuclear test, and the inexorable march of Iran toward acquiring nuclear weapons, increase the risks of nuclear weapon proliferation; there are thus many opportunities in developing new radiation detection technologies

  • Security officials worry about Google Earth

    Terrorists may use satellite images to identify targets and plan attacks, experts say; concern is global as Dutch, Russians, and others worry; democratizing Internet spreads access to high resolution photographs; rogue nations the big winners here

  • Attensity partners with IBM

    Companies, both leaders in managing unruly computer files, come together to improve the IBM Information Server; for Attensity, the deal is another success among many; for IBM, a way to attract customers interested in pulling relational information out of unstructured data

  • Serial IT security entrepreneur is at it again

    Phishing, that is, the Internet-based theft of identity, is damaging the economy to the tune of about $46 billion a year; an IT security entrepreneur who has already launched two successful companies has just closed the financing round for his new venture — a company aiming to combat phishing

  • Terra Firma chooses ControlGuard’s endpoint security solution

    As the size of the mobile work force increases, with more and more employees carrying and using portable devices, the security risks a company faces increase apace; how does a corporation enjoy the benefits of greater efficiency and timeliness which mobility brings, without at the same time exposing itself to detrimental risks? The solution is endpoint security, and a leading international private equity firm has just selected an endpoint security solution from ControlGuard