Security software vendor Trend Micro acquires HP security division TippingPoint and related technology, intellectual property, employees and customer base for approximately $300 million.

The acquisition will go in the creation of a "game-changing" network defense solution combining intrusion prevention and breach detection.

“As an ideal complement to our market-leading protection for data centers and endpoints, this new next-generation network defense solution combines our best-in-class network breach detection system with proven intrusion prevention and response capabilities from TippingPoint," Trend Micro says. "Given our tenure with both HP and TippingPoint technology, we are excited about the agility of this acquisition and the value it will create for customers.”

IBM announces Cloud Security Enforcer-- a piece of security technology designed for enterprises wanting to safeguard against the trend of "bring your own" cloud-based apps at the workplace.

According to Big Blue, Cloud Security Enforcer is the first product combining cloud identity management (Identity-as-a-Service) with visibility of all 3rd party cloud apps accessed by employees. Hosted on the IBM Cloud, it first scans corporate networks to find the apps used by employees (via "deep threat analytics from IBM X-Force") before providing a more secure means of access.

To do so it adds "security-rich" connectors for a number of popular apps used on the workplace, including Box, Microsoft Office 365, Google Apps and Salesforce.com, in order to bypass security breaches caused by human errors such as weak passwords.

W. Europe accounts for 20.3% of global Q2 2015  security appliance revenues, IDC reports-- even if it sees "slow" revenue growth of 2.3% Y-o-Y driven by strong UK and German results.

Shipments are up by 5.9% Y-o-Y, accounting for 25.1% of the overall market.

However CEMA results continue to decline-- Q2 2015 shipments are down by -2.2% Y-o-Y to 41274 units, and revenues decline by -6.7% to $150.07m.

On a global basis the analyst says the global security appliance market is on the up in both revenues and shipments during H1 2015, as revenues grow by 9.6% Y-o-Y to $4.9 billion while shipments reach 1.1 million units with 8.8% Y-o-Y growth.

Xerox PARC researchers show off a Mission Impossible-inspired twist on security at DARPA's Wait, What? event-- a chip able to self-destruct into thousands of pieces too small for reconstruction.

Designed to store critical data such as encryption keys, the chip is built using Gorilla Glass, the tough glass used in many smartphone displays. As PARC puts it the glass is "ion-exchange tempered," a process causing the glass to be stressed to the point where it can break through the application of heat.

As such, the chip carries a small resistor that heats up the glass, causing it to shatter. Even the fragments remain stressed, and continue to break down into smaller pieces, rendering the chip all but useless.