GuardTime Selected as Top 10 Finalist for Innotribe Start-Up Challenge

GuardTime, is pleased to announce that it has been selected as a top 10 finalist in the Innotribe $100K Start-Up Challenge, honoring the company as one of the most promising financial technology and financial services start-ups.

Singapore, Thursday – September 08, 2011 — GuardTime ( http://www.guardtime.com ), creator of the Keyless Signature technology providingin disputable proof of time, origin, and dataintegrity for electronic information, is pleased to announce that it has been selected as a top 10 finalist in the Innotribe $100K Start-Up Challenge, honoring the company as one of the most promising financial technology and financial services start-ups.

GuardTime’s Keyless Signatures allow for the creation of provable audit trails for all electronic data, making it ideal for financial services applications such as Internet banking, mobile payments, business-to-business and business-to-consumer communications, digital log forensics, and eDiscovery.

Early investors in GuardTime include Ambient Sound Investments,Horizons Ventures, and the Infocomm Development Agency (IDA) of Singapore.

The Innotribe Challenge was open to over 80 innovative technology start-ups and technology-enabled financial service companies from more than 15 countriesworking in areas such as payments, securities, trading, social media tools, big data/data analytics, security, identity, b2b or b2b2c mobile, and small business apps & services and/or IT infrastructure.

On September 21, 2011 at Sibos in Toronto, GuardTime ( http://www.guardtime.com ) and nine other finalists, selected by expert judges and community votes will present to an invitation-only audience of dozens of decision-makers from the world’s largest financial institutions, serial entrepreneurs, investors, and media. On September 22, two of these finalists will each be presented with a check for $50,000 in front of Sibos’ audience of 8,000 financial industry professionals.

GuardTime looks forward to the opportunity to accept two invitations to the post-competition networking dinner with investors and executives from institutions such as CITI,Credit Agricole, Deutsche, DNBNor, HSBC, JP Morgan, OCBC, and Standard Chartered.

More information can be found at: http://innotribestartup.myreviewroom.com/pages/details

About GuardTime
GuardTime captured the top spot in the public vote for the Innotribe Start-Up Challenge (http://bit.ly/oOLkxc).Also a Red Herring Global 100 Winner and Frost & Sullivan Product Innovation Award Winner, GuardTime was founded with the goal of solving one of the biggest problems in computing: trust. GuardTime’s Keyless Signatures provide proof of data integrity, signing authority, and time. The verification of the signature can be done offline without reliance on keys, secrets, or the existence of a trusted third party. GuardTime’s mission is to change the world to one where Keyless Signatures are ubiquitous and a natural part of the everyday data lifecycle, whether on disk, in transit, or in the cloud.Visit http://www.guardtime.com for more information about using Keyless Signatures for signing your data.

GuardTime PR Contact:
Victor Cruz, MediaPR
vcruz@mediapr.net
+1 978.594.4134

Press & Media Contact:
Victor Cruz
MediaPR.net Inc
Singapore
+1 978-594-4134
vcruz@mediapr.net
http://www.guardtime.com

Corero Protects Its Customers From ‘Apache Killer’ DoS Exploit

Company’s Intrusion Prevention Systems Mitigate Threats to Apache Server, The World’s Most Widely Used Web Server.

Hudson, MA, Thursday – September 08, 2011 — Corero Network Security (CNS:LN), a leading global provider of Network Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Defense Systems, notified customers that it protects them from the ‘Apache Killer’ denial of service (DoS) exploit with its IPS 5500 products. ‘Apache Killer’ exploits a vulnerability found in the Apache Web Server software. Although hundreds of DoS vulnerabilities have been discovered in commercial and open-source software so far in 2011, this particular vulnerability is significant since Apache Server is the world’s most popular web server, with nearly 66 percent of the market or nearly 200 million web sites in use, according to Netcraft.

Corero’s IPS 5500 provides proactive protection for the Apache Killer exploit as a result of its two-tiered “PVM+DVM” Stateful Protocol Analysis (SPA) implementation. In this case, the IPS 5500 HTTP Protocol Validation Module (PVM) detects and blocks attempts to cause the denial of service condition on the Apache servers. No new signatures were required for this protection which was built in to Corero’s IPS solutions.

