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Thursday, 19 March 2009
Beazley Establishes Builders Risk In US
Beazley Group plc (BEZ.L), has established a builders risk and engineered risk capability in the United States, headed by Mark Gadaire, a senior underwriter with more than 25 years experience.
Builders risk, commonly known as Contractors All Risks (CAR) and Erection All Risks (EAR) outside the US, has been a growth market for Beazley in recent years. In late 2006, the group established a team in Singapore to underwrite risks that would not normally be seen by underwriters based in London.
The US team will similarly focus on risks that normally remain in the domestic market. Mr Gadaire will initially be underwriting risks on a surplus lines basis for the account of Beazley's Lloyd's syndicates. Later this year the group plans to begin underwriting builders risk insurance on an admitted basis in the US for the account of Beazley Insurance Company, Inc., the group's A.M. Best A rated US insurance company.
Mr Gadaire joins Beazley from ACE, where he was National Practice Leader for Builders Risk on the global property team. Prior to joining ACE in 2003, he served as a senior engineering underwriter at XL Global Risk, based in Stamford, CT. He began his insurance career as a field engineer and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Lowell.
The focus of Beazley's new team will be US clients seeking experienced underwriters who can bring knowledge, consistency and awareness to the market. The team will underwrite: Contractors All Risks (CAR), covering the construction of buildings as well as certain types of civil engineering projects; Erection All Risks (EAR), covering the installation, assembly, erection and testing and commissioning of plant and machinery; and Completed Civils, which provides operational property coverage for bridges and tunnels.
Builders risk, commonly known as Contractors All Risks (CAR) and Erection All Risks (EAR) outside the US, has been a growth market for Beazley in recent years. In late 2006, the group established a team in Singapore to underwrite risks that would not normally be seen by underwriters based in London.
The US team will similarly focus on risks that normally remain in the domestic market. Mr Gadaire will initially be underwriting risks on a surplus lines basis for the account of Beazley's Lloyd's syndicates. Later this year the group plans to begin underwriting builders risk insurance on an admitted basis in the US for the account of Beazley Insurance Company, Inc., the group's A.M. Best A rated US insurance company.
Mr Gadaire joins Beazley from ACE, where he was National Practice Leader for Builders Risk on the global property team. Prior to joining ACE in 2003, he served as a senior engineering underwriter at XL Global Risk, based in Stamford, CT. He began his insurance career as a field engineer and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Lowell.
The focus of Beazley's new team will be US clients seeking experienced underwriters who can bring knowledge, consistency and awareness to the market. The team will underwrite: Contractors All Risks (CAR), covering the construction of buildings as well as certain types of civil engineering projects; Erection All Risks (EAR), covering the installation, assembly, erection and testing and commissioning of plant and machinery; and Completed Civils, which provides operational property coverage for bridges and tunnels.
Tuesday, 17 March 2009
EHA Soft Solutions (EHA), has been selected by Quality Employment Credentialing (QEC) to provide the organization with customized automated risk management and mitigation software. EHA will first implement the software at QEC test sites in Pennsylvania, New York and Texas before deploying the solution nationwide.
The news coincides with a business reception today in Washington, DC hosted by Enterprise Ireland, the Government Agency responsible for driving leadership and growth for innovative Irish companies in international markets. The event was one of several associated with a trade mission to the U.S. led by Ireland's Prime Minister, Brian Cowen.
QEC was formed because increasing risk and liability, identity theft, and the high costs to hire healthcare providers have become a growing problem for hospitals, nursing homes, staffing agencies and other employers of the healthcare workforce. QEC intends to cut costs and reduce risk to the industry and consumers by introducing a new standard of hiring best-practices. The company's approach replaces the inefficient protocols of piecing together hiring elements such as background checks, drug screening and competency testing, with a new streamlined model that compiles the information in a highly secure and independent global clearing house. The result is a new approach that substantially reduces the risk and exposure to liability of a hiring mistake.
Said, QEC chairperson, Colleen Mills, "With EHA, we have found a partner with superior software solutions that can support our goal to transform healthcare hiring practices and reduce the threat and liability associated with hiring mistakes. We're very pleased to be working with EHA."
