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Bill Crowell, former deputy director of the National Security Agency, has joined Cyber Reconnaissance or CYR3CON’s advisory board.

SafeNet Assured Technologies has launched a technology platform intended to help U.S. government customers manage cryptographic keys in physical, virtual or public cloud environments. The data security company said Monday its KeySecure for Government platform works to consolidate cryptographic keys from multiple third-party encryption platforms. “Encrypted data is only as secure as the system managing the cryptographic keys generated …

The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards has partnered with technology firms and other organizations to advance the adoption of a standard format designed to automate reporting of cyber vulnerabilities. The Common Security Advisory Framework developed by the OASIS’ technical committee works to facilitate interoperability and production of …

Netherlands-based digital security firm Gemalto closed its $890 million purchase of SafeNet in January of this year and shortly afterward officially launched a new subsidiary focused on the U.S. federal market — SafeNet Assured Technologies. Tom Callahan, vice president of sales at SafeNet AT, led SafeNet’s federal sales team as its VP prior …

Prakash Panjwani, president and CEO of SafeNet, believes organizations must go beyond encryption to protect their most sensitive data against breach, GovInfoSecurity reported Thursday. Mathew Schwartz writes Panjwani said it is imperative that companies have strategies to mitigate the potential risks of computer hacking and has advised enterprise clients to …

SafeNet has launched an encryption-as-a-service platform with the goal of helping cloud service providers and their enterprise customers manage data security in multitenant virtual or cloud infrastructure. The ProtectV for Service Providers offering is designed to help organizations avoid unauthorized access to sensitive information in shared cloud environments, SafeNet said …

Skyhigh Networks will collaborate with SafeNet to deliver key management tools for corporate customers to secure their data in cloud computing environments. The companies said Monday that they will work to help enterprises balance cloud-based models for data encryption and related encryption keys in order to meet the requirements needed for use. “More and more organizations …

Prakash Panjwani, former senior vice president and general manager of Safenet’s data protection group, will succeed Dave Hansen as Safenet’s president and CEO, Safenet announced Thursday. Panjwani has been with the data protection company for 12 years, said Dave Fishman, a partner at Vector Capital and member of SafeNet’s board …

SafeNet‘s Breach Level Index report indicates that hackers stole more than 200 million records in the first quarter of 2014, a 233 percent increase as compared to the same period last year. Only one percent of the 254 security incidents reported during Q1 were “secure breaches,” where encryption or authentication …

SafeNet Inc. has introduced a new data breach directory website for security departments to categorize an attack’s severity level and compare the resulting analyses with other breach incidents. The SafeNet Breach Level Index portal is developed to serve as a database of various breach disclosures and classifications based on numerical …

Ian Dix has been named vice president for business marketing at CenturyLink where he is responsible for the business solutions group’s product, program and field marketing. Prior to CenturyLink, the more than 25-year marketing veteran served as senior vice president of marketing and market development at Trilogy Software. Dix was chief …

SafeNet Inc. will add SenetasSecurity’s high-speed network encryption solutions to its data protection suite under an extended global distribution agreement. The products that come under the partnership include the new CN6000 encryptors designed to safeguard high-level information throughout the data’s lifecycle, SafeNet said Tuesday. “This master distribution agreement is a …

SafeNet and Virtustream have agreed to expand their partnership to deliver products for organizations to secure critical data when migrating to virtualized and cloud networks. Virtustream will offer SafeNet’s keySecure enterprise key management appliance and ProtectV encryption tool for virtual machines as part of its infrastructure-as-a-service portfolio under the expanded …

SafeNet Inc. and Arrow Electronics Inc. have teamed up to continue offering products intended to help secure storage and cloud infrastructures. The companies have expanded their distribution agreement in North America where Arrow will sell SafeNet’s ProtectV encryption product for virtualized environments and StorageSecure for network attached storage, SafeNet said Tuesday. The products are …

Oceus Networks and SafeNet have partnered to provide the Defense Department a secure mobile communication network intended for the military’s field operations. SafeNet will combine its mobile security framework with Oceus’ fourth generation long-term evolution network service under Oceus’ Xiphos brand, the companies said Thursday. The joint system aims to …