eEye Digital Security, a provider of IT security and unified vulnerability management solutions, today announced that the company will receive advanced information from Microsoft about their monthly security bulletins to anticipate emerging threats and provide mutual customers with more timely protections.

eEye joined the Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP) and will be provided with vulnerability information in advance of Microsoft’s monthly security update release to offer protections to customers more efficiently and effectively.

“Security is eEye’s sole focus, but also a broader software industry challenge. With Microsoft Active Protections Program, eEye and Microsoft continue to show each company’s commitment to industry partnership to help protect customers,” said Brad Hibbert, eEye VP Strategy.

By receiving vulnerability information earlier, eEye customers will benefit from additional possible security protections built into eEye vulnerability management solutions. The eEye Research team, responsible for gathering IT security intelligence and building relevant protections into eEye products, can utilize information obtained via the Microsoft Active Protection Program to further enhance the company’s offerings.

Additionally, membership in the Microsoft Active Protection Program may enhance the eEye Research team’s guidance on the company’s monthly online Vulnerability Expert Forum (VEF), which is held the second Wednesday of each month, the day after Patch Tuesday, when Microsoft discloses their monthly patches. The next eEye VEF session will be held on June 15, 2011 at 1:00 PM (Pacific) / 4 PM (Eastern).

eEye’s VEF is one of several free, online resources that the company provides to the IT security community. Retina Community is a free vulnerability scanner for up to 32 IPs, now being used by more than five thousand organizations. eEye’s Zero Day Tracker provides a catalogue of the newest zero-day vulnerabilities, instructions for quick remediation, and a historical record of past vulnerabilities.

“Our partners share our passion for industry collaboration to protect a world full of Internet users,” said Jerry Bryant, group manager, Microsoft Trustworthy Computing. “No one company can accomplish this by itself. That is why we are partnering with eEye to advance and improve security.”

More information on MAPP.

About eEye Digital Security
Since 1998, eEye Digital Security has made vulnerability and compliance management simpler and more efficient by providing the only unified solution that integrates assessment, mitigation, protection, and reporting into a complete offering with optional add-on modules for configuration compliance, regulatory reporting, and integrated patch management. eEye’s world-renowned research and development team is consistently the first to uncover critical vulnerabilities and build new protections into our solutions to prevent their exploit. Thousands of mid-to-large-size private-sector and government organizations, including the largest vulnerability management installations in the world, rely on eEye to protect against the latest known and zero-day vulnerabilities. More at eeye.com.

ExactTarget and Marketo, two of the world’s leading Software as a Service (SaaS) companies, announced a strategic partnership today to integrate Marketo’s Revenue Performance Management solution with ExactTarget’s Interactive Marketing Hub™.

Developed as the first partner application for the Interactive Marketing Hub, the application will provide Marketo’s full lead management functionality directly from the Interactive Marketing Hub, allowing marketers to plan, power, monitor and track Marketo revenue performance management campaigns alongside ExactTarget-powered email, mobile, social media and web campaigns.

ExactTarget’s team of professionals across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific will begin selling and supporting the integrated Marketo partner application later this year, expanding Marketo’s reach into new markets around the globe.

“Consumers are interacting with brands in real time across email, mobile, social media and the web, and marketers must make the most of the opportunity to effectively engage,” said Scott Dorsey, ExactTarget co-founder and chief executive officer. “By bringing the power of Marketo to the ExactTarget Interactive Marketing Hub, we can provide B-to-B marketers a single solution to deliver real-time cross-channel marketing, improve sales efficiency and accelerate revenue growth.”

Unveiled in September 2010, the Interactive Marketing Hub is a cross-channel interactive marketing platform that enables marketers to engage in real-time marketing, consolidate all data to create a common view of the consumer and deliver targeted, permission-based interactions across email, mobile, social media and the web. Currently in beta with more than 500 of the world’s leading brands, the Interactive Marketing Hub is an online marketing suite that provides a platform for marketers and technology providers to connect disparate data sources to power more relevant real-time cross-channel marketing.

