Swivel Secure the pioneer in tokenless, multi-factor authentication technology has been named as a finalist in both the Identity and Access Management Solution of the Year and the Remote Access Solution of the Year categories at the this year’s Computing Security Awards.

The Computing Security Awards honour the products and services that have made a positive contribution to making organisations more secure. These will be the only awards to recognise excellence in IT security where the winners will be determined by the democratic process of on-line nominating and voting.

Swivel’s PINsafe® multi-level, multi-factor authentication platform was developed in the UK and the first to use SMS and mobile apps in place of a dedicated user ID token to confirm the online identity of remote network users. Now incorporating a range of strong and two-factor user interface options as well as an app for the Apple iPhone, PINsafe is widely used by all types of organisations to provide added security for all major VPN solutions as well as Cloud based applications including Google Docs, Salesforce CRM and Microsoft 365.

The winners of the Computing Security Awards will be announced at the annual awards dinner on November 3^rd in London.

Click here http://www.computingsecurityawards.co.uk/ to vote for Swivel’s PINsafe technology. Voting closes on October 21^st

In recent months, even the largest corporations including MasterCard, RSA and Sony have had difficulty defending themselves against targeted data attacks from ‘hacktivist’ groups such as Anonymous and Lulzsec. The importance of ensuring sensitive corporate data is kept secure has never been more clearly illustrated; getting it wrong can result in significant reputational and financial losses.

At the same time, there has been a significant rise in the popularity of cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) and other corporate applications such as Google Docs and Salesforce CRM. This has led many companies to devolve responsibility for the security of their data to the cloud application’s user access infrastructure which, from a technical perspective, can quite often be insufficient – particularly when only a password and username is required to access critical data stored within an application, which is the typical, out-of-the-box, default solution.

IT security expert and VP Engineering at Swivel Secure, Chris Russell, offers some advice for management teams wishing to lock down access to their company’s cloud applications, and the critical data they hold, to authorised individuals only, so that they can lever  the many benefits offered by cloud-based services.

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Swivel Secure, the pioneer in tokenless two-factor authentication technology has today announced the appointment of Hampshire based, Cohort Technology as its new distribution partner in the UK.

The appointment, which takes effect immediately, is part of Swivel’s strategic global expansion plans that include strengthening the company’s partner network in the UK and building on the rapid growth in the number of enterprises switching to PINsafe® from their token based,legacy solutions.

Swivel achieved record revenues in the past year, and is experiencing continuous quarterly growth as the market responds to the recent high profile Sony and Sega attacks as well as the fallout from the successful hack of the RSA SecurID token technology.

Through the appointment of Cohort Technology as UK distributor of its PINsafe® multi-layered, authentication platform, Swivel is aiming to quickly expand its reach across the UK, particularly within the Greater London and South East region as well as offering resellers enhanced technical and business development support, which is central to Cohort’s focused value added service approach.

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Gigamon has today announced it has signed a new distribution agreement with Cohort Technology to bring the firm’s networking range to UK resellers.

Gigamon’s range of products is designed to improve network monitoring of datacentres, service providers and enterprise networks.

Grahame Smee, managing director at Cohort Technology says the two firms are “putting down some bold plans together geared towards fast expansion in the UK.”

The vendor says Cohort’s “services driven approach” clinched the deal for them. Gigamon reckons that consulting with customers to deliver and deploy an out of band solution, like a its GigaVUE intelligent data access switch, represents “a substantial opportunity” for resellers to not only add new hardware infrastructure to their customers networks, but to ensure that the customer then delivers operational benefits such as tool centralisation and removal of lengthy change order management process.

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Symantec-sponsored Ponemon study has revealed that the cost of a data breach has risen for the third consecutive year.

The 2010 Annual Study: UK Cost of A Data Breach report found that the average data breach incident cost UK organisations £1.9 million or £71 per record, an increase of 13 percent on 2009, and 18 percent on 2008.  The incident size ranged from 6,900 to 72,000 records, with the cost of each breach varying from £36,000 to £6.2 million.  The most expensive incident increased by £2.3 million compared to 2009.

Full report available  here