For more than a decade, EHA has provided advanced integrated risk management systems that support regulatory guidelines, including occupational health and safety, food safety, quality and the environment. The company's software solutions are an ideal fit to support QEC's ambitious mission, according to Mike Shackleford, vice president of operations at EHA. "By significantly reducing risk and exposure to liability, the QEC system will improve overall quality of care and reduce staff turnover, meaning substantial savings for healthcare providers that are struggling with escalating costs in today's env
The news coincides with a business reception today in Washington, DC hosted by Enterprise Ireland, the Government Agency responsible for driving leadership and growth for innovative Irish companies in international markets. The event was one of several associated with a trade mission to the U.S. led by Ireland's Prime Minister, Brian Cowen.
QEC was formed because increasing risk and liability, identity theft, and the high costs to hire healthcare providers have become a growing problem for hospitals, nursing homes, staffing agencies and other employers of the healthcare workforce. QEC intends to cut costs and reduce risk to the industry and consumers by introducing a new standard of hiring best-practices. The company's approach replaces the inefficient protocols of piecing together hiring elements such as background checks, drug screening and competency testing, with a new streamlined model that compiles the information in a highly secure and independent global clearing house. The result is a new approach that substantially reduces the risk and exposure to liability of a hiring mistake.
Said, QEC chairperson, Colleen Mills, "With EHA, we have found a partner with superior software solutions that can support our goal to transform healthcare hiring practices and reduce the threat and liability associated with hiring mistakes. We're very pleased to be working with EHA."
For more than a decade, EHA has provided advanced integrated risk management systems that support regulatory guidelines, including occupational health and safety, food safety, quality and the environment. The company's software solutions are an ideal fit to support QEC's ambitious mission, according to Mike Shackleford, vice president of operations at EHA. "By significantly reducing risk and exposure to liability, the QEC system will improve overall quality of care and reduce staff turnover, meaning substantial savings for healthcare providers that are struggling with escalating costs in today's env
Thermal Engineering Associates, Inc. (TEA) announces the immediate availability of a new thermal test chip, TTC-1002, that complies with standard EIA/JESD51-4 and is flexible enough to meet virtually all of the requirements for general purpose semiconductor thermal testing applications. Wafers and cell arrays may be ordered for wire bond or bump connection applications. Thermal test chips are widely used to eliminate electronics heat dissipation problems through package/system level thermal characterization, package assembly process optimization, and heat sink thermal solution evaluation.
Thermal test chips are semiconductor devices that can deliver precise thermal loads to specific geographic areas of a semiconductor package or printed circuit board (PCB) in order to simulate the thermal performance characteristics of the subsystem. Applications for thermal test chips include:
-- Package thermal requirements testing
-- Package thermal simulation and verification
-- Package mechanical stress testing
-- Power mapping of thermal effects
-- PCB level thermal simulation
-- System level thermal simulation
TEA founder and President, Bernie Siegal, has been supplying thermal test and measurement products and services for over 40 years. "Our new thermal test chip finally meets all JEDEC and general user requirements," said Siegal, "I have worked very hard over the last 10 years to come up with a thermal test chip that is nearly perfect with regard to maximizing the heated area in each cell, uniformity of cell heating, easy access to strategically placed measurement diodes, accurate measurements, and flexibility in simulating the widest range of application specific semiconductors."
The TTC-1002 is based upon a unit cell design in which a cell may be used individually or combined in a matrix of up to 40 x 40. Each cell is 2.5mm on a side and regardless of the size of the cell matrix, there is periphery access for all heating and Kelvin enabled measurement connections. Strategically placed diode sensors enable thermal measurements in the center, center periphery and all diagonals, regardless of the size or configuration of the cell array. Two individual metal film heating elements cover 87% of the die surface for uniform heating of each half of the cell, as needed. The two heating elements may be connected in series or in parallel.
