Mumbai - eScan, one of the leading security solution providers and real-time anti-virus and content security solution has tied-up with, Zicom to secure their systems in India. eScan is the world's first real-time anti-virus and content security software for desktops and servers powered by innovative and futuristic technologies, such as MWL Technology.

Chennai - K7 TotalSecurity, a leading Internet Security Suite comprising Antivirus, Anti-spam, Firewall, Privacy and host of other security features, has been ranked among the top three in the world by AVTEST.ORG, an independent and leading security products testing organisation.

Mumbai - Web Werks India's leading carrier-neutral Data Center, announced today that its premier data center in India has been successfully audited by CERTI-IN empanelled IT Security Auditing Organization to be compliant along with the existing ISO 27001:2005 Certifications.

Hyderabad - Proton Data Security is pleased to announce its partnership with Knitlogix Pvt. Ltd. based in Hyderabad, India to promote and sell Proton data security products to the Indian market. Proton manufactures degaussers and declassification systems for the permanent erasure and sanitization of electronic media such as hard disk drives, storage tapes, magnetic disks, and optical disks.

Mumbai: Tata Advanced Systems (TAS) and AGT International (AGT) have announced the formation of a new Joint Venture company 'AVANA Integrated Systems' to provide Integrated Solutions for the emerging Homeland Security market.

Bangalore - Verity's highly acclaimed Blue ID, a new generation technology, secures financial transactions, manage access and provides biometric identity to masses on a pan India basis. Blue-ID card allows store purchase, online purchases, and Mobile Authentication and Identity Management Services purchases and can provide the "instant verification" for consumers.

Bangalore - Durga Prasad Dube, former Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of Reliance Group, has joined specialised information security provider, Paladion Networks as Executive Director Mr Dube would commence his new tenure from 18th of May 2010.

EmeryVille, CA - Based on special demands of the clients, NinjaCOPS Superstore has now added self defense items for senior citizens to their shelves. The stun guns available at NinjaCOPS Superstore are bought mostly by women. However, things have changed a lot these days. Self defense has become more important to senior citizens than to women.

Mumbai - The union of Seclore FileSecure and Symantec DLP brings about the integration of two complimentary capabilities that creates a commanding security solution to protect the transmission of confidential data.

Vancouver - QuIC Financial Technologies, a market leader providing the world's financial organisations with risk management, pricing and analytic solutions, is pleased to announce the company has won a major deal with a tier one global bank headquartered in the United States. QuIC is implementing their Counterparty Credit Risk Solution for Potential Future Exposure calculation using an incremental monte carlo pre-deal check.

Bangalore - IT security and control firm Sophos has published its latest report into the top twelve spam relaying countries, covering the first quarter of 2010. The United States of America continues its unpopular reign as the king of spam, relaying more than 13 percent of global spam, accounting for hundreds of millions of junk messages every day.

Mumbai - Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions, is proud to announce that its co-founder and CEO, Eugene Kaspersky, has been recognised as CEO of the Year. The accolade was presented at the prestigious SC Awards Europe 2010 in London.

New Delhi - Latens Systems Ltd, a world leader in providing security software to Pay TV operators, has today been awarded the prestigious Queen's Award for Enterprise in the category of International Trade, the UK's top award for business performance. Latens have won the award for the first time for doubling its exports over three years with all sales being exports.

Chennai - Synaptris, the market leading Lotus Notes information management solution provider, today announced the availability of FewClix Beta 2, the email productivity "killer app" for Lotus Notes that completely changes the corporate email paradigm.

Mumbai - eScan security experts have warned against opening emails or their attachments with subject lines such as "You have received A Hallmark E-Card!", "Your friend invited you to twitter!", "Thank you from Google!", "Jessica would like to be your friend on hi5!" and "Shipping update for your Amazon.com order 254-71546325-658732". These emails also carry zipped attachments which have been found to contain new variants of the malware in the wild.

Bangalore - eGestalt Technologies, a world leader in Cloud based Information security and IT-GRC management solutions, which recently launched SecureGRCTM, the world's first Cloud-based Integrated Information Security and IT-GRC solution for Enterprises, announced the appointment of Mr. Mukund Surange as the new Chief Executive Officer for eGestalt Technologies Pvt Ltd, India.

New Delhi - Acknowledging the utility that Internet brings to the day to day life, Dr Gulshan Rai, Director, CERT.in highlighted the fact that even though Internet could be considered as a catalyst and enabler to the society, it could also act as a threat to the social and national security. While chairing the inaugural panel discussion of conference on National Security & Digital Technology, Mr Rai stated, "Internet threat is always on evolving mode.

Mumbai - Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions, announces that Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 romped to victory in comparative testing conducted by the respected Polish IT magazine PC Format.

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