Soon to be Intel subsidiary McAfee and Wind River (another Intel subsidiary) announce an agreement to develop security solutions for embedded and mobile non-PC devices at RSA Conference 2011.

The rapid growth in connectivity (or the "internet of things") creates ever-growing security vulnerabilties-- as seen recently in the recent Stuxnet attack on Siemens-based systems in Iran. 

McAfee estimates the number of connected devices will grow to 50bn by 2020, with growth coming from industrial control, energy management, automotive, national infrastructure, Read more...

IMS Research shares the hottest video surveillance trends for the year ahead. Here we abridge their projections, but give you a link at the bottom of the article if you wish more depth.

1. City Surveillance Looks to Wireless Video

City surveillance (municipalities) happen to be the fastest growing vertical market for video surveillance (e.g., HikVision, a China-based video surveillance equipment manufacturer, has been appointed general contractor on an $800 million safe city project in China.) In other regions, such as the Middle East, wireless Read more...

Blue Coat Systems announces ProxyOne, its first web security appliance aiming for SMBs. 

ProxyOne provides protection without security expertese, as it integrates web filtering, inline malware/anti-virus scanning and on-box reporting. 

The appliance uses Blue Coat's cloud-based WebPulse for web threat protection and provides on-box activity reporting-- both features extending to remote users (through ProxyClient software). It also prevents video floods through stream-splitting and caching technologies. 

Pre-configured policies and automatic software/security Read more...

Icon Labs announces its Floodgate-Packet Filter-- an embedded firewall filtering packets before an embedded device processes them. 

Floodgate provides threshold-based filtering (protection against DDOS attacks, broadcast storms and other conditions involving floods of unwanted packets) and rules-based filtering (white- and black-listing based on criteria like port number, protocol or source IP address). 

Icon Labs says small dedicated devices (like industrial control or medical devices) are increasingly internet-connected-- and subject to the security Read more...