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Astrium to supply Belgium's security forces with the core of their first secure 3G network

Marc Jacob — 2013-05-21T15:18:08Z

Astrium has won a contract to provide Belgium's emergency and security services with Blue Light Mobile, their first secure mobile 3G network. The five-year contract has been signed with ASTRID, which is Belgium's mobile telecommunications network operator for the nation's local and federal police forces, its fire, civil defence, customs, state security, national defence and air and sea rescue services, and some of its hospitals and ambulance services.

To be deployed from early 2014, Blue Light Mobile will allow the security forces to exchange vital information during missions on the ground: enriched mapping of selected areas; real time videos and pictures; and access to state security files and databases. Thanks to this private, secure mobile virtual network, Belgium's security services will be able to exchange data on smartphones, tablets and computers on operations.

ASTRID, which currently operates the security forces' TETRA-type radio networks, will therefore reinforce its commercial offer with a 3G solution. Thanks in the main to the operating and billing tools built into the mobile network used by Astrium Services, ASTRID will become a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO). Astrium Services has drawn on Cisco's equipment and solutions in making use of the latest IP broadband technologies offered by commercial networks in line with mobile 3G and 4G standards.

The leading private operator in the military satellite communications sector, Astrium Services specialises in telecommunications systems designed for critical missions. It has also designed and developed new GSM services that link up with satellites to overcome possible mobile network saturation and thereby guarantee fast response, security and interoperability whenever crises or major incidents arise. Astrium Services' customers include some of the world's most advanced armed forces (the USA, the UK, France, Germany and NATO) as well as the French, British and now Belgian security forces. Astrium Services is also the world's number one supplier of satellite telecommunications in the maritime sector (transport, oil & gas, offshore platforms, etc), another area in which communications are vitally important.

Prolexic Gets Clickpoint! Media Back Online Quickly

Marc Jacob — 2013-05-21T13:45:41Z

Prolexic announced that Clickpoint! Media has chosen Prolexic as its DDoS mitigation services provider for multiple websites across its media services network. Clickpoint! offers a network of media services designed to help marketing and advertising organizations optimize their campaigns for greater return on investment, increased web traffic and heightened brand awareness.

Recently, Clickpoint! suffered a Layer 4 SYN flood that started out at 80 to 100 Mbps and quickly became a series of distributed denial of service attacks that increased to 800 Mbps. The company's websites experienced downtime of approximately four hours, twice a day, over the course of a week. During these downtime periods, Clickpoint! could not provide an important part of its media service and customer account access was limited. Clickpoint! engaged Prolexic for DDoS mitigation services after previous efforts failed to mitigate the series of attacks that were escalating in size and complexity.

“Online businesses like Clickpoint! that rely so heavily on the Internet for day-to-day business operations are especially susceptible to DDoS attacks,” said Stuart Scholly, president at Prolexic. “Because attacks are continuing to increase in size and complexity, they are outgrowing the level of protection that hardware appliances, ISPs, telcos, and content delivery networks typically provide.”

Prolexic's DDoS mitigation engineers in the Prolexic Security Operations Center (SOC) brought all Clickpoint! sites up within minutes after routing traffic through Prolexic's global scrubbing centers. Using a combination of advanced proprietary techniques, equipment, and live monitoring best practices, Prolexic's engineers were able to quickly develop and launch countermeasures to block the changing attack vectors. Prolexic also provided real-time attack metrics on the origin of the attacks – Turkey and Romania – as well as other metrics that Clickpoint! can use to build a stronger DDoS defense with Prolexic as the cornerstone.

“No one is safe from DDoS and other types of cyber attacks,” said Roberto Siano, CEO and founder of Clickpoint! Media. “With Prolexic's protection against DDoS in place, Clickpoint! can give our marketing and advertising customers absolute confidence that the critical media services they rely on will always be available and accessible.”