“We are in the midst of a transformational shift in the Revenue Performance Management market,” said Phil Fernandez, president and chief executive officer of Marketo. “The buying process has changed – customers now touch dozens of online and offline information sources before they ever talk to a sales representative. Businesses recognize they need to move with high velocity to reach these prospects with compelling content before they decide to buy from a competitor. By combining ExactTarget and Marketo’s market-leading products, we offer an unmatched solution to businesses seeking to engage with customers at the speed of the modern social web to accelerate revenue growth.”

The Marketo partner application will feature full integration with the ExactTarget Interactive Marketing Hub, allowing marketers to access unified calendaring, campaign management, data management and ExactTarget’s channel applications by bringing B-to-B and B-to-C communication together in a single platform.

“To progress beyond the limitations of single-channel solutions, … professionals must consider incorporating the online marketing suite into their approach to cross-channel marketing,” wrote Joe Stanhope, senior analyst at Forrester Research, Inc., in the March 2011 report entitled The Road to the Online Marketing Suite. “The online marketing suite facilitates marketing performance improvements by linking execution, content, and measurement to coordinate and optimize interactions across multiple online channels.”

In addition to the partnership, the companies also announced that ExactTarget has selected Marketo to power its global revenue performance management efforts. ExactTarget’s global sales and marketing teams will use Marketo’s technology to expand lead flow, optimize sales and marketing investment and improve productivity.

News of the ExactTarget-Marketo partnership follows record-setting annual performance for both companies. ExactTarget announced annual revenue growth of 41 percent in 2010, finishing the year with more than $134 million in GAAP revenue. Marketo posted 315 percent year-over-year revenue growth in 2010, making it the fastest-growing Revenue Performance Management provider. The company recently signed its 1000th customer, passing the milestone in less than three years.

For more information about the Marketo application for the ExactTarget Interactive Marketing Hub, visit www.ExactTarget.com/Marketo.

About Marketo

Marketo is the global leader in Revenue Performance Management. Marketo’s powerful yet easy-to-use marketing automation and sales effectiveness solutions transform how marketing and sales teams of all sizes work — and work together — to drive revenue performance and fuel business growth. The company’s proven technology, comprehensive services, and expert guidance are helping corporations to turn marketing from a cost center to a business-building revenue driver. Marketo has been recognized with the 2010 CODiE award for “Best Marketing Solution,” the “Best Sales and Marketing 2.0 Solution” from SellingPower, and the “Best Marketing Automation Application” by Salesforce customers on the AppExchange. As of March 2011, more than 1000 enterprise and mid-market clients globally have adopted Marketo solutions. For more information, visit http://www.Marketo.com, or subscribe to Marketo’s award-winning blogs at http://blog.marketo.com/.

About ExactTarget

ExactTarget is a leading global provider of on-demand email marketing and interactive marketing solutions. The company’s Interactive Marketing Hub technology provides organizations a single solution to connect with customers via email, integrated text messaging, landing pages and social media. Supported by collaborative global services teams, ExactTarget’s technology integrates with more sales and marketing information systems than any other in the industry, including Salesforce.com, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Omniture and Webtrends among many others. ExactTarget powers permission-based multichannel communications for thousands of organizations around the world including Expedia.com, Best Buy, Papa John’s, CareerBuilder.com, Gannett Co., Inc., The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, The Home Depot and Wellpoint, Inc. For more information, visit www.exacttarget.com.

In a market in which disaster recovery and data protection are typically provided in separate solutions, you’ve probably found yourself wishing for a comprehensive, easy-to-use solution that would just do both for you. There are a few solutions on the market that promise that kind of functionality, but one of the easier-to-use, more innovative choices is arguably Acronis’s Backup & Recovery, the latest version of which (version 11) brings its functionality into the virtualized and cloud environments.

