Dell Oro Group: Check Point, Fortinet, Palo Alto making gains in security appliances

There’s a continuing shift among the top security appliance vendors that has Cisco remaining at the top of the sales heap but with Check Point Software, Fortinet and Palo Alto Networks making gains and pressuring Juniper Networks, according to new research from Dell’Oro Group.

The research – which includes new data from the second quarter of this year as well as projections for next year and historical data going back to 2012 – has Cisco, with 24.9% of the network security appliance market as measured by manufacturer’s revenue, solidly in first place during the latest quarter. It is followed by Check Point (9.3%), Fortinet (8%), Palo Alto (5.2%) and Juniper (4.8%) to round out the top five.

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Legal teams keep bending old laws to fit cybercrimes

Since cybercrime laws lag behind technology, lawyers are constantly seeking creative ways to stretch old laws to fit new crimes, such as the latest – comparing the movie-sharing app Popcorn Time to a burglar’s tool in order to press criminal charges.

Lawyers for an Adam Sandler movie are arguing that Popcorn Time performs the same function as burglars’ tools in order “to commit or facilitate … a theft by physical taking,” language used in an old Oregon law about traditional burglary.

The lawyers say Popcorn Time lets users violate the movie’s copyrights by enabling downloads of pirated copies, and so they are suing for the civil crime of copyright infringement.

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Mobile Security Challenges – CSO Australia


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Mobile Security Challenges
CSO Australia
There's been a massive focus on mobile security recently as the proliferation of smartphones and tablets and advent of BYOD has forced IT and security professionals to completely rethink how mobile devices and data are managed. Gartner's Rob Smith …

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Android Security Is Flawed, and Marshmallow Can’t Fix It – The Cheat Sheet

Android Security Is Flawed, and Marshmallow Can't Fix It
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It hasn't been a good week for the security of the Android operating system, with continuing reports on the state of several persistent vulnerabilities that affect millions of users. And it looks like even Android Marshmallow, the next major release of

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