Identity Management Systems, Logical and Physical Access, Convergence

Cyveillance launches industry’s first social engineering protection appliance

Monday, June 6, 2011

Cyveillance announced a product to help protect the people, called Cyveillance Social Engineering Protection Appliance (SEPA). The product serves to help employees by providing virus and malware protection that extends into cloud computing, email and social networking.


Some of the included features are:

  • Email Intent Analysis: Sophisticated inspection of email content and context determines whether the intent of the sender is malicious.
  • Web link Evaluation: Embedded Web links are traversed and the destination pages are evaluated for malicious behavior using advanced heuristic and behavioral analysis.
  • Global Threat Intelligence: Real-time access to Cyveillance cyber intelligence on malicious Web links distributing malware, hosting phishing attacks, command and control botnet servers, botnet drop sites, malicious IP addresses running rogue DNS servers and open proxies etc.
  • High Value Target Protection: Leverage cyberspace footprint - including social networks of individuals with access to critical assets or sensitive information - to protect against targeted social engineering attacks.

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ActivIdentity has modified its AcivID Credential Management System (CMS) appliance to contain the industry’s new Commercial Identity Verification (CIV) credential.

Developed by the Smart Card Alliance Physical Access Council, the PIV-level credential is designed for commercial enterprise use and replaces the PIV-C concept. ActivIdentity played a role in the Alliance’s new white paper on this topic, which defines the CIV credential and describes its benefits. The paper also discusses planning and implementation, as well as use cases and best practices.

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Thursby Software Systems, Inc. has released the PKard Reader, a touch Web browser solution for the iOS that includes secure authentication to a personal smart card.

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A high school in Tarpon Springs, Fla. recently sent out a mass email bearing student Social Security numbers. The school’s guidance counselor sent the email to Tarpon’s entire senior class of about 400 students and parents regarding the Bright Futures Scholarship program.

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ActivIdentity has added a fraud detection service and authentication capabilities to its 4TRESS Authentication Appliance. Targeted to the banking industry, 4TRESS offers multi-layered strong authentication for both network and cloud services.

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