Thermal test chips are semiconductor devices that can deliver precise thermal loads to specific geographic areas of a semiconductor package or printed circuit board (PCB) in order to simulate the thermal performance characteristics of the subsystem. Applications for thermal test chips include:
-- Package thermal requirements testing
-- Package thermal simulation and verification
-- Package mechanical stress testing
-- Power mapping of thermal effects
-- PCB level thermal simulation
-- System level thermal simulation
TEA founder and President, Bernie Siegal, has been supplying thermal test and measurement products and services for over 40 years. "Our new thermal test chip finally meets all JEDEC and general user requirements," said Siegal, "I have worked very hard over the last 10 years to come up with a thermal test chip that is nearly perfect with regard to maximizing the heated area in each cell, uniformity of cell heating, easy access to strategically placed measurement diodes, accurate measurements, and flexibility in simulating the widest range of application specific semiconductors."
The TTC-1002 is based upon a unit cell design in which a cell may be used individually or combined in a matrix of up to 40 x 40. Each cell is 2.5mm on a side and regardless of the size of the cell matrix, there is periphery access for all heating and Kelvin enabled measurement connections. Strategically placed diode sensors enable thermal measurements in the center, center periphery and all diagonals, regardless of the size or configuration of the cell array. Two individual metal film heating elements cover 87% of the die surface for uniform heating of each half of the cell, as needed. The two heating elements may be connected in series or in parallel.
Thursday, 5 March 2009
Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) , has released its DesignWare(R) controller and PHY IP for PCI Express 2.0 and 1.1 has passed Agilent Technologies' inline error injection testing utilizing Agilent's PCI Express Jammer tool. This unique tool injects disruptive test scenarios into a real-world hardware environment to increase test coverage. As the first intellectual property (IP) provider to pass these tests, Synopsys further demonstrates the reliability and robustness of its DesignWare IP for PCI Express, even under harsh system environments. Passing these tests gives designers confidence that the IP is of high quality, proven interoperable, and can be integrated into their designs with less risk and improved time to market. Synopsys will be demonstrating the DesignWare IP for PCI Express with Agilent's Jammer tool at the PCI-SIG Developers Conference in Frankfurt, Germany from March 9-10, 2009.
Agilent's PCI Express Jammer inline error injection tool sits between two PCI Express devices and modifies data streams in real-time, creating disruptive test scenarios. The Jammer tool generates test scenarios for almost all conceivable error recovery test cases, including correctable, uncorrectable non-fatal and uncorrectable fatal errors. Synopsys has supplemented its already extensive PCI Express IP verification process with Agilent's Jammer tool to further test error recovery and error handling in real-world situations. This additional verification enhances the quality and interoperability of the DesignWare IP for PCI Express with other PCI Express devices.
"Agilent is pleased to see that our newly introduced PCI Express Jammer test tool is providing our partners, and in turn their customers with so much immediate value," said Siegfried Gross, vice president and general manager of Agilent's Digital Test Division. "By utilizing Agilent's robust in-line error injection tool, Synopsys enables designers to integrate their leading DesignWare IP for PCI Express into high performance designs with less risk and improved interoperability while expediting their time to market."
As a leading provider of PCI Express IP, Synopsys offers a complete IP solution consisting of a suite of digital controllers for endpoint, root port, switch port and dual mode, PHY IP, and verification IP that are all compliant to the PCI Express 2.0, 1.1 and PIPE specifications. Synopsys is an active member of PCI-SIG and has more than 15 years of experience delivering silicon-proven PCI, PCI-X and PCI Express solutions resulting in hundreds of customer designs in volume production. Synopsys continues to take advantage of the latest verification techniques from industry leaders such as Agilent to further differentiate the quality of its IP. This commitment to high quality reduces the risk for designers integrating PCI Express into their high performance applications.
"Agilent and Synopsys have a long history of working together to help drive the adoption of PCI Express into the market. We first worked together to create the Protocol Test Card using the DesignWare IP for PCI Express, which is one of the 'gold tests' required for compliance at the PCI-SIG workshops," said John Koeter, vice president of marketing for the Solutions Group at Synopsys. "By extending this relationship with Agilent to be the first IP vendor to pass the Jammer inline error injection testing, Synopsys is providing designers with a high-quality IP solution that they can have confidence in."