I just spoke with Izzy Azeri, Acronis’s senior VP and general manager for the Americas, about the new version of Acronis Backup & Recovery, specifically about the product’s deep reach into physical, virtual, and cloud environments. “As the size of data continues to grow, our aim is still to help customers manage their information better,” said Azeri. “We offer an easy-to-use, easy-to-manage technology that solves all their needs in one solution.”

According to Azeri, Backup & Recovery 11 stands apart from the competition thanks to that simplicity and also thanks to what the product backs up. “We’re backing up physical and virtual machines—across six different hypervisors—and we’re backing up to the cloud. We’re backing up to any medium with equal power.” Through the main console, the company offers Acronis Backup & Recover 10 Online. One console seamlessly manages all backup and recovery efforts regardless of the data’s actual location.

Another key feature that differentiates the Acronis solution is its staging capabilities, which let customers make important performance decisions by moving data (with one click) to different media (disk/tape/online, for example) as storage needs for certain data changes over time. Acronis supports five different staging locations.

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 features include:

For all environments:

• New: Data Protection Capabilities – Catalog & Search
• Improved: Disaster Recovery Plans – step by step plan to make recovery easy
• New: Staging and multi-destination – reduce long term storage costs with staging and add redundancy with multi-destination backups to tape, disk and cloud
• Improved: Support for tape drives and tape libraries
• Improved GUI provides simplified workflows

For physical:

• New: Ability to restore and migrate to dissimilar hardware for Linux environments
• Improved: Better deduplication performance

For virtual:

• New: Simultaneous backups of multiple VMs for VMware ESX(i) and Microsoft Hyper-V allowing increased performance for backups of virtual environments
• New: Single agent for multiple VMware ESX(i) hosts – increases efficiency and simplifies management of backups for VMware vSphere configurations
• New: LAN free backup – reduced CPU and network consumption
• New: Support for Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) – for Microsoft Hyper-V environments

For the cloud:

• New: Increased capacity options – based on customer demand for storage space, Acronis has increased its online backup capacity. Unlike other solutions, Acronis offers a flat pricing structure for the cloud rather than pricing per gigabyte.

Intronis realizes the ever-present concern regarding natural disasters, especially with the devastation that has occurred in the past couple of months. Unexpected natural disasters are something we all need to be prepared for because recovering quickly is not only important, it’s imperative.

We at Intronis appreciate how difficult and important disaster recovery is for our partners’ businesses. In the event of a natural disaster occurring in June or July 2011, Intronis will provide a secure hard drive with all of the customers’ files at no charge.

Intronis CEO, Kent Plunkett, stated, “Intronis realizes how imperative it is to recover critical business data reliably and as soon as possible. Our partners who are in a crisis need every assistance to get their clients’ businesses up and running quickly. Rest assured, here at Intronis, we are always here for our partners’ not only during disasters but every day.”

For partners who are interested in participating, please contact your account manager or email us at: accountmanager(at)intronis(dot)com.

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About Intronis
Intronis is a cloud provider of backup and disaster recovery services for the IT channel. Intronis utilizes 256-bit AES security and multiple data centers located on opposite coasts to ensure data protection and availability. Intronis offers IT service providers a secure data solution combined with a robust partner program, the efficiencies of full web-based account management, and an industry leading technical support team. http://www.intronis.com.

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The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) is reporting this week that more than one-third of respondents to a new Web Vulnerabilities Survey were repeat victims of phishing attacks that resulted in a successful establishment of phishing or spoofing websites on their web server platforms.

“That nearly 80% of incidents are being detected by third parties tells us that too few organizations take real time monitoring or examination of logs for suspicious activities seriously”

Some 37 percent of respondents to the wide-ranging study of website vulnerabilities and administrative responses to exploitation reported that their websites had phishing or spoof sites planted on their web servers two or more times before, a telling statistic that reflects both the persistence of phishers and the difficulties of keeping them at bay.

