SecureWorks On the Radar Monthly Newsletter - August 2007

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MSSP Magic Quadrant Black Hat USA 2007 Roundup Storm Worm Botnet Update Latest Security Blogs Upcoming Webcasts Upcoming Events SecureFacts MSSP Magic Quadrant Released SecureWorks Positioned in Leaders Quadrant In early August, research and advisory firm Gartner Inc. released the Magic Quadrant for MSSPs, North America, 1H07. The Magic Quadrant breaks up the market into Leaders, Challengers, Visionaries and Niche Providers based on Gartner’s assessment of each vendor’s “Ability to Execute” and “Completeness of Vision”. The Magic Quadrant for MSSPs provides an unbiased qualitative evaluation of 21 Managed Security Service Providers in North America. >> View the Full Report Black Hat USA 2007 Roundup. With in-depth training and presentations from the security industry’s leading researchers, Black Hat USA is one of most highly regarded and anticipated events in the security community every year. At this year’s Black Hat USA 2007 conference in Las Vegas, members of SecureWorks’ Security Research Group were invited to address the attendees to discuss two new tools they developed to help members of the security research community. >> Read the Black Hat Update Storm Worm Botnet Update. The Storm Worm is making headlines once again after an exponential rise in the number of “zombie” computers infected by the worm. SecureWorks first published research on the Storm Worm and it’s botnet and as recently as May the total zombie count was fewer than 3,000. Since then, the total count has risen dramatically to more than 1.7 million in June and July – making it one of the largest botnets ever seen. During this same period, SecureWorks has blocked more than 20 million attacks which have been directly attributed to Storm Worm. >> Read More Latest Security Blogs Upcoming Webcasts 8/10/07 Week Links: August 6- 10, 2007 8/09/07 We’re Back from Black Hat USA / DEFCON 8/08/07 Hackers Hold Record Amounts of Data Hostage 8/03/07 Security Tools released at Blackhat 2007 7/25/07 Security 101 Resources 7/23/07 Small-to-medium enterprises increasing their buying power 7/23/07 Utilities more or less secure, depending on where you look Security Monitoring: Incident Recognition Best Practices - Enterprise Social Engineering: How Attackers are Targeting Your Employees, Partners & Customers - Utilities All-in-One Security Appliances: Deploying Unified Threat Management (UTM) in Credit Unions - Credit Unions All-in-One Security Appliances: Deploying Unified Threat Management (UTM) in Banks       View all SecureWorks archived webcasts Upcoming Events SecureFacts 8/22/07 - Technology Conference - EMC and NCEC 9/05/07 - MIT Enterprise Forum of Atlanta 9/06/07 - TCUL 9/07/07 - ISSA Infosec Nashville IS Conference 9/11/07 - Western Independent Bankers: Technology Summit 9/11/07 - Symitar 9/12/07 - Michigan Association of Community Bankers: Annual Convention 9/13/07 - Indiana Bankers Association: Annual Convention The number of hackers attacking banks has risen 81% since last year.* The number of hackers attacking credit unions is up 62% since last year.* *Source Forward this to a Friend | Remove me PO Box 95007 Atlanta, GA 30347 | Phone: 877.905.6661 | Fax: 404.728.0144 2007 © Copyright. SecureWorks. Privacy Policy.