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Reflex Security®, Inc. (www.reflexsecurity.com), a pioneer and innovator in intrusion prevention systems (IPS), today announced IPS Everywhere™, a major initiative to accelerate the delivery of accurate and high-performance IPS protection throughout today's security-impelled enterprises.

"We see a gaping hole in competitors' IPS product offerings," said Jim Watson, CEO, Reflex Security. "Not only are existing IPS solutions difficult to work with, but many vendors are moving to multi-function security appliances, managed security services, and other expansions of their business before they've solved the most fundamental problems associated with preventing intrusions: accurate detection and enterprise-wide coverage." Over the next six months, Reflex Security will deploy its patented IPS solutions to protect the most vulnerable areas of today's enterprises:

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SurfControl (LSE: SRF), the global leader in Internet protection, is currently tracking a new malicious threat that masquerades as a video file relating to a recent dispute between the coach of the Brazilian football team and President Lula of Brazil over the health of team star, Ronaldo.

The email is in Portuguese and includes photos of the Brazilian World Cup star, as well as photos of President Lula. Currently in wide distribution throughout Brazil, it encourages the reader to click on the attached file to view a video relating to the national controversy. The attachment is in fact a malicious Trojan .exe file. Upon download, the file extracts itself and emulates a Microsoft software installation thus allowing it to alter firewall settings such that it can operate seemingly undetected. The application then attempts to perform a distributed denial of service...

Fortinet -- the pioneer and leading provider of multi-threat security solutions -- today announced FortiClient Mobile, an integrated security software agent for Microsoft Windows Mobile and Symbian OS-enabled mobile smart phones and PDAs.

Extending the capabilities of Fortinet's FortiClient endpoint security software, FortiClient Mobile allows mobile operators and handset manufacturers to offer subscribers increased security. The software is the first mobile endpoint security solution on the market to integrate full antivirus, MMS/SMS anti-spam, personal firewall and address book protection and IPSec VPN capabilities to protect mobile subscribers against constantly evolving and sophisticated mobile threats.

FortiClient Mobile secures the growing number of smart phone subscribers that leverage standard operating systems such as Windows Mobile and Symbian. These operating systems provide powerful access to mobile enterprise applications, such as Microsoft Office Mobile, as well ...

SECNAP Network Security Corporation, a Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP), today announced the partnership agreement between SECNAP Network Security and Integration Systems, LLC (iSys) both as a reseller of SECNAP's SpammerTrap™ email firewall and as a referral partner for SECNAP's other security services.

"Security, spam and virus threats are costing businesses over 175 Billion dollars per year worldwide. We are very excited to have iSys as a channel reseller partner for our SpammerTrap™ email firewall solution and as a referral partner for our other security service offerings." said Tom Bailey, Vice President of Sales. "We are very excited to be associated with iSys and their high quality set of integrated product solutions on the latest IBM blade server platforms," added Tom.

"As an IBM Premier Business Partner, we work with many businesses from every industry," commented Terry Keene, President and CEO of iSys. "Security is becoming a major focus of CIOs a...

Interop -- BorderWare Technologies Inc., the leading provider of content and application security, today announced the BorderWare Security Network (BSN) -- a cornerstone of BorderWare's Infinity™ Platform -- the first service to analyze the behavior of IP addresses across all communications protocols including SMTP, HTTP, IM, FTP and VoIP. As threats mushroom and compromised anonymous computers (zombies) are used to launch compound attacks, analyzing email-sending habits and volume is no longer sufficient to provide the proactive, real-time defense customers need to protect against spam, viruses, phishing, denial-of-service, directory harvest, spyware and malware -- across all communications protocols.

Next Generation Reputation Services -- Here Today

Traditional reputation systems only have visibility into email traffic, basically ignoring the long-term reality that email is not the only at...