“Phishers value compromised web sites highly because they are much harder for interveners to take down. They’re confident that they’ll be able to identify and exploit sites, and do so repeatedly. Victims are not mitigating exploits entirely or are not implementing adequate measures to keep them away,” said APWG Research Fellow Dave Piscitello of ICANN.

“Keeping all components of a web site – OS, web server, applications, and content – patch current and applying the most secure configuration options possible could significantly reduce initial and repeat attacks,” concluded Piscitello.

The APWG’s Internet Policy Committee began an online survey for managers of websites that had been exploited in phishing attacks and other malevolent enterprise nearly 18 months ago. Some 270 completed surveys are included in this first tally and analysis.

The full report is here: http://www.apwg.org/reports/apwg_web_vulberabilities_survey_june_2011.pdf

The APWG IPC organized this study to understand the web site operating environments that are abused by cybercrime gangs, the nature of the attacks, and actions the victim took in response, to obtain a clearer understanding of attacker methodologies and target preferences.

While the survey results clearly indicate that web sites could benefit from broader implementation of preventative measures to mitigate known vulnerabilities, they also reveal that organizations are not adequately monitoring for anomalous behavior or suspicious traffic patterns that may indicate previously unseen, so-called zero day attacks.

While only one in five victims reported that the attacks were discovered by their own staff, fifty-two percent of respondents were informed of the attack by third-party security companies. Victims indicated that their web hosting service (18%) or the company that was phished (18%) were as likely to notify victims as the organization’s staff.

“You can’t publish active content in Internet time and verify that your protective measures against attacks remain effective. Vulnerability testing, if done at all, is done too infrequently,” lamented Piscitello.

“That nearly 80% of incidents are being detected by third parties tells us that too few organizations take real time monitoring or examination of logs for suspicious activities seriously,” concluded Piscitello.

If your web site was used to abet a phishing attack, and you would be willing to complete the survey, please contact the APWG or have your investigator contact the correspondent author, Dave Piscitello, at [email protected] or IPC Co-chairman, Rod Rasmussen, at [email protected]. The online survey instrument remains open at this URL: http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB229GLB7E43E

APWG IPC researchers continue to collect responses and will take periodic snapshots to observe whether phishing attacks change over time, and if so, how. A complete analysis of the survey results—with specific recommendations, remedies, and practices—is in preparation by APWG IPC, which expects to publish this report later this year.

About the APWG

The APWG, founded in 2003 as the Anti-Phishing Working Group, is a global industry, law enforcement, and government coalition focused on eliminating the identity theft and fraud that result from the growing problem of phishing, email spoofing, and crimeware. Membership is open to qualified financial institutions, online retailers, ISPs, the law enforcement community and solutions providers. There are more than 2,000 companies, government agencies and NGOs participating in the APWG worldwide. The APWG’s Web site offers the public and industry information about phishing and email fraud, including identification and promotion of pragmatic technical solutions that provide immediate protection.

