FireEye announces acquisition of Mandiant

FireEye has acquired privately held Mandiant, the leading provider of advanced endpoint security products and security incident response management solutions. The acquisition, which recognizes the ever-increasing intensity of cyber attacks and follows nearly two years of collaboration, creates the industry’s leading advanced threat protection vendor with the ability to find and stop attacks at every stage of the attack life cycle. The transaction closed on December 30, 2013.

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Five steps businesses need to take to become cyber robust in 2014

One of the biggest challenges for businesses in the New Year is to become ‘cyber robust’ – according to a leading cyber security expert. Jan Veldsink who consults to businesses on IT security and has developed the Business and Cyber Robustness Executive MBA module at Nyenrode Univeriteit in The Netherlands, says that managers from all business units need to be able to predict threats and have strategies in place to deal with IT security breaches.

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2014 looks bright for SMEs

Small to medium sized organisations (SMEs) in the UK are optimistic about business prospects in 2014, according to independent research by data centre and communications specialist, Node4. The survey of 250 decision makers in companies between 50-500 employees, found that 1 in 5 have no concerns at all about 2014 and expect this year to be prosperous and successful.

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Case Study: @nifty Delivering IT Security to Their Customers with Kaspersky

NIFTY Corporation is one of the leading Telecoms and Internet Service Providers in Japan, supplying high-speed broadband connectivity to more than 1.39 million broadband users. Providing robust security for the many subscribers to its online services is very important because repeated security breaches or loss of service may result in customers suffering damage or losses - and ultimately leaving NIFTY and moving to competitors' services.

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