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The case for increased cyber-security came to a crescendo this month with news of hack attacks aimed at national
media as well as popular social media sites. In addition to word from Facebook, Twitter announced some 250,000
user accounts may have been compromised in the episode they experienced. These cases come on the heels of
similar attacks waged on websites affiliated with The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street
Journal. This month, concern further compelled the Obama administration to release a new executive order calling
for improving critical infrastructure with respect to cyber-security. As long as such issues dominate headlines,
anticipate other news in the way of new product and service offerings from security specialists.
Vigilant Software, an ISO27001 specializing in cybersecurity risk assessment solutions, has announced a new
update to their software package known as vsRisk. Used by many organizations throughout the world, the software
simplifies and automates the information used typically in the risk assessment process. CEO Alan Calder estimates
that the new vsRisk will reduce the time taken to carry out a risk assessment by 90 percent.
Group-IB, a world-leading computer security company headquartered in Russia, has just announced their
offering of Bot-Trek, a tool that retrieves compromised data and intelligence stolen by infiltrating botnets, and
returns it back to the original intellectual property owners via a SaaS solution. Group-IB US Managing Partner Dan
Clements says botnets are an exploding problem as they are used to steal private data, send spam, provide
anonymous services for crimes, and performDDoS-attacks against enterprises, governments, service providers, and
telecoms. He says Bot-Trek will go where no malware has gone before by capturing real time data and getting it
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