APWG’s corporate sponsors are as follows: AT&T(T), Able NV, Afilias Ltd., AhnLab, AVG Technologies, BillMeLater, BBN Technologies, Booz Allen Hamilton, Blue Coat, BlueStreak, BrandMail, BrandProtect, Bsecure Technologies, Check Point Software Technologies, Cisco (CSCO), Clear Search, Cloudmark, Cyveillance, DigiCert, DigitalEnvoy, DigitalResolve, Digital River, Easy Solutions, eBay/PayPal (EBAY), eCert, Entrust (ENTU), eEye, ESET, Fortinet, FraudWatch International, FrontPorch, F-Secure, Goodmail Systems, GlobalSign, GoDaddy, Goodmail Systems, GroupIB, GuardID Systems, Hauri, HomeAway, Huawei Symantec, IronPort, HitachiJoHo, ING Bank, Iconix, Internet Identity, Internet Security Systems, Intuit, IOvation, IronPort, IS3, IT Matrix, Kaspersky Labs, Kindsight, Lenos Software, LightSpeed Systems, MailFrontier, MailShell, MarkMonitor, M86Security, McAfee (MFE), MasterCard, MessageLevel, Microsoft (MSFT), MicroWorld, Mirapoint, MySpace (NWS), MyPW, MX Logic, NameProtect, National Australia Bank (ASX: NAB) Netcraft, NetStar, Network Solutions, NeuStar, Nominum, Panda Software, Phoenix Technologies Inc. (PTEC), Phishme.com, Phorm, Planty.net, Prevx, The Planet, SIDN, SalesForce, Radialpoint, RSA Security (EMC), RuleSpace, SecureBrain, Secure Computing (SCUR), S21sec, SIDN, SoftForum, SoftLayer, SoftSecurity, SOPHOS, SquareTrade, SurfControl, SunTrust, Symantec (SYMC), Tagged, TDS Telecom, Telefonica (TEF), TransCreditBank, Trend Micro (TMIC), Tricerion, TriCipher, TrustedID, Tumbleweed Communications (TMWD), Vasco (VDSI), VeriSign (VRSN), Visa, Wal-Mart (WMT), Websense Inc. (WBSN) and Yahoo! (YHOO), zvelo and ZYNGA.

Twenty-two of the country’s leading experts on Internet security will speak at the Los Angeles Chapter of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA-LA) third annual Information Security Summit.  The theme of this year’s Summit is The Growing Cyber Threat: Protect Your Business. The Summit will be held Wednesday, June 15, 2011, at 7:30 AM on the UCLA Campus at Covel Commons, Grand Horizon Ballroom and will be hosted by UCLA Extension.

“This is open season for hackers. There has been an explosive growth in cybercrime, just within the last two weeks,” said ISSA-LA President Stan Stahl, Ph.D.  “Yesterday’

Guard Dog Inc. (Pink Sheets:GRDO) has recently completed agreements for a merger and acquisition of a Company which has been operating for more than two years. This Internet Company currently has members, revenues and very loyal user base.

With virtually everyone looking for their star to shine, the Company was founded on the notion that there is a wonderful business opportunity capitalizing on this need. Using the best mobile, crowd sourcing decisions, social networking based on common interests, locality and social media technologies, the Company is looking forward, past the crowd. This new and exciting application symbolizes the future of technology in combination with the human desire to be recognized.

In the coming weeks the Company will be releasing additional details on its’ business model, member base, customers and completed revenue deals. The Company’s consumer website can be found here: www.15sof.com. Additional information can be found at: http://15secondsoflife.com.

Previous Guard Dog, Inc. officers and directors are being replaced by a brand new seasoned and successful management team. Most of the management and operational team have been in place since the Company’s inception.

Board Members

The Board of Directors will consist of experienced veterans of commercial software, Internet, social media marketing, entertainment, fund & equity management and Fortune 500 sectors.

John Bonaccorso, CEO, is the developer of the original concept of the two year old Company. John was recently the founder and CEO of The 9thXchange, Inc. Established in 2004, The 9thXchange created the world’s first all-inclusive auction and rental platform for digital files. John brings over 20 years of entrepreneurial, management, marketing, sales and start-up experience to 15 Seconds of Fame Corp. He was founder of two venture backed Internet technology companies (including e.Port Networks, who received a groundbreaking partnership with Apple Computer).

Cynthia Francis, is currently the CEO Reality Digital. As a proven leader in enterprise-scale digital media technology and services, Reality Digital provides the building blocks to help businesses build, manage, publish, distribute and monetize video and social media communities on the web. Ms. Francis is a serial entrepreneur with extensive experience building and leading pioneering companies in digital media management and online media technologies. She has served as Chief Operating Officer for the Content Group and Chief Marketing Officer / VP of Business Development for eMotion, Inc., as well held positions at Apple and Eagle River Interactive. She is a well-respected leader in her industry and a frequent speaker at events such as Under the Radar, Digital Hollywood, DPAC, NAB, OMMA and more. Cynthia holds two degrees from the University of California at Berkeley.

