Arbor Networks
Arbor Networks launched the industry’s first 10 Gigabit DDoS detection and mitigation system, extending its network behavior anomaly leadership among service providers. (10/3/2008)
ArcSight
ArcSight, reported continued healthy growth for its first fiscal quarter of 2009, tapped former COO Tom Reilly to be CEO and continued to build out its ArcSight Logger appliance to better address the mid-market. (11/13/2008)
Attachmate (formerly NetIQ)
The NetIQ business unit of Attachmate has been very quiet for the last year as it continues to streamline operations post-acquisition. (3/25/2008)
BMC
BMC is a long-time provider of provisioning and password management, but it has been very quiet with regard to its identity and security businesses throughout 2008. (10/29/2008)
CA
CA has been relatively quiet lately in the security and identity markets. The company continues to work to integrate and streamline its broad product portfolio. (9/5/2008)
Check Point
Check Point continues to enhance its products and extend its footprint in the security markets, most recently with the introduction of products designed to secure virtual environments. (10/2/2008)
Cisco
Cisco continues to build out its footprint in the security space via acquisitions, partnerships, and product development. Its strong partnership with VMware suggests that providing security to virtual environments will be a new area of interest. (9/26/2008)
Entrust
Although Entrust’s overall growth has been relatively flat so far this year, the company continues to have good success in diversifying its revenue base from a product perspective. (10/30/2008)
Fortinet
Fortinet delivers its first database security appliance, based on technology it acquired with IPLocks. The vulnerability assessment appliance is the first of a series of planned appliances. (9/26/2008)
Hewlett-Packard
HP announced earlier this year that it will no longer actively pursue new identity management customers. The company’s security activities are increasingly found in the HP ProCurve division. (7/16/2008)
IBM Internet Security Systems
IBM continues to reposition its information security technology as part of a broader risk management solution. (6/12/2008)
IBM/Tivoli
IBM continues to push its security products both up market and down, with the release of a new security blade for its BladeCenter and the launch of a partner accreditation program for SME focused channel partners. (9/9/2008)
Intellitactics
After long fighting the trend, Intellitactics has fully embraced the shift to an appliance form factor for its SIEM products. The move should make the company more attractive in mid-market and branch applications. (11/12/2008)
Juniper Networks
Juniper has made several important security-related announcements over the last couple of quarters, including the introduction of new SRX high-end security gateways and a substantial upgrade to its UAC NAC suite. (10/31/2008)
Lancope
Lancope continues its push toward enterprise network operations groups with new quality of service reporting and trending in its StealthWatch product that targets traditional NetFlow competitors. (9/8/2008)
Mazu Networks
Mazu Networks has broadened its behavior-based, performance, and availability solutions to ensure the delivery of critical business services as the company targets network operations as well as security teams. (9/29/2008)
McAfee
McAfee’s Security Innovation Alliance partnership program is gaining steam, partners now number more than two dozen, and the company has announced the first set of certified partner products. (9/9/2008)
Microsoft - Identity Management
Microsoft continues to take a long view of the identity management market. Initiatives that could have significant long term upside for the company identity business include HealthVault, “Zermatt,” and the Identity Card Foundation. (7/24/2008)
netForensics
netForensics continues to build out compliance management solutions that leverage its event and log management products. (10/30/2008)
Novell
Novell continues to mature and expand its identity portfolio, now offering versions targeting SAP environments. (8/25/2008)
Oracle
Oracle is building out a set of identity management services that can easily be consumed by external applications. The Service-Oriented Security initiative will build on Oracle’s Identity Governance Framework and leverage its IdM portfolio. (7/25/2008)
Q1 Labs
Q1 Labs is experiencing another year of exponential growth as it continues to build out key OEM partnerships, most recently with Nortel, and grow its stable of channel partners. (9/22/2008)
RSA, the Security Division of EMC
EMC continues to expand the reach of the RSA product portfolio both within the data center and through a broader set of form factors. (8/26/2008)
Sophos
Sophos is taking on Symantec and McAfee through a rapidly expanding portfolio of products including email security appliances last year and integrated NAC and encryption capabilities this year. (10/14/2008)
Sourcefire
Sourcefire announced its virtualization roadmap along with its planned RNA Virtual Appliance for VMware ESX environments. (9/22/2008)
StillSecure
StillSecure has inked another interesting OEM partnership, this time with Novell. The company continues to have good success in building out channel relationships, particularly for its NAC product. (10/31/2008)
Sun Microsystems
Sun continues to mature its open source offerings and it has begun to augment them with commercial versions. Its partnership with Accenture is also allowing Sun to deliver much more comprehensive identity and access management solutions. (8/11/2008)
Symantec
Symantec continues to make progress in integrating and more effectively bundling its broad portfolio of products, particularly at the endpoint. (9/26/2008)
TippingPoint
TippingPoint announced in August a global security intelligence portal for its customers to help them better track the changing threat landscape and quickly adjust policies on its IPS’s to better thwart new attack types. (11/3/2008)
Trend Micro
Trend Micro emphasizes the importance of protection from blended email- and Web-based threats through enhancements to its endpoint security and in-the-clouds security services. (9/22/2008)
VeriSign
VeriSign has retrenched and considerably expanded its portfolio in the authentication space. In addition, the company is focused on consolidating around its core business units. (10/1/2008)
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