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CA Inc. has launched an internally developed CA security product, CA Security Compliance Manager. The CA Security Compliance Manager delivers capabilities that help the company’s customers address IT security and comply with legal, corporate and government regulations. The CA Security Compliance Manager product focuses on helping organizations automate processes for answering security questions such as “Who has access to what?” “Who can do what?” and “Who approved what?” to help detect security policy or compliance violations and then initiate any necessary remediation.
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On NetworkWorld, Mandy Andress and Rodney Thayer compare a range of an array of security products that take some type of action in the face of an attack, such as blocking a port or stopping an executable. Nine vendors – such as eEye Digital Security’s Blink 1.0; Finjan Software’s Vital Security for Clients; F-Secure’s Anti-Virus Client Security; InfoExpress’ CyberArmor 3.0, submitted products for this test. Although all vendors take a different approach to endpoint security, they awarded their Clear Choice designation to EEye’s Blink because of its solid reporting and hybrid approach to client defense.
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Data Domain said on July 25 that the demand for its new high end product, the DD690, which is the industry’s highest performance inline deduplication storage system for backup and other nearline applications, was strong during its second 2008 quarter. The DD690, in combination with Data Domain’s DD120 remote office appliance and advanced replication capabilities, positions the company to address the full range of needs for large distributed enterprises. The company is benefiting from a trend for enterprises to start consolidating non-frontline transactional data onto space-efficient - meaning de-duplicated - storage arrays.
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Walling Data Systems, a leading AVG distributor, has announced that it has been awarded a contract with the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) to sell the entire AVG security product line to U.S. federal government agencies. Luke Walling, president of Walling Data said “It opens up an entirely new sales channel and is a huge vote of confidence by the U.S. government that taxpayer dollars for government information security solutions will be well spent with Walling Data.”
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Fidelis Security Systems, the leader in next-generation data leakage prevention (DLP)
solutions, announced today that Network Products Guide, a Silicon Valley Communications publication and a world leading publication on technologies and solutions, has named the Fidelis Extrusion Prevention System(R), Fidelis
XPS(TM), the winner of the 2008 Best Products and Services Award for Network Data Leakage Prevention. This respected annual award honors products and services that represent the rapidly changing needs and interests of the
end-users of technology worldwide. As part of the tech industry’s leading global awards program, this year’s Best Products and Services had nominations from all over the world.

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