Content security business growing

Frost & Sullivan industry manager Edison Yu says growth would be driven by the continued migration to a services platform in a bid by enterprises to control costs, reports BusinessWorld online.

Businesses are rapidly seeing the upside in the services approach, he says. He adds that content security, particularly e-mail filtering, has proven to be a suitable "poster-technology" for security services since diverting e-mails to a third-party vendor for security scans is generally perceived as having no direct tangible effect on end-user experience.

"In truth, the ability for such services to offer enterprises with "spam-free" bandwidth is enticing from an operational, productivity and cost perspective," he adds.

SMS Management & Technology will expand its range of enterprise content management (ECM) and business process management (BPM) solutions with the purchase and integration of Renewtek, states the Sydney Morning Herald.

SMS, a consulting, technology and systems integration company, says Renewtek will contribute $17.3 million in revenue annually and $2.5 million of earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation.

"The acquisition of Renewtek fits nicely within the existing SMS business and will allow us to offer solutions to our existing clients within the ECM and BPM solution areas," SMS chief executive Tom Stianos said in a statement.

Kasperksy Lab, a developer of content management solutions, has detected a second piece of malware, categorised as a Trojan-SMS, which targets smartphones running on the Android platform, according to Modern Ghana.com.

In an attempt to infect as many devices as possible, cyber criminals are distributing the new malware via the Russian language sites that come out on top of searches for pornographic videos. Revealingly, the owners of these adult content sites are deliberately prompting Android users to download the new Trojan, while users of other platforms receive the desired content.

“Android users should pay close attention to the services that an application seeks permission to access,” says Denis Maslennikov, mobile research manager at Kaspersky. “Automatically permitting a new application to access every service that it says it needs to means you could end up with malicious or unwanted applications doing all sorts of things without requesting any additional information”, says Maslennikov.