FaceTime’s application database acquisition highlights need for Web 2.0 control and security

Acquisition of market-leading application signature database strengthens Check Point’s network security leadership

“In adding this capability to our product line, we researched the market – and identified FaceTime’s application database as the market leader,” said Bill Bailey, vice president of corporate and business development of Check Point. “Incorporation of the purchased database will provide businesses unparalleled granular control over application usage.”

“Check Point’s purchase of our database reaffirms FaceTime’s leadership in the Web 2.0 and application security market,” said Kailash Ambwani, president and chief executive officer at FaceTime Communications. “With people and businesses interacting more than ever online the need for Internet application security is essential to protecting corporate networks.”

FaceTime incorporates the database in its recently announced Unified Security Gateway 3.0 – the first secure Web gateway to combine content monitoring, logging, management and security of Web 2.0 applications, such as social networking, instant messaging, and Unified Communications, with URL filtering, anti-malware and Web anti-virus protection.

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Written by Doug Woodburn @CRN, 19 Nov 2009

As 2009 draws to a close, security resellers are placing their bets on what will be the growth hotspots of next year.

“60 to 70 per cent of our business has been public sector this year and within that most had some kind of CoCo link,” said Jonathan Lassman, managing director at security reseller NTS(UK).

“The problem is that from the middle of the second quarter margins for endpoint security have fallen off the face of the earth. All the anti-virus vendors have entered the space and trashed the market on price.”

Lassman said intrusion prevention would be big again in 2010 as just 30 per cent of organisations have deployed the technology, as would email hygiene.

“We have done $1m with Proofpoint this year and are looking to double that figure next year,” he said.

- read more at ChannelWeb

Magic Quadrant for Wireless LAN Infrastructure – Michael J. King, Tim Zimmerman

“With the higher speeds of 802.11n and increased focus on voice, wireless LANs are becoming the access layer technology of choice for new enterprise network deployments. To capture growth, vendors must meet diverse requirements regarding guest access, security, manageability and deployment.”

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Founded in 2005, Titus Labs provides software classification solutions that make it possible for organisations to manage and control the flow of sensitive information inside and outside their enterprise in order to meet policy and compliance requirements.

Titus Labs’ Message Classification and Document Classification software allow enterprises to manage the classification, distribution and retention of email and Office documents. Message Classification is used around the world by large military, government, financial customers.

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Bloxx has a history of displacing competitor web filtering solutions that can be two or three times the cost of their appliance.  So why is this happening? The Bloxx proposition is ‘No Nonsense’ the Bloxx appliance has a simple user interface and the price is more than competitive.

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1.      The problem …

Many Public Sector bodies have different classes of information on their networks, ranging from Unclassified to Impact Level 3 – RESTRICTED.  Users of this information may be physically located anywhere on the network.  Typically the separation of this data has been implemented by segregating the network using VLANs.

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