The market for identity management is booming

The topic of security is driving the global ICT market. It's a perspective not so much about the protection of individual devices as new management and analysis tools.

For their first published Security Vendor Benchmark took the Expert Group more than 450 active in Security providers under the microscope. After preliminary and detailed selection remained 138 who classified the team of analysts at research fellow Oliver Already Schek as relevant for the EURO market. In eleven categories - including Cloud Security, Mobile Security, Backup and Security Consulting - the vendors were then evaluated and ranked according to competitive strength and portfolio appeal. Overall, we have our review around 100 different criteria as a basis, says Even-shek.

So playing in the Identity and Access Management (IAM), surprisingly, in Leader quadrant cavort with the pink giant, IBM , Atos, Microsoft, Oracle, Dell, CA and other total even equal to 13 companies - a clear indication that the market for identity management solutions than ever booming.
We have not looked specifically at the history of the party, but we devoted its products and solutions, says Even-shek.

Thousands of US service stations unsecured on the Internet

The dangers of the total networking may soon get to feel many American motorists. Thousands petrol stations, mainly in the United States are connected via TCP/IP to the Internet unprotected.

The reports of the chief research officer of security firm Rapid7, HD Moore, in a blog post and refers to insider information from the industry. Around 5800 the so-called Automatic Tank Gauges (ATG) is controllable via the Internet without any detours and password protection and thus manipulates - 5300 of them in the US alone, at least three percent of all gas stations in the country.

Using ATG manufactured by Veeder-Root will be controlled and monitored the fuel tank almost all American stations and many other stations around the world. About a monitoring console operator levels, refueling operations, threatening leaks or environmental influences from the outside can control. Connected this ATG are serial interfaces, fax, modem or even TCP/IP. To access via the Internet to the monitoring console, use many station operators TCP/IP, mostly on TCP port 10001 - because password protection is not set by default, the systems often are therefore open and freely accessible on the Internet.

Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit - protection against zero-day attacks

Security tool for Windows

A major threat to computer users lurks in the form of newly discovered vulnerabilities in programs. Since manufacturers usually do not provide patches as quickly, can specialized malware often sneak past the antivirus software. Exactly wants to prevent the software anti-exploit.

Functionality The tool Anti-Exploit the manufacturer Malwarebytes is a security program that his shield on Windows PCs spans. There fends off attacks that exploit vulnerabilities widely unknown, to do damage. Because certain applications have increasingly emerged as gateways because of their widespread use, is anti-exploit focused on this.

To monitor the free version of the tool Google Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer and Opera along with their add-ons, as well as Java. With the paid premium and business version can be also attacked on the Microsoft Office components Word, Excel and PowerPoint, as well as some PDF reader prevent (e.g. Adobe Reader and Foxit Reader) and media player (such as VLC and Winamp) ,