“Our IPS solution is unique in that it is purpose built to protect not only against traditional flood-based DDoS and new application layer attacks but also attacks like the Apache Killer. We safeguard our customers’web servers from Apache Killer denial of service exploits that can be caused by just a very small number of network transactions,” said Mike Paquette, chief strategy officer, Corero Network Security.

For more information on Corero’s IPS products, visit: http://www.corero.com .

About Corero’s IPS Solution:
The IPS 5500 EC-Series and ES-Series products are Corero’s most advanced generation family of Intrusion Prevention Systems. It is designed to deliver non-disruptive protection against constantly evolving threats. It provides maximum security for critical IT assets while allowing full access to legitimate users and applications.

The IPS 5500 EC/ES offers proactive protection against threats while patches are being tested and deployed. It provides:
* Improved security posture through acceptable application usage enforcement
* Regulatory compliance through protection of confidential data
* Protection against theft of intellectual property due to undesired access
* Reduction in IT hours devoted to fixing/remediating systems infected by viruses, botnet programs, and other malware
*Reduction of downtime from DDoS attacks and botnet threats.

About Corero Network Security:
Corero Network Security (CNS:LN), formerly Top Layer Security, is a leading global provider of Network Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Defense Solutions (DDS) that enable enterprise organizations to protect their critical on-line assets against risks associated with network-borne cyber threats.

Corero has been consistently recognized through the years for its product innovation and leadership by customers, media and industry analysts alike. Corero is headquartered in Massachusetts, U.S. with sales and services support worldwide. For more information please visit: http://www.corero.com .

Press & Media Contact:
Tiffany Darmetko or Brenna Hagy
Schwartz Communications, Inc
Hudson, MA
+1 781-684-0770
Corero@schwartzcomm.com
http://www.corero.com

Brainloop September 15 Webinar Looks at “Trends in Online Collaboration: When Security, Compliance & Productivity Collide”

Brainloop, today announced a September 15th webinar featuring Gartner analyst Jeffrey Mann.

Boston, MA, Thursday – September 08, 2011 — Brainloop ( http://www.brainloop.com ), a leading supplier of software solutions for high-security collaboration on confidential documents, today announced a September 15th webinar featuring Gartner analyst Jeffrey Mann.

Titled, “Trends in online collaboration: When security, compliance & productivity collide,” the webinar is scheduled for Thursday, September 15, 2011 at 2:30pm EDT / 11:30am PDT

To register click http://webinars.brainloop.com/content/Gartner_Webinar_Registration_Americas

When companies share sensitive documents with partners outside the corporate network, security, compliance and collaboration are often seen as a tradeoff. You can lock information down behind the firewall with strict policies and centralized control, but without collaboration. Or you can use a collaboration portal, but at the expense of security and the ability to enforce corporate confidentiality policies.

In this Brainloop webinar, featured speaker and Gartner analyst Jeffrey Mann will discuss industry trends and demands for security and compliance in online collaboration. Mr. Mann’s discussion will be followed by comments from Brainloop Vice President Paul Hands about Brainloop’s approach to secure collaboration using document compliance management, and a lively Q&A session.

Who should attend:
* Information security leaders interested in developing and rolling out confidentiality policies
* Senior managers in companies subject to regulatory requirements or contractual obligations to protect confidential information
* Anyone whose work involves sharing documents outside the company for
– Collaboration on R&D
– Intellectual property
– Legal affairs
– Corporate governance
– Boards of directors
– Mergers and acquisitions
– Investor relations
– Strategic alliances
– Work with outside consultants or others outside the enterprise

About Gartner Analyst Jeffrey Mann:
Jeffrey Mann is a research vice president for collaboration and social software at Gartner Research. Mr. Mann focuses on social software, team workspaces, the collaboration market, cloud-based collaboration platforms and user adoption.Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Mann was with Meta Group, where he served as a senior analyst covering e-business, collaboration, content management, portals, knowledge management and compliance. Previously, he was with Dutch software development vendor Uniface International, where he was the eighth employee. He continued with the organization after it was acquired by Compuware. During his 10 years there, he was a documentation writer, support manager, product manager and director of product strategy.

