CANADA NEWS

Bill C-30 falls owing to expense and privacy concerns

After intense opposition from the public, the Canadian government pledged to not introduce additional legislation to monitor online activity.

Critical infrastructure a weak point, says Canadian official

The Canadian government should to make it mandatory for utility companies and others to tighten security, a former official told a security conference.

China-telco partnership fears unwarranted, says Ontario official

The nascent partnership between a Chinese development group and an entrepreneurial hub funded by three levels of Canadian government has raised concerns from an outspoken former security adviser to Nortel Networks.

CRA gets flack for Netfile changes

The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has unnerved privacy experts with a change to its electronic tax-filing policy: It has removed several authentication requirements for electronic filers.

Telus snaps up forensics firm

Canadian telecommunications giant Telus is bolstering its security offering with the acquisition of digital security and forensics company Digital Wyzdom.

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Spotting the "black swans" of security

Spotting the "black swans" of security

How can it be that firms can feel confident in their security technology investments and their people, yet ultimately still believe that they remain at great risk?

PRODUCT REVIEWS

AlienVault Unified Security Management AVUSM v4.1

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AlienVault’s Unified Security Management (AV-USM) platform combines open source technologies for asset discovery/inventory, vulnerability assessment, threat detection, behavioral monitoring and security intelligence/event correlation.

BlackStratus LOG Storm v4.2.0.45

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LOG Storm combines log management and security information management with correlation technology, real-time monitoring and an integrated incident response system.

CorreLog Enterprise Server v5.2.0

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CorreLog Enterprise Server combines real-time log management with correlation, auto-learning functions, high-speed search, ticketing and reporting services.

eIQnetworks SecureVue v3.6.3

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SecureVue provides all of the elements one would expect in a SIEM.

EventTracker Enterprise v7.3

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EventTracker Enterprise is comprehensive. It is designed to be scalable to address multiple locations, business units and domains using the EventTracker Stand-Alone, Collection Point and Collection Master architecture.

GFI EventsManager 2013

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GFI EventsManager collects, centralizes, normalizes, consolidates and analyzes a wide range of log types.

HP ArcSight Express

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The HP ArcSight Express appliance features a full set of SIEM capabilities.

LogRhythm

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The LogRhythm appliance goes way beyond traditional security event monitoring and management.

McAfee Enterprise Security Manager

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The Enterprise Security Manager is the ultimate high-powered SIEM.

NetIQ Sentinel

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Sentinel from NetIQ offers a lot of robust SIEM features and functions.