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Africa moves to Gaborone

Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Gabon and Zambia’s Defence Forces to gather in Gaborone for African armoured vehicle community’s premier forum

African modernisation programmes and procurement initiatives are collectively valued at up to $20bn over the next decade for armoured and tactical vehicles. Armoured Vehicles Africa will offer an unrivalled opportunity to engage with the most important issues for the procurement, sustainment, training and operational use of armoured vehicles across Africa.

: THE EDITORIAL TEAM; Exhibitions; Posted On Wednesday, 19 August 2015 20:46

BSIA releases public sector Guide on Information Destruction

The British Security Industry Association (BSIA) and its Information Destruction section are pleased to announce the publication of a white paper to be used by public sector entities.

: THE EDITORIAL TEAM; The BSIA Page; Posted On Wednesday, 19 August 2015 15:10

Parenting site Mumsnet, hacked, DDoSed and Swatted

Mumsnet, one of the UK’s largest parenting websites, has come under several attacks from hackers, one of which involved armed police being called out to the London home of the parenting site's co-founder. Some accounts were hijacked and the site’s administrative functions accessed. Additionally, there was an attempt to force Mumsnet offline by swamping it with internet traffic, in what is known as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.

: INTERNATIONAL SECURITY EXPERTS; Industry News; Posted On Wednesday, 19 August 2015 15:05

AlienVault closes new financing round of $52 Million led by Institutional Venture Partners

London, UK: AlienVault announced it has closed a $52 million Series E funding round, which brings the company’s total funding raised to nearly $116 million. New investor Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) led the round with strong participation from existing investors, including Trident Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and GGV Capital. As part of the funding, Steve Harrick, General Partner at IVP, will join the board of directors as an observer. The company will use the funding to scale its global sales and marketing programs and to increase investments in product innovation for its Unified Security Management (USM) platform and Open Threat Exchange (OTX), its open threat intelligence community that enables collaborative defense with actionable, community-powered threat data.