Agilent's PCI Express Jammer inline error injection tool sits between two PCI Express devices and modifies data streams in real-time, creating disruptive test scenarios. The Jammer tool generates test scenarios for almost all conceivable error recovery test cases, including correctable, uncorrectable non-fatal and uncorrectable fatal errors. Synopsys has supplemented its already extensive PCI Express IP verification process with Agilent's Jammer tool to further test error recovery and error handling in real-world situations. This additional verification enhances the quality and interoperability of the DesignWare IP for PCI Express with other PCI Express devices.
"Agilent is pleased to see that our newly introduced PCI Express Jammer test tool is providing our partners, and in turn their customers with so much immediate value," said Siegfried Gross, vice president and general manager of Agilent's Digital Test Division. "By utilizing Agilent's robust in-line error injection tool, Synopsys enables designers to integrate their leading DesignWare IP for PCI Express into high performance designs with less risk and improved interoperability while expediting their time to market."
As a leading provider of PCI Express IP, Synopsys offers a complete IP solution consisting of a suite of digital controllers for endpoint, root port, switch port and dual mode, PHY IP, and verification IP that are all compliant to the PCI Express 2.0, 1.1 and PIPE specifications. Synopsys is an active member of PCI-SIG and has more than 15 years of experience delivering silicon-proven PCI, PCI-X and PCI Express solutions resulting in hundreds of customer designs in volume production. Synopsys continues to take advantage of the latest verification techniques from industry leaders such as Agilent to further differentiate the quality of its IP. This commitment to high quality reduces the risk for designers integrating PCI Express into their high performance applications.
"Agilent and Synopsys have a long history of working together to help drive the adoption of PCI Express into the market. We first worked together to create the Protocol Test Card using the DesignWare IP for PCI Express, which is one of the 'gold tests' required for compliance at the PCI-SIG workshops," said John Koeter, vice president of marketing for the Solutions Group at Synopsys. "By extending this relationship with Agilent to be the first IP vendor to pass the Jammer inline error injection testing, Synopsys is providing designers with a high-quality IP solution that they can have confidence in."
Fortify and Cigital Launch BSIMM
Fortify Software, and Cigital, a consulting firm specializing in software security, announced today the release of the "Building Security In Maturity Model (BSIMM)," the industry's first-ever set of benchmarks for developing and growing an enterprise-wide software security program.
Based on in-depth interviews with leading enterprises such as Adobe, EMC, Google, Microsoft, QUALCOMM, Wells Fargo, and Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the BSIMM pulls together a set of activities practiced by nine of the most successful software security initiatives in the world. Unlike some industry standards, BSIMM is a structured set of practices based on real-world data rather than philosophy and ideas. BSIMM provides insight on what successful organizations actually do to build security into their software and mitigate the business risk associated with insecure applications.
"Microsoft's Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) was one of the first real enterprise software security methodologies, and we are always eager to share our ideas and best practices with the industry," said Steve Lipner of Microsoft. "BSIMM provides a public 'yardstick' for measuring the progress of any organization's own software assurance program."
"Software security has turned the corner from a good idea to a business necessity. The industry has finally reached a point where enough real experience has been accumulated to compare notes and talk about what works," said Dr. Gary McGraw, CTO of Cigital and author of Software Security. "Using BSIMM, an organization can determine where its software security initiative stands, figure out how to evolve its initiative strategically, or even get a brand new initiative off the ground. BSIMM is a tool for identifying realistic business goals and implementing those technical software security activities that make the most sense for an organization."
"Virtually every organization today relies on software to operate, and at the same time the threat to that software is at an all-time high," said Dr. Brian Chess, co-founder and Chief Scientist of Fortify Software. "Businesses need software that doesn't leak millions of identity records, gin up huge legal liabilities, or allow secrets to fall into the wrong hands."