AlienVault Recognized as AlwaysOn OnDemand Top 100 Winner

Marc Jacob — 2013-05-21T11:59:04Z

AlienVault announced that it has been recognized as one of the AlwaysOn OnDemand Top 100 private companies for the second consecutive year. AlienVault is being honored for creating new business opportunities and disrupting the cloud infrastructure industry. In addition to being honored, the company's CEO, Barmak Meftah, will speak on the “What It Takes to be a Rising Star” panel at the AlwaysOn OnDemand event on May 21.

AlienVault's Unified Security Management (USM) platform provides users with five essential security capabilities including asset discovery, vulnerability assessment, threat detection, behavioral monitoring and security intelligence in a single, unified solution and management console. The USM platform is totally unique in its ability to deliver these security capabilities wherever an organization's data resides; whether in the cloud or in the data center, AlienVault USM provides the security monitoring and visibility that can often hold businesses back from taking advantage of the cost and flexibility benefits of the cloud.

Fellow OnDemand Top 100 company GoGrid uses AlienVault's USM platform to enhance its offerings. The infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) provider has partnered with AlienVault to expand its cloud solutions to include a security-as-a-service offering based on AlienVault USM.

AlienVault and the other AlwaysOn OnDemand Top 100 Winners will be honored at AlwaysOn's OnDemand event on May 20-21, 2013, at Hewlett-Packard's Executive Briefing Center in Palo Alto, Calif.

The latest version of the AlienVault Unified Security Management platform is available now.

Vigil@nce - Cisco Unified Communications Manager: file reading via CLI

Vigil@nce — 2013-05-21T09:47:54Z

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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY

An attacker, who is authenticated on the Cisco Unified Communications Manager CLI, can read any file on the system.

Impacted products: Cisco CUCM
Severity: 2/4
Creation date: 06/05/2013

DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY

An attacker, who is authenticated on the Cisco Unified Communications Manager CLI, can read any file on the system.

Technical details are unknown.

ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN

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Vigil@nce - IBM Eclipse Help System: source code reading via iehs.war

Vigil@nce — 2013-05-21T09:46:54Z

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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY

An attacker can use iehs.war, which is used in several IBM products, in order to read the source code of web pages.

Impacted products: DB2 UDB
Severity: 2/4
Creation date: 06/05/2013

DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY

Several IBM products uses help files, which are displayed through the IBM Eclipse Help System viewer, provided by iehs.war.

However, an attacker can use iehs.war, in order to read the source code of web pages.

Technical details are unknown.

ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN

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AT4 wireless expands scope of Wi-Fi Alliance® Authorized Test Lab services

Marc Jacob — 2013-05-20T18:50:54Z

AT4 wireless announced that it has been authorized by Wi-Fi Alliance® to perform certification testing for Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Voice Personal, Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Tunneled Direct Link Setup (TDLS) and WPA2 Protected Management Frames (PMF) programs.

Wi-Fi Alliance developed the Voice-Personal certification program to verify that access points, often referred to as wireless routers, and client devices like handsets and laptops deliver good voice quality over a Wi-Fi network. The program extends beyond interoperability testing to test the performance of specific products. Products that achieve Voice-Personal certification have met strict performance levels and are capable of providing consistent, good-quality voice calls.

The TDLS certification program was initiated because of growing market demand for Wi-Fi networks to support devices that employ voice, video, and multimedia applications. TDLS certified devices automatically create a direct link between them, helping to optimize the home network and provide an improved user experience with respect to speed of connection and overall bandwidth efficiency. Wi-Fi CERTIFIED WPA2 with Protected Management Frames provides a WPA2-level of protection for unicast and multicast management action frames. Unicast management actions frames are protected from both eavesdropping and forging, and multicast management action frames are protected from forging. WPA2 with Protected Management Frames augments WPA2 privacy protections already in place for data frames with mechanisms to improve the resiliency of mission-critical networks.

Wi-Fi manufacturers that would like to implement these features in their products can request to perform Wi-Fi CERTIFIED testing at AT4 wireless' facility in Spain.

