Military class certification provides further assurance against data loss at the MoD.
PGP Corporation, a provider of enterprise data protection, have announced that PGP Whole Disk Encryption has been formally approved by the Defence INFOSEC Product Co-operation Group (DIPCOG) as suitable for use within the Ministry of Defence (MOD) and British Armed Forces.
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Value added distributor Cohort Technology has secured Authorised Training Centre Status for leading security vendor SonicWALL.
As a result of this new accreditation, Cohort Technology has added several, new SonicWALL classes to its award-winning portfolio of vendor-authorised training programs. All of Cohorts courses will be delivered by one of Cohort’s certified SonicWALL instructors, the new comprehensive [...]

ShoreTel’s new EMEA head is looking to recruit channel partners with public sector and financial services expertise in a bid to become the mid-market’s leading IP telephony vendor.
John Howard arrived at ShoreTel from Avaya last month. He assumes the role of EMEA managing director, replacing Mark Swendsen, who has returned to his native US to [...]

Value added distributor Cohort Technology is beefing up its partner support with the launch of a cloud computing offering.
Cohort Cloud is comprised of a range of offerings including disk encryption, mail encryption and archiving, network access control and firewall.
The services will be offered to resellers on a per-user, pay-as-you-grow basis.
Grahame Smee, managing director of Cohort [...]

More than 500 significant data breaches have been reported by U.K. organizations in the last 18 months – according to the latest Ponemon Institute research on Encryption Trends. This study analyzes survey results from 615 U.K. business and IT managers about their current and future needs, motivations, uses, budgets, and strategies for enterprise data protection. [...]