Chess, McGraw and coauthor Sammy Migues collected data on each initiative's software security activities for strategy and metrics, training, standards and requirements, security testing, code review, etc., and uncovered a number of common themes among each of the successful initiatives, including:
-- The necessity of a Software Security Group: Each of the nine enterprises has a designated group of software security personnel -- the SSG -- tasked with carrying out and facilitating software security. Average SSG size is just over one percent of the size of the software development organization.
-- Advocacy over audit: Successful SSGs, even in regulated industries, always emphasize security education, technical resources, and mentoring rather than policing for security errors and handing out punishments.
-- Use of automated technologies: Each organization performs automated code review and deploys black box testing tools, but use of these technologies requires considerable SSG know-how.
-- Training for development: All organizations have an institutionalized security training curriculum for programmers, QA engineers, and project managers.
"I was surprised by the amount of common ground discovered between the financial services organizations, ISVs, and technology companies in the BSIMM study," said Jim Routh, CISO of Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC). "All software security initiatives are by no means identical, but these findings demonstrate that an organization isn't going it alone when it comes to software security -- you can learn from your peers. The BSIMM encapsulates important lessons from the best programs around."
"Comprehensive software security involves a combination of people, processes, and technologies, and it almost always requires some change to the way the organization operates," said analyst Joseph Feinman, VP and Gartner Fellow. "As software security comes of age, using a maturity model will only help to accelerate your enterprise security initiative." The BSIMM is the first such maturity model created entirely from real-world data.
Over the next several months, Cigital and Fortify will gather data from other leading software security initiatives to enhance the study and provide additional insight on trends and activities particular to certain vertical industries and company sizes, among other factors.
Based on in-depth interviews with leading enterprises such as Adobe, EMC, Google, Microsoft, QUALCOMM, Wells Fargo, and Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the BSIMM pulls together a set of activities practiced by nine of the most successful software security initiatives in the world. Unlike some industry standards, BSIMM is a structured set of practices based on real-world data rather than philosophy and ideas. BSIMM provides insight on what successful organizations actually do to build security into their software and mitigate the business risk associated with insecure applications.
"Microsoft's Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) was one of the first real enterprise software security methodologies, and we are always eager to share our ideas and best practices with the industry," said Steve Lipner of Microsoft. "BSIMM provides a public 'yardstick' for measuring the progress of any organization's own software assurance program."
"Software security has turned the corner from a good idea to a business necessity. The industry has finally reached a point where enough real experience has been accumulated to compare notes and talk about what works," said Dr. Gary McGraw, CTO of Cigital and author of Software Security. "Using BSIMM, an organization can determine where its software security initiative stands, figure out how to evolve its initiative strategically, or even get a brand new initiative off the ground. BSIMM is a tool for identifying realistic business goals and implementing those technical software security activities that make the most sense for an organization."
"Virtually every organization today relies on software to operate, and at the same time the threat to that software is at an all-time high," said Dr. Brian Chess, co-founder and Chief Scientist of Fortify Software. "Businesses need software that doesn't leak millions of identity records, gin up huge legal liabilities, or allow secrets to fall into the wrong hands."
Chess, McGraw and coauthor Sammy Migues collected data on each initiative's software security activities for strategy and metrics, training, standards and requirements, security testing, code review, etc., and uncovered a number of common themes among each of the successful initiatives, including:
-- The necessity of a Software Security Group: Each of the nine enterprises has a designated group of software security personnel -- the SSG -- tasked with carrying out and facilitating software security. Average SSG size is just over one percent of the size of the software development organization.
-- Advocacy over audit: Successful SSGs, even in regulated industries, always emphasize security education, technical resources, and mentoring rather than policing for security errors and handing out punishments.
-- Use of automated technologies: Each organization performs automated code review and deploys black box testing tools, but use of these technologies requires considerable SSG know-how.
-- Training for development: All organizations have an institutionalized security training curriculum for programmers, QA engineers, and project managers.
"I was surprised by the amount of common ground discovered between the financial services organizations, ISVs, and technology companies in the BSIMM study," said Jim Routh, CISO of Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC). "All software security initiatives are by no means identical, but these findings demonstrate that an organization isn't going it alone when it comes to software security -- you can learn from your peers. The BSIMM encapsulates important lessons from the best programs around."
