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March 10th, 2010 - NT OBJECTives participates in four city seminar
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(original, in German, is here)

Security of browsers, web applications, databases and virtualized environments

cirosec-event series in March on current topics

HEILBRONN, 10 February 2010 - cirosec, the specialist in IT security area, organized in March 2010 again its Trendtage around innovative topics in the IT security area. The focus this time is on the security of browsers, web applications, databases and virtualized environments.

Stations of Hanover are Trendtage (15.03.10), Cologne (16.03.10), Stuttgart (17.03.10) and Munich (18.03.10). Participation is free.

Stefan Strobel, author and director of the cirosec GmbH, will address in his opening speech the security in virtualized environments, introduce and explain the key factors influencing the opportunities and threats. The virtualization of servers in the data center is almost always in full swing. Products from VMware, Citrix, Sun and others promise the green IT in addition to a simplification and cost savings. IT security can benefit from the introduction of such techniques, if improperly implemented can also take great harm.

Subsequently, three manufacturers will demonstrate their innovative products:

• Quaresso - Web Browser Security
On Q Quaresso Protect allows websites to secure the browser, the user
without the need to install this software. The product makes use of a agent
Technology to the user, so to speak "on the fly" is a short temporary browser. The browser activity, and the browser behavior can be secured and controlled. It not only protects users from malware as key loggers and trojans, but transferred session data is always encrypted, user operations controlled, and also protects against session hijacking.

• NT OBJECTives, Inc. - Web Application Scanner
The NTOSpider web application vulnerability scanner by NT OBJECTIVEs allows an automated review of your web applications. The scanner finds vulnerabilities in applications, prioritizes the discovered vulnerabilities and then provides reports. NTOSpider is the most accurate and automated way to find web application vulnerabilities created by poor programming, poor configuration and lack of input validation.

• Application Security Inc. - Security and traceability for databases
The central locations for data are usually confidential databases within the company. Whether in document management, SAP or other ERP systems, web applications or client-server applications, which is typically a backend SQL database. Unfortunately, however, just the security of such databases is often ignored. Requests or tampering can not be understand, misconfigurations and vulnerabilities are identified and promptly resolved not prioritized yet. Application Security Inc. The company specializes in this area and offers a variety of products to increase security and accountability for databases.