Tom Callahan serves as vice president of sales at SafeNet Assured Technologies, a SafeNet Inc. wholly-owned subsidiary that offers information security platforms in the government market. Prior to his current role, Callahan was VP of the company’s federal sales organization and led business development and sales engineering teams focused on marketing encryption and authentication products […] More

EMC‘s security division RSA has unveiled additional cloud security, network visibility and data privacy functions for its RSA Security Analytics offering, which will be available under throughput-based pricing and flexible packaging options. EMC said Tuesday the product works to provide security incident and event management capabilities beyond logs to detect threat signals using a combination of logs and data from […] More

Amit Yoran, president of the RSA security division at EMC, has urged the technology security sector to go beyond “legacy mindsets” to address what he views as emerging challenges in the current threat environment. Yoran, an inductee into Executive Mosaic‘s Wash100 for 2015, told attendees of this week’s RSA Conference that technology is not the problem for industry as it works to combat cyber […] More

Iron Bow Technologies has been recognized in The Channel Company’s annual CRN Tech Elite 250 list of information technology providers. Rene LaVigne, president and CEO of Iron Bow, said Monday the company’s inclusion in the list for the fifth consecutive year validates Iron Bow’s efforts to “maintain technical excellence.” LaVigne added that Iron Bow leverages […] More

A global study from RSA, the security division of EMC, has shown that most organizations struggle to adopt tools and methods for preventing or mitigating sophisticated cyber threats. The Global Breach Readiness Survey covered 170 companies across 30 countries and used the RSA-backed Security for Business Innovation Council as a benchmark for cybersecurity best practices, […] More

New analysis from Research and Markets expects the cybersecurity market in Asia Pacific to achieve a 15.15 percent compound annual growth rate from 2014 through 2019 due to increased demand for cloud-based security services in the region. The report noted the surge in tablet and laptop use as a major market driver. “With the rising need to integrate networks with mobile […] More

Allied Market Research has released a report that forecasts a Hadoop-as-a-service market value of $16.1 billion by 2020 and North America to account for the highest value of $11.6 billion among other regions covered in the study. The report projects Amazon Web Services, provider of the Amazon Elastic MapReduce HaaS service, to hold nearly 90 percent of […] More

Lockheed Martin has partnered with Radware to share cybersecurity best practices and collaborate on cyber-related pilot programs and experiments as part of the Lockheed Martin Cyber Security Alliance. The companies said Monday the alliance aims to facilitate the delivery of threat detectors and other cyber measures for customers through partnerships with technology providers. “The addition of Radware could not have come […] More

BAE Systems‘ applied intelligence business has launched a tool that works to facilitate prescriptive and predictive analytics capabilities for communications service providers to guide customer value management and investment activities. The company said Monday its CommsReveal features machine learning and simulation functions to generate insights from CSP customer behavior, prescribe action to address customer churn and investment concerns, and forecast the corresponding […] More

RSA President Amit Yoran has outlined his plans to hone the company’s vision and growth strategy and leverage new technology amid the emergence of advanced threat actors, GovInfoSecurity reported Thursday. Tom Field writes that Yoran, an inductee into Executive Mosaic‘s Wash100 for 2015, also discussed challenges to the security industry, including the shortage of staff skilled […] More

Carpathia has announced a beta release of the company’s infrastructure-as-a-service offering that seeks to help providers comply with federal health information technology regulations. The Healthcare Community Cloud Service is designed for healthcare organizations to manage cloud computing and storage applications while adhering to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and Health Information Technology for […] More

Big data companies have forged an open data platform initiative that aims to further the development of big data technologies based on the Apache Hadoop ecosystem. The alliance comprises GE, Hortonworks, IBM, Infosys, Pivotal, SAS, Altiscale, Capgemini, CenturyLink, EMC, Splunk, Verizon Enterprise Solutions, Teradata and VMware, Pivotal said Tuesday. The companies will collaborate to develop and implement […] More