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VASCO, a leading authentication provider for the financial sector, has acquired Logico Smart Card Solutions for approximately $1.5 million in cash. The purchase of the Vienna-based Logico, an authentication storage specialist, allows VASCO to expand its presence in the smart card and public key infrastructure markets. Logico has customers in the healthcare, manufacturing and government sectors.
Jul 6 2006 9:59PM
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Lumeta, a provider of network intelligence solutions, has promoted David Arbeitel to CTO and senior vice president of product strategy. He previously served as senior vice president of strategic development. Arbeitel’s new role comes as Lumeta is expanding its overall technology focus to help businesses with compliance, IT optimization and security risk management.
Jun 5 2006 10:04PM
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Kevin Prince has joined Perimeter Internetworking as chief security officer. Prince will help formulate the managed network security firm’s strategic and product development plans and oversee its strategic relationships. Prince previously founded Red Cliff Solutions and he currently trains federal examiners on security topics such as firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention, and remote access.
www.perimeterusa.com
May 10 2006 8:07PM
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»Information Consulting Group has acquired project management firm Net Solutions. The merger provides the business consultant organization’s customers with IT security management solutions. ICG specializes in financial services, consumer products, healthcare and manufacturing.
http://www.infoconsultgroup.com
Apr 14 2006 8:14PM
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Winner: Internet Security Systems
Mar 13 2006 6:36PM
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»Jeff Scheel has joined PassMark Security, Menlo Park, Calif., as
corporate development officer. He will be in charge of managing and expanding strategic partnerships, increasing international business, and overseeing the company’s voice authentication solutions. Scheel previously served as president and CEO of Vocent.
www.passmarksecurity.com
Mar 7 2006 7:25PM
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Kim MacPherson has taken over as vice president of engineering for PassMark Security, a developer of authentication solutions for ecommerce. MacPherson has been vice president of engineering at Securify and has worked on secure financial service applications at Intuit. www.passmarksecurity.com
Feb 7 2006 8:26PM
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Sun Microsystems and Dartmouth College have announced a collaboration to increase security features in the
college’s OpenSolaris project.
Dartmouth will also develop a graduate-level operating system course based on the project, and experts from its Public Key Infrastructure Laboratory will explore the integration of OpenSolaris with trusted computing technology.
Jan 11 2006 9:54PM
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Former ceo of Hewlett-Packard Carly Fiorina has joined Cybertrust’s board. Fiorina said in a statement that “information security will be a key driver of growth and innovation in the technology industry for years to come, and Cybertrust is uniquely positioned to lead the global security market.” Fiorina also served as HP’s chairman from 2000 to 2005.
Dec 15 2005 7:20PM
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Complacency threatens company security
Companies are creating security risks through sheer complacency, claim the British Computer Society (BCS). The organization, that attempt to raise IT standards, insist that theft, fraud and loss are likely to increase unless firms wake up to the reality of IT security.
Nov 19 2004 5:18PM
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