"Comprehensive software security involves a combination of people, processes, and technologies, and it almost always requires some change to the way the organization operates," said analyst Joseph Feinman, VP and Gartner Fellow. "As software security comes of age, using a maturity model will only help to accelerate your enterprise security initiative." The BSIMM is the first such maturity model created entirely from real-world data.
Over the next several months, Cigital and Fortify will gather data from other leading software security initiatives to enhance the study and provide additional insight on trends and activities particular to certain vertical industries and company sizes, among other factors.
Saturday, 28 February 2009
EMC Leverages VMware
Two new EMC Proven(TM) Solutions that leverage EMC's deep expertise with VMware to help customers of all sizes virtualize their environments and achieve critical IT efficiencies have been released. Both solutions combine EMC's platforms and backup and recovery software and use fully tested and validated reference architectures and best practices to accelerate time to deployment, deliver predictable results, and achieve improved performance, backup and recovery, high availability and manageability.
EMC Integrated Infrastructure for VMware is ideally suited for midsize companies and remote offices, enabling them to quickly take advantage of a virtualized infrastructure while minimizing operational and management costs. Unlike other vendors' solutions that require long planning cycles, this solution typically reduces configuration time by 60 percent and deployment time by 50 percent, providing customers a faster return on their investment. By standardizing on this infrastructure, customers are able to realize the benefit of reduced maintenance and operational costs while consistently delivering to service level agreements, simplifying support of the remote office.
Built on the EMC Celerra(R) family of unified storage systems, the solution gives customers the greatest flexibility and investment protection with its connectivity choice. With EMC Avamar(R) deduplication software customers can have fast, efficient and reliable data protection by reducing the size of backup data at the source. Less data allows companies to utilize existing WAN bandwidth, minimize the impact on physical and virtual infrastructure, and dramatically lower back-end storage operational costs.
EMC Backup and Recovery for VMware enables customers to backup their VMware ESX servers with minimal impact to network resources and business processes enabling application and information availability. With this solution daily network impact is typically reduced by as much as 95 percent and the impact on clients is typically reduced to nearly 90 percent. This ensures application and information availability during backups so revenue-generating activities can continue. The centralized management of backups also enables customers to easily deliver the same level of backup service across their infrastructure, helping them more easily meet service-level agreements.
The solution combines EMC CLARiiON(R) CX4 series of midrange storage systems, Replication Manager and EMC SnapView(R) software to offload the backup resources from the production VMware ESX server environment, effectively creating zero backup times. Avamar deduplication software reduces the size of the backup within and across virtual machines, dramatically reducing the required backup window, network bandwidth and backup storage infrastructure.
"In today's economic climate, organizations are demanding that technology vendors help them quickly realize investment returns," said David Vellante, Co-founder and CEO of Wikibon. "Commitments such as EMC's to test and develop reference architectures and best practices that are free to customers are unique. They both lower risk and accelerate time to value."
"A top priority for customers is efficiency. They are deploying virtualization to enjoy the efficiency benefits it delivers and the new EMC Proven Solutions for VMware environments provide even greater cost savings," said EMC's Todd Pavone, Vice President, Global Solutions. "EMC is focused on helping customers fully leverage their EMC technology with VMware and is committed to comprehensive integration testing to deliver solutions that are quickly deployed and deliver additional efficiency and value to virtualized environments."
EMC Integrated Infrastructure for VMware is ideally suited for midsize companies and remote offices, enabling them to quickly take advantage of a virtualized infrastructure while minimizing operational and management costs. Unlike other vendors' solutions that require long planning cycles, this solution typically reduces configuration time by 60 percent and deployment time by 50 percent, providing customers a faster return on their investment. By standardizing on this infrastructure, customers are able to realize the benefit of reduced maintenance and operational costs while consistently delivering to service level agreements, simplifying support of the remote office.
