Mandiant releases Intelligent Response discovery tools
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Mandiant introduced new incident response automation technology that promises to perform the first set of post-breach analysis tests the IT security company would provide via its breach investigation services.Having already launched several free forensics applications via its Web site, the breach consulting services provider is hoping to cash in on demand for its incident management skills with the new set of electronic evidence discovery (EED) and corporate investigation tools.Labeled as Mandiant Intelligent Response 1.0 (MIR) and targeted initially at large enterprises in the financial services, health care, and ISP verticals -- company officials contend that large customers are ready to invest in applications that could save them millions on post-breach analysis services."We think large and mid-tier enterprises have the capability to use this technology, those that are fortunate enough to have the type of people who can respond, but who might not have standing armies to do so," said Jim Hansen, chief operating officer of Mandiant. "These are difficult skills that we provide, and these tools allow customers to accelerate the response process before someone like us can get there."Hansen said that combined with his company's services, the incident forensics applications, delivered in an appliance form-factor, also extend the consulting provider's breach investigation capabilities.The faster that companies can begin the data mining and incident analysis process after a breach, the more likely they are to discover exactly what type of problem has occurred and deduce whether they might be forced to publicly report any data exposures, the expert contends.The cost of reporting data incidents -- both in terms of issuing immediate breach notifications and responding to any subsequent impact on business, including regulatory fines -- has created a market where enterprises with high-risk information and compliance concerns are ready to invest in software that may give them a leg up in the investigation process, Hansen said."This is a way to begin creating an incident response system with a full audit trail at the push of a button. [It's] something that's going to give teams a head start on the electronic data discovery process," said Hansen. "We're still doing a majority of our business answering response calls, but this product can help investigators get started."The appliance will also arm incident response teams with analysis documentation that can be submitted as part of any legal activity related to a breach or inquiries about the resulting investigation process itself, he said.The executive maintains that the set of data aggregation, analytics, and reporting tools represents a new breed of electronic forensics automation software. Rather than competing with existing discovery applications, Hansen said that MIR was built to integrate with and aggregate from those systems with which the product may be linked via its open API, Hansen said.The individual software modules residing on the Intel-based appliance, which runs on Linux, consist of an endpoint forensic agent, a controller that handles data aggregation and analysis duties, and its console, which offers a Web-based interface that can be accessed remotely over the Web.For now, MIR will only provide analysis of Windows-based systems, but Mandiant said it is already looking to build versions of the appliance that can be dropped into different environments.At $86,500, not including additional support and services costs, the MIR appliance is clearly aimed at large customers, but Hansen said that Mandiant is considering development of a cheaper, more lightweight device or software package aimed at smaller environments. The company may even create a version of the tools to be delivered via a software-as-a-service model, he said.Some industry watchers said the Mandiant system may even allow customers to stay ahead of potential incidents, shifting elements of the electronic discovery process from a reactive measure to a preventative exercise."Mandiant Intelligent Response can change the negative perception associated with rapid evidence discovery by providing a unique collaborative environment that enables remote identification, collection, analysis, and reporting of electronic evidence," said Charles Kolodgy, analyst at IDC. "By fostering precision collection, organizations can avoid gathering incorrect or incomplete data and wasting critical moments when responding to time-sensitive matters."
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Software heavyweight fills in its information-on-demand strategy with real-time analysis tools.
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(Source: Symantec)  Classification, Retention, Filtering, and Search Adding intelligence to archiving policies can help organizations balance storage optimization, records retention, and fast discovery. This white paper discusses the development of intelligent classification, filtering, retention, and discovery policies and best practices that can assist in implementing an effective intelligent archiving solution for email.
