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MWR lays down the gauntlet for hackers to demonstrate their prowess

LONDON, UK: In a bid to close the cyber security skills gap, MWR InfoSecurity - the global research-led security consultancy, is bringing back its highly anticipated and prestigious HackFu event for the eighth year running. HackFu 2015 aims to test and improve existing cyber security and team work skills amongst the industry’s best emerging talent, through a series of tasks and challenges that push participants to explore beyond their comfort zones. Prior to the event, MWR is running a global competition to find the most gifted security minds of the world, as well as a local competition for budding infosec enthusiasts, who’ll win a place at this invite-only event. Deadline for entrants is 30 April.

: DULCIE MCLERIE; Exhibitions; Posted On Tuesday, 28 April 2015 06:00

How Attackers Exploit People to Circumvent Cyber-security

LONDON, UK: Proofpoint, Inc. has released the results of its annual study that details the ways attackers exploit end-users' psychology to circumvent IT security. The Human Factor Report 2015 reveals that last year was the year attackers “went corporate” by changing their tactics to focus on businesses rather than consumers, exploiting middle management overload of information sharing, and trading off attack volume for sophistication. The Proofpoint findings reiterate how human behavior, not simply system or software vulnerabilities, has significant implications on enterprise security—and what defenses are necessary in a world where everyone clicks.

: Lucy Harvey; Industry News; Posted On Friday, 24 April 2015 18:04

Check Point and FireEye announce new partnership to share threat intelligence

San Francisco, CA: Check Point Software Technologies Ltd and FireEye have announced a partnership to share threat intelligence to protect customers from modern advanced attacks. As part of this cooperation, Check Point’s ThreatCloud and Next Generation Threat Prevention solutions and the FireEye NX platform will share the latest threat intelligence in real-time, allowing customers to update firewall security policies dynamically based on the intelligence from both platforms.

: JOSEPH RUTTER; Industry News; Posted On Friday, 24 April 2015 17:56

gateprotect offers companies high security encoding to military standards

Hamburg: gateprotect GmbH, a German IT security specialist and subsidiary of the Rohde & Schwarz corporate group, has expanded its product range with the R&S®SITLine ETH security solutions. Thanks to state-of-the-art cryptographic methods, these guarantee the current maximum security for Ethernet wide area networks: The SITLine-ETH encryption devices are BSI-approved for the NATO RESTRICTED and VS-NfD confidentiality levels and thus offer highly secure protection to military standards, even for corporate data.