About Brainloop
Brainloop, with offices in Boston and Munich, uses document compliance management (DCM) to make online collaboration safe and compliant, giving users the peace of mind to focus on their business goals. Brainloop’s web based solution automatically manages security and compliance, allowing highly confidential documents to be easily edited and distributed inside and outside the corporate network. Encryption and operator shielding protect all documents from insider threat and external attacks, providing a highly secure collaboration framework. The solution enables the complete transparency and auditability of all accesses and changes to documents, supporting corporate and regulatory compliance directives. Frequent uses include contract negotiations, collecting data and writing up quarterly reports, and any other communication that contains confidential information. To learn more, visit http://www.brainloop.com.

Press & Media Contact:
Victor Cruz
MediaPR.net Inc
Boston, MA
(978) 594-4134
vcruz@mediapr.net
http://www.brainloop.com

Amy Winehouse’s “Personal Painter” Releases Art I Love

Book includes Sam Shaker’s work along with instruction for developing artists.

United States and London, Thursday – September 08, 2011 — Artist, jazz club owner, and celebrity confidant Sam Shaker’s first book, Art I Love, is a rarity in its category – an art book that tells a readable, engaging story.

Part autobiography, part instructional guide, and part historical account, Art I Love (2012, Hola Publishing International, an Imprint of Halo Publishing International), chronicles Shaker’s development from Parisian street artist to recognition as Europe’s premier creator of commissioned celebrity portraits. His subjects have included the late Amy Winehouse (who called Shaker her “second dad”), actor Kevin Spacey, singer/songwriter Adele, and model Kate Moss.

Shaker describes Art I Love as, “approachable for newbies, academic enough for students, and serious enough for history buffs interested in the cultures of Paris and Spain and how these cultures were influenced by artists of various periods.”

Art I Love is the product of decades of diligent work and the culmination of an improbable journey to professional recognition. A self-described “huge Picasso fan,” Shaker studied art and graphic design at the Leonard da Vinci Academy, and was awarded a diploma in Fine Arts. Soon after, he left his native Cairo for Paris to pursue a career as an artist. After years of sporadic success – and nearly starving to death – he left art behind, albeit temporarily, to launch and operate Jazz After Dark, which would eventually become a successful music club in London’s Soho district.

It was at Jazz After Dark that an encounter with Kate Moss spurred Shaker to create again. She commissioned him to paint her portrait, the London media took notice, and Shaker had quickly established his reputation as a specialist in celebrity portraits. Many of these works are reproduced in Art I Love.

Shaker met Amy Winehouse long before the singer achieved international superstardom. “She came to my club, and the admission charge was £3. She said she didn’t have £3, so I told her she could pay me next time,” he recalls. The unlikely friendship blossomed in the years that followed. “She was creative, kind, talented and a very genuine person. She loved art, music, and writing. She never forgot her friends and people like me who gave her a helping hand in her career. She was very loyal to me and never commissioned any other artist to paint her portrait.”

Art I Love also offers a wealth of practical instruction for art students. Techniques, based on Shaker’s own learning experiences, are provided in regard to planning a painting, selecting appropriate materials, working from live subjects versus working from photos, and addressing the nuances in skin tones, shading, facial proportions and similar challenges encountered by the developing artist.

About Sam Shaker
Sam Shaker was born in Cairo, Egypt and studied art at the Leonard da Vinci Academy. The father of three grown children, he owns and operates Jazz After Dark, a popular London music club and art gallery.

A prolific portrait painter, Shaker’s recent subjects have included Prince William and Kate Middleton, The Beatles, Kate Moss, Kevin Spacey, Pete Doherty, Adele, Mark Ronson and many others.

About Hola Publishing International:
Since 2002, Halo Publishing International (HPI) has produced more than 200 titles in adult fiction and non-fiction, children’s, inspirational, sports and recreation, and other categories. Hola Publishing International is Halo’s imprint company.

Visit http://www.halopublishing.com for details.

Press & Media Contact:
Lisa Umina
Halo Publishing International
P.O. Box 60326, AP #726
Houston, TX 77205
(216) 255-6756
Lisa@HaloPublishing.com
http://www.halopublishing.com