VASCO Announces Acquisition of Cronto (United Kingdom)

Marc Jacob — 2013-05-20T17:24:57Z

VASCO Data Security International, Inc. announced its acquisition of Cronto, of Cambridge (UK), a provider of secure visual transaction authentication solutions for online banking (www.cronto.com ). VASCO acquired all of the stock of Cronto in exchange for an initial cash consideration of Euro 15 million and contingent cash consideration in the form of an earn-out of up to a maximum of Euro 2 million (combined, approximately $21.9 million using the exchange rate of 1.29).

The acquisition was financed from VASCO's existing cash balances. The acquisition is expected to be dilutive in 2013, due in large part to the amortization of purchased intangible assets. The acquisition is expected to be accretive in 2014.

Cronto was founded in 2005 as a University of Cambridge spin-out and is the market leader in the field of secure visual transaction authentication and signature solutions for online banking applications. The CrontoSign solution (also known as photoTAN) has been chosen to secure transactions of customers of leading German and Swiss banks such as Commerzbank AG and Raiffeisen Switzerland.

Cronto's patented CrontoSign technology is a simple, user friendly and effective way to withstand even very sophisticated attacks by Trojan malware, targeting online banking services. CrontoSign protects against such attacks as it allows the bank to establish a secure optical communication channel with the client. Account holders can simply “scan” a CrontoSign image displayed on their bank's website and verify the details of the payment on a trusted display. They can choose between the CrontoSign mobile application or a dedicated CrontoSign hardware device.

VASCO will add the patented CrontoSign products to its offerings for the global banking market.

In a later phase, VASCO anticipates that Cronto's products will be integrated into MYDIGIPASS.COM, VASCO's strong authentication platform to secure the consumers' online applications/accounts.

VASCO expects that Cronto will contribute greatly to VASCO's future innovation efforts, due to its knowledge and expertise in advanced statistical data analysis and machine learning algorithms that underpins high speed and reliability of image based transactions and due to its close ties with the University of Cambridge.

19 March - 29 May: DenyAll's upcoming Webinars cover the following key themes: BYOD, migration, virtual patching and

Marc Jacob — 2013-05-20T16:59:00Z

 March 19: Beyond BYOD, featuring Promon's CTO and founder, Tom Lysemose. _ The webinar will focus on how to ensure that corporate data remains secure while being accessed by devices that don't comply with corporate policy. The innovative Client Shield solution for Web and mobile applications will be presented.

 March 26: why and how to migrate to DenyAll Protect version 4.1? This webinar will highlight the advantages of the new platform and present the methodology used by DenyAll to support customers through the migration process.

 April 9: the new features in DenyAll Detect 5.0, including in the critical areas of reporting and asset management.

 April 23: the new features in DenyAll Protect 4.1 FP1, with a focus on new security engines and the virtual patching capabilities derived from the integration between the Detect and Protect product lines.

 May 29: a new edition of the “CTO Talk” webinar series, during which DenyAll CTO Renaud Bidou will highlight the dangers associated with the broader use of HTML5.

Registration to all webinars can be performed on the company's website: http://www.denyall.com/news/events_en

Over 40% of Organisations are Planning to Unify and Converge their Data Centre Platforms, NextiraOne Survey Reveals

NextiraOne — 2013-05-20T11:51:55Z

An in-depth survey conducted by NextiraOne, Europe's leading expert in communications services, in conjunction with Data Centre Solutions, has highlighted a growing need for Unified Computing Platforms as IT directors focus on increasing performance whilst reducing space and power requirements. The survey revealed that over 40% of respondents are currently implementing or planning to adopt converged, unified platforms for their Data Centre and Cloud needs.

The survey, aimed at IT and Data Centre decision-makers in public and private sector organisations throughout the UK, was conducted online over a two-month period. Respondents were asked to give their views on topics such as their use of Cloud, co-location and other outsourcing options, plus the provisioning of server and storage capacity. The results have provided important insights into the requirements and concerns of today's businesses and the migration strategies of respondents. In particular the high number of those planning to use public or hybrid Cloud services (44%) and those considering co-location (32%) highlight the need and demand for new Unified Computing Platforms to manage these issues. A further key indicator was that 57% of respondents felt that it takes too long to be able to provision new server or storage capacity.

