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 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)
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)
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)
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)