Information Security News

Recent STIGroup NEWS:

February 2010-
STIGroup partners with Saint Corporation to deliver best-of-breed vulnerability scanning and enhanced penetration testing services- STIGroup now provides vulnerability scanning and penetration testing services leveraging Saint Scanner and Saint Exploit tools from the Saint Corporation. STIGroup is also an authorized reseller for Saint products and services.
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February 2010-
STIGroup partners with PGP Corporation to provide strategic encryption and key management- STIGroup uses technology from PGP to provide clients with comprehensive and well-integrated encryption solutions to protect sensitive information in storage and transmission. This partnership is strategic to STIGroup's compliance managment consulting practice.
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January 2010-
STIGroup offers FREE PCI Consultation Session to assist with industry compliance requirements - STIGroup has developed a PCI Compliance Consulting program specifically designed to help business address the challenge that PCI Compliance represents. STIGroup is now offering a free 1/2 day consultation to businesses faced with these requirements to help map out an effective strategy for achieving PCI compliance. For more information, click here

October 2009-
STIGroup Offering AppliCure's dotDefender Web Application Firewall as Managed Service - STIGroup announced today that it is now offering dotDefender, the Web application security solution from Applicure Technologies, as a managed service to its diverse and expanding customer base. The addition of the dotDefender Managed Service offering expands STIGroup's capability to effectively deliver Web Application Firewall to businesses while minimizing the impact on their current systems and operations: • Installed and protecting valuable Web assets in 8 business hours or less • No design changes to existing networks • No burden on IT resources • Monthly charge with no minimum contract.
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April 2009-
STIGroup partners with Intellitactics for Best-of-Breed Event Management Solutions - An effective Event Management solution has become an increasingly important part of an effective corporate Information Security Program. STIGroup leverages technology from Intellitactics to provide cost-effective and flexible solutions for security management and regulatory compliance. For more information, click here

February 2009-
STIGroup partners with Forescout to present strategy for using NAC to provide USB Device Control - Network Access Control (NAC) has become a more prominent strategy in corporations for endpoint security policy enforcement as well as the more traditional application of the technology: authorization of endpoints to permit access to corporate networks. STIGroup has partnered with a best-of-breed NAC vendor, Forescout, to show how this technology can be applied to provide enforcement for the use of external storage media, such as USB drives.

January 2009-
STIGroup offers FREE PCI Consultation Session to assist with industry compliance requirements - STIGroup has developed a PCI Compliance Consulting program specifically designed to help business address the challenge that PCI Compliance represents. In order to help merchants through the program, STIGroup is now offering a free 1/2 day consultation to businesses faced with these requirements to help map out an effective strategy for achieving PCI compliance. For more information, click here.

October 2008-
STIGroup and Palisade Systems partner to provide Data Leakage Prevention technology - leakage of sensitive data, both intentional and inadvertent, is a considerable threat to the confidentiality of sensitive information. STIGroup leverages the Palisade Technology products within its client technology environments to effectively enforce policy with regard to transmission of sensitive data through a variety of networked applications including web-based email and instant messaging.

September 2008-
STIGroup partners with Applicure Technologies to deliver best-of-breed Web Application Firewall solution -Applicure dotDefender provides an effective defense against web application attacks such as SQL injection and Cross-Site Scripting attacks; such attacks have become increasingly prevalent and represent a clear threat to web-based applications that deal with sensitive data. This has compelled regulatory standards, such as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI - DSS) to specifically require the use of a Web Application Firewall to protect sensitive data.