Also: Latest from Heartland Payment Systems, Websense, Sanovi
By Megan Goldschmidt, January 16, 2015.
Symantec has entered an agreement with Narus, a Boeing subsidiary, to provide 65 engineers and data scientists to help it build its Unified Security platform. The mission of the platform, Symantec says, is to derive intelligence out of data through analytics that will help customers make informed decisions about how to prevent, detect and remediate attacks
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The specialists from Narus have expertise in machine learning, security, big data analytics and networking.
For more information, visit Symantec.
Heartland Offers Warranty
Heartland Payment Systems introduces a warranty that protects businesses from payment card breach losses in the event of a breach.
Heartland is offering its breach warranty at no charge to its Heartland Secure merchants in the first year; it can be extended for $8.33 per month per card-entry device. To be covered under the warranty, a merchant must have a Heartland Secure-certified device and process payments through Heartland.
Under the warranty, if the encryption fails on a Heartland Secure machine, Heartland will reimburse the merchant for the amount of compliance fines, fees and/or assessments the merchant must pay to the card brands, issuing banks and acquiring banks.
For more information, visit Heartland.
Websense Provides APT Protection
Websense has introduced Websense TRITON APX 8.0, which provides advanced threat and data theft prevention for companies that embrace new technologies and working practices.
TRITON APX provides protection across the advanced threat kill chain, reveals actionable intelligence and enables real-time feedback to educate and motivate end-users to avoid risky behavior. Designed to help organizations grow and embrace new technologies, such as cloud-based services, TRITON APX offers protection against advanced attacks. With five data-aware defenses necessary to prevent data theft, it brings together threat protection and an enhanced customer experience.
For more information, visit Websense.
Sanovi Launches Recovery-As-a-Service
Sanovi announces a new product, ADC Recovery-as-a-Service, that it describes as offering "application defined continuity intelligence." ADC intelligence captures an application's complete continuity profile and has the ability to map the application's profile to a specific cloud's architecture and requirements.
Sanovi's Cloud Continuity solution is designed to enable service providers to offer recovery-as-a-service to provide data recovery as a scalable, self-service based, cost-effective offering, across private, public and hybrid cloud environments. The offering, built on Sanovi' s patented Application Defined Continuity (ADC) technology, enables the realization of true cloud benefits.
For more information, visit Sanovi.