Built on the EMC Celerra(R) family of unified storage systems, the solution gives customers the greatest flexibility and investment protection with its connectivity choice. With EMC Avamar(R) deduplication software customers can have fast, efficient and reliable data protection by reducing the size of backup data at the source. Less data allows companies to utilize existing WAN bandwidth, minimize the impact on physical and virtual infrastructure, and dramatically lower back-end storage operational costs.
EMC Backup and Recovery for VMware enables customers to backup their VMware ESX servers with minimal impact to network resources and business processes enabling application and information availability. With this solution daily network impact is typically reduced by as much as 95 percent and the impact on clients is typically reduced to nearly 90 percent. This ensures application and information availability during backups so revenue-generating activities can continue. The centralized management of backups also enables customers to easily deliver the same level of backup service across their infrastructure, helping them more easily meet service-level agreements.
The solution combines EMC CLARiiON(R) CX4 series of midrange storage systems, Replication Manager and EMC SnapView(R) software to offload the backup resources from the production VMware ESX server environment, effectively creating zero backup times. Avamar deduplication software reduces the size of the backup within and across virtual machines, dramatically reducing the required backup window, network bandwidth and backup storage infrastructure.
"In today's economic climate, organizations are demanding that technology vendors help them quickly realize investment returns," said David Vellante, Co-founder and CEO of Wikibon. "Commitments such as EMC's to test and develop reference architectures and best practices that are free to customers are unique. They both lower risk and accelerate time to value."
"A top priority for customers is efficiency. They are deploying virtualization to enjoy the efficiency benefits it delivers and the new EMC Proven Solutions for VMware environments provide even greater cost savings," said EMC's Todd Pavone, Vice President, Global Solutions. "EMC is focused on helping customers fully leverage their EMC technology with VMware and is committed to comprehensive integration testing to deliver solutions that are quickly deployed and deliver additional efficiency and value to virtualized environments."
SECNAP Enhances Email Security Gateway
SECNAP(R) Network Security Corporation has enhanced its Email Security Gateway product with the addition of Email Content Filtering, enabling clients to monitor and control the content of inbound and outbound email messages and enforce policies to prevent sensitive data from being leaked. The addition is one in a series of ongoing enhancements that keep SpammerTrap on the cutting edge of email security.
A recent Identity Theft Resource Center report indicates that more than 35 million data records were breached last year in the U.S., and that the overall number of breaches jumped 47 percent. Data leakage, whether intentional or inadvertent, has become an enormous problem.
SpammerTrap email content filtering provides an additional layer of security against this threat. Client system administrators use a simple set-up screen to specify rules for filtering personally identifiable information (PII), such as social security and account numbers, along with keywords, customized expressions, and patterns of content. Several other features add to client convenience, including:
-- Filtering of either subject content, email body content, or both
-- Four options for control of individual emails containing specified
content (tag, quarantine, whitelist, or block)
-- Robust reporting functionality for tracking content filtering results
and measuring performance.
"This enhancement provides advanced data protection," said SECNAP chief technology officer, Michael Scheidell. "It also facilitates compliance with SOX, HIPAA and GLBA regulatory requirements, and helps clients avoid the unwanted publicity that can result from compromised email."
A recent Identity Theft Resource Center report indicates that more than 35 million data records were breached last year in the U.S., and that the overall number of breaches jumped 47 percent. Data leakage, whether intentional or inadvertent, has become an enormous problem.
SpammerTrap email content filtering provides an additional layer of security against this threat. Client system administrators use a simple set-up screen to specify rules for filtering personally identifiable information (PII), such as social security and account numbers, along with keywords, customized expressions, and patterns of content. Several other features add to client convenience, including:
-- Filtering of either subject content, email body content, or both
-- Four options for control of individual emails containing specified
content (tag, quarantine, whitelist, or block)
-- Robust reporting functionality for tracking content filtering results
and measuring performance.
"This enhancement provides advanced data protection," said SECNAP chief technology officer, Michael Scheidell. "It also facilitates compliance with SOX, HIPAA and GLBA regulatory requirements, and helps clients avoid the unwanted publicity that can result from compromised email."
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