Geraint Davies, NextiraOne's Head of Business Development, Data Centre, said: “These findings confirm what we have been hearing directly from our customers. The survey shows that the industry is at the tipping point of a massive change as organisations streamline their infrastructure and move from silos containing storage, networking and servers towards Unified Computing Platforms.”

NextiraOne's Data Centre strategy has been developed to reflect this trend and the company's experience with customers. According to Mr Davies, over the coming years small to mid-sized organisations and enterprises are likely to shift more of their budgets towards the support of their Cloud-based strategies. NextiraOne is increasingly being asked to design and implement Unified Computing Infrastructure solutions to meet this requirement and works with key technology partners to make this transformation as simple and cost-effective as possible.

“The new generation of Unified Computing Platforms combines storage, networking, servers and hardware, replacing multiple hardware appliances by combining best of breed technologies from industry leaders. We can help to reduce the time taken to evolve existing architecture to support Cloud Computing by implementing a Unified Computing Platform – the deployment of virtualised servers and applications takes dramatically less time than previous options,” says Davies.

Unified Computing Platforms operate as a single infrastructure and therefore simplify the process of adoption of Cloud Computing for organisations with small generalist IT teams that lack the resources to manage multiple separate pieces of equipment. One such solution is FlexPod™ which includes components from a number of technology partners including NetApp® unified storage systems, Cisco® Unified Computing System™ servers, Cisco Nexus® switches and a Cloud Management software solution. The FlexPod architecture scales up to any requirements and can be optimised for a variety of mixed workloads in both virtualised and non-virtualised environments.

NextiraOne is already implementing and integrating FlexPod solutions for its customers. The company provides professional services, support and managed services to consolidate, centralise and support a seamless and scalable migration to the Cloud.

“We have recognised the trend, listened to our customers and responded to their needs. The survey is just further confirmation that we are on the right track,” concludes Geraint Davies.

AVG Technologies Launches its Latest Range of Performance Applications for Android™

Marc Jacob — 2013-05-20T11:43:06Z

AVG Technologies N.V. has announced two brand new applications in its mobile portfolio. AVG Cleaner and AVG Image Shrinker are now available for free for Android™ smartphones and tablets.

AVG Cleaner

Designed to enhance Android™ smartphone and tablet performance, AVG Cleaner allows users to monitor storage availability on their device and clean cache and unnecessary browser history files to free up memory and make more space. The application includes tools to automatically monitor device memory and storage, remove files, and schedule regular clean ups to keep the device running smoothly.

AVG Image Shrinker

Developed to help users save on data use and share their images more easily, AVG Image Shrinker is a free application which reduces image sizes and enables direct uploads to photo sharing sites, MMS or email directly from the application. Images can be uploaded straight to Facebook®, Pinterest™, Instagram™, Picasa™ and many other popular social network sites. By reducing the size of photos and images, users not only save on mobile data usage and the resulting costs, but also the time it takes to send or upload their photos.

Today's announcement follows the company's recent release of AVG TuneUp ™, which was made available for free for Android smartphones and tablets in April 2013. Built to help users get improved performance from their devices, the application combines several performance tools including a task killer, battery saver and storage space manager, and also allows users to monitor their data usage.

Cutting Edge Technology Previews Radical Change in Data Centers at European Conference

BroadGroup — 2013-05-20T09:42:00Z

BroadGroup estimates that by 2016, around 70% of Europe's data centers will be operated by enterprises. Thinking differently about data centers provides the focus for this year's Datacentres Europe, (www.datacentreseurope.com) now in its 9th year it is the largest regional event for the IT infrastructure and cloud sector.

In a packed programme attended by 1k executives from across Europe, the conference will focus on how radical changes in the fabric of data centres, Cloud, modular, DCIM gamechanger software, new innovations in cooling and electrical power and much more will impact today's facilities and the way in which services are procured. Finance, investment and the market landscape also feature as key topics.