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We are proud to announce the release of version 0.9 or LeafRSS! This version includes full smarty template integration, as well as options to embed the articles in another web page, or even to allow the output of the filter as an RSS feed.   A patch file has been included to upgrade from version 0.8 to avoid any loss of data. Please see the PATCH file for details.  This will be the final major release before we release our first stable version.  If you have any questions or discover any bugs in this version, please post them either in the Help section of our sourceforge forums or in our sourceforge bug tracker. We would appreciate any input you could give us to help us test this release in preparation for moving this project to stable status.  More detail is available at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/leafrss
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(InfoWorld) - Symantec researchers are working on a pair of projects to give Norton users a better idea of whether the Web sites they visit or the files they download are trustworthy. "We're actually looking into reputation-based security systems, both for Web sites and for files," said Stephen Trilling, vice president of Symantec Research Labs. The projects have been quietly under development since the latter part of last year, he said. Although the area of reputation-based security is relatively new, there are already a number of companies that use the technology because it is considered a promising technique for thwarting previously unknown threats. McAfee's SiteAdvisor, for example, scours the Web and runs tests on Web sites to see if they do thingsÂ such asÂ serve up malicious code or spam visitors. And GoogleÂ recently opened up access to its blacklist of malicious Web sites, which the search giant generates by searching the Internet in a similar fashion. Though Trilling declined to talk about specifics, he said that Symantec has some new ideas on how to better warn users of suspicious Web pages. "We certainly are looking initially at protecting people from malicious threats," he said. "That's our primary goal." The file-based evaluations could be derived from data generated by Symantec users, he said. "The challenge here is you can't simply ask people what was their experience with this file," he said. "You need some sort of automated way to derive reputation information from people's patterns of downloading." Symantec Labs has created another Web security technology, called Canary, that blocks sites from downloading malicious code. Canary is expected to ship with Norton's next refresh of its client security products, due later this year, but it is separate from the Web- and file-rating systems, Trilling said. "Canary is not based on leveraging any desktop-voting or reputation-based system at all," he said. No decision has yet been made on whether to move the reputation-based projects into Symantec's products, but the Web reputation systems is further along in development, Trilling said. Symantec's estimated 50 million anti-virus software users give it an advantage when it comes to generating reliable reputation data, said Adam O'Donnell, a senior research scientist with Cloudmark, which sells a reputation-based e-mail filtering system. "The challenge for Symantec is going to be absorbing all the various inputs and issuing a response in a timely fashion."
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qaManager is a web based application used for keeping track of engineering and customer releases, Resource allocations and related information effectively in QA Projects with very simple installation. Powered by openXava,Java. It supports many databases.   qaProjectManager Second Beta Release is available!    qaProjectManager is a web based application used for keeping track of engineering and customer releases, Resource allocations and related information effectively in QA Projects. Installation is simple. Powered by openXava,Java. It supports many databases    You can download qaManager from:  http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=202295&package_id=240968&release_id=540282  Changes in this release -- Added Event History to Test Cycle -- Added Personal Diary to Resource Model -- Added Project Diary to Project Model -- Resource Allocation is made as an aggregate to Test Cycle model -- Customer Contacts is made as an aggregate to Customer Model -- Software Release is made as an aggregate to QAProject -- Date validations are improved in respective models -- Email Validation is improved with Apache Common Validation API -- New Stereotype ID, NAME are introduced -- Default validation class mapped for each qaManager specific stereotypes -- Error messages improved -- Labels were improved -- Bug Fixes (Please refer to bug database)
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Hosted CRM company introduces a new framework for linking analysis tools to its applications.Image: Salesforce dashboard
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TechWeb - Anacubis Desktop 3.0 shows the BI potential of information visualization software.
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Dave Dash has posted a quick script to help with an integration of openID into your application - well, really just to read the response back easily.   I'm working on implementing openID for reviewsby.us and for use in symfony apps. One thing I was having trouble with was parsing key value pairs, which is one of the requirements to reading responses. It's a fairly easy task, but [PHP][] offers so many ways to do this.   He notes the spec for how the results are returned and shares his code (based around a regular expression) that goes through the response and separates things out into key/value pairs automatically.
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The software, developed by IBM&#39;s new Sensors and Actuators business unit, is designed to help businesses collect and act on data from RFID and other sensor-based technology.
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com December 13, 2004, 10:51 AM PT. TippingPoint makes an intrusion prevention appliance called UnityOne that sits on networks and quickly inspects incoming packets to determine whether they are malicious.
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The Italian Agency for Environmental Protection and Technical Services (APAT), in conjunction with Planetek Italia, has developed Cart@net Mutiserver, an interoperable cartographic reference system.
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Umbria Inc. has unveiled a tool it says can help market researchers comb through blogs and social networks to better analyze consumer likes, dislikes and buying patterns.
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Scientists have developed a technique that dramatically improves the success rate of face-recognition computer systems
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This project automates Http-requests i.e. all browser activities can be logged/written to XML-formated files and redone by using simple methods. This is very useful for automating http-server-requests e.g. queries to search engines, external databases..   Binary and source code of HTTP-Analyzer is online now. With this program web requests can be logged easily and saved into a comprehensive XML file. The logged web actions can be automated using the Httpbot libraries of this project.
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An airfare predictor and subway guide, restaurant reviews and car sharing
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Finding reliable statistics on the web isn't always easy, but a massive central data source called Nationmaster.com offers a handy way to search multiple stats repositories.