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The Industry Consortium for Advancement of Security on the Internet (ICASI), a nonprofit association dedicated to enhancing global IT security by proactively driving excellence and innovation in security response, today announced the publication of the latest version of its Common Vulnerability Reporting Framework (CVRF), Version 1.1. Enhancements in CVRF 1.1 offer users a more comprehensive and flexible format, while reducing duplication and the possibility of errors. CVRF is an XML-based framework that enables stakeholders across different organizations to share critical vulnerability-related information in an open and common machine-readable format. CVRF replaces the many nonstandard reporting formats previously in use, thus speeding up information exchange and processing. CVRF is available to the public free of charge, along with additional information, at ICAS... (more)

Agencyport Receives 2012 RAVE Award from Tech Decisions and Novarica

Agencyport Software, a leading provider of software and services to the global insurance and reinsurance industries today announced that is has won a 2012 RAVE Award in the Agency Management Systems Connectivity category and an honorable mention in the Agent Portal category this week during the ACORD LOMA Insurance Systems Forum in Orlando, Florida. The awards, which were presented by insurance technology trade publisher Tech Decisions for Insurance and insurance technology analyst firm Novarica, recognizes solution providers whose technology delivers exemplary value to their cus... (more)

Application-Aware Firewalls by Andy Thurai

You may have heard this term recently and wondered what it meant. When it comes to security, everyone thinks of Firewalls, Proxies, IPS, IDS, Honeypots, VPN devices, email security and even Web security, but most people don’t think in terms of application level security unless either you are the developer, admin, or user of those specific services or perhaps a hacker. Especially when your traditional network boundaries disappear you can’t carry all of those devices with you. When you move out of your traditional boundaries, towards the cloud, you trust the cloud provider to provi... (more)

Perfection Series: Forgotten Data in your Logs (Log Redaction Service) by Andy Thurai

From a business standpoint, leaking sensitive information into your logs is not only bad, but could lead to compliance, liability, and risk disaster sooner than you think. While there are solutions, including DLP, out there to inspect the data traffic and help capture sensitive data leakage, not many solutions out there are proactive and intrusive enough inspect the backplane of your systems for sensitive data leakage or regulatory compliance analysis. This becomes more pronounced when you have multiple ways that you allow users (especially the admin users) to access your system... (more)

OpenNebula: Open Source Cloud Management

What Is OpenNebula ? It is cloud management solution – industry standard open source cloud computing tool to manage the complexity and heterogeneity of distributed data center infrastructures. OpenNebula is a fully open-source management toolkit for on-premise Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing. OpenNebula can be primarily used as a virtualization tool to manage your virtual infrastructure in the data-center or cluster, which is usually referred as Private Cloud. OpenNebula supports Hybrid Cloud to combine local infrastructure with public cloud-based infrastructu... (more)