David A. Rosenfeld, CPA, has over 20 years experience in corporate strategy and financial operations. As CFO of a venture backed company, Mr. Rosenfeld participated in fund raising activities (both equity and debt) and participated in multiple M&A activities along with the normal finance and accounting functions of business plans, strategic planning, sales & executive compensation plans, contract negotiations (both customer and vendor), and building a financial information infrastructure to support the growth objectives of the company. Prior to this, Mr. Rosenfeld was actively involved in the growth of another technology company from $15MM in revenues to nearly $100MM in revenues. As part of this growth, Mr. Rosenfeld was responsible for the strategic and business planning activities, along with establishing and maintaining the performance metrics utilized by the senior management team to evaluate the company’s performance versus its target. Other key activities included developing profit improvement programs, supporting the development of an initial public offering, and identifying and developing a team of superior financial analysts. Mr. Rosenfeld has been involved in the following industries: Telecommunications, Logistics, Software, Data Services, Simulation and Defense. Mr. Rosenfeld received his Bachelor’s degree from Florida State University and his MBA from the University of Central Florida.

Charlie Wollborg, Social Media Director, is one of the leading minds in disruptive marketing – online and off. As a marketing strategist and creative director, he has helped Fortune 100 clients and start-up challenger brands to do business on the web – most notably, spearheading GM’s first online owner loyalty platform, Ford’s first internet car sales program and Guardian’s first mobile applications. Charlie is the founding partner of Curve Connect, a social technology and marketing firm in Detroit, the curator of the TEDxDetroit Conference and the developer of Motor City Connect, Michigan’s largest social network. He is a sought after keynote speaker on the topics of social media, innovation and branding.

The Company will be reporting additional financial information and additional Board Members shortly.

Today marks New Englands first ever Tech Gives Back day. We’re proud to help organize and host the day alongside Boston Cares and Technology Underwriting Greater Good (TUGG). 40 of Boston’s leading innovating companies have teams volunteering at a dozen non-profits in and around Boston — with a total 500 volunteers participating.

Following this tech citizenship day is an after party from 5pm to 9pm at the Citi Performing Arts Center (former Wang Theater). You can still register for the after party if you weren’t able to participate in projects with a $25 ticket. All ticket proceeds going to the startup non-profits that TUGG funds every year, and it provides you with free food and drink (wine, beer and Avion — the tequila featured in popular HBO television series Entourage), live band entertainment, and obviously Boston’s brightest innovators as company.

Thank you to all the tech and creative companies in the Boston area for taking a day away from their product roadmaps, launches, partnerships, and otherwise to give back to the community. We look forward to seeing you tonight! On Twitter, the hashtag for the days festivities is #TechGivesBack.

Companies giving back today include:

Advanced Electron Beams, Atlas Venture, Bit9, Brown Rudnick, InsightSquared, Caisson, Celtra, Charles River Ventures, Chase Technology Consultants, Communispace, CSN Stores, DataXu, Ernst & Young, Fama PR, Flybridge Capital, General Catalyst Partners, GrandBanks Capital, Grove Street Advisors, Harris William & Co, Help Scout, InnerCity Weightlifting, Kel & Partners, Lucky Labs, Lynx, Merrill Lynch, Newmark Knight Frank, Nexage, Openview Venture Partners, Performable, Polachi & Co, Siemens, Silicon Valley Bank, Simple Tuition, Swellr, Vela Systems, Vertica, Volition Capital, WHERE / PayPal, Wilmer Hale, Winter Wyman, Young Entrepreneurs Alliance