News briefly: this week\'s product releases

This week has seen a major variety of product releases on the RSA Conference and Mobile World Congress.

Here is a round-up of a few of the releases and news we heard about this week:

Certgate has announced that it has expanded its encryption and NFC capabilities to smartphones and tablets to feature functionality for access control, PKI, payment, data security and secure voice applications.

Trusted Logic Mobility and Wave have launched a combined solution that allows users to increase their security architectures, normally linked to their PC assets, to also cover mobile devices. Utilising the smartphone as a token to authenticate the user, the answer allows encrypted data held in a company notebook computer to be unlocked. That is enabled by secure software from Trusted Logic Mobility and a smartphone application developed by Wave for communication with the laptop in addition to the software to judge the smartphone's integrity.

IntraLinks has launched IntraLinks Connect for the enterprise, a platform that permits any employee, within or outside an organisation, to share content and collaborate with business partners beyond the firewall, while ensuring adherence to corporate control, security and compliance requirements. Also using integrated rights management, fine-grained permissions and a comprehensive audit trail, IntraLinks Connect allows enterprises to share highly sensitive information without ever giving up visibility or control over the content.

Imation has introduced new purpose-built backup appliances designed to enable small- and medium-sized businesses to safeguard their valuable information with multiple levels of knowledge protection from a single backup infrastructure. It said that the DataGuard Model R4 and DataGuard Model T5R are appliances which utilise hard drives, removable RDX disk cartridges, replication and cloud storage. The appliances fit with many cloud storage APIs and, once a cloud backup is seeded by shuttling RDX cartridges, they support remote backups and users can automate protection since data backup to cloud storage is performed with none human intervention once configured.

My1login launched this week with an army-grade encryption ‘vault' where users can manage, store and safely share their logins, passwords and PINs using a free, highly secure, web-based interface. Having been audited by HP and with encryption certification from Verisign, it said access to stored and encrypted passwords comes through each user's chosen unique ‘key', which remains fully private and never accessible by my1login staff. It uses internationally endorsed encryption standards with the user's browser encrypting all login data using the selected ‘key', before transmitting it for secure storage on my1login's database.

NaviSite launched a cloud-based desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) that permits organisations to deliver virtual desktop services to local and remote users from the cloud. Powered by its platform and Desktone, it allows IT departments to feature or remove desktops quickly and securely and enables organisations to scale in keeping with the immediate needs in their business.

McAfee has launched an enterprise solution offering real-time protection for business-critical databases. Named Database Activity Monitoring, it supports MySQL and Teradata databases as a way to ensure complete protection around the most well-liked database management systems. It's also integrated with McAfee's Vulnerability Manager for Databases and its ePolicy Orchestrator console.

NetIQ launched a safety information and event management (SIEM) solution named Sentinel 7 that it said readily adapts to dynamic enterprise environments and delivers the "actionable intelligence" that security professionals should quickly understand their threat posture and prioritise response. It said Sentinel 7 delivers full-featured SIEM including real-time event analysis and log management, and maximises the power to align SIEM to organisational needs.

FireEye has launched the File Malware Protection System this is designed to detect and eliminate malware resident on file shares, web-based email, social networking, online file transfer tools, personal storage devices and other manual suggests that bring files into the network. File shares are analysed using the FireEye Virtual Execution Engine that detects zero-day malicious code embedded in all common file types. The File MPS performs recursive, scheduled and on-demand scanning of obtainable network file shares to spot and quarantine resident malware without impact on corporate productivity.

Fortinet launched two next-generation firewalls, both designed to fulfill the growing threat protection and IT infrastructure control requirements of huge enterprises, service providers and carriers that supply complex, multi-tenant cloud-based services. It said that the FortiGate-3240C is a multi-threat security appliance that gives best-in-class port density for optimal scalability, while the FortiGate-5101C is a high-powered security blade that integrates the most recent FortiASIC processors to accelerate the performance of FortiGate-5000 Series ATCA-compliant systems, including the FortiGate-5140B.

HP launched its Security Intelligence and Risk Management (SIRM) platform, which it said bridges the distance between security and IT operations, helping organisations to head beyond a bolted-on, single-purpose product strategy. It said this gives visibility across security assets within the context of commercial-critical processes and applications, with HP EnterpriseView that offers C-level executives with a dynamic dashboard and prioritised heat-map view of risk around the enterprise; an Application Security Monitor gives visibility into application security threats, and shortens the time had to deploy monitoring by significantly reducing costly custom programming. The TippingPoint technology is utilised in a next-generation Intrusion Prevention System that delivers protection against complex application threats at the side of the SIRM platform.

Advanced security intelligence and analytics provider Solera Networks has announced the newest enhancement to its DeepSee platform â€" the genuine-Time Extractor that automatically extracts and analyses any file, including the main prevalent and malicious types. It said it enables immediate, automatic identification and alerting of advanced and 0-day threats and, by integrating with best-of-breed malware detection and analysis systems, DeepSee enables organisations to leverage existing tools to reply faster and more accurately to attacks.

Sourcefire has launched a next-generation Intrusion Prevention System to produce fully integrated and intelligent application control. It enables companies to govern access to thousands of applications, and give custom detection and control for homegrown applications with threat-mitigating controls to minimize attack surface and enforce usage policies.

WatchGuard launched two unified threat management (UTM) appliances, the XTM 25 and 26, to give full HTTPS inspection, VoIP support and options for application control. In addition they offer other WatchGuard security services resembling WebBlocker, spamBlocker, Gateway Antivirus, Intrusion Prevention Service and Reputation Enabled Defense.

Device recognition technology vendor 41st Parameter was granted a patent by the usa Patent and Trademark Office for its SafeSession technology, which protects against man-in-the-middle attacks. The technology enables users to detect when a session is getting used by a couple of device concurrently.