Speakers and experts from enterprises complement insights from world class organisations and join forces to present a powerful agenda dedicated to the transformative process that lies ahead towards a flexible computing environment.

Key representatives participating include Amazon Web Services, Bloom Energy, Google, DLB Associates, Morgan Stanley, AOL, Atos, SwitchNAP, TelecityGroup, Datacenterpulse, Godrich Consulting LLC, T-Systems, Telia Sonera International Carrier, Kazakh Telecom, Schneider Electric, HP, CommScope, I/O and many more will take part in facilitated panels and case studies and provide insight into the management of today's IT infrastructure, data, energy and cloud.

“Datacentres Europe is a global meeting place and forum,” commented Warwick Dunkley, vice president at BroadGroup. “With the participation of executives from more than 30 countries, it will deliver a tremendous programme covering critical technical, commercial and operational topics aligned to the changing data center and cloud environment. In feedback, attendees tell us that Nice is the best event and location to meet and network.”

The conference taking place 29-30 May, hosts 4 conference theatres, accredited training each day, specialist security workshops, new product demos, masterclasses, user case studies, an industry exhibition and also the annual presentation of the European Code of Conduct Awards by the European Commission.

The event patron is Schneider Electric, and the global platinum sponsors are Hewlett Packard and Intel. It is supported by sponsors, including Panduit, Socomec, Stulz, CommScope, Digiplex, Dataplex, Bird and Bird LLP, eco, Siemens, APL, MigSolv, Cofely GDF Suez, Business Sweden, Caterpillar, Volta, Bouygues and Telia Sonera International Carrier plus a wide number of organisation, industry and media partners.

Vigil@nce - WordPress: information disclosure via Advanced XML Reader

Vigil@nce — 2013-05-20T06:49:52Z

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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY

An attacker can use an external XML entity in Advanced XML Reader of WordPress, in order to obtain sensitive information.

Impacted products: WordPress

Severity: 2/4

Creation date: 03/05/2013

DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY

XML data can contain external entities (DTD):

A program which reads these XML data can replace these entities by data coming from the indicated file. When the program uses XML data coming from an untrusted source, this behavior leads to:
content disclosure from files of the server
private web site scan
a denial of service by opening a blocking file

This feature thus must be disabled to process XML data coming from an untrusted source.

However, the Advanced XML Reader plugin allows external entities.

An attacker can therefore transmit malicious XML data to Advanced XML Reader, in order to force it to include a file, which can then be returned to the attacker.

ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN

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Vigil@nce - EMC VNX/Celerra Control Station: privilege escalation via nasadmin

Vigil@nce — 2013-05-20T06:48:50Z

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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY

An attacker, who is member of the nasadmin group, can alter scripts of EMC VNX/Celerra Control Station, in order to escalate his privileges.

Impacted products: Celerra NS, VNX Operating Environment, VNX Series

Severity: 1/4

Creation date: 16/05/2013

DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY

The EMC VNX Control Station and EMC Celerra Control Station products install scripts on the system. These scripts are run with root privileges.

However, these scripts are owned by the nasadmin group, and are writable.

An attacker, who is member of the nasadmin group, can therefore alter scripts of EMC VNX/Celerra Control Station, in order to escalate his privileges.

ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN

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Vigil@nce - EMC NetWorker: privilege escalation via nsrpush

Vigil@nce — 2013-05-20T06:47:56Z

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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY

A local attacker can use an unprotected file of nsrpush of EMC NetWorker, in order to escalate his privileges.

Impacted products: NetWorker

Severity: 2/4

Creation date: 03/05/2013

DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY

The EMC NetWorker product uses the nsrpush service.

However, access permissions to certain files of nsrpush are not secured. Technical details are unknown.

A local attacker can therefore use an unprotected file of nsrpush of EMC NetWorker, in order to escalate his privileges.

ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN

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Vigil@nce - RSA SecurID: obsolete algorithm

Vigil@nce — 2013-05-20T06:47:07Z

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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY

Several products related to RSA SecurID use an obsolete encryption algorithm, and a short key size.

Impacted products: RSA Authentication Agent, SecurID

Severity: 1/4

Creation date: 16/05/2013

DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY

Several products related to RSA SecurID use an obsolete encryption algorithm, and a short key size.

An attacker may therefore find the secret.

Technical details are unknown.

ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN

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Vigil@nce - EMC Avamar: file reading via File Restore

Vigil@nce — 2013-05-20T06:46:12Z

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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY

An attacker can manipulate the url of the file restore web interface of EMC Avamar, in order to read a file.

Impacted products: Avamar

Severity: 2/4

Creation date: 03/05/2013

DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY

An attacker can manipulate the url of the file restore web interface of EMC Avamar, in order to read a file.

Technical details are unknown.

ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN

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Vigil@nce - EMC Avamar Client: incorrect validation of certificate

Vigil@nce — 2013-05-20T06:45:25Z

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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY

When a certificate authentication is configured, an attacker can create a malicious EMC Avamar server, in order to deceive the client.

Impacted products: Avamar

Severity: 2/4

Creation date: 03/05/2013

DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY

The EMC Avamar product can use a certificate based authentication.

An X.509 certificate contains the CN (Common Name) and SAN (Subject Alternative Name) fields, which should match the server name. However, the Avamar client does not perform these checks.

When a certificate authentication is configured, an attacker can therefore create a malicious EMC Avamar server, in order to deceive the client.

ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN

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17 -18 June - London (UK) Securing Asia

Marc Jacob — 2013-05-19T14:43:00Z

Securing Asia is the only Asia focused interactive platform where representatives of Asian nations and Western security suppliers can meet and address vital issues and business opportunities related to Homeland Security and Counter Terror measures.

Securing Asia 2013, aims to create “profit from participation” for all its partners and will once again attract the international security and intelligence communities comprising of governments, academia, research and industry professionals who will share their experiences, knowledge and expertise in tackling the various problems currently faced by Governments and Agencies around the world and also provide a neutral platform to explore and sign new business deals and partnerships.

Securing Asia 2012 witnessed participation from Defence, Police, Military and Para-military forces of over 22 countries including Bangladesh, Brunei, Georgia, India, Japan, Jordan, Myanmar, Nepal, Oman, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Taiwan and UAE among others.

Over the course of two days (17th and 18th June 2013), the Summit will encompass a conference, a business exhibition, numerous networking opportunities and access to specialised concierge and business facilitation services. Attendees will exchange knowledge and technical know-how in order to arrive at customised security solutions.

The sector focus for 2013 is:
• Aviation & Transport Security
• Critical Infrastructure Protection & CBRNe
• Cyber Security & Forensics
• IED Detection & Counter Measures
• Maritime Security & Anti-Piracy

Place: Quen Elizabeth II Conference Center Contatct:

Web: www.securingasia.com/home.aspx

26th and 27th June 2013: All-encompassing Cloud World Forum agenda announced

Marc Jacob — 2013-05-19T14:20:00Z

Organisers have released details of the seminar agenda for the 5th Annual Cloud World Forum (www.cloudwf.com), taking place on the 26th and 27th June 2013.

The two day conference and expo, to be held at Olympia National Hall in London and attended by 5,000 IT professionals from across the globe, will feature 9 theatre streams and play host to keynote presentations from leading technology speakers, including Dr. Jeff Jaffe, CEO for the World Wide Web Consortium, Dana Deasy, CIO for BP and Francisco Garcia Moran, Director General, Informatics for the European Commission.

After a hugely successful show in 2012, the Cloud World Forum agenda is shifting its focus to highlight the evolution of cloud computing in 2013, using over 70 case studies to showcase real-life examples of cloud's success in helping reduce costs and boost innovation in global IT departments. Topics to be placed under the microscope include IaaS, SaaS, Security, Mobile Cloud and Big Data, with the event also incorporating a new special focus day for Public Sector and Financial Industry professionals, in the Strategy Theatre on Day Two of the event.

