vontu

ZDNet Resources

• sort by:
• Relevance
• Date
• Popularity

Symantec borrows $200M to close Vontu deal

Symantec borrows $200M to close Vontu dealQuickTime Zero-day attack now make since.So this is why Symantec claims there is QuickTime zero-day attacks. They have to use the scare treatment to suck people in to buying their products not only for Windows but also for OS X. This will help pay...

Tags: Vontu, QuickTime zero-day attack, Symantec Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-12-03

Symantec borrows $200M to close Vontu deal

According to an 8-K filing, Symantec has borrowed $200 million under its $1 billion senior unsecured revolving credit facility to help finance its acquisition of DLP specialist Vontu. The rate of interest on this $200 million revolving loan for the selected interest period is 4.707500 percent. ...

Tags: Acquisition, Symantec Corp., Vontu, Security, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2007-12-03

Symantec pulls trigger on Vontu deal

Symantec has finally pulled the trigger on a deal to acquire DLP data loss prevention specialist Vontu. The anti-virus powerhouse announced today it will spend $350 million to be paid in cash and assumed options on the oft-rumored deal to gobble up the privately held San Francisco-based...

Tags: Symantec Corp., Vontu, Security, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2007-11-05

Trend Micro makes DLP move, Symantec stands pat

Trend Micro has made its move in the red-hot DLP data leak prevention business, snapping up Provilla, a two-year-old company that markets DataDNA fingerprinting technology. Financial terms of the deal were not released. The Japanese security powerhouse plans to operate Provilla as a subsidiary...

Tags: Symantec Corp., DLP, Trend Micro Inc., Vontu, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2007-10-25

More partnerships in the data protection space

More partnerships in the data protection spaceForgot major partnership...Palisade Systems, the oldest of the data loss prevention or content monitoring and filtering market vendors also announced last week its exclusive partnership with Zix Corporation regarding email encryption. In addition, Palisade Systems is the only one in the marketspace whose...

Tags: Business structures, Disaster recovery, Vontu, partnership, More Partnerships, data protection

Discussion threads 2006-10-04

Additional Resources

Symantec: Securing new devices will require new approaches, business models

Symantec: Securing new devices will require new approaches, business modelsHow about catching the "video activeX" trojanI am still finding it on pc's running current versions of Norton. If combofix can remove it, why can't norton?RE: Symantec: Securing new devices will require new approaches, business modelsSymantec should buy an endpoint encryption...

Tags: SECURITY, Strategy, Symantec Corp., Securing, McAfee Inc., business model

Discussion threads 2008-01-24

Symantec: Securing new devices will require new approaches, business models

Symantec executives said that new devices such as the iPod and Treo will require a new set of security technologies and perhaps a different business model. On a conference call with analysts Symantec chief operating officer Enrique Salem said the following: As you look at the...

Tags: Symantec Corp., Security, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-01-24

QuickTime zero-day attacks intercepted

QuickTime zero-day attacks interceptedThis anti-Apple bias must stopThis story is false. It must be false because the Apple zealots have always told us that Apple is better than Microsoft because Apple patches [b]before[/b] there are exploits in the wild and here we have yet another case where ZDNet is reporting...

Tags: Cyberthreats, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, rootkit, Norton Co., Apple Inc., Symantec Corp., exploit, Apple QuickTime, virus, Microsoft Windows, zero-day bug

Discussion threads 2007-12-03

Study: Data breaches leading to higher costs, customer churn

The average cost of a data breach incident was $6.3 billion in 2007, up from $4.8 million in 2006, according to a study. But the real impact of a data breach can be found in customer churn rates. The study, conducted by the Ponemon Institute and sponsored...

Tags: Data, Research & Development, Financial Planning, Notebooks, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Finance, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-11-28

News to know: Leopard data loss; Microsoft's offline sync; Mandriva CEO; Google and GPL

Notable headlines: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: This Leopard bug beats anything Vista has to offer. Tom Karpick: Massive data loss bug in Leopard. Mary Jo Foley: More details emerge on Microsoft's online-offline sync platform. Ryan Stewart: The WPF component market is hot. ...

Tags: Google Inc., GPL, Web, David Berlind, Larry Dignan, Data Loss, Mandriva, Microsoft Corp., Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing

Blog posts 2007-11-06

Today's Debate: Can we end fear of privacy breaches?

Today's Financial Times has a long feature about search engines and privacy, which notes among other things that even Microsoft is now lobbying for a new law mandating privacy standards. (Google wants them to apply worldwide.) What's most interesting to me, though, is a chart, created from...

Tags: Privacy, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Hipaa, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Regulations, Government, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-09-24

As goes Ohio, so goes the country

* Ryan Naraine is on vacation.Guest Editorial by Paul F. RobertsWhat do 225,000 Ohio taxpayers, 64,000 state employees and 600 lucky holders of winning lottery tickets have in common? They were all unlucky enough to have some of their personal information -- names, social security numbers, and bank account numbers...

Tags: Zero-day attacks, Wi-Fi security, Vulnerability research, Viruses and Worms, Responsible disclosure, Privacy, Pen testing, Patch Watch, Passwords, Open source, Microsoft, McAfee, Hackers, Google, Firefox, Data theft, Browsers, Botnets

Blog posts 2007-07-04

More partnerships in the data protection space

I mentioned last week that the face of data protection was changing. This week and next will there are even more announcements. So last week it was Websense essentially OEM-ing PortAuthority’s technology and Vericept linking up with Entrust to create a “encrypt sensitive information” email solution. Today...

Tags: PostX, data protection

Blog posts 2006-10-04

Welcome EMC!

Today EMC announces the completion of their acquisition of RSA, fully joining the ranks of big security players. What I like most about this acquisition is that it was accompanied by a well articulated plan to create a business around protecting data and the infrastructure that contains it. EMC...

Tags: security, acquisition, Network Intelligence, EMC Corp.

Blog posts 2006-09-18

The Tao of security blogs

Richard Bejtlich heads up the consulting and training firm TaoSecurity. He also maintains the TaoSecurity blog at taosecurity.blogspot.com.  I interviewed him for the latest Meet The Bloggers ThreatCast because he is the first that I have talked to yet that, in a sense, leveraged his blogging into a...

Tags: TaoSecurity, blog, consulting, Richard Bejtlich

Blog posts 2006-08-04

In Japan, 4 million broadband users face data leak

In Japan, 4 million broadband users face data leakCIO needs to look at data leak preventionThere have been a few data leak prevention solutions, however there seems to be one which provides the most comprehensive solution for a price much less than the 2nd best solution. GTB tech just posted...

Tags: broadband user, broadband

Discussion threads 2006-06-14