Security

Carbon Black has announced that Cb Defense, the company’s next-generation antivirus (NGAV) solution, has been recognised with an overall five-star rating by SC Media, the highest possible rating

Among some of the highlights from the report, written by SC Media Technology Editor Peter Stephenson:“One of the most efficient user interfaces we’ve seen; solid response to streaming attacks; for a mix of threat analysis and incident response, this one demands your attention.”

Also highlighted in the report is Cb Defense’s efficient user interface, ability to keep various people within the organisation informed, and the ability to apply threat intelligence to attacks. 

“We have always been fans of Carbon Black, “Stephenson writes. “The company seems to have carved a niche in the area of threat intelligence applied to malware protection. This latest offering is typical of what we’ve expected to see from them.”

Categories evaluated in the rating include: “Features,” “Performance,” “Documentation,” “Support,” and “Value for Money.” Carbon Black received an overall five-star rating.

“This is an outstanding honour for Carbon Black and Cb Defense,” said Patrick Morley, the company’s president and CEO. “Cb Defense is revolutionising endpoint security and empowering organisations around the world to stop advanced attacks with streaming prevention technology. This recognition from SC Media is the latest validation that Cb Defense is among the market leaders in cybersecurity.”

Cb Defense is a cloud-based NGAV solution for desktops, laptops, and servers that combines advanced protection with detection and response capabilities. Designed to protect organisations from the full spectrum of modern cyber-attacks, Cb Defense is powered by Carbon Black’s streaming prevention technology, which collects, correlates and analyses endpoint events, in real time, enabling organisations to identify and stop both malware and non-malware attacks.

iland launches Secure Cloud Services from a new location in Amsterdam to service EMEA customers 

iland announced on 20 June, that it has been named by Gartner Inc. as a Leader in the 2017 “Magic Quadrant for Disaster Recovery as a Service” for the second year in the row. In the Magic Quadrant for this market sector, Gartner analysts evaluated 23 service providers that offer Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS), based on their “ability to execute” and “completeness of vision.” 

According to the report, Gartner estimates DRaaS to be a US$2bn business that is expected to reach US$3.73bn by 2021. Customers across all industry sectors who are challenged with threats to IT systems, including cyber-attacks such as ransomware, are increasingly looking to cloud-based disaster recovery solutions to ensure IT resiliency. 

iland Secure DRaaS℠, built on top of iland’s Secure Cloud IaaS platform, ensures customers’ workloads are protected beyond simple backup with a disaster recovery process tuned to business priorities and compliance requirements. IT workloads can be replicated from virtual or physical environments to iland’s global secure cloud platform where customers can achieve recovery time goals in minutes.

“For more than a decade, iland’s Secure DRaaS has been giving customers the confidence and assurance that their data is protected and applications are available and performing equally or better than their source production environments during the event of a disaster,” said iland President, Brian Ussher. “We’re honored to be recognised for the second year in a row as a Leader in the Magic Quadrant for Disaster Recovery as a Service. We believe this further substantiates our commitment to innovating within the DRaaS market and bringing our customers peace of mind when managing the risk of emerging IT threats.”

This recognition from Gartner comes after the recent launch of a new iland data centre location in Amsterdam, the Netherlands from which secure cloud services will be delivered to customers across Europe. A new data centre location in Sydney, Australia will also open later in the summer as iland expands to meet the needs of global customers. As part of this expansion, iland has further developed its channel program to enable managed service providers, resellers and agents to take advantage of the burgeoning cloud services opportunity. 

iland partners with VMware, Zerto, Veeam, and Double-Take to bring the best replication technologies to customers so they can easily and efficiently execute failovers and tests via iland’s proven Secure Cloud Console – a single interface that provides visibility and management control of the recovery process and other iland cloud services for customers. 

Global software security group Kaspersky Lab has recently launched Kaspersky Internet Security – multidevice 2017 in Kenya - a security solution to support parents in keeping their kids safe online

Safdar Akhtar is Honeywell Process Solutions business leader in MEA and APAC and he took some time to answer some of our questions on cyber security, particularly focusing on his areas of expertise of oil and gas plant cyber security, at the Honeywell User Group at The Hague, The Netherlands