Speakers already confirmed include:

Dr. Jeff Jaffe, CEO, World Wide Web Consortium
Francisco Garcio Moran, Director General, Informatics, European Commission
Dana Deasy, CIO, BP
Richard Harris, CIO, ARM Holding
Daniel Marion, Head of IT, UEFA
Tony McAlister, CTO, Betfair
Marco Montenagno, Founder, The Tech Alchemist
Neira Jones, Senior VP, Cybercrime, Barclaycard
Joan Miller, Director of Parliamentary ICT, Houses of Parliament

Alongside the conference theatres, the Cloud World Forum will include a large-scale exhibition showcasing the latest cloud-related products from over 100 global solution providers. Exhibitors include Microsoft, Rackspace, Interoute and Flexera, while HP have recently confirmed their position as Diamond Sponsors of the event.

The show is co-located with the 2nd Annual Big Data World Congress (www.bigdatacongress.com) and the 3rd Annual CDN World Forum (www.cdnconference.com), making it one of Europe's most comprehensive technology events for business professionals.

To gain access to all aspects of the event, register for our Executive Pass now via www.cloudwf.com/register or alternatively, visit the Cloud World Forum for FREE by registering for an Expo pass here.

For further details about the event, call the Cloud World Forum team today on +44 (0)845 519 1230.

Securing Asia 24 - 25 June 2013 (www.securingasia.com): Asia crime gangs can be brought to justice by using unique UK digital forensic technology

Marc Jacob — 2013-05-19T14:19:00Z

Innovative digital forensic technology that instantly identifies illegal activity over the internet could help law enforcers stem the growing threat of terrorism and organised crime across the Asia Pacific Region.

The UK-developed automatic video identification software is unique in that it can enable police to search through hundreds hours of illegal video content and digital images and identify illegal content and digital images in a matter of seconds.

The automatic video identification software is unique in that it can enable police to identify illegal video material seized on hard drives and computers. The users of the system can throughput up to 10,000 hours of video per day thus speeding up investigations and improving working conditions.

As the Asian economy continues to boom – the region has also become the focus of organised crime gangs and terrorism who increasingly use the internet to engage in their illegal activity.

The Videntifier technology promoted by Forensic Pathways (www.forensic-pathways.com) is so advanced that is can search through hundreds of hours of video content and digital images and instantly identify illegal activity that could be used in crimes against children, terrorism and drugs.

The Videntifier technology promoted by Forensic Pathways (www.forensic-pathways.com) is so advanced that is can search through thousands of hours of video content a day and report back a list of movies it has identified and whether these are legal or illegal. The technology is currently being used to instantly identify illegal activity such as child abuse, terrorism and drugs.

Dr Richard Leary MBE, a former UK police officer, who now heads up Forensic Pathways explained that the technology can not only save law enforcers hours of valuable time but it can also help them share valuable intelligence with the international law enforcement community for the first time.

Ben Leary, Sales & Marketing Manager for Forensic Pathways explained that the technology can not only save law enforcer's hours of valuable time but it can also help them share valuable intelligence with the international law enforcement community for the first time.

“It is widely recognised that the key to help stemming the current crime problems across Asia is to promote closer working between law enforcers not just in the region but internationally. Videntifier can help police to build up a database of ‘fingerprints' of video files that can be shared by police across the world. Police are now identifying videos across borders which provides valuable intelligence for investigators”

Forensic Pathways has also developed another unique piece of technology called Phone Analyser than enables police to extract valuable data from mobile phones and establish links between terror suspects and organised gangs.

Forensic Pathways has also developed another unique piece of technology, Forensic Phone Analyser (FPA). FPA enables police to analyse valuable data extracted from mobile phones so that important intelligence can be searched and identified quickly and efficiently.

