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August 29, 2007
Fortify: Securing Web Services Last week, I had the opportunity to meet Brian Chess, founder and chief scientist of Fortify Software. Brian is one of those golden people who started out with an idea (his phD thesis) about how to make software stronger, got wooed by Kleiner Perkins (the Tom Perkins firm that was the venture backer behind Google, Amazon, and in fact most of the big dot com names in the Silicone Valley), then started his company with a million in seed capital and office space in Kleiner Perkins' basement. You know the type. Just a few years later, Fortify protects some of the world's top companies from today’s greatest security risk: the software applications that run their businesses. ebizQ recently posted a white paper by Fortify, that contains valuable advice about what do if your Web services are under attack. I recommend it highly. Read it here. Posted by elizabeth in security | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0) July 10, 2007Spam Warrior, $625 Mil: Google Enterprise, Priceless. In light of Google's buy yesterday of Postini for $625 million cash-money, I direct you to a VERY interesting piece in the Washington Post, which basically hails this as part a new strategy by Google Enterprise to target the financial firms which have great compliance pressures and therefore must have extraordinarily reliable security infrastructure. It also continues to keep Google in the game in its competition with Microsoft Office. The article, by Kendra Matt, is here. More discussion of the Google/Microsoft battle can also be found in this Businessweek.com article. Also, Peter Schooff, ebizQ's fearless security editor, did a great podcast with Postini about the dangers of Web 2.0 and what the company was doing to fight spam. I direct you to that informative podcast here. Posted by elizabeth in M&A • security | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0) July 09, 2007Google Acquires Enterprise Spam Warrior Postini Hot news: Google acquires Enterprise Spam Warrior Postini, and ebizQ's own Peter Schooff recorded
>this really exciting podcast Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Postini, a global leader in on-demand communications security and compliance solutions serving more than 35,000 businesses and 10 million users worldwide. ebizQ's Peter Schooff recorded
>this podcast ebizQ received the following additional details: Postini's services -- which include message security, archiving, encryption, and policy enforcement -- can be used to protect a company's email, instant messaging, and other web-based communications. Under the terms of the agreement, Google will acquire Postini for $625 million in cash, subject to working capital and other adjustments, and Postini will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Google. The agreement is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close by the end of the third quarter 2007. "With this transaction, we're reinforcing our commitment to delivering compelling hosted applications to businesses of all sizes. With the addition of Postini, our apps are not just simple and appealing to users -- they can also streamline the complex information security mandates within these organizations," said Eric Schmidt, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Google. Hosted services, like Google Apps and Postini solutions, provide organizations with high quality communications tools without the expense and hassle of traditional on-premise solutions. Google Apps, which includes Gmail, Calendar, Talk, Docs & Spreadsheets, and Personal Start Page, has been adopted by more than 100,000 businesses already. Postini solutions include Email Security, IM Security, Web Security, Message Archiving, Message Encryption, and Policy-enforced TLS. "The response to Google Apps has been tremendous, with more than 1,000 small businesses signing up for the service every day. At the same time, large businesses have been reluctant to move to hosted applications due to issues of security and corporate compliance. By adding Postini products to Google's technology, businesses no longer have to choose -- employees get the intuitive products they want, and the company achieves the security and assurance it needs," said Dave Girouard, Vice President and General Manager, Google Enterprise. "As the market leader in on-demand secure communications and compliance solutions, Postini complements Google perfectly. We share a commitment to providing enterprise customers with compelling technology alternatives. This is an exciting milestone, one that will certainly lead to the next level of rapid innovation," said Quentin Gallivan, President and Chief Executive Officer of Postini. "Postini's founding vision is to bring to market technology solutions that address enterprise messaging problems in a different way. Our on-demand offering liberates businesses from the burdens associated with traditional on-premise solutions. We are proud of what we have done to achieve our vision on behalf of our customers, and combining Google and Postini is a powerful next step in this creative journey," said Scott Petry, Founder, Chief Technical Officer, and Executive Vice President of Product Development at Postini. Google will continue to support Postini customers and invest in Postini products. The Google Enterprise group makes popular Google technology available to businesses of all sizes -- from small, two-person startups to some of the largest companies in the world. Google Enterprise products help businesses find, see and share information through products such as Google Search Appliance, Google Mini, Google Earth, Google Maps and the Google Apps suite of hosted applications. Posted by elizabeth in security | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0) May 17, 2007Why Did Apple's Stock Drop Yesterday? Today, I present you this guest post from ebizQ's own MacDude Ely Rosenstock:
“This one doesn't bode well for Mac fans and the iPhone-hopeful: we have it on authority that as of today, the iPhone launch is being pushed back from June to... October (!), and Leopard is again seeing a delay, this time being pushed all the way back to January.” This text was posted as a blog post at 11:49 AM and within 13 minutes Apple stock had dropped from $107.89 a share to $103.42. This type of rash buying and selling decision by shareholders is nothing new, but as blogs are taken more seriously in the news industry, we should expect to see more volatile stock increases/decreases based on rumors and spoof emails. Here's some raw news from Digital Trends, ComputerWorld, and MacDailyNews. Posted by elizabeth in security | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0) January 23, 2007The Need for Enterprise Spam Management My colleague and ebizQ blogger Peter Schooff is writing today about a "storm worm" that is raining spam all over the internet. I don't know how things are going in big enterprises today, but here at ebizQ, we are being simply ravaged and pelted by spam of all types. And it's not like we don't update our virus protection devices, or that we don't invest in powerful enough tools to fight the kinds of spam we receive. But the fact seems to be, as agile as we are in fighting cyber criminals, the cyber criminals are agile too. They predict our moves and finds way around our fixes. For every patch we sew on, there's another hole they worm through. Instead of retreating under our desks to wait for the spammers and their robots to just get bored and forget about us... I wonder instead, does my company have spam insurance? Have we considered that the power of worms and spam and viruses (oh my!) can take down email clients (for a whole workday, and maybe considerably more than that) and can result in the loss of business, and therefore, income? We here at ebizQ spend all of our time discussing better ways to do business. Security is an important part of that, so much so that we even have a weekly newsletter called ebizQ security update, that you can sign up for here. I even published a feature article yesterday by Ron O'Brien of Sophos, called Cyber Crime's Impact on Business. Please check it out here. But in all honesty, I'm wondering if there is more than can be done. Can we put our heads together and think about security from an enterprise perspective? How do we deal with this onslaught of malware, worms, and viruses that threaten to take away significant portions of our livelihoods? technorati tags: security Posted by elizabeth in security | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0) |
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