News Briefs: November 1, 2008

By SD Times News Team

November 1, 2008 —

Companies
Israel-based information security company Aladdin Knowledge Systems has created a facility for “Internet security cybercrime investigation,” the company said. The Attack Intelligence Research Center brings input from security researchers and law enforcement to help organizations implement best practices. Aladdin executives said the center will publish semi-annual security trend reports that both summarize Web threats over the past six months and predict threats to businesses in the next six months.

WhiteHat Security has created a .NET security course that reviews secure coding guidelines and .NET features like anti-XSS libraries, the company said. The two-day course will try to help developers keep security in mind through the whole development process. The company also added cross-site request forgery, business logic flaws and blind SQL injections as topics to its Web Application Security training course.

New Products
Communications and enterprise application provider Agnity created the ACONYX architecture, a software component framework for developing multiple communication services. ACONYX includes components for multimedia server control, messaging, conferencing and fixed mobile convergence. Company executives said the architecture can integrate with Web 2.0 services and mashups.

CPU debugging company Macraigor Systems released a free Eclipse Ganymede-compliant embedded debugging product. The Macraigor Eclipse + GNU Tools Suite packages Eclipse 3.4.1 with a program called OCDRemote, which provides an interface between Eclipse, the GDB debugger and a Macraigor On-Chip debug device.

Updates
Absoft, a maker of compilers and debuggers, has added SSE4 vector capabilities for applications running on 32- and 64-bit x86 processors from AMD to version 10.2 of its Pro Fortran compiler suite. The new version has IDE improvements that simplify code development and maintenance with a graphical IDE designed specifically for C and Fortran development, the company said. It includes an Fx3 debugger with filtering capabilities.

Requirements software provider Blueprint has added a cloud-based collaboration system that can align global project teams to Requirements Center 2009 Feature Pack Two. The Blueprint Resource Center, a new feature of Requirements Center 2009, draws content from multiple Internet and customer-intranet resources to provide tools and processes to business analysts.

CA has released a new version of its Wily Application Performance Management product, adding the ability to do SOA deployments and provide insight into Web services interdependencies. Company executives said Wily APM is optimized to help manage SOA environments, pinpointing components that cause Web application problems.

Galorath has updated its flagship project management software with enhanced metrics analysis and benchmarking capabilities. SEER-SEM 7.3 has a new comparison-sizing feature that estimates business value. Additionally, SEER-SEM 7.3 offers the International Software Benchmarking Standards Group database, an open repository of software-project histories with data from over 4,000 software projects.

People
Richard Walford was named vice president of engineering for Astaro, a company that sells security appliances. Walford was previously vice president of research and development in SDL Tridion. He also held executive positions with Compuware, Metier Management Systems and Softlab. With Astaro, Walford will be responsible for making sure products are developed and delivered properly.

Jeremy Epstein was named a principal consultant for software security company Cigital. Epstein has been a security architect for more than 20 years, according to Cigital, and worked for nine years at Software AG. He also worked in security research with Network Associates and was responsible for security evaluation of Novell NetWare. He will help government customers improve software security with Cigital.

Jim Ensell was named vice president of business development for CollabNet, overseeing the software configuration management company’s business strategies. Ensell previously served as president and COO of rfXcel, a SaaS provider of supply chain applications. He also held an executive position at Virage Logic, a company that creates semiconductors and DDR memory controllers.

Related Search Term(s): debugging, Eclipse, messaging, .NET, requirements, security, SOA & SaaS, Absoft, Agnity, Aladdin, Astaro, Blueprint, CA, CollabNet, Galorath, Macraigor, WhiteHat

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Business Briefs: November 1, 2008 Hewlett-Packard plans to buy LeftHand Networks to expand its own storage technologies for mid-sized companies, while AMD and ATIC team up to form a company that builds foundries. Intel posted a modest rise in income compared to its third quarter.

InterSystems adds binary XML messaging to Ensemble SOAP messages in Ensemble will be smaller thanks to this format change, according to the company. The update also throws in WS-Security 1.1 for transactions and support for more integration protocols.

Red Hat prepares complex events processing for SOA Updates to JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform and JBoss Operations Network lay the groundwork for enhanced CEP and rules management. Beyond that, new security features have been implemented in Enterprise SOA Platform.

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