“Mobile phones are now used in the majority if not all crimes and they can provide police with a wealth of intelligence,” explained Dr Leary.

“Mobile phones are now used in the majority if not all crimes and they can provide police with a wealth of intelligence,” Ben Leary explained.

“The Phone Analyser can process data that could help link people, identify social and criminal networks, pinpoint fraudulent identities and attribute phone numbers and text messages to people.”

“Forensic Phone Analyser can process data that can help link people, identify social and criminal networks, pinpoint fraudulent identities and attribute phone numbers and text messages to people.”

“The key to Forensic Phone Analyser is data aggregation, bringing all the data together in one place. By working this way investigators are no longer looking at mobile phone data case by case”

The Videntifier and Phone Analyser technologies will be demonstrated at the Securing Asia Conference in London in June.

Forensic Pathways will also be visiting the Asia Pacific region in July for meetings with key law enforcement officials to discuss the current crime trends and demonstrate how its technology could help their crime fighting efforts.

For more information: www.securingasia.com

contact Ben Leary at Forensic Pathways – ben.leary@forensic-pathways.com

26th-27th June at National Hall Olympia, the 5th Annual Cloud World Forum: Curtain Rises on Cloud World Forum Agenda

Marc Jacob — 2013-05-19T11:57:00Z

Taking place in London on 26th-27th June at National Hall Olympia, the 5th Annual Cloud World Forum – www.cloudwf.com – will bring you together with fellow IT decision-makers, giving you the opportunity to do business and learn about the leading trends and topics in the cloud space.

Our seminar agenda will be held across 8 theatres, with a renewed focus on the key subject areas driving change in IT departments across Europe and the rest of the world. Here is a little summary of each dedicated theatre:

Vision Theatre: Will hold seminars on all the biggest cloud computing topics, from the issue of developing large-scale service-led infrastructure to case studies from some of cloud's leading pioneers. Keynote presentations by Dr. Jeff Jaffe, CEO at World Wide Web Consortium; Oskar Stål, CTO at Spotify; and Jeff Barr, Chief Evangelist, Amazon Web Services.

Strategy Theatre: Where we'll discuss new implementation and monetisation methods for cloud. You'll engage in discussions related to cloud security and the benefits of the as-a-service models, as well as hearing from key case studies examples in the public and financial sectors. Keynote presentation by Richard Harris, CIO at ARM.

Evolution Theatre: Here is where we get technical, offering advice on the physical elements involved in enhancing your cloud, and discussing the next wave of applications and services available to those looking to build on their existing infrastructure. Keynote presentation by Stavros Isaiadis, AVP Technology at Bank of America Merril Lynch.

Connection Theatre: Day One (26th June) offers attendees an opportunity to discuss the mobile cloud. Day Two (27th June) we'll be focusing on the cloud Channel. Keynote presentation by Tony McAlister, CTO at Betfair.

Google™ Theatre: Returning for a second year, the Google Theatre will cover all things in the Google cloud, including their Work the Way You Live (WTWYL) initiative, the benefits of Google Drive for business and the latest scaling enhancements of the Google platform.

Executive Summit: We'll once again be hosting the Executive Leadership Summit - a unique, senior level gathering held during the conference, where 150 of the globe's top decision-makers will network with peers and share discussions in a more intimate atmosphere.

CDN World Forum: The 3rd Annual CDN World Forum theatre will once again highlight some of the biggest trends related to the Content Delivery Networks (CDN) industry – www.cdnconference.com Keynote presentation by Ken Florance, VP of Content Delivery, Netflix

Big Data World Congress: With its own theatre and incorporated exhibition, the 2nd Annual Big Data World Congress aims to expand further on the technology world's hottest topic. Keynote presentation by Phil Cheetham, Head of Technology at AOL.

Please click here for more information on each theatre and co-located event. And if you would like to see the full Seminar Agendas, simply click here.

To register your place at the event and take advantage of the early bird rate which runs until 10th May 2013, please click here or call a member of